English @ SUNY Geneseo | Marley DeRosia | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/marleyderosia24/activity/ Activity feed for Marley DeRosia. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d92b219fc366f73ebebde221722a22ef marleyderosia24 wrote a new blog post Revision Thread!!!! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9267/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:52:13 -0500 I thought this would be a great way to get some cool tips and tricks out there for revision!

We know the usual ways of revising: sitting down in a cute coffee shop and crying into a latte is my go-to. But […]

]]> 0 683a23f499aca2584d182b226be1e3ab Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Revision Note to Self, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/12/07/revision-note-to-self/#comment-10915 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:42:29 -0500 Tell that to my use of semi-colons.

]]> 649af86922d00486b67989def5776eea Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Please, Frankenstein was my father…., on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/12/10/please-frankenstein-was-my-father/#comment-10914 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:39:54 -0500 My usual go-to for struggling with a monster poem is to take the best lines/phrases from it and scrap the rest. There are always going to be lines that hit harder, phrases that stand out more than the others. I […]

]]> 0a2960b6e398bb6b7c0b0afc029982ba marleyderosia24 edited the blog post The hyper extension of messiness - a response to Greenberg in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9071/ Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:55:27 -0500 I love the idea of a hyperextended line. From the Greenberg reading in A Broken Thing, I gathered that the hyperextended line exists in a place of building: being that a line’s train of thought will continue over two or more lines either to add meaning or build upon what was previously said; a collection of thought separated into lines that break…[Read more]

]]> 0 66af81d4c79a1a922fc082d27ee7eb84 marleyderosia24 wrote a new blog post Songwriting in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9060/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:45:19 -0500 Have any of you ever tried writing songs?

I’ve tried in the past but it always ends up leading to a really cool poem even though some might argue that they’re the same medium. My problem comes with the classic […]

]]> 0 d01c5947db98eaab5cad2ed02781e215 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Wholesome Penguin RandomHouse, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/12/wholesome-penguin-randomhouse/#comment-10786 Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:29:24 -0500 Haha, I feel. This review project has been going…interestingly. I basically have 9 books of poetry I need to read through! (Not that I’m sad to do it!)

]]> 4436504eaaa8978465123cec47aa7d89 marleyderosia24 wrote a new blog post Wholesome Penguin RandomHouse in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9007/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:11:28 -0500 Hi guys!

I came across this cute lil quiz from Penguin and I wanted to share. It tells you what punctuation mark you are and gives you a book recommendation for kicks (or for their sales, whatever). Anyway, I […]

]]> 0 619567275d8948eb639114eda7858abc Marley DeRosia commented on the post, paying homage, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/11/paying-homage/#comment-10768 Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:44:23 -0500 I think the best way to change it up is to ask how you would say it. There are a million different ways that a line can be read. I think the content around it has to lead us in a direction that invokes a specific […]

]]> ba33a42cfaf6aa6019e7b34c4b4c4d1f Marley DeRosia commented on the post, What do we owe our writing prompts?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/08/what-do-we-owe-our-writing-prompts/#comment-10767 Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:40:30 -0500 That’s why I like games so much! A game lets you write down goofy stuff without worrying about whether or not it’s worthy – you just write stuff down and hope it sticks!

Try playing games with your friends! […]

]]> 3abf8722ae2df397986064c0fb75f9a4 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, On writing reviews, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/05/on-writing-reviews/#comment-10766 Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:36:51 -0500 I guess I’m just worried because I feel like I might overlook important parts of the piece and say, damn, I wish I said that! Or I focus on the themes too much and forget about the syntax. We need to analyze both […]

]]> b2985bb8f0f15ab3063e35a4008158bc Marley DeRosia commented on the post, This Blog is Problematic, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/06/this-blog-is-problematic/#comment-10730 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:58:12 -0500 Firstly, this was a really well-thought-out post. It brought up a lot of important issues regarding the politicism of art, something that we were recently talking about in class; does our art need to be a […]

]]> 50b36119c1ab480c138956d7133f9b0c marleyderosia24 wrote a new blog post On writing reviews in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8948/ Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:54:20 -0500 So, now is about the time we get to writing reviews in class. It’s pretty cool that we’ll be able to read an entire collection of poetry and give it our harsh opinions. It’s like the workshop event of published […]

]]> 0 c2fa96186e0d4ea9aba537de703d33cd Marley DeRosia commented on the post, line break (up), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/05/line-break-up/#comment-10725 Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:41:34 -0500 DON’T BURN THEM.
This is the kind of stuff you’ll look back on and laugh about in 5 years, but you’ll have some wonderful lines that’ll get lost to the flame. Sometimes you need to write about your immediate […]

]]> af2e2d8c9876f8adb15677b6d737c066 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, How do you define a poem?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/30/how-do-you-define-a-poem/#comment-10706 Sat, 04 Nov 2017 01:00:42 -0500 LIFE IS MEANINGLESS AND NOTHING MATTERS.
NOTHING IS POETRY.
EVERYTHING IS POETRY.
GO WRITE.

