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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post On Sadness, Poetry as Activism, and Where We Go From Here in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago
I think we can all agree that this has been a rough semester.
No matter what side you’re looking from, no matter who you supported in the election, no matter what your core beliefs are telling you to do at this […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Word-bank a poem in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago
For this exercise, you take a poem from your follow a book, or an old poem of your own, and make a word bank with all of the words in the poem. (This part takes a little bit of time, but is worth it!) Once you […]
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Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Poets: Where do we go from here?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 5 months ago
Your writing on this topic really put into words everything I’ve been trying to articulate about being a poet since the election. I’ve been having a really hard time writing since last Tuesday, and it’s so […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Geneseo School of Writing? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
We talked a bit about “Geneseo Poetry” in class yesterday, and I’d like to push back against this.
I don’t think there is one type of poem that we, at Geneseo, consider good. I do, however, think that the […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Social Exchange Theory in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
After Pam and Lily spoke last night about how philosophy related to poetry, it made me think about how the sociology class I’m in now, and how it relates to our class/poetry in general.
Recently, in Soc […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Poetry Experience vs. Environment in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months ago
Like Isabel mentioned in her post a few weeks back about Guerrilla’s display at the Fringe Festival, I’ve also been thinking about poetry in different ways; specifically, I’ve been thinking on the interaction wo […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Scattering the Pieces of an Image in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
One thing I struggle with in my poems is to have a sense of urgency to one image – or have an image that tells a story and gets across one very specific feeling. In a lot of the things I write, one specific i […]
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Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Learning About Yourself Through the Image, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 7 months ago
Hey Carolina! I totally agree with this – even when I try to write a poem from a completely different perspective, or about a subject I’ve never experienced myself, no matter how well I can get out of my head, […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post The Painter and the Landscape in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
Pound writes, “…remember that the painter can describe a landscape much better than you can, and that he has to know a deal more about it.” This line stood out to me because I know that it’s something I have to […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 11 months ago
One of the most powerful things that I’ve read in all of Butler’s assigned fiction, is the passage in Mind of My Mind where Doro asks Anyanwu if she understands the term ‘mute,’ and she replies:
“I know what it […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 11 months ago
Ever since the class we had where Beth broke our time into 15-minute segments, I’ve been trying to do this on my own. Ever since, I’ve noticed a huge increase in my productivity. I remember that when that class […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
When reading Dawn, I was both disturbed and fascinated by a conversation Lilith had with Jdahya on page 16:
“…it has been several million years since we dared to interfere in another people’s act of […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years ago
In Patternmaster, on page 673, there is a quote about mutes born with physical or mental deformities:
“And there was a certain Patternist woman who had made an art form of controlling and changing the […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 1 month ago
What happens when people try to imagine new ways of being? This is something Butler’s fiction asks us when we are reading, as we try to put ourselves in the world of her characters. She also poses this to her […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 1 month ago
Kayla V. made a really great post about Doro’s relationship to the seed people and its similarities to what whiteness is to black people, as Rajanie Kumar discusses in the article “White Terror: Spirituality, […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
The catalog entry for the Western Humanities I course says it is “A search for moral, social, and political alternatives and meaning embodied in the institutions, culture, and literature of Western Civilization […]
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Kallie Swyer joined the group Speculative Fiction 9 years, 2 months ago
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 4 months ago
I had a lot to say about this so decided to make it its own post instead of a response. I love hearing poets read their own work, as you can get so much more of their personality that you may have missed while […]
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Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
I’ve always been fascinated by random and useless history facts; it’s one of those weird obsessions that I just can’t shake. I tend to frequent tumblrs like http://historyfactaday.tumblr.com/, especially when in […]
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Kallie Swyer commented on the post, American vs. British Spelling: Why? , on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
I don’t think I’ve paid much attention to it in my writing in the past, just using whichever language I was more comfortable using, i.e. which spellings I normally use (dialogue, theater, favorite). Though the […]
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