English @ SUNY Geneseo | Isabel Owen | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/isabelowen/activity/ Activity feed for Isabel Owen. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 47e2a95ec85e61acd476ac80a068cd11 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Concluding thoughts: Confederate flags, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, & the both/and of memory in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10208/ Thu, 03 May 2018 02:54:33 -0500 As someone who studies history, I’ve always been concerned with memory. And this class has memory at its center. It has allowed me to think of the ways that memory can represent a both/and. It reminds me that […]

]]> 0 bff2ab04bce79e7dd64123bd53146a5f Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to the "irony of aid", providing aid within the colonialist context in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10123/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:42:00 -0500 Neha recently made a caring blog post about the irony of aid, thinking about Jo Cosme’s tarot cards, the etymology of aid, and the essential lack of care in the U.S. response to Hurricane Maria, especially […]

]]> 0 d3cf149a48e62e5543db280d30210227 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Thinking about care; remembering Salvador in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10020/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:22:59 -0500 I’ve been thinking a lot about the article we read on prison abolition– “Free Us All”— and the lessons about care embedded into it. I don’t think it is easy for many to associate radical politics with care, partially because of the connotations associated with the word “radical.” Yet, this is exactly what is happening in the feminist and fe…[Read more]

]]> 0 318b988c70dca0a8f5a3ccf3fbb21e3a Isabel Owen edited the blog post Global Connections: Invisible and Hypervisible Salvador in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9948/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:13:23 -0500  

“This process of forgetting is essential to the social construction of the city, creating in essence two cities, a ‘visible city as much as an invisible city.’” –Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

If New Orleans is considered an Unfathomable City, then some anthropol…[Read more]

]]> 0 a14650f9add2a32d76a40e8412823b6d Isabel Owen edited the blog post Forgetting Typhoon Tip in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9956/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:12:22 -0500 By Matt Albanese, Noah Mazer, Tree McNulty, Isabel Owen, Melissa Rao, Don Rothwein, and Davina Ward
The Story of Typhoon Tip
The scientific knowledge for Typhoon Tip/Warling is extensive. According a 1980 article entitled “An Analysis of Super Typhoon Tip” by George Dunnavan and John Diercks, Tip is the most studied storm in recent memory. For…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b11bcae9ac0a136be2bf1292354b3f9 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Response to Christina's post on sentinel species in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9882/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 05:57:12 -0500 A few weeks ago, Christina wrote a rich blog post about using the concepts of sentinel species and range to contextualize post-Katrina New Orleans as a “canary in the coal mine.” She discussed how what happened in New Orleans allowed for increased discussion on topics like climate change, the environment, and how our government reacts to…[Read more]

]]> 0 52662dfc388e2a58e51bb93827a1318f Isabel Owen edited the blog post What happened to ACORN? Have we seen this before? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9817/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 05:24:42 -0500

In class, we got our first glimpse of ACORN through Josephine Butler and her granddaughter, Tanya Harris. Both wore bright red T-shirts adorned with an ACORN symbol– a typical field uniform– as they were interviewed on a hot, bright day amid the destruction in the Lower Ninth Ward.

ACORN, which stands for Association of Community…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bab0800eb5213ddc6dce3c5823a2828 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Catastrophes, wishes, and provision ground ideology in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9751/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 04:22:06 -0500 “…Catastrophe may reemerge from memory in the shape of a wish.”—Joseph Roach

I feel that this is a quote that we have not yet unpacked so deeply in class. Even so, this piece of Roach’s discussion on performance, autochthony, allochthony, and origins stuck out to me. Maybe it’s partially the elegance of the phrase: the juxtaposition of st…[Read more]

]]> 0 099cca84225519373d5a5bc46bf07ff7 Isabel Owen edited the blog post On the life and death of Muhiyidin Moye, Black Lives Matter activist in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9652/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:03:02 -0500 In February, 2017, Muhiyidin Moye leaped across police tape to remove a Confederate flag from the hands of a Demonstrator in Charleston, South Carolina– and it was captured on national live television. A prominent Black Lives Matter activist, Moye took an intersectional and local approach to his work, rising in protest in Mount Pleasant against…[Read more]

]]> 0 027c09f60743e31539e3db2d34f78d49 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Instruments for and against memory in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9583/ Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:07:59 -0500 “Echoes in the bone refer to not only to a history of forgetting but to a history of empowering the living through the performance of memory.” —Joseph Roach, “Echoes in the Bone”

