English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jess Fenn | Friends Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jessfenn/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Jess Fenn's friends. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 09687aa5d93c9282c0700b88ca2a762c DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Dante & Morrison's Reminders about Control, Communication & Kindness Amidst the Pandemic in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15196/ Sun, 10 May 2020 18:11:52 -0500 Morrison’s Paradise seems more relevant than ever in the face of a global pandemic that emphasizes the need for collaboration, at personal, local, communal, interstate, and global levels. What’s fortunate for thi […]

]]> 0 0099cf625298dcddda719d6c7396cd48 DongWon Oh joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15193/ Sun, 10 May 2020 17:54:50 -0500 0 32772008df90e5171a1891e65de645ce Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post The importance of sharing your poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14206/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:35:30 -0500 As we approach the end of the semester and I sift through all my poetry to form a cohesive portfolio, I am forced to reflect on my writing and what I aim to accomplish as a poet. Like some of my peers have […]

]]> 0 35b3a415343f482317231456c13e65d3 Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post taking critiques into consideration in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14099/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:14:56 -0500 Upon recently workshopping my poem “Unheard: An Introvert’s Inner Monologue” (still working on the title), I realized how much I’ve changed not only as a person, but as a writer. First as a person, I noticed […]

]]> 0 fe57e0607a7d3731c597ff787eb18037 Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post Translating a language I don't speak in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14098/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:57:28 -0500 A few years ago, I helped a friend with a poetry project for her Spanish literature class. She spoke fluent Spanish, whereas I could barely count to ten in the language. Still, I agreed to help her out, 1) […]

]]> 0 420089217d9f29f58707d55432c0e030 Patrick Ruehle changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13787/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:19:48 -0500 0 c55e175364a19bdfce21a27512f3832e Patrick Ruehle joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13754/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:42:49 -0500 0 a09bb5a13ee196303ace918c6d121406 Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post on Plath in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13529/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 02:54:37 -0500 I made it my mission to analyze all of Sylvia Plath’s poetry. So far, I’ve read her collections “Ariel” and “The Colossus.” As a whole, her poems had melancholy tones, including “Morning Star,” which was writt […]

]]> 0 3e91aa11a082e4b8ea0487f940c53d92 Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post transformation of poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13265/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:21:01 -0500 My vision of poetry has changed drastically throughout the years. As a young girl, I wrote blocks of texts full of description. They were hybrids of prose poems and fiction pieces. I scrawled my words on every […]

]]> 0 64b77423e79b2abb653fa3d97ca49bbf Aliyha Gill joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13264/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:31:16 -0500 0 da55e600e06089dcbf3e6f9f145e25a6 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Memory and Compassion in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12866/ Tue, 14 May 2019 18:44:23 -0500 “[…] herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, —who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so litt […]

]]> 0 a6fd5feb12a3df45f8d71692d605c1bf ALISON AMES started the topic Universal Message in Leave No Trace in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/universal-message-in-leave-no-trace/ Mon, 13 May 2019 02:55:30 -0500 The first thing I would like to comment on is the portrayal of runaway culture. As someone who as dealt with the system in three different states, New York, Colorado, and Oregon, I found the depiction of the police state presence farcical in the face of reality. Go to Portland, and under any number of bridges you will find a heterogeneous…[Read more]

]]> b45a7e74c9fdbbf7681a82b8ff9af925 ALISON AMES started the topic Complacency in Children of Men in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/complacency-in-children-of-men/ Sun, 05 May 2019 23:24:11 -0500 As a dystopian film, Children of Men draws attention to fears that resonate not just because it may someday happen but because things like this have happened (not global infertility obviously, but genocide, internment, police states, etc.). The film provides no answers- to how humanity has gotten to this point, to the problem of infertility, or…[Read more]

]]> 7efc2deb1148f75bcd9298a559d5260f ALISON AMES started the topic Response to... Plot Armor in The Thing in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/response-to-plot-armor-in-the-thing/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:40:55 -0500 I could not figure out how to reply to the blog post unfortunately so I hope this is okay…

The concept of plot armor is something that I was actually going to post about so I’m glad someone decided to!

I would add that this concept is first apparent in the opening scene when the chopper is attempting to shoot the Thing (as a dog). The shooter…[Read more]

]]> ffa2121468c9cf366ba6275b29ae63a0 ALISON AMES started the topic Cultural Implications in The Thing (1982) in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/cultural-implications-in-the-thing-1982/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:10:23 -0500 I think The Thing (1982) is far more complex than it appears at first glance. I first noticed, and this could be due to the similarities it shares with my research paper, the cultural implications. Kurt Russell plays the man-of-action cowboy hero quintessential to the Reagan-era Hollywood hero. In 1982, nearing the end of the Cold War, this movie…[Read more]

