English @ SUNY Geneseo | Madison Van Edwards | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/madisonvanedwards/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Madison Van Edwards is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 123515deeb34eadd43db3cc30ab4e6d4 Isabel Owen edited the blog post Braiding Identity and "A Short Essay on Being" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8044/ Wed, 10 May 2017 06:41:21 -0500 According to the Purdue Online Writing Lab, the braided essay is “broken into sections using medial white space, lines of white space on a page where there are no words (much like stanzas in poetry), and each time there is a section break, the writer moves from one ‘thread’ to another.”

I find this definition limiting, especially due to the fac…[Read more]

]]> 0 b14f5f59889845d7f2cf6dc4263013e1 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Expressing a Culture in the Context of Another Culture in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8263/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:48:14 -0500 (Similar to Chloe, I had trouble finding information about the cultural essay – all there seems to be is a short blurb on personal cultural criticism that Chloe used in her blog post already. But I think she did a […]

]]> 0 fc55c283c1274a2c9ee12ff89ad17507 Chloe Forsell wrote a new blog post The Cultural Essay: What is "culture" anyway? in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8228/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:54:11 -0500 This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately.

This semester, I’ve taken on several projects which have necessitated a lot of self exploration. Through this exploration, I’ve been forced to come […]

]]> 0 39fe6a1a034c37247d901e214c7ba4d4 Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Biomythography: Fact and Fiction as Identity in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8160/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 13:24:52 -0500 When you search “Biomythography” on internet search engines, the first result that comes up will say it is a term coined by Audre Lorde to describe her book Zami. There isn’t much variance in the subsequent resul […]

]]> 0 b4d64ccf04ac108747e6e23b00a5e708 Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post The Relevance of Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8092/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:40:02 -0500  

The difference between lyric journalism and journalism is a component that allows for lyric journalism to be contemplative about the “bigger picture” and come to some kind of conclusion about the components of life. For example, it’s the difference between saying that the Romanticism Movement was “was an artistic, literary, musical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 044fa776a83ee131948b3b7dfb272344 Maddie Wayland wrote a new blog post "In the Defense of Facts" and Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8086/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:27:10 -0500 The term “lyric journalism” is a rather fresh term in the world of creative non-fiction, and like other subgenres, carries with it controversy regarding what comprises “fact” and “fiction.” Creator of the term, P […]

]]> 0 e1e149b1cf1dfa9c2efd7b2a081b2971 Maddie Wayland joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8085/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:53:09 -0500 0 4251d5ca617a30fdadfa07bb895c9c17 Francesca Barlowe joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8075/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:45:25 -0500 0 412e29f7df5af7cfffe3eb15e8f1bcff Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Expression VS Exploitation: Mommie Dearest and Its Impact in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8023/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:17:51 -0500 Christina Crawford, adopted daughter of the late Academy Award-winning actress Joan Crawford, published a memoir about her experience growing up with a woman she portrayed to be emotionally and physically abusive. […]

]]> 0 b2cfd26b859b212a58838062c132e005 Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Memoir As Truth-Telling: Orange is the New Black in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8016/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 02:38:35 -0500 We’re all aware of the popular Netflix drama, Orange is the New Black, but how many people were interested in the real memoir by Piper Kerman, which the series is based on?  If you look at the book’s sales af […]

]]> 0 47be0e5e63e37b960436c76adce1cd7d Casey Vincelette wrote a new blog post Content and Form are Soulmates in the Hermit Crab Essay in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7972/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:26:43 -0500 “In her essay ‘The Pain Scale,’ Eula Biss uses the form of the pain scale—which attempts to measure one’s pain on a scale of 0 to 10—as a way to structure a highly complex piece that explores not only the na […]

]]> 0 4771c8a8bf8f61fc01b42b2eb566323f Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Reflecting on the Birth of New Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7968/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:25:37 -0500 “The standard non-fiction writer’s voice was like the standard announcer’s voice… a drag, a droning…”

