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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoI have no idea if this is anything close to your Great Day presentation, but playing off of perspective, I bet it would be fun to have an item on display – something simple, but hard to recognize; maybe something […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetic Obsessions, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoI think it’s a natural artistic tendency to avoid covering the same subject matter once you’ve already addressed it (as is the opposite, only focusing your efforts on one subject matter). It almost feels like we […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Zines in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months agoI’m surprised that in such a savvy course such as this, we’ve somehow totally circumvented the subject of zines. Zines are small, largely individually produced “magazines” (though many, if not most, tend to be […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Slang in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months agoSlang as a concept is fascinating – little verbal workarounds and implied connotations to construe a concept. It is not always used for the best means – how many slang terms were created on sexist, racist, […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Art & Poetry, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoI find it so interesting that Gandy Dancer – among other literary magazines, this is not a Gandy exclusive deal – puts submitted images and poems/prose/etc. next to one another with the implication that they go […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoPsychology major here. Don’t worry – the first (and most valuable) concept you learn in psychology courses is that there are no absolute truths and that invariably what you are learning to be true in one class is […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post The Sketchbook Project in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months agoThere’s a potential source of inspiration that some of you might be interested in checking out. The Brooklyn Art Library serves a very specific function to its local and global community – it is the physical […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoI think you’d enjoy paging through some zines! I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of those; they’re these small, independently made “magazines” (a lot of them can fit in the palm of your hand, though) that usually […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Happy Poems Just Don’t Happen, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoI guess that depends on what you consider happy! Happy is a wide range of emotions, including (but not limited to):
– bittersweet
– blithe
– playful
– incidental
– right
– celebratoryI think there’s a […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Don’t make me say it, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months agoThere is a large amount of vulnerability involved in the creation of poetry, so the instinct to patch up anything that might hint at it is understandable. But I think there’s a lot to be said in giving our readers […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Tumblr “Vent Art” in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoIn Tumblr’s high times before the adult content ban forced away most of its users (fun fact, I am quoted by name as a “furby enthusiast” in Vox Media’s article covering the debacle), there existed a form of “art” […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Home Depot by Brian Turner, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoI love that you could make a past connection like that through our poetry! When I took cognitive psychology at Geneseo, we learned that there is a good deal of theory surrounding the idea that human beings don’t […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Source Code, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoNick and I are housemates and were recently discussing poetry inspiration, and he was telling me about how weird twitter posts/memes – or, shitposts, as they are more commonly called – end up bending words in such […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Contemplations on Submissions, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoThank you for reminding me to submit to Catharsis! And good luck on your New Yorker submission.
I don’t know if this is something you’d be interested in doing, but I personally like to keep a record of my […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Schools Should Include More Modern and Diverse Poets in English Classes, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoThe words “I have never heard of Anne Sexton” murdered me, Hannah. Flayed me down to bone, in fact. I feel like you’d like “The Ambition Bird” (you can read it on the Poetry Foundation’s website), which is one of […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Universality in Poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoIt’s an inevitability that you encounter poet Phillip Larkin’s piece “This Be the Verse” at some point within your poetry career. Sometimes it’s an embittered eleventh English teacher who shows it to you partly […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Eighth Grade, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoIt really is a shame that the Geneseo campus doesn’t really have anything close to poetry slams hosted by the poetry club/English department/etc.; if they do, they certainly haven’t been advertised very well.
I […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post I Guess It Has to Come From Somewhere in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoWhat’s the reasoning behind my impulse to write poetry; who is the little man behind the green curtain? It’s probably the same inclination that made me gay; or it could be the flu shot. That time my baby-fat ank […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Adrenaline, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoI love that you mentioned gothic architecture because this past break I spent at least a good hour or two curled up in a Barnes and Noble reading (or looking at, I suppose) a massive photography book of gothic […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, What I draw inspiration from, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoWell, as Doctor Smith keeps saying, we are composed of our inspirations, so being inspired by practically everything can’t be a bad thing for you!
Most people know about “Milk and Honey”; in 2015, I thought we […]
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