]]> f5ee9559fda87459ffa0f18f1e5078f2 ALISON AMES started the topic The Call of Cthulhu in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-call-of-cthulhu/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 01:13:35 -0500 The Call of Cthulhu suggests that there exists some form of collective consciousness, the forgotten knowledge of the past only accessible through artistic minds. However, the forgotten knowledge and “stirred memories” of this ancient knowledge destroys us; like our inferior means of communication, our physical bodies are not fit to digest divine…[Read more]

]]> cac8b1ffc4c473ede8ebc90a6bbf9868 Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Visual Continuity in Prince's Work in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12602/ Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:33:13 -0500 In the process of putting together our blog post “Untangling Sustainability,” the group I was a part of spent a good chunk of time finding a definition for sustainable/sustainability that wasn’t attached to a […]

]]> 0 aa87a18adeb53760c18bbd7d09ebb883 ALISON AMES replied to the topic Does "The Station Agent" Have a Plot? What About a Hero? in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/does-the-station-agent-have-a-plot-what-about-a-hero/#post-1383 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 19:09:11 -0500 I do agree that The Station Agent has plot elements and is a movie with a plot. I think one reason that it may be considered as lacking a plot is that the conflicts are predominantly internal. Each of the central characters struggle internally rather than some opposing force which must be overcome. I also think, the fact that the central…[Read more]

]]> e2e8505850d628b31caade05f9f91411 ALISON AMES started the topic "Angel-woman" & "Monster-woman" Undertones in Georgia in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/angel-woman-monster-woman-undertones-in-georgia/ Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:58:36 -0500 After watching the film, Georgia, I could not help but draw parallels between the reading from Gilbert & Gubar’s “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother” and Georgia. Sadie’s obsession with her sister and her subsequent attempt to live up to her in her fathers eyes is brought to attention in the first scene the two women are together, “What is it…[Read more]

]]> af407fc181793b62c67fe85f2390ad4d ALISON AMES replied to the topic Cinematic Parallels & "Noble" Heroism in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/cinematic-parallels-noble-heroism/#post-1376 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:35:42 -0500 Commenting on your hero in Wind River response, I agree with you. I left the film feeling as though there was an absence of heroism in the film. Although Cory appears to mentor Jane through the investigation, he is driven by a want for vengeance not justice. As Jane stumbles around behind him, not every truly understanding the gravity of her…[Read more]

]]> f47d08f3d7ac8acb0c47883c2eb9fc5b Noah Mazer edited the blog post Progress in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12377/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:35:57 -0500 The final bullet of the final slide we looked at today in class, under the heading “Du Bois ‘Of the Meaning of Progress,'” read “Questioning the value of progress.” Nitpicking, I want to point out that the l […]

]]> 0 26441cb7eb7f8a1b1a45cf95f58b4520 ALISON AMES replied to the topic The Female Gaze? in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-female-gaze/#post-1326 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:32:22 -0500 There are a few films that come to mind that are more geared to illicit a ‘female gaze,’ however, their genres leave them tediously on the other side of what we consider to be seriously considered films. The first film that came to mind was Magic Mike. Despite the majority of the cast being male, the film is considered to be a drama/comedy and is…[Read more]

]]> 08e42f46b98bfd0d7cf28495cee25282 Noah Mazer edited the blog post Drawing Points in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12217/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:51:43 -0500 I initially encountered Steve Prince’s work in ENGL 432, last spring, where I remember feeling somewhat frustrated with the way that we were looking at and interpreting Prince’s work.  In that setting, it seemed […]

]]> 0 3b5aa0be1c90162da25ce8156e94b302 ALISON AMES changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12116/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:50:48 -0500 0 4841a3d71f1c30bc6b8951825064f9b7 ALISON AMES started the topic A Review of The General, 1926 in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/a-review-of-the-general-1926/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:47:34 -0500  

A Review of The General, 1926

The General is entertaining, to say the least. Buster Keaton’s performance can be appreciated at an even greater scale in considering his tripartite role of not only lead actor, but as both writer and director of the film as well. The lack of dialogue scarcely matters, the plot moves quickly by means of s…[Read more]

]]> 8206042e042b9a035656fcf972d87c3a ALISON AMES joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12096/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:46:43 -0500 0 a9eb9c70b860bba65c181d2460c36100 Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post A Final Reflection…. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11608/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:32:05 -0500 Today when I was going over my final draft of my portfolio it made me realize that a lot of the poems that I expected to write for the class felt in a way completed. I’ve never really had this sense in poetry b […]

]]> 0 933cf7d8a7cefc93578f48fc226715a5 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Final Reflection Essay in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11567/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:50:46 -0500 There is a call for change, if not revolution, that is more powerful and cacophonous than anything my generations has heard so far. Annihilation mounts in a slow violence against humans. The real issue though is […]

]]> 0 0a6d7b3c7ab93c98b549c744dc5fe077 Danielle Gonzalez's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11556/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:42:53 -0500 0 3f0e7e79b8a1dc3aa55a2d4a03b794a5 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post The Stillness Free From Chaos in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11325/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:02:26 -0500 While thinking about this final blog post I began to ask myself the progressive thinkING question of what does it matter that we’ve been doing this? There’s a right answer to that question, but what I found to be […]