“There was no ‘movement.’ There were no manifestos, clubs, salons, cliques; not even a saloon where the […]

]]> 0 254a4746858f3110ba1a1b8f51bd8b2c Katie Soares wrote a new blog post Truth and Memoir in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7944/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:03:35 -0500 Lauren’s Slater’s memoir, “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”(2000), is probably the most frustrating piece of creative non-fiction I have read to date. But has Slater effectively toed the line between fact and fiction […]

]]> 0 cbd6098e42aa0454235d9cae542df908 Victoria Armet joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7870/ Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:28:17 -0500 0 3337d42b9171217e1f12fc59281cd2ee Rachel Britton joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7745/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:25:01 -0500 0 cbbcab3a8b5830ed96de4bce4008d208 Arthur Swieckowski wrote a new blog post Fact v Fiction: The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6515/ Thu, 12 May 2016 19:44:19 -0500 Jorge Luis Borges’ The Zahir plays with fact and fiction in very interesting ways. First of all, the story is written from the first person, and the narrator identifies himself as Borges. Herein lies the first q […]

]]> 0 7c6ceaa6a6b4bd9fbf50c78e36051432 Arthur Swieckowski wrote a new blog post Fact v Fiction: A Girl by Ezra Pound in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6514/ Thu, 12 May 2016 18:23:25 -0500 Ezra Pound’s “In A Station Of The Metro” was my introduction to imagist poetry, and it really captured my imagination, so I sought out more of his work and found “A Girl”. The poem’s title is not directly re […]

]]> 0 92a5126f45963c2d1165e9d21021ede0 Arthur Swieckowski joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6513/ Thu, 12 May 2016 16:16:13 -0500 0 fe9a0c7c3f780655e9fc483663739551 Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6512/ Thu, 12 May 2016 09:38:17 -0500 “Children of the Sea” by Edwidge Danticat is a short story that I read last semester in Maria Lima’s 203, Reading Transnationally. It is a fictional piece about the experience of two teenage lovers who are separ […]

]]> 0 b7aa8278de2cb956bcbce0190d6041ac Isabel Owen wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in Nate Pritts' Poetry in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6511/ Thu, 12 May 2016 08:57:30 -0500 This analysis is based on the second poem from “Pattern Exhaustion” (on page 12 of Post Human, if you have the book handy.)

After attending the Nate Pritts reading and buying his book, I began to notice in his […]

]]> 0 4e27326f9c7346157c01c734255c4e93 Sam Schmeer wrote a new blog post Response to "Every Season Starts at Dicks" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6510/ Thu, 12 May 2016 08:25:04 -0500 “Every Season Starts at Dicks” is a nonfiction piece that I found in the Gandy Dancer archives. It details the experience of working a retail job at Dick’s Sporting Goods during holiday season, something I can p […]

]]> 0 c122020d0cf310119f260c2b2d5c3410 Brian Sprague wrote a new blog post Response to “Discomfort Food” by Maggie Downs in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6508/ Thu, 12 May 2016 05:07:20 -0500 On the website, littlefiction.com, I decided to look into a collection they had called, “Nonfiction: a nonfiction anthology about food and life,” as in my last exercise, I want to create a theme of emotionally con […]

]]> 0 85bb620da1e420f90c4dc05ee27e01bd Anthony Ferrari edited the blog post Response to "Care" by Craig Santos Perez in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6507/ Thu, 12 May 2016 05:03:19 -0500 After reading the poem “Care” by Craig Santos Perez on poets.org, I was struck by its sharp and concise language and word choice. This poem has roots in non-fiction, mainly because it deals with real life human emotions, and incorporates struggles that could easily be attributed to a real life scenario. The poem also names actual places in the wor…[Read more]

]]> 0 c941c75312926a407de2d894be58196a Brendan Justice wrote a new blog post Fact vs Fiction 1Q84 in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6506/ Thu, 12 May 2016 04:44:57 -0500 Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 is a novel that at first glance seems to not concern itself with whether its events are fact or fiction; and to be fair, the novel is written with magical fantasy elements included. But to l […]

