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Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Thinking Without Words in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Mass Hierarchies and Art Monopolies in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Jungian Revelation: The “Unconsciousness” and Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post The Line Between Logical and Literary. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Senses Fail and Nas, an Unlikely Source of the Muse. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post This Ethreal Basilica in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago

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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