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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, A Scientific Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Hi Carolina! I’m so glad you read the post!!!
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Revision Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Hi Jay,
I soooo agree with you; I really struggle with revisions. Much better at scraping everything and starting anew (both in CNF and poetry, it seems). My general strategy is (if there was a workshop) to […] -
Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Hi all!
So some people have posted a lot of prompts for writing, and I thought I’d try to add my feelings on inspiration to the mix. Obviously, you’re about to get some ecology. I’m so sorry. I’m going to […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Fiction vs. Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Hi Marley,
This is a fascinating question for me – and (before you get excited!) not one I can answer. Because, as I’ve noticed, I’ve actually never written a poem that wasn’t… autobiographical. I must have […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Punctuation, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Love the ‘answer to the original thought’ for your colon description. That is such a perfect way of describing it.
If you like the +, you should consider looking at/watching Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. He […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, The “I” in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
This is a funny blog post to me, because there is always an ‘I’ in every poem, unspoken. Even if there is an ‘I’ narrator in a poem, there’s still the over-arching, all-speaking ‘I’ of the poet. We can only write […]
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Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
So I want to talk about punctuation – and how we use it in poetry. Can something as small as a dot – and its placement, or the lack of it – shape our poem? How?
For example, end-stopped versus enjambment. […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Oh, Maya. You get me. I’d love to add to your list with a poem I’m trying to write about ‘hiraeth’ – a Welsh word that means (approximately) a homesickness for a home that never was – in a poem about being […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Future, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
Hi Marley!
So yeah, I’m a double major with a minor. Majors: Biology and Creative Writing. Minor: Honors, which is basically just advanced Gen Eds. Biology and Creative Writing seem as different as it gets in […] -
Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
In thinking about my portfolio due (thankfully!) the 14th of December, I was considering how poems ‘fit together’. Dr. Smith asked us to consider how one poem leads to another, the order we place the poems […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Notebooks and the Writing Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
Hi Lizzie,
Notebooks are SO special to us. It’s funny to me – you mention your pretty notebook with the gold edges for writing? I once bought myself a beautiful leather-bound journal, specifically for writing […]
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Meghan Barrett 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 8 years, 1 month ago
Arianna and Carrie,
You are both 100% and absolutely right. I think something that confounds us is that our lives are long, and are not limited to the scope of our majors even. An English degree can lead you to […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, The Editing Itch and Other Ideas, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
I’m not really sure how I do with editing my poems; it’s been so long since I’ve written any (something I have come to greatly regret). I find that, with the poems I’m most proud of, not only do I not want to move […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Are Definitions Necessary?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
Hi Maya! This is a great post as, many of the times we’ve discussed this, it’s been in reference to my Whirlwind and first workshop poem. The first time I did the poem, I didn’t send in definitions thinking they […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Workshops for Next Semester Already?!?!?!?!?!?!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
I am also interested in anyone who has the answer to this because I am SUCH a romance (historical, at that) writer. It’s literally terrible. I feel the struggle, so hard.
BUT you should consider CNF – this is […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, How People View Language Differently, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
I think the meaning of words is separate from the sound and image the sounds conjure when you say the word, and that the actual meaning is very experiential. There are words that have seen their meaning change […]
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Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
So I went to a GOLD workshop this afternoon on breathing and meditation, and the Buddhist woman leading the workshop told us that ‘all sound is meditative’ and played a really awesome recording of Tibetan singing […]
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Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
So, I was looking into narrators this week because I’m struggling with appropriately characterizing a narrator in one of my poems. My preliminary research suggests there are three types of narrators in […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, MY POETRY is whatever I think I am, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
Beautiful post, Carolina (and truly, honestly, I was not at all offended!).
I know just how you feel, feeling defensive about your poetry. That’s how I get when people tell me that my words make them dislike […]
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Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Language is not Neutral, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
I think what I meant in class was not that I didn’t/couldn’t appreciate a poem written in other languages; just that I felt her work was made inaccessible to me by the confines of the page. Not knowing the […]
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