English @ SUNY Geneseo | Meghan Barrett | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mbarrett/activity/ Activity feed for Meghan Barrett. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 18b9f0e86840f898f07e677b5f7db03d Meghan Barrett commented on the post, A Scientific Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/23/a-scientific-writing-prompt/#comment-6902 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:48:25 -0500 Hi Carolina! I’m so glad you read the post!!!

]]> 83e099a3303cb6ae7a3e924768ee67c4 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Revision Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/28/revision-process/#comment-6794 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 16:28:28 -0500 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 […]

]]> d75d74e760fb066337edac1e701217d2 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=772 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:29:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 60880b548a3be67c303c37d4d7a73bbe Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Fiction vs. Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/22/fiction-vs-poetry/#comment-6747 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:00:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 27b0de2776140ee1f7140b1eaa9f5a6a Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Punctuation, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/18/punctuation/#comment-6746 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:54:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 53e00ad96e6dc362be570244cfaf689b Meghan Barrett 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-6724 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:30:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> f3ce87e9e1d13d2cb4198b07a19c7dd0 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=763 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:27:46 -0500 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. […]

]]> b2037807b47947fd1e154787e7c99ca7 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/16/writing-prompt/#comment-6682 Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:13:40 -0500 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 […]

]]> 913ffaecf8edc41af7543e8c1f953ae4 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Future, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/06/future/#comment-6651 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:16:47 -0500 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 […]

]]> 5f3b61c7b19b4467a86fcb4f2da95322 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=738 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:39:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> dcb48892ec7a85e1b30ebbe8356ff8f6 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Notebooks and the Writing Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/30/notebooks-and-the-writing-process/#comment-6581 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:12:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> 111b5834a6db3a0ad1a42a7b0cadd5e9 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 http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/23/in-which-the-revelatory-this-is-what-ill-do-with-my-english-degree-strikes-again/#comment-6580 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:57:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4ca92e2bfe659c8c3804cb5346fcc564 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, The Editing Itch and Other Ideas, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/19/the-editing-itch-and-other-ideas/#comment-6525 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:08:49 -0500 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 […]

]]> a910da789afa896550c93e228e4fae35 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Are Definitions Necessary?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/14/are-definitions-necessary/#comment-6503 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 02:35:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9baa737d74b8286e7465b700b437e7e7 Meghan Barrett 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-6502 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 02:25:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 1aac8ebd7e568490823f657797a55d96 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, How People View Language Differently, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/01/how-people-view-language-differently/#comment-6346 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:59:43 -0500 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 […]

]]> 55c21e011e98482b8171113ea803f29c Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=688 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 22:34:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> 66da9f1f4df5ce14a357bc7f0f459726 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=684 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:00:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4e88fe67ed99f4e9fac197fa0697ed1b Meghan Barrett commented on the post, MY POETRY is whatever I think I am, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/30/my-poetry-is-whatever-i-think-i-am/#comment-6239 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 17:55:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> f27d44b52da72b1cb50f4bb0434f36c2 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Language is not Neutral, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/24/language-is-not-neutral/#comment-6194 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:20:17 -0500 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 […]

]]> a65273f0b60f6d0bde0abadb1823d529 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Geneseo Poet's Society Meeting!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/20/geneseo-poets-society-meeting/#comment-6157 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:18:03 -0500 All the time I find myself knitting together pieces of several different poems! Often-times I write because a word itself inspires me, and so I’ll write a short snippet based on the feeling that word inspires. I […]

]]> 12df9f6be27f37a02641c52e1670fbf1 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=658 Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:23:02 -0500 Hi everyone – happy Friday!

I discovered a poem today, here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/250878, called Fast Gas, by Dorianne Laux. I promise it is worth the read.

I was looking up love poems, […]

]]> 4a18a263876baeca80b48d29ac1b473e Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Is the art the product, the process, both or neither?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/16/is-the-art-the-product-the-process-both-or-neither/#comment-6097 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:51:00 -0500 I’m going to respond to the bit about fancier word usage – I think the art of poetry might be a bit beyond me, but I just spent some time with Dr. Lytton talking about this fancy word topic today, and feel […]

]]> 1f6add13adc6bb698f2462378c60f216 Meghan Barrett commented on the post, What are we allowed to write?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/15/what-are-we-allowed-to-write/#comment-6089 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:10:00 -0500 I have two statements I’d like to respond to, together:

1. Write diverse characters, but don’t write about diversity.
2. But, from what I’ve read and discussed with people, it’s completely fine for me to write […]

]]> b48d0a8bf461906485b8d908516bfec6 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=639 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 04:07:44 -0500 Hi all!

I was reading through all the responses to my ‘found poetry’ post – lots of great stuff going on there. It lead me to think about where we find inspiration for our poetry.

It’s been a really long […]

]]> 9bf62b4c8ddff31bd240ad2e320ee92a Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=636 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:48:38 -0500 American, the Hallelujah is a found poem – meaning, of course, that the author found these words elsewhere and reordered, edited, etc to make this poem. The poem immediately made me question first, the validity or […]

]]> 94e8c04f43e7591b93482011a42dd87a Meghan Barrett commented on the post, Suzzane Cleary’s “Echocardiogram”, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/01/suzzane-clearys-echocardiogram/#comment-5988 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:27:54 -0500 Hi Rachel,

I also adored the beginning of this poem – with the ‘how does’ repetition bringing in the -thump, thump- of a heart beating. I also really enjoyed the ‘open-and-shut in’ for the double meaning; both […]

]]> 0e753f5b281a28a6f89e90cd1ae4e6f7 Meghan Barrett wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=629 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:26:20 -0500 This poem’s title caught my attention, simply because of the relevancy… you know. students.

I loved this poem because it honors the creative writer, the lover of art, music, dance, writing, reading, theater – […]

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