English @ SUNY Geneseo | Kallie Swyer | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/kallieswyer/activity/ Activity feed for Kallie Swyer. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 96b74055b5050f973a14a70bc23d9730 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post On Sadness, Poetry as Activism, and Where We Go From Here in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7705/ Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:33:51 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 983b62732894f3a557e9566fc4cc06b2 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Word-bank a poem in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7639/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:56:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d4a7615ba8b38f6feef1a38281beb18b Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Poets: Where do we go from here?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/11/09/poets-where-do-go-from-here/#comment-8566 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:10:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 41413f568e35ed2ec852cd05794180b3 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Geneseo School of Writing? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7601/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:06:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 df8be20aa8e489f2efa3952b3d76b69a Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Social Exchange Theory in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7481/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:13:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 dca55db362282ae98df9b85cbd9ab6c7 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Poetry Experience vs. Environment in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7426/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:30:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1ada197a350604844971b5d1af8810e9 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Scattering the Pieces of an Image in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7209/ Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:57:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 28705eb7dc62dc1854d6fa5468479671 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Learning About Yourself Through the Image, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/08/learning-about-yourself-through-the-image/#comment-8279 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:50:39 -0500 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, […]

]]> 60c01530d210f0398d8c577656cb1271 Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post The Painter and the Landscape in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6864/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:09:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 012afbd556e7a14babef6353e864e543 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=658 Wed, 06 May 2015 04:54:06 -0500 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 […]

]]> 02086c778eeb15e993a3f2ffe469cb4c Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=632 Fri, 01 May 2015 15:24:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> c697bd22663c9f35e2443f9c818f9d21 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=520 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:09:48 -0500 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 […]

]]> 867fc713574c4020a934a17321d94d0a Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=426 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:32:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> 08dd419c64cae8e7d1433b595ecff87c Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=307 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:53:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> cd2e95c1b4a94fa3a7ee08d141166aab Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=289 Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:08:07 -0500 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, […]

]]> a186acf86df8c50e7811a330e23b3d21 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=155 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:21:53 -0500 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 […]

]]> cd196aa0827d6b96a114ad990ecbf13e Kallie Swyer joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3940/ Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:44 -0500 0 ca9b5ba3e624c3b7675a468758d8c40c Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=392 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:10:51 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0623a4f7be02f7c1e25e724fbc66352b Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=340 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:57:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> c3154fb359d72f4dff98b63d1e44a280 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, American vs. British Spelling: Why? , on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/05/american-vs-british-spelling-why/#comment-1906 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:52:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9a209d016de704d7e2cf97307494ab6d Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Children's Books: Poetry? Prose? Narrative? Oh My!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/05/childrens-books-poetry-prose-narrative-oh-my/#comment-1905 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:29:28 -0500 It’s so weird, I’ve always sort of linked poetry and children’s lit in my head, but never really understood why; I’ve started thinking about writing children’s books more and more since taking poetry classes. […]

]]> acfa4a094056846fc4f81ab3756a64dd Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Iphone age, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/10/iphone-age/#comment-1904 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:17:07 -0500 Hi Romy! This is such a good idea, taking the things out of conversations creates a really cool realistic tone to the writing, but also a bit of mysticism as well (at least in the way that you put yours together). […]

]]> b07991a96ac5bff0cfaea6dc7f3e03f0 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, "Why is Modern Poetry so Bad?", on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/27/why-is-modern-poetry-so-bad/#comment-1516 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:04:46 -0500 The article you posted actually made me laugh – it sounds just like someone complaining that the kids these days only care about texting and Angry Birds. (Warning: there is about to be a vaguely angry rant, but […]

]]> 5b0ffbc4798d787327c1de0fffb994d7 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Fixations in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/20/fixations-in-poetry/#comment-1513 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:32:10 -0500 I’m the worst at fixating on things! For me it usually is an image or a line and I just try and fit it into every poem I write until I can find the right home for it in my writing, but until then it drives me mad […]