I felt my most profound stirring at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem when I entered the Children’s Memorial. Eyes squinting from the sun soon entered…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1b667e46ec6465350830b42fd6a3d33 Isabel Owen joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9524/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:49:57 -0500 0 506bcc1bd4271b894c98bddf408dd970 Isabel Owen commented on the post, Comfort Zones, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/14/comfort-zones/#comment-10835 Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:12:18 -0500 You bring up so many good questions, ones that I ask myself often. For the first part of your question about comfort zones, I would say not to overthink it. I’ve asked myself that a lot– but I think it’s […]

]]> cde0ffd9ca53c77f1d0edc166a9acfef Isabel Owen edited the blog post Martín Espada, poetry, activism, and a what does it mean to live as a poet? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8997/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:05:47 -0500 Last week, I had the awesome opportunity to attend the Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) Conference with a few of my fellow classmates. Lizzie, Meg, Sara, and I stayed in a super cozy B&B just outside of Philly. I could go on about this fancy Air B&B and its fancy water-saving toilet, but I would digress.

Something I began thinking…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc408c28800acebfa928ef18fa81df9b Isabel Owen edited the blog post Losing poems, & why do good poets get to use abstractions and I can't in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8897/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:35:36 -0500 A few months ago, I received a great poem in my inbox. I get those every morning, thanks to my subscription to Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets (Plugging not because I’m getting paid but because Poem-A-Day is awesome. ) But, this poem took me a little.

I forgot what the poem was called, or who wrote it. I remembered that the poem…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b0f2190b9a87ad44db202770c14d2e Isabel Owen commented on the post, Seeking Poetic Signature, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/09/seeking-poetic-signature/#comment-10761 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:25:07 -0500 This is a question that I think about a lot. For me, my poetic style changes so much (at least to me) that I wonder if I even have a discernible “poetic style.” I agree with you that for our class, it is pretty […]

]]> 90ffac689bbef5c7efe84f501501aaa6 Isabel Owen commented on the post, Full Stop Therapy for Disaffected Teens, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/23/full-stop-therapy-for-disaffected-teens/#comment-10664 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:36:19 -0500 Hi, Will-

Maybe I’m just trying to channel my inner Facebook aunt on this blog.

All my best,
Isabel

]]> 600e3d8afc870b59c02ea0fb25d36a29 Isabel Owen commented on the post, Starting Anew: Looking at "The Greats" for the first time, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/18/starting-anew-looking-at-the-greats-for-the-first-time/#comment-10626 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:17:58 -0500 Hey Meg–as we went over in class, I feel a lot of the same way about reading “the classics,” and I also find that my knowledge of poetry is lacking. Of course, we are probably underestimating both of ourselves. […]

]]> 8070dbc58164a5b5448beee90a35dcda Isabel Owen edited the blog post more on moments in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8683/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:46:36 -0500 We’ve been talking a lot about the line as moment, but what should we do about the poetic moment overall? I mean to say– what do we do when we are struck with a moment of beauty, or sadness, or *insert other abstraction*– where do you go first?

There are deeper parts of my mind that I feel I am gaining access to lately, and they have an…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6f9e692f5f1c5ede417ecc43f81ee63 Isabel Owen changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8684/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:43:30 -0500 0 7b0bb65c95b4d5fc43d1be1423de7419 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Ríos and the "long line" as a moment in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8557/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 05:30:21 -0500 Thinking about the line as a moment said exactly what I’ve been trying to articulate about poetry for a while. What draws me to poetry is something about the way that words and lines work as units that provide something intangible and sentient to me as a reader. For example, I’ve always been fascinated with the word “geography”—the way it looks,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d13881e3614f3bfbc1bee618e7a65bd1 Isabel Owen commented on the post, Tides & Curly Fries, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/08/30/tides-curly-fries/#comment-10417 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:57:48 -0500 Hi Grace,

I loved reading your post, especially because I relate strongly. I, too, was a camp counselor this summer, a demanding position that leaves little time for writing and self-reflection. What I did […]

]]> 123515deeb34eadd43db3cc30ab4e6d4 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Braiding Identity and "A Short Essay on Being" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8044/ Wed, 10 May 2017 06:41:21 -0500 According to the Purdue Online Writing Lab, the braided essay is “broken into sections using medial white space, lines of white space on a page where there are no words (much like stanzas in poetry), and each time there is a section break, the writer moves from one ‘thread’ to another.”