]]> b3047172d7f04b73e3d14eb04bb617c7 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Where to begin?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/01/where-to-begin/#comment-10705 Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:46:44 -0500 Hey!!!

I find that, when it comes to sound, working on ideas first are the most important. I usually start my poems with an image in mind, and the very first draft revolves around literally getting it on […]

]]> 1180fb2b7cf9d4acf08136413394012d Marley DeRosia commented on the post, my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/22/my-old-poems-belong-on-myspace-other-musings/#comment-10652 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:12:47 -0500 It’s funny; I wrote the same reply to Rachel’s blog post from the 21st the other day. Look at it this way; is anything ever really complete? Yeats went back and revised and republished old poems. Stephen King […]

]]> 2ab63980507180b98dad9bdb2db2d89d Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Full Stop Therapy for Disaffected Teens, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/23/full-stop-therapy-for-disaffected-teens/#comment-10651 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:07:38 -0500 Let’s fight: you, me, 6:15 after class.

But really, I think you have a point. Chrissy’s mention of all of us being “disaffected teens” hits it pretty well on the head, but we have to note the different mediums […]

]]> 79190de423d115547736b179bc2785bc Marley DeRosia's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8860/ Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:21:02 -0500 0 f2719d7cec75f99fff860d88f751fb80 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Publishing's Effect on the Reader's Review, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/21/publishings-effect-on-the-readers-review/#comment-10643 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:14:22 -0500 Hey Rachel!

One of the most heart-wrenching realizations as a writer and editor is that I can never read a work without wanting to improve it. I totally feel you in that regard. But, we have to remember that […]

]]> 5233eb232c747b72e0a4047a2705d505 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Holidays?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/18/holidays/#comment-10642 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:02:23 -0500 That’s a good point. Have you ever written a poem about a holiday? The last one I tried to write about (I think it was two years ago??) dealt with a not-so-great relationship. I’d be happy to share if you want to read it haha

]]> a0d270de9f16f3c51a80c27d8d33e882 Marley DeRosia wrote a new blog post Holidays? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8844/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 02:03:59 -0500 So how do we feel about writing poems about the holidays? I tried writing a Christmas poem a couple years back because I was just so taken by the Christmas spirit, and it wasn’t too bad, but reading it after the […]

]]> 0 b269c6ee27b49af6c051e0a291f89975 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Starting Anew: Looking at "The Greats" for the first time, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/18/starting-anew-looking-at-the-greats-for-the-first-time/#comment-10628 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:58:10 -0500 I just typed out this really long, thoughtful comment only to have it get erased when I logged back in. I’m so mad.

With that being said, I think I have a healthy way to start reading the classics if you are […]

]]> c198a293c84bbfa4bb4636a2a0ef0064 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Political context as a driving force?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/11/political-context-as-a-driving-force/#comment-10612 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:51:29 -0500 I think some of poetry’s strongest writers have emerged in the wake of political crises, or at the least, as a response to socio-political climates. In studying the poetry of Yeats this last summer, I not only […]

]]> 6c10ab7cacbd64965a8f79bf46484d47 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Analysis in Music-Weird?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/11/analysis-in-music-weird/#comment-10611 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:46:51 -0500 I did this just the other day! I was listening to this newer song on the radio and the musicality of it was great, but the lyrics were complete shit. Like, toss it in a grease fire and lose the lid kind of bad. […]

]]> 0a8e29081be14c561ca158e8c3510a72 Marley DeRosia wrote a new blog post Line as space, air in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8746/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:22:58 -0500 Can I just say that I’m so excited we’ve finally strayed from lines breaks and white space as a topic of suspense/tension!? I’ve been stuck there for so long, reading every poem I’ve come across as a form of […]

]]> 0 68b75d7f659097fcaf29c516b34020fa Marley DeRosia commented on the post, (W)Right Side of the Page, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/27/wright-side-of-the-page/#comment-10543 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:16:13 -0500 Thanks Francesca! Of course there are wayyyyy more methods to interpreting the right vs the left side of the page, but I thought it was cool to think about in regard to Rhodes’ idea!

