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Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 4 months ago

I can actually see grass outside, there is (somehow) no snow on the ground, and it’s finally warm outside-

Which, for some reason, means the tone of my poems completely changes. I know this doesn’t only happen […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 5 months ago

Many times, inspiration can be found simply by looking at other people. Sit down somewhere you can people watch. Pay close attention to other people’s outfits, particularly their shoes. What do their shoes say […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 6 months ago

The blank page is the most intimidating part of writing, and most of the time I don’t know where I’m going with a poem before I start it. It’s always been difficult for me to start writing a poem. Usually, I’ll […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 9 months ago

I was recently working on a terza rima for one of the exercises when I came to a realization: rhyming is really damn hard. I am terrible at trying to find rhymes for words without making it sound like Dr. Seuss […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 10 months ago

I will admit that I struggled finding a poem to do exercise number 8 with. Having never done anything like this exercise before, I wasn’t sure exactly which direction to take it in. I chose Norwood’s poem, […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 11 months ago

Upon reading Hairston’s poem in the reader, I began to wonder how density plays into poetry. I know that I rushed through this poem, particularly because of the lack of spaces or line breaks, but sometimes when […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 11 months ago

I find it funny that people are posting about poetry in their childhood, as I was thinking about which poems really stood out to me when I was young. I own every book of Shel Silverstein’s poetry, and I remember […]
Juliana Schicho wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 11 months ago

One thing that always made me wonder about poetry is why we were never taught modern poetry in school. My only real exposure to poetry throughout both elementary and high school was much older. Shakespeare, […]

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