I find this definition limiting, especially due to the fac…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f6fdb450277acdbe199aeccb7a5955 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Writing exercise: glossary poem in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7636/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:58:36 -0500 In Solmaz Sharif’s Look: Poems, pieces about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rely on using the dual meanings of words of war utilized by the government. Those include words such the one used in the collection title and first poem—

look— (*) In mine warfare, a period during which a mine circuit is receptive of an influence. 

We can th…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8ebffac4650888535ac46799e8a654b Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Snowy night and reflection on Joan Kane's reading in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7625/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:22:09 -0500 Last Thursday, quite a few members of Geneseo’s English community took a breath as we listened to Joan Kane’s poetry. Not to my surprise, her poetry read aloud is as quiet as it is on the page. The natural ima […]

]]> 0 493fa740fab18888a1a42c1e95144af3 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Poets: Where do we go from here? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7600/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:12:30 -0500 We find ourselves at an interesting intersection in history. Just yesterday in class (can you believe it?) we spoke prophetically about  our first woman president, our Madam President, predicting the epistemic event it would incur, all with a quiet surety hidden with “whens” quickly corrected to “ifs”, the “ifs” serving more as a “knock on wo…[Read more]

]]> 0 51e23f78abdee8d42eef13d6b7dc3e8d Isabel Owen joined the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7527/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:36:23 -0500 0 58c1196895e615415a4b5388f98b67ca Isabel Owen edited the blog post The trigger warning as prevention in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7455/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:23:18 -0500 This Thursday at a Guerrilla meeting, after going over some ideas, plans, and hopes for future projects, we had a talk about trigger warnings. I realized during that discussion that I didn’t think that much about trigger warnings, or rather that I was not aware of the complete range of reasons for using them. Although I have used them before, I’m…[Read more]

]]> 0 29ba4df6ffafe1fa7aed976482de30f7 Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Hiding from identity in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7418/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:03:03 -0500 One of the things that first attracted me to creative writing and reading/writing poetry was the notion of it as an almost otherworldly, sublime escape from the rigidness and mayhem of daily life. One reason that […]

]]> 0 b81c29c9cd63456582bd214658d93f91 Isabel Owen edited the blog post The poem, alive in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7313/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:56:04 -0500 These past few weeks, I’ve been feeling poetry in a different way. Maybe it’s workshop, maybe it’s because of the literary organizations that I’ve decided to join, maybe it’s something happening to me neurologically that I could not pinpoint without an MRI. Maybe it’s all of the above. Whatever it is, it is a marked point in a lifetime when…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0b63ce874ec7bad7a51286c3c058964 Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Touch in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7009/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 02:33:04 -0500 Touch by John Godfrey
The gauntlet puts on weight

and I climb into its thumb
which balances and then teeters

and thuds against my nose
and I see stars forever having

forgot aspirations of diligence and […]

]]> 0 fed584ef2e57c72c612d0fa8c56fca5d Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post The "image" as an emotional and intellectual complex in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6870/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:40:19 -0500 “An “image” is an emotional and intellectual complex in an instant of time… It is the presentation of such a “complex” instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time […]

]]> 0 5cbd9a0b997a29ccf284c1b9136f0ca2 Isabel Owen joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6860/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:46:14 -0500 0 fe9a0c7c3f780655e9fc483663739551 Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6512/ Thu, 12 May 2016 09:38:17 -0500 “Children of the Sea” by Edwidge Danticat is a short story that I read last semester in Maria Lima’s 203, Reading Transnationally. It is a fictional piece about the experience of two teenage lovers who are separ […]

]]> 0 b7aa8278de2cb956bcbce0190d6041ac Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Nate Pritts' Poetry in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6511/ Thu, 12 May 2016 08:57:30 -0500 This analysis is based on the second poem from “Pattern Exhaustion” (on page 12 of Post Human, if you have the book handy.)

After attending the Nate Pritts reading and buying his book, I began to notice in his […]

]]> 0 53acb66b5c75ee0ffb0b614a0c57046f Isabel Owen joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6427/ Sat, 07 May 2016 20:28:18 -0500 0 7897e9111c203e9f8eab2161c4abf93a Isabel Owen changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5984/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:01:49 -0500 0 920991e22e986c1a9340de418bfcc2e9 Isabel Owen changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5832/ Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:03:36 -0500 0 7949334e7e11f8bbef3e074bc04b1669 Isabel Owen became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5814/ Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:40:50 -0500 0