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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: 9 years, 8 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Word-bank a poem in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 9 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Geneseo School of Writing? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 10 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Social Exchange Theory in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 10 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Poetry Experience vs. Environment in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 10 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post Scattering the Pieces of an Image in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 11 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new blog post The Painter and the Landscape in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 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 […]
Kallie Swyer wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months 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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