]]> 0f157e63fcbcb18045d48f78b77575ed Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Finding Poetry in Anything, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/23/finding-poetry-in-anything/#comment-1512 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:18:31 -0500 This was a really great post! I’ve definitely had the same thoughts about writing. I personally like to (attempt to) write novels, and sometimes I get completely absorbed in the way the prose is flowing, but other […]

]]> 0f21652b8bd1d1e10610ed6841022ef7 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=277 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:57:17 -0500 I was in the library earlier today, a few hours before class, sitting at one of the awkwardly triangular tables. I was alone until a girl and her friend sat there as well. I couldn’t complain, seeing as I had […]

]]> 7b4a42a36b07d814c8a85fac56d4127f Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Negative Image, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/19/negative-image/#comment-1368 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:36:40 -0500 That’s such a good point: I used the poem “Two Moths,” and definitely think it changed my opinion on the poem! To properly get the negative of each statement I had to evaluate what each line was saying. My poem […]

]]> 5c61c6f8f91f89ade4f03ce4ae9fc0e2 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=230 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:34:52 -0500 Today I was in a really good mood and wanted to write a poem. I expected it would somehow reflect my mood, but instead it turned out to be sad. After reading it to my suite mates I bemoaned that I could only ever […]

]]> 1413d56d411a3740eb87dc93cbb8df22 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Weaseling out of Assignments (with Poetry!), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/30/weaseling-out-of-assignments-with-poetry/#comment-1107 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:25:56 -0500 I have definitely found that I’m less willing to write essays! That’s such a good idea, to use poetry in place of papers. I know that when I’m writing a paper I usually have to add a certain aspect of (prose) […]

]]> 7fa18a15d5dbc49f5f7cd6934e0a3ef6 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, I'm Scared of Poetry! Help! , on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/06/im-scared-of-poetry-help/#comment-1091 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:29:47 -0500 Hey Jason!

Poetry is so intimidating sometimes because it comes with memories of Shakespeare and Tennyson and all the “greats.” This might sound odd, but it helps to write and read silly poems, because they’re […]

]]> 5359732880964b9f0ce6615463de7301 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=201 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:12:23 -0500 Or, in other words, that feeling of reading a poem/collection of poems that are so beautiful and inspiring that you feel you can’t read or write any more, ever.

I’m the emotional sort of person to cry at […]

]]> 3512c95657ccb7270d484d8fed6ed4b8 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Writing about Things that Don't Interest Us., on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/25/writing-about-things-that-dont-interest-us/#comment-886 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:47:39 -0500 I have this notebook app on my phone where I jot down random images or thoughts I have during a day, usually to incorporate into a poem at a later time. I’ve never even thought about writing the entire poem about […]

]]> 71b2c9be3e25349d831c1bc2ccd3f39e Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Influence on Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/22/influence-on-poetry/#comment-504 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:04:00 -0500 Hey Juliana,

This is such an interesting thought of how your favorites’ style influenced your own as a kid. I was obsessed with Robert Frost, and as much of his writing is about still scenes in nature, most of […]

]]> 68244d7e0e385ded776f221910a94939 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=140 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:34:01 -0500 Sometimes when I’m feeling more disillusioned with poetry as a whole (usually thanks to relatives who tell me that I’ll go nowhere with a degree in creative writing) I look through a collection of quotes about […]

]]> d2b867719318bed9a0d1f660e6e23970 Kallie Swyer commented on the post, Workshop Community, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/20/workshop-community/#comment-331 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:29:35 -0500 Hi Amy!
I agree with you about the closeness of the advance workshops. I know that the first few times I ever submitted poems for workshop it was incredibly nerve-wracking (and has only gotten marginally less so […]

]]> 63dc8b3f20159c0bf3f066e987796cd6 Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=58 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:18:09 -0500 Earlier this week I took a few older poems I had and wasn’t fond of, and created a “Franken-poem” out of them. It turned into an amazing piece about a very long and personal journey. Because of the nature of the […]

]]> b9768b931d1d0629a6343d6a5b5968f6 Kallie Swyer joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/2871/ Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:19:46 -0500 0 3ba4fe7d746a64ebebb50bf9c665978c Kallie Swyer became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/2837/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:41:02 -0500 0