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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months ago“I have a nephew and I absolutely adore this kid. He’s six years old, about yay high and he loves to play. So one day, Jayden and I are in the front yard and we are having a blast. I needed to go inside for a m […]
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Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoThis past Saturday I delivered a TEDx talk here at SUNY Geneseo and I wanted to post the written transcript for those who couldn’t be there. I will only post the first third on here and then leave the rest as a […]
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Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Thinking Without Words in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoHave you ever thought of what it would be like to think
without words? What would it be like to think without pictures, syllogisms,
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Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Mass Hierarchies and Art Monopolies in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoThe 21st century has brought with it advancements and complications that nobody in the pre-digital age dealt with: the dotcom boom is our modern Gutenberg press.
The industrialized automaton
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Word Vomit, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoI appreciated the “all over the place” rant. That’s interesting that is what brought you to Geneseo (I’m here because I live like 45 minutes away and tuition is cheap) but the metaphor for your poems being a kind […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry & My Week, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoYou caught fire?! That is incredible, I didn’t know that you were flammable! Glad to hear you’re alright though. I think that the weirdest, most awkward part of poetry is letting the undercurrent swell into words. […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Interaction between text and reader, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoA phenomenal essay that I encourage you to read is Wolfgang Iser’s “A phenomenological approach to reading” (adjectival pun intended). The notion that there is a text that all readers bring to any text, and the […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry in Music, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoI’m with you on thinking that a lot of pop-music is merely a catchy tag-line with not much depth. Yet the irony is that “pop” is merely “popular.” And while it is true that many gravitate towards the aesthetically […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Writing In Someone Else’s Style, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 7 months agoI love this concept! I think that the idea of “creating” is not something exclusive to “creatives.” We all “create” to some degree and for those who enjoy exploring this further, exchanging “create” with “make” […]
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Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Jungian Revelation: The “Unconsciousness” and Inspiration in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months agoIn Carl Jung’s influential essay “Approaching the unconscious,” found in the larger work Man and his Symbols, Jung defines cryptomnesia or “concealed recollection” in relationship to a passage in Nietzsche’s Thus […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, How I got here, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 8 months agoAbsolutely try the “new” and “game changing” this semester! This is your chance to exert free-reign over your vocabulary and experiment with some new things. I would be very excited to see what you could do with […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, “What Got You Into Poetry?”, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 8 months agoThat was encouraging to hear how you had an influential teacher that truly engaged you with literature. Perhaps I was too dull to hear or my teachers didn’t have the ability to engage us as yours did. As you say […]
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Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post The Line Between Logical and Literary. in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 8 months agoWhat does it mean to straddle the line between the logical and the
literary? Our vernacular use of the word “literal” has the connotation of “intended”
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Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Senses Fail and Nas, an Unlikely Source of the Muse. in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 8 months agoI learned poetry
through hip-hop. I didn’t grow up quoting Virgil and Wordsworth, but dipping class
and cyphering with my friends, imitating the flow-schemes of Big L and Nas. Standing
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, My Source, Listed:, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 8 months agoSo one of the most interesting things that I can recommend is Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception If you want to see some of the connections between […]
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Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post This Ethreal Basilica in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 8 months agoI believe that the word inspiration speaks volumes to what happens as I engage in poetry, to be in-spired is to be spirited with a zealous creative bent splattering the canvas of my mind with words and colors and […]
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