English @ SUNY Geneseo | Liz Louie | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/lizlou62/activity/ Activity feed for Liz Louie. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 08f9a8594807928bc28fbd945715d28a Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Not Poetry....? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15087/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:11:04 -0500 One thing that has me unhappy is that I have already taken two poetry workshops, and therefore need to take a workshop that isn’t poetry. Moving away from what makes me comfortable has always been something I t […]

]]> 0 51e71f39ecb853e56c15df1c14df2c50 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Source from Written Works in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15038/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:14:17 -0500 I like to think that I have a fairly full and diverse bookshelf, both at college and at home. Some of these titles can easily reflect in my work, some of them can’t. Each has a certain aspect that can be viewed a […]

]]> 0 aee429fee9a6473d0fbe2b5426c10290 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Contemplations on Submissions in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14917/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 06:02:55 -0500 I submitted pieces to The New Yorker and Catharsis, two VERY different publications, this evening. I was bored and decided to have a little fun. Here are some notes on that experience.

1: Writing a cover […]

]]> 0 9e29bc7894f229c14e0a55270d98b1b1 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Why Do I Do This? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14825/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:22:02 -0500 I have said it once, and I’ll say it again, I have a vengeance against Sylvia Plath. Make me read her, and I will vomit on the pages, leak black from my goddamn pores. But, I do have to thank her for starting t […]

]]> 0 f4f323596096faeaa1fd9d954d0f4f6b Liz Louie commented on the post, Senses Fail and Nas, an Unlikely Source of the Muse., on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14824/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:15:28 -0500 I’ve gotta be honest, a lot of the way I write stems from bands like Senses Fail that had songs that were deeply saddening and partially disturbing; I still have a soft spot for “The Priest and The Matador”. […]

]]> 0 5bb38dca33ac1ae846e2d58428b52716 Liz Louie commented on the post, Papercuts, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14715/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:55:11 -0500 What I would recommend to you is to look online at images of “crazy quilts”. These are basically the quilt version of mosaics, using old scraps of fabric, lace, appliques, buttons, zippers, whatever can be found […]

]]> 0 828abc7f014a74e5a0e0cda6dfa4c789 Liz Louie commented on the post, The Start of my Writing and my Evolution, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14713/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:33:43 -0500 I would recommend you read some Ilya Kaminsky, a deaf poet. He is an immigrant from the Ukraine and writes about living there and here, as well as being deaf. I find his work really evocative, I love the way he […]

]]> 0 e943f120d16639dd29f9b245c774a463 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Annotated Bibliography of Poetic Sources in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14616/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:24:37 -0500 “It’s Such a Beautiful Day”, dir Hertzfeldt, Don, produc. Bitter Films, distr. Cinemad Presents. USA, 2012. Film.

A man named Bill struggles with his health and failing brain as his memories slip out of his h […]

]]> 0 2a5c2655062a97d707c5c9992c370344 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Inspiration, or Lack Thereof in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13813/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:59:51 -0500 Sometimes an idea comes from a dream. Sometimes it comes from a glance at something new and exciting. Sometimes it doesn’t come at all. Those can be the scariest and most anxiety inducing moments, but not to […]

]]> 0 f13e2da26a5c73fb59c9c9aa82c8ec0d Liz Louie commented on the post, on Plath, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13816/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:43:43 -0500 I had to do a monster of a project in high school where we analyzed many of Plath’s piece, including her bee poems. She is a really fantastic poet, and much of her work is related at an abstract level. The way she […]

]]> 0 bb0e0330e93896ebe307862113c2dd43 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Music as Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13348/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:04:28 -0500 I find a lot of solace in the sounds that come out of my headphones. Coming back to Geneseo has been something I long awaited during the summer, and the moment I arrive back, things start to go downhill. Not due […]

]]> 0 0d1b8026e8e039799a4a4b2ff5ceb1b9 Liz Louie edited the blog post Invasive: tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13154/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 02:17:24 -0500 Much of my writing is based around an intrusive thought. There are always moments in my day where I see something that will remind me of someone or something that I want to push far back into my consciousness; […]

]]> 0 763d2d53f20f9087f1899ddb648a8fe6 Liz Louie joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13057/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:05:47 -0500 0 5388e595cff8bd909761f48aa9854210 Liz Louie edited the blog post On Religion and African Tradition in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10449/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:01:09 -0500 While reading through Hegel’s piece, I could not believe what I was reading with my own two eyes. Phrases such as “the negro, as already observed, exhibits the natural man in his completely wild and unt […]

]]> 0 679c898d33ef270a44cf97c1fe96a71c Liz Louie created the doc On Religion and African Tradition in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10448/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:56:50 -0500 e6d07fb0119b86d6de0295d2128934c9 Liz Louie joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10445/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:24:50 -0500 0 df641c623653247316738a8fe9248e56 Liz Louie became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10443/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:22:26 -0500 0