]]> 6892c3fa5c584af881561f78947599cd Marley DeRosia commented on the post, twitter and texting linguistics, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/02/twitter-and-texting-linguistics/#comment-10542 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:14:05 -0500 This is a really interesting connection to modern means of communication. It means that we get right to the point, but we have to think about /what/ we’re saying online for these social media platforms. A poem […]

]]> 65bb09bdf9aebd448c93986290789be3 Marley DeRosia edited the blog post (W)Right Side of the Page in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8716/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:47:34 -0500 Okay. So we have the left side of the page, right? That’s where most of our poems start. Martha Rhodes mentions in her essay in A Broken Thing that she tends to stay to the left side of the page in the fear of her writing sounding to wordy or rambling when she begins to stretch to the right. The left side of the page is safe. The left side of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c71b6aa1099303c88c93b5c6bfe6cf42 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Poetry in the Grass, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/25/poetry-in-the-grass/#comment-10519 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:13:45 -0500 COMBINE YOUR STRENGTHS WRITE NONFICTION POETRY. WRITE NONFICTION ABOUT POETRY. DO IT DO IT.

Weirdly enough, I find that I draw little bits of myself in everything I read. A particular phrase or image that […]

]]> 88ffaf7b72b004036abe88b4ca65d4cf Marley DeRosia commented on the post, calling all right brains !, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/26/calling-all-right-brains/#comment-10518 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:56:59 -0500 You know, you put it into words. I appreciate you.
I’ve always been a more “big picture” kind of person before I’m able to get to the nitty-gritty details. I need to know what I’m working toward to be able to […]

]]> 4706051c90ac627103b1cc11bc430a9e Marley DeRosia commented on the post, tension between temperament & line, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/27/tension-between-temperament-line/#comment-10516 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:53:45 -0500 Hi Joohee!
I just want to say, this was incredibly well-worded. I felt similarly upon reading Rhodes in A Broken Thing and I feel like she was able to articulate the feelings and inspirations of many poets; we […]

]]> b66ffcd5404206e0dde6c02d6a7c2be5 Marley DeRosia wrote a new blog post Sound Across the Line in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8679/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:01:58 -0500 Reading Annie Finch’s chapter in A Broken Thing titled, “Grails and Legacies: Thoughts on the Line,” reminded me of the first poetry workshop I took while at Geneseo. We studied the poetics of sound and what sound […]

]]> 0 c69c38d73bc45f9d3e3bad99f4a30008 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Trouble with Prose Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/13/trouble-with-prose-poetry/#comment-10488 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:22:44 -0500 I really like your pizza metaphor! I’m submitting a prose piece for workshop and I couldn’t help but mess with the margins to get some of the line breaks I wanted. How do you create hesitation and suspense in […]

]]> 2ba81b51910d0aef68d44cc51a90a754 Marley DeRosia wrote a new blog post Revision Techniques in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8664/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:20:46 -0500 I love the recommendations I get from my peers in Workshop. In regards to my line breaks, I’ve been given suggestions for my specific pieces that really make them into a more cohesive unit; the breaks are lush […]

]]> 0 075813001df93b2edff51bac9d64fb11 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, the option to linger, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/11/the-option-to-linger/#comment-10455 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:35:27 -0500 See, I love the artistic, almost philosophical way of viewing each line as a kind of individual poem, but I think that’s a very basic way to view poetry.

There were parts of Rios’ essay that I both agreed and […]

]]> 9fd29f91b14b894c7979578cda0691af Marley DeRosia wrote a new blog post Trouble with Prose Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8604/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:20:15 -0500 I used to think I understood prose poetry on a deeper level since I’m primarily a fiction writer. Well, maybe not understand it, but I felt like I connected to it more at the very least.

Since starting this […]

]]> 0 c38c72ef787434556cf59a077570c7a6 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Space from autobiographical poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/12/07/space-from-autobiographical-poems/#comment-6905 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:18:48 -0500 Hey Rachel,

For me, the only way I can cope with something is writing about it. To me, it puts it in perspective. Unfortunately, I get the whole, ‘this isn’t doing this justice’ part. Everything I write just […]

]]> 976e466a055bcbad054466bb0e32a7a9 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Revision Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/28/revision-process/#comment-6797 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:33:35 -0500 Okay, so here’s what I do.