]]> 0 058fa0965e547174a40113f7bf6f4b0a Rachel Molino wrote a new blog post Fact v. Nonfiction: Redeployment in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6501/ Thu, 12 May 2016 01:38:25 -0500 I think that people who have never been to war have certain preconceptions and attitudes about it. For example, I think that if we read stories about a veteran having PTSD, we are automatically inclined to believe […]

]]> 0 7c3d20bd4acaaca5fd52ddb0734724a0 Rachel Molino wrote a new blog post Fact v. Nonfiction: The Martian in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6498/ Thu, 12 May 2016 01:09:53 -0500 This semester I read The Martian by Andy Weir which was also a movie but the movie sucked and the book was amazing. Obviously, the plot was fiction, but both my friend and I ended up having to google if it […]

]]> 0 e28c8ef6620e31cee41123453fd81f5d Brian Sprague wrote a new blog post Factual/Fictional Response to Jenny Lapekas’ “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6496/ Wed, 11 May 2016 22:05:36 -0500 On the website, littlefiction.com, I decided to look into a collection they had called, “Re/Coded: a nonfiction anthology about our digital lives,’ as it related to the digital communication theme I explored in […]

]]> 0 d3517826b053c2aa816231c56451432e Brian Sprague joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6493/ Wed, 11 May 2016 21:01:40 -0500 0 a2ad860086a81598813d5726401f7026 Brendan Justice wrote a new blog post Fact or Fiction: Hannibal Burress and Stand Up Comedy in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6492/ Wed, 11 May 2016 20:47:41 -0500 Comedy and factual honesty have always had a love-hate relationship. On one hand, brutal honesty towards people or events in your life can lead to hilarious stand up routines, yet on the other hand, oftentimes a […]

]]> 0 fcb58cf777e5caee6b336741ac0b7248 Brendan Justice joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6491/ Wed, 11 May 2016 20:45:53 -0500 0 d76eef618d2b2b49136941c97d2440f3 Tara Campbell wrote a new blog post Fact or Fiction: " I Had No Time to Hate..." in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6490/ Wed, 11 May 2016 09:13:39 -0500 “I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity.
Nor had I time to love, but since
Some industry must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was […]

]]> 0 f203ef3f40edf62941d1cd7f7852dc98 Tara Campbell wrote a new blog post Fact or Fiction: A Cipher in the Snow in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6489/ Wed, 11 May 2016 06:54:49 -0500 The short story “Cipher in the Snow” is a nonfiction story about a student who dies and how a teacher copes with it. I first heard it in one of my education classes. The moral of the story is how this child sli […]

]]> 0 c8b1bbd825fd34a2d32b22c36cf4e569 Tara Campbell joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6488/ Wed, 11 May 2016 06:23:02 -0500 0 0737ad1477fb56685fb136f8d807e319 Jessica Golden joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6487/ Wed, 11 May 2016 04:37:55 -0500 0 d9e5a9b362ed57ce6d328c30bfb22abb Madison Van Edwards wrote a new blog post Pueblo Laguna Stories in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6475/ Tue, 10 May 2016 22:21:03 -0500 Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller

To label the book Storyteller “fiction” would be wrong, but it would also be wrong to call it nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoir, or history. There is a collective truth to the […]

]]> 0 8370e0720ccc3a0302165ecc20348bb9 Madison Van Edwards wrote a new blog post Revived 18th Century Epistolary Novel in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6472/ Tue, 10 May 2016 20:40:09 -0500 Hannah W. Foster’s The Coquette.

