English @ SUNY Geneseo | Kyle Navratil | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/kylenavratil/activity/ Activity feed for Kyle Navratil. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b529419d2561bb3b190b2dcb42e630c1 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15043/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:18:13 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 0453546f33dc0ee0b8d9c954795f0f2e Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15042/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:15:29 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 cf64acebced0c3cca98703c11ff3cdfd Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Thinking Without Words in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15026/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:03:17 -0500 Have you ever thought of what it would be like to think
without words? What would it be like to think without pictures, syllogisms,
typeset, linguistic codification in binaries, tertiaries, quaternaries, or […]

]]> 0 0e042770e62d69c71ce4e9156b6480c3 Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Mass Hierarchies and Art Monopolies in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14985/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:46:35 -0500 The 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
of book printing […]

]]> 0 7ce9ae21d92c42aa4a1185067461c6d6 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Word Vomit, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14981/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:26:32 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 b26ae35fb5670a61c10acbf57469e99a Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry & My Week, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14980/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:19:18 -0500 You 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. […]

]]> 0 8cc7258e0a1346bec57852307891df87 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Interaction between text and reader, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14979/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:07:02 -0500 A 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 […]

]]> 0 477239eef0ec4219191b3af9a95c3373 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry in Music, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14978/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:54 -0500 I’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 […]

]]> 0 c4f3eb119fa120985bb598d44a94d9f3 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Writing In Someone Else's Style, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14977/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:53:22 -0500 I 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” […]

]]> 0 08fcd962cd4543975b897901a433daa4 Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Jungian Revelation: The "Unconsciousness" and Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14976/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:44:12 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 3b10f1832287327bec76de1401c2978f Kyle Navratil commented on the post, How I got here, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14868/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:21:51 -0500 Absolutely 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 […]

]]> 0 d7053508a764e6ae2df2d41fdbc17c57 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, "What Got You Into Poetry?", on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14867/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:13:30 -0500 That 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 […]

]]> 0 0f64b4fc9023a3bc62aa940667ac3da6 Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post The Line Between Logical and Literary. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14848/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:39:31 -0500 What 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”
or “most obvious and easily deciphered,” yet that which […]

]]> 0 0525ec2b9d99da59b47865d1d72ba31c Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Senses Fail and Nas, an Unlikely Source of the Muse. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14799/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:38:31 -0500 I 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
on the glossy wooden b […]

]]> 0 0d7e6511eaf009a3975669d64efeaab9 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, My Source, Listed:, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14709/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:25:49 -0500 So 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 […]

]]> 0 7491eb0a8ee9c0b0d0da6f457d39b3dc Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post This Ethreal Basilica in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14665/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:01:51 -0500 I 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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