English @ SUNY Geneseo | Maya Bergamasco | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mayabergamasco/activity/ Activity feed for Maya Bergamasco. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 15bd9abeffa3a0f91caf4cdaa201decb Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=837 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:31:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> e335306406a09591a6265b4c62fa0c73 Maya Bergamasco 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-page-1/#comment-6951 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:55:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> aeace6392ba1d6c5b00444247a21b046 Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Puns? Wordplay? How does one do?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/29/puns-wordplay-how-does-one-do/#comment-6852 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 01:46:55 -0500 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 […]

]]> 14a20fe99124298ede1bf1cf3e92fb71 Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Fan Fiction Poetry?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/24/fan-fiction-poetry/#comment-6799 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:26:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> dacb50253630bcba72f84427687f053a Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=759 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:57:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 15aa0c1999a005a697fcdb8e0eec2811 Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Post Poetry Class Blues, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/08/post-poetry-class-blues/#comment-6680 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:30:04 -0500 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, […]

]]> 4867b8737b629eb65bec96ed72171f10 Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=736 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 15:35:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 480579d6818d6aab3d383c9ac5c6e71c Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, Are Definitions Necessary?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/14/are-definitions-necessary/#comment-6451 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:20:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9c27fca0e0afc1cbe3bd10190e7b1ecf 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 http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/13/some-of-my-favorite-poems-are-songs-or-some-of-my-favorite-songs-are-poems/#comment-6449 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:52:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 540c130d6f92f5ae57cb8f36667e6bb5 Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=702 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:39:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> d69ae37c8719b655f1bd947f16b11cde Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=668 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:13:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 83a4e6d3fd304dfc1fd8a47cfb3ce64d Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, On Culture and Diversity, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/17/on-culture-and-diversity/#comment-6132 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:35:10 -0500 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. […]

]]> 75bd8b5d84c84aa61376f85d626ee7b4 Maya Bergamasco commented on the post, The Boldness of Lucy Anderton's Sestina, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/01/the-boldness-of-lucy-andertons-sestina/#comment-6005 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 02:52:58 -0500 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 […]

]]> 588731c335671235a494373d772c72e6 Maya Bergamasco wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=614 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:38:02 -0500 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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