This epistolary novel anonymously published in 1797 and claimed later is based on a the factual death of Elizabeth Whitman which was sensationalized as a cautionary tale about t […]

]]> 0 b2df677fdf52453afd74cf3aca25aeef Quinn Coughlin wrote a new blog post Fact and Fiction in David Geary's "Lovelock's Dream Run" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6471/ Tue, 10 May 2016 16:44:13 -0500 Lovelock’s oak, given to him by Hitler himself, is the opening image in the play, Lovelock’s Dream Run, by David Geary. Jack Lovelock, who won the 1939 Berlin Olympics, is held in high esteem by Howard, a you […]

]]> 0 1c0647ec8faf8792d90c86863d16045d Anthony Ferrari wrote a new blog post Response to Father, Father, Holy Ghost in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6467/ Tue, 10 May 2016 12:54:34 -0500 After reading Victoria Fryer’s “Father, Father, Holy Ghost” on Littlefiction.com, I tried to think about what made it such a strong piece. The title for one speaks to the many figurative meanings at work here. […]

]]> 0 dc79550111b27145ad22c369faafc8e1 Erica Milliman wrote a new blog post Factual/Fictional quality of "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6463/ Tue, 10 May 2016 00:36:38 -0500 In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” the sea transitions to a place of eternal unhappiness, ultimately mirroring the desolation and downfall of the human existence.  The speaker’s mindset in the poem quickly […]

]]> 0 a8a37cba2e9f81145a474463668d1eb6 Sarah Maphey wrote a new blog post Nonfiction elements in Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Sailor Boy" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6462/ Tue, 10 May 2016 00:15:55 -0500 While Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Sailor Boy” is considered to be fictional, largely because of its involvement of fantastical elements, I believe the poem is rooted in the struggles Tennyson experienced in hi […]

]]> 0 3c34b034b52cc4d66bf6a98d81d8bf3f Erica Milliman wrote a new blog post Relative Factual/Fictional Quality of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6461/ Tue, 10 May 2016 00:13:32 -0500 Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a fantasy short story that depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, a city whose perfection is dependent upon the eternal misery of […]

]]> 0 9cef5399105801c11996915d0530e4c0 Sarah Maphey wrote a new blog post Nonfictional elements in Russell Banks's "A Permanent Member of the Family" in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6460/ Mon, 09 May 2016 22:46:12 -0500 The stories in Russell Banks’s collection, “A Permanent Member of the Family,” are tied together by a common theme of divorce. The story from which the collection draws its title is told from the perspective of a […]

]]> 0 1a684e140f49df5e14b5a7620e308b71 Sarah Maphey joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6459/ Mon, 09 May 2016 20:37:40 -0500 0 c04612fb99589d564bdd2b6ed23efe34 Erica Milliman joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6458/ Mon, 09 May 2016 19:25:27 -0500 0 fe96655aa65e9ffa1d61cce49473a99b Anthony Ferrari joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6430/ Sun, 08 May 2016 01:32:23 -0500 0 84a502502603c78139d9db6aa9ad09dd Sam Schmeer joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6428/ Sun, 08 May 2016 00:13:43 -0500 0 53acb66b5c75ee0ffb0b614a0c57046f Isabel Owen joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6427/ Sat, 07 May 2016 20:28:18 -0500 0 bedf6bb42b3c6adb9af0289148671392 Rachel Molino joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6418/ Wed, 04 May 2016 21:23:06 -0500 0 346b79003e98fa759bb7a337285bcb35 Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Nonfiction Elements in "Love Innings" by Devin Kelly in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6414/ Wed, 04 May 2016 01:49:41 -0500 “Love Innings” is a nonfiction story written by Devin Kelly. It uses the idea of a baseball game as an objective correlative to talk about different aspects of life, including growing up and romantic rel […]

]]> 0 5abcef36df408da5cc2077ce56cdbb8e Marianna Sheedy wrote a new blog post Nonsense and Non-fiction: Lewis Carroll’s The Jabberwocky in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6369/ Tue, 03 May 2016 14:44:38 -0500 Making sense of it all …

When it comes to categorizing writing, people oftentimes like to sort them into two categories: fiction and non-fiction. “Fiction means fake, and non-fiction means not-fake,” my third […]

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