If I really like my poem, I’ll work off the draft that I already have and try to mix in the changes that people have given me. I’ve done that with When you smell burning about three […]

]]> aabc6b3e9b8bdb8b9ef7260a97400b99 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, An Expansion, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/22/an-expansion/#comment-6795 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:48:15 -0500 I guess my biggest issue is that I don’t know how much is enough, or too much. How much characterization do we put into a poem before it’s just a detailed list of traits? What if we put in a characterization that […]

]]> 5146a3f08a6041b56895c4c7a2781d48 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Punctuation, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/18/punctuation/#comment-6735 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:06:39 -0500 I love colons.
Mostly because I don’t view them as a complete stop, working like a period. To me, they provide the biggest sense of emphasis between connecting two ideas, more than line breaks and enjambment […]

]]> 06207636e4be969ab76bec98bfc1c9c0 Marley DeRosia wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=770 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:59:31 -0500 This is kind of an expansion of the last post I published on the site.

Characters.

How do we build them in a poem? There are a lot of ways in fiction that we build characters, be it through dialogue, […]

]]> f8dffefbdaea66079c6cb25a2f7c3cf8 Marley DeRosia wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=768 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:53:46 -0500 So my first workshop in Geneseo was Fiction with Gentry in the spring semester of last year. This only being my second workshop and a diversion from the structure and content of my first one, I can’t help but feel […]

]]> 0de8cfee3e82c53d4f4adef631d6374f Marley DeRosia commented on the post, The "I" in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/06/the-i-in-poetry/#comment-6734 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:45:53 -0500 You know, this is really interesting.

I always feel like I derive my poems from something that has happened to me personally in life. By no means do I describe my poetry as CNF though: it’s often quite the […]

]]> 48af05d76209305350a61669a4ec6a4b Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/16/writing-prompt/#comment-6733 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:39:42 -0500 I wish that English had more words like these.

There are so many wonderful feelings and experiences that we cannot describe with the english language. Whenever I hear words like these from other languages, I […]

]]> c25bc4d142a393e11fa6f662e1c352c9 Marley DeRosia wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=743 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:27:44 -0500 Hey guys,

 

So I’m freaking out a little. I’m really ahead as a creative writing major and it was recommended that I get a minor. But the problem is, all I really care about is creative writing. Sure, I can […]

]]> d2b798236439b1fc69ea95a5c3dd684f Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Poems that Fit Together, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/04/poems-that-fit-together/#comment-6626 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:31:16 -0500 Hey Meghan,

It’s a strong love/hate relationship I have with organizing my portfolios. I’d say I usually feel most satisfied when I do this: save my personal favourite for last. How do you want your collection […]

]]> bcab29a8b73c244d77ed278125f512c6 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, Workshops for Next Semester Already?!?!?!?!?!?!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/17/workshops-for-next-semester-already/#comment-6588 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:31:14 -0500 ARIANNA I GOT THIS.

As a self-proclaimed “Fiction Kid” the adjustment to a straight poetry workshop was a tough one. Figuring out how to come up with critiques and analyses for shorter, language driven, […]

]]> eb98e087b50a4f285b4a7d19f45692bc Marley DeRosia commented on the post, An Idea for Your Next Poem(s)!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/26/an-idea-for-your-next-poems/#comment-6586 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:06:34 -0500 Jay!

You’re the bomb. This is such an interesting prompt and I often get some of my best ideas through photographs and visual material.

I think that prompt ideas like this is what the blog is lacking. We get […]

]]> f6d414f5e817866b530ba2c4c92d9c9b Marley DeRosia commented on the post, In Which the Revelatory "THIS Is What I'll Do With My English Degree" Strikes Again, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/23/in-which-the-revelatory-this-is-what-ill-do-with-my-english-degree-strikes-again/#comment-6585 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:00:15 -0500 Hey!

I was super excited reading this, Carrie! I have literally the exact same thoughts and unless something better rears its mystical head (which I doubt will happen since I’m very excited about my current […]

]]> 2047be906754a38c3ed5146c713d83d2 Marley DeRosia commented on the post, a Note About Different Poetry Views from the Past, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/28/a-note-about-different-poetry-views-from-the-past/#comment-6584 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:50:33 -0500 You know, I’ve never really studied the differing perspectives regarding poetry like that. But this reminded me of the conversation we had in class the other day about Diego’s poem and both this post and that […]

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