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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Since Carey McHugh’s visit, I have been thinking about how she titles her poems. This entire semester, I have had difficulty titling my own poems. I like that Carey included where she got her poem titles in the […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Space from autobiographical poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Hey Rachel,
I agree with Christy. Writing about painful emotional experiences is definitely cathartic. Same as Christy and Marley, I write about personal experiences to process and understand what has […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Puns? Wordplay? How does one do?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Diego,
When I include a pun in my poetry, it’s not a product of long thought. Like Chloe, it happens after the fact. I’ll read my finished piece and realize that I included a pun unintentionally. While this may […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Fan Fiction Poetry?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Diego, I love Twin Peaks!! This poem is so interesting, even if you don’t know the character of Dale Cooper. I especially like the repetition at the end. I’ve never written poetry based on a TV show, but I’d like […]
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Part of what interests me about foreign languages is that there are some foreign words that exist that have no English equivalent. However hard we try to define these words, we will never be able to explain t […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Post Poetry Class Blues, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Hi Arianna! For me, the difference between poetry and fiction/nonfiction is the line breaks and the “concentration” of words. With fiction and nonfiction I find it’s easier to spread out what I want to say, […]
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
I am working off of Jay’s post from last week. Photographs are also a huge inspiration for me, and I love that Jay shared the link with us, it will definitely help me in the future.
One of my favorite places to […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Are Definitions Necessary?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 6 months ago
Yes Carolina, you bring up a great point! You perfectly put into words a part of this problem that I am grappling with: how far can we go with word definitions and background information? It’s true that sometimes […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Some of My Favorite Poems are Songs… Or Some of My Favorite Songs are Poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 6 months ago
Hey Chloe,
I also listen to a lot of music, and I love the questions you are posing here. I think there is definitely something to be said about poetic things transcending language. For me, the gap between […]
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 6 months ago
This past weekend, I attended a reading in Hudson, NY for the poet George Quasha. He read from his book Glossodelia Attracts: Preverbs. Before you look it up, the words “glossodelia” and “preverbs” are not words […]
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
I read a poem recently, titled “Four Hinterland Abstractions,” by Ray Young Bear, and published in The New Yorker a little over a month ago. It is choc-a-block full of things, things I loved and things I didn’t […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, On Culture and Diversity, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
Christy, I completely agree with you. I think you worded this well, and my own thoughts on this topic are hard to put into words. I think part of the challenge is the addition of cultural traits of minorities. […]
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Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, The Boldness of Lucy Anderton’s Sestina, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
Hey Carrie,
I loved this poem too. From personal experience, sestinas can be super tough, and one can run out of ideas pretty quickly! I agree, Anderson was very creative in using “heir” instead of “air.” I […]
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
Dan Albergotti’s poem “Bad Language” drew me in with its first line, “We fear to speak, and silence coats the night air.” I love when writers use such phrases. They are immediately effective because I can relate […]
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Maya Bergamasco joined the group The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
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Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 8 years, 11 months ago
At the beginning of class, one of the essay structures we were introduced to was the braided essay. I admired the writers who used this method. I consider it a great achievement on the writer’s part when I realize […]
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