English @ SUNY Geneseo | Lidabel A. Guzman Avila | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/lidabel/activity/ Activity feed for Lidabel A. Guzman Avila. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0ac0f049acbc80dcbadd1b8c42aab5c4 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Immortality, Decapitation, Heroin, & Aliens: Markers of the Apocalypse in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16198/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:57:58 -0500 Lidabel Avila, Adelia Callear, Kendall Cruise, Madolley Donzo, Marlee Fancett, Kya Primm, Nicholas Parks, Maddie Butler

Ricky Rice, a former drug addict who works at the Utica train station receives a bus […]

]]> 0 1575593442f968eb16d41bb273a54541 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post The Need to End All Worlds [for the sake of better beginnings] in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16056/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:14:03 -0500 The act of reconstruction is a constant performance. To go about rebuilding anything—city, country, mindset, world, language, or person—there must be the original pieces of what was destroyed or, at some lev […]

]]> 0 4b5c4cb4b311911fa670e1a66795df20 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post To Control What Breathes: A Greedy & Fruitless Endeavor in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15799/ Wed, 18 May 2022 21:48:52 -0500 Earlier in the semester, I reflected on N. K. Jemisin’s use of unyieldingly strong power—that of Orogenes and the Earth’s in her first novel of The Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season—and how it stands against […]

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More than a decade after the infamous Boxing Day Tsunami left hundreds of […]

]]> 0 219b7f861ee384e846a7855e35a0b187 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post To Control What Breathes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15733/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:13:55 -0500 Robert Byrne stated, “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” The notion of nature not being able to be controlled is a harsh reality (only supported by the rapid evo […]

]]> 0 38e84e3752c24dff51d9a28c11cc972d Lidabel A. Guzman Avila joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15711/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:52:53 -0500 0 d6b57604ca9e2026e3713b14ae8eb1fa Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post If...Write. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15046/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:56:05 -0500 If you’re leaving for spring break, write about going home. If you’re staying, write on the green about the silver wind. If you’re coming back for the rest of the semester, write to tell us about the haunting […]

]]> 0 5f76e2d75314805e356e570927a5d5a6 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Poets as Cameras, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15037/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:21:54 -0500 I read this as I was people watching/doing my homework in the mail room lol. I love the idea of the camera and how a poets embodiment of one can lead to distance. I also struggle with distancing myself from my […]

]]> 0 ca3800dc62dd10eec834e3154df806a4 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Poet Ex Machina in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15036/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:54:01 -0500 I don’t want to compare poets to machines: spewing out verses like the Lamron printer spews out newspapers. I just mean to express that our brains never stop creating. I have a notes app file dedicated to […]

]]> 0 d400583a44cc0940072cd78eaf839853 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Things I am going to STEAL, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15010/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:07:55 -0500 I love the idea of “stealing” but not plagiarizing from other people’s work. It’s more considered to be a source of inspiration rather than a place your brain lacks in creativity. Tarantino does the same things […]

]]> 0 91c730835a6196c27152d5b9e15c2d5d Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post On Poetry, In Time in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14910/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:02:40 -0500 Poetry’s ability to move through time, including the future, has always amazed me. I’ve noticed poets experimenting with tenses, form, and narratives in order to do so, and it’s inspired me to the same. I’m […]

]]> 0 49d633a18f54d7b9d481d422ec769c32 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Reading, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14845/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:35:41 -0500 I think sourcing poetry from childhood is so important, especially if we’ve never addressed it in our lifetime. I also really want to read a poem you write on rejecting chairs! I feel like you can link it to parts […]

]]> 0 75413b3632f03d08ae9a242e771e4898 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Rhyme to Meter in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14840/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 22:43:36 -0500 I began writing when I was eight years old, composing lyrics to songs with no music behind them. I thought music was the only thing worth writing in a world concerned with fame and money. But I thought it always […]

]]> 0 ce7f5f8e668b62d41e6dd7950ca77c28 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, My Inspiration, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14695/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:24:08 -0500 The idea of musical compositions being so impactful it produces a physical feeling in ones body astonishes. I usually get a similar feeling listening to The Piano Dreamers and the Vitamin String Quartet. Both […]

]]> 0 20f427f086df5125d7aa1a55ce694db7 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, The Method in my Madness, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14694/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:10:19 -0500 I wish I could use all of my half-empty notebooks as much as you do. I admire your drive and the madness in it. Since you appreciate film as much as I do, I’m sure you probably already know about The Imitation […]

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