English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jessica Bansbach | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jessicabansbach/activity/ Activity feed for Jessica Bansbach. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e70203ad551d9fa767e8c157b651f5f5 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15045/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:45:30 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 e134dd1c678efa21d52a34465d4e8c60 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetic Obsessions, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15044/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:35:16 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 ec7c2f43c07d09eabcb962404f59ae3b Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Zines in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15040/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:26:17 -0500 I’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 […]

]]> 0 30d61c136342cbb5f289d75a5b3eb8e5 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Slang in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15031/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:57:02 -0500 Slang 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, […]

]]> 0 5d5496a4fc8bb5b43880b7cb6adf4699 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Art & Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15030/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:38:49 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 87b6fa5fddc1178bfe180621ac476fa4 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15029/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:34:35 -0500 Psychology 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 […]

]]> 0 f76b111711eb9f39a400f0addb4c6e37 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post The Sketchbook Project in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15018/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:44:39 -0500 There’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 […]

]]> 0 31f3cebcb9f1e96fe1a288731e65dccb Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15017/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:03:48 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 7c29846ccf225ebc070de2a9dacac0ad Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Happy Poems Just Don't Happen, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15016/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:52:42 -0500 I 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
– celebratory

I think there’s a […]

]]> 0 d21f0cb4f40f7f0cf1659d9bbec4ec4b Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Don't make me say it, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15015/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:45:48 -0500 There 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 […]

]]> 0 baf4da492f30200cf051042f4ef6754f Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Tumblr "Vent Art" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14974/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:58:21 -0500 In 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” […]

]]> 0 3269d90f025c6eb54f53eb36501d75f2 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Home Depot by Brian Turner, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14973/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:46:05 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 829c63ce62a3584ff9324519ecc85ad0 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Source Code, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14972/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:39:22 -0500 Nick 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 […]

]]> 0 a2a472f534a25619d585083545a09ff5 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Contemplations on Submissions, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14948/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:49:57 -0500 Thank 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 […]

]]> 0 518cc609a6e7b6ce4c8fbae64f4b89d0 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Schools Should Include More Modern and Diverse Poets in English Classes, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14884/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:42:13 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 9e0efd25fa3e6dc2baa532396e753fb9 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Universality in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14869/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:22:04 -0500 It’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 […]

]]> 0 0a02eaf2fdcd5f53b08f49e4f266a09f Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Eighth Grade, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14820/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:26:46 -0500 It 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 […]

]]> 0 97fa8ff63021f39654c352d3fbffd9b1 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post I Guess It Has to Come From Somewhere in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14817/ Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:13:20 -0500 What’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 […]

]]> 0 8b6ef559f06f35969f3e0ba682044740 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Adrenaline, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14669/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:26:42 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 4d3078f506b31c08ecbdb9afc18b0658 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, What I draw inspiration from, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14670/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:55:18 -0500 Well, 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 […]

]]> 0 ea212f12426440563f720fe8d9f957a2 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Papercuts in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14644/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:18:32 -0500 I am what may be gently referred to as a “packrat”. Any harsher than that and I’ll get too defensive for you to convince me to edge the Vogue Magazine back issues I’ve been hoarding under my bed for some time no […]

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