English @ SUNY Geneseo | Natalie Hayes | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/nataliehayes/activity/ Activity feed for Natalie Hayes. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 edd2d3f5646089856212712df1126784 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, What I Want For My Birthday, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11118/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:28:18 -0500 Julia,

I totally, totally, totally agree. Everyone can use a good book. I love giving presents and, frankly, I consider myself to be quite good at it. I think probably the most meaningful gift I’ve ever given, […]

]]> 0 5bd27291981c8446c55d49b497d98296 Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11026/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:10:51 -0500 My blog post this week feels a little bit like a cop-out, but also kind of relevant given Lytton recently brought up “Instagram poetry” in class.

As I’ve talked about before, I recently switched to a flip phone […]

]]> 0 0c31c9c5cfdbdaba0fbb14a6e76b62aa Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Revising Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10974/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:09:27 -0500 Connor,

I, too, have been struggling with this lately. Poetry is so wide-open it can be sort of terrifying. In conjunction with that, I think, is the feeling that one’s poetry is arbitrary. Given a poem can be […]

]]> 0 d3dc235e65bb62a038698e6f0b3fd774 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Form, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10973/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:02:10 -0500 Mya,

I had a very similar experience. I find it really difficult, sometimes even frustrating, to write in a strict, predetermined form. I went into this week’s writing exercise knowing this, and thus opted for […]

]]> 0 a96e18ace3b3de66d937cc394aaf8598 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Senior Scaries, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10941/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:55:12 -0500 Bri,

I’ve had the pleasure of being in workshop with you for two semesters now, and in both workshops I’ve had the opportunity to explore your work and write letters about it. As such, I have been made privy to […]

]]> 0 37ecff49cb8b3e821ee399828c2175fe Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post ~through~ on a bicycle in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10912/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:36:57 -0500 Last week in class, I brought in a drawing of a bicycle as a symbol of my experience in reading David Herd’s Through. (I thought about bringing in a bicycle but I don’t have one, and also that seems like a […]

]]> 0 b239f69a713c75daa252eecd2cd8540c Natalie Hayes commented on the post, I Am Trying To Become Smarter... Weird, I Know., on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10858/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:25:17 -0500 Julia,

First of all, Sprout is a great dog name.

Second of all, I’m really interested in the potential conversation between crossword puzzles and poetry. It seems that there are two connections to be made, […]

]]> 0 fd6cc9a8a5a7b3425561327b442ba5eb Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post txt talk in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10829/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:09:37 -0500 I’m going to talk about words this week. I’ve been thinking, for a single discernible reason, a lot about words as of late.

I’m using a flip phone right now. Yes, it’s on purpose. In short, I thought it might […]

]]> 0 2bd916159011552645317704f4f71d5e Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post eeeeeeeek. talking abt rupi kaur (again) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10769/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:02:44 -0500 I think at least once a semester I have to vent about Rupi Kaur for the sake of my mental health. So, here you go.

This video was suggested to me on YouTube and, out of curiosity, I watched it. I’m familