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Megan Grant wrote a new blog post Not Your Story (there’s a question for you to answer at the end) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months ago

I’m gonna keep this vague: a very sad-and-complicated(TM) thing happened to a friend of mine, and I started writing a poem about it. I’m not trying to take on my friend’s perspective in the poem; I’m writing as […]
Megan Grant edited the blog post Kendrick, Pulitzer, & Responding to Dotun Adebayo, or A Thing Megan Is Not Qualified to Talk About Pt. 3 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months ago

Last summer, in an attempt to be seen as “cool” by my mentees in Geneseo’s Access Opportunity Summer Scholar’s Program (AOP), I listened to Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., a new album they all had been listening to and discussing.And then I listened to it again.And again.I didn’t listen to DAMN. repeatedly because I was hooked; I listened to it for compr…[Read more]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post A poem in a psychology paper? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months ago

Guys, I found a poem! No, it’s not a “found poem,” in that I constructed it. I literally found a poem in Dr. Merrilees’ 2014 research!

Some context: Dr. M is a Psychology professor here at Geneseo. She is al […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post When An Unfinished Poem Is Published…? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 months ago

I have found myself in a bit of a pickle.

I sent the same draft of a poem to two poetry knowledge bases: my poetry workshop and Chrissy Montelli (Geneseo alum, poet, close friend). See, I was hoping to get […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post The 11 Things That Occur When You Fall In Love With A Poet in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 months ago

You verbalize thoughts as haikus because it makes him laugh.
You prod him to reveal his new poems to you, but he doesn’t because he “wants them to be a surprise.”
You send him your “workshoppable” poems […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post Two poetry-related things that make me anxious in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 6 months ago

Writing the poetry book review
I don’t “finish reading poetry books.” I have no desire to read an entire book of one person’s poetry. Hell, I lack desire to read an entire book of collections of poetry! […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post Remember when we were talking about images AS poetry? or A Thing Megan Is Not Qualified to Talk About Pt. 2 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 6 months ago

*SPOILERS FOR BLACK PANTHER*

I saw Black Panther with BSU today, and holy hell some of you would absolutely love dissecting some of these images. (field trip, anyone?)

Anyway, I have to touch on this one […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post As Long As You Got Something Out Of It… in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 6 months ago

I wish we could “thumbs up ” each other’s blog posts, so even if a blog post doesn’t get comments, the author can still know people are reading it.

At some point between sophomore and junior year, I embraced “ […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post A Thing That Megan Is Not Qualified to Talk About, or Black Death in Black Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 7 months ago

I’m a little fixated on death this week, and a lot fixated on not letting Black History Month go by unacknowledged by my writer friends [puts self-righteous SJW hat on].

In Creative Writing Club, we do this t […]
Megan Grant wrote a new blog post Hamilton: My Intro to the Importance of Sound in Written Works in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 7 months ago

You will learn soon enough that I have no shame.

After selling some of my textbooks to Sundance, I had a decent hunk of cash to spend wherever. I could have purchased noise-blocking headphones so I wouldn’t […]

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