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Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Why I write in the group The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:30:43 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 04:39:52 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Love for Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 03:23:27 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Cento in the group The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:25:41 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Guidance in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 05:28:47 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Form in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:23:33 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Body as Political in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:13:39 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Writing What You Know in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:02:51 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire edited the blog post Through words in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:26:33 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Blank Verse in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:28:22 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post What are My Organic Thoughts? in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:44:40 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post How to Steal to Start in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 01:48:46 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Dis/ruption in the group The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 02:21:48 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire wrote a new blog post Being One in the group The Contemporary Poem

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:22:37 -0500

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 […]

Mya Nazaire joined the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:37:38 -0500

Mya Nazaire became a registered member

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:38:00 -0500