]]> 0 ffa3692f6cd43c45427b66fc67900e81 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Geologic Time Scales and Goosebumps in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11209/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:10:18 -0500 One of the most impressive qualities that I read the Stillness’ humans to have was their consideration of time and legacy in their decision making. After all, the Sanzed Empire was only able to maintain its p […]

]]> 0 23e42965a18a07fb2f52ea45d7f4a220 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post What children learn from colonizing Mars is the same thing we learn from comm organization in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11205/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:49:52 -0500 A year and a half ago I was a teacher-counselor for a summer camp that SUNY Geneseo hosts for Rochester City School District. That iteration of the camp was themed around Mars colonization and asked students to […]

]]> 0 39b2a90835024f71a36d758fd9d6c3d1 Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Young orogenes as child soldiers in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11169/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 21:44:59 -0500 N. K. Jemisin first introduced us to the horror of the node-maintainers’ existence in The Fifth Season with their presence serving as a representation of institutional oppression and a public dependency on that o […]

]]> 0 c3052f2d0372f616346a42cadfdf584b Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post ACEs in the Stillness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11024/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:17:18 -0500 The main intersection for our class is between English and the sciences as we take up the familiar cause of creating an integrative experience in education. Geology fits itself into Jemisin’ writing in many ways b […]

]]> 0 7a35b7865fca231e62f70109702c5448 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Adjusting thoughts on Jemisin's humans in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10984/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:29:58 -0500 I had made a previous post about the alternate biology that Jemisin writes about. At that time I was still unaware of the existence of magic or magical essence as well as poorly stating that I was assuming that […]

]]> 0 9787cd59473170d34c66ed54c98b10ce Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Reflection on the Kindergarten Teacher and Why Poets Write in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10961/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:32:18 -0500  

****Warning! This post contains spoilers for the Kindergarten Teacher!!!!!*******

A couple of weeks ago my friends and I watched the Kindergarten Teacher because we heard it was about poetry and were […]

]]> 0 bfdda64f1a73e81a36f0456011241ff3 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post In Response to Civil & Uncivil Disobedience in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10949/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:29:04 -0500 I write this in response to Michee Jacobs’ post about civil disobedience. I was initially drawn in by the mention of Henry David Thoreau and my own knowledge that his name is likely to follow any literary c […]

]]> 0 d02e341847fe0f2a57fc59156698b736 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Geology Fiction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10921/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:04:38 -0500 Astronomy, physics and biology dominate the genre of science fiction. N. K. Jemisin has now added geology to the list with the Fifth Season and the other books in the trilogy. In terms of media, science fiction […]

]]> 0 cd95538c6c8d8ee105c3c5336852fdd9 Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Jemisin and alternate biology in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10920/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:58:30 -0500 In the world of the Fifth Season orogenes are about as close to wizards and witches as you can get. Popular culture might also liken them to the earth benders of the Avater: The Last Airbender television series. […]

]]> 0 b42ee3cdaf932fe1620bb5e92a029b54 Xavier Bodensieck joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10891/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:23:08 -0500 0 d25a1853a8643bf0fa07aa949637600b Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Poetry and Context in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10865/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:06:40 -0500 After reading poems that mentioned Cy Twombly and Giorgio Amgabam in relation to each other, for this week’s tangible object, I decided to research Cy Twombly and Giorgio Amgabam to look into how they relate to D […]

]]> 0 396414ed37b35aca54cdad7f6418db8f Danielle Gonzalez edited the blog post A Reflection on Fall Break in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10845/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 03:13:23 -0500 Fall Break will be over soon and on Wednesday, most if not all of us will be asked what we did during our time off. While many of us would like to say that we got a jump start on that paper that’s due, or finally […]

]]> 0 f838169bb9270888da6991b03dd4f128 Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Review on Inside Out and Back Again in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10796/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:14:11 -0500 Inside out and Back Again is a beautifully written narrative of immigration. Thanhha Lai does not show concern about traditional word count but rather the presentation of the story in which her words can be framed […]

]]> 0 5ce333621c6eaf857a3a709afd0705cd Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post On creating Texture in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10760/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 05:05:37 -0500 In one of our classes, Lytton discussed how poetry should create resistance through a poem’s lines. This idea really intrigued me. Party, because my ideas for writing often comes without much friction, and I don’t […]

]]> 0 326dcb25e82b6cb9328e0d4f82b789e2 Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post On Finding a Distinct Writing Style in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10535/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:11:09 -0500 When Professor Lytton discussed out first class workshop, I found it really interesting that we were submitting our work anonymously. Although the point of this was to focus on the poem and not the writer, I […]

]]> 0 f275318cd15a877bf3aa3808f5c77938 Danielle Gonzalez commented on the post, taking steps toward my writing career. finally., on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10533/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:11:09 -0500 Congratulations Julia! That’s amazing!!!!! I’m happy to see you furthering yourself as a writer and taking the opportunity to send out your work. You’ve made a very good point about the submitting process. I […]

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