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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Why I write in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 4 months ago
My goal in writing is to be able to be my most authentic. For me, poetry is a releasing of raw emotions. Complete and utter honesty of emotion is necessary to have a good piece. I don’t believe that the topic o […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months ago
I am trying harder to find time to write for fun but it’s so hard. Whenever I have the time to write, it feels like all motivation is lost. I get stage fright when the pen is in my hand and can’t find words that […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Love for Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months ago
I’ve been writing poetry since I was in middle school which is why I am English Creative Writing major. I have loved writing poetry to express whatever I am feeling in the moment. Writing is a big part of my life […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Cento in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
I really enjoyed the assignment of writing a cento. I decided to make my cento a collection of some of my favorite lines from some Sylvia Plath poems. Every line is from a different poem. After selecting about 8 […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Guidance in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
When writing about nature and agriculture, I feel that talking about spirituality is necessary. It feels too connected not to talk about them in the same breath. When we were given exercise 10, which was to write […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Form in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
It was really weird to write a poem that had a set form before I started to write it. I usually write all of my poetry by way of free-writing. Everything I write comes with no thought to form until after it is […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Body as Political in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
As a black women, it is impossible for me not to think of my body as inherently making a statement. It takes up space and receives judgement, whether it be good or bad. It’s really hard for me to voice the […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Writing What You Know in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
I believe that writing about something you’re familiar with is equally hard as it is easy. When I want to write about something I am very familiar with, it can sometimes be easier for me because I can probably […]
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Mya Nazaire edited the blog post Through words in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
Looking up the background for words that are important to my writing was really interesting. I often use the themes of the body and touch through my writing. I know what they mean and are but I don’t often think […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Blank Verse in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
When we began working with stresses in poems and trying to do scansions in class, I was very confused. Being able to tell what syllables were stressed was not really making sense to me even after reading a poem […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post What are My Organic Thoughts? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
When the topic of what organic writing is came up, it confused me. I feel as though you can’t really decide whether someone’s writing is organic because how can you know someone’s intent unless they tell you and […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post How to Steal to Start in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
I really enjoyed writing for the third exercise which was writing a poem with stanzas. I think this exercise was easier for me because as part of the exercise, there was a suggestion to steal a line from a poem […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Dis/ruption in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
When writing a poem for exercise 2, it was hard to fathom what direction I wanted to go in to discuss disruption. I feel like I started off wanting the form to mimic the disruption that the meaning should show as […]
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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Being One in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
I really enjoyed the exercise on writing a poem about “one”. It really confused me because I often write my poems have a lot more of a specific starting point. It felt really limiting at first because I was […]
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Mya Nazaire joined the group The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
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Mya Nazaire became a registered member 5 years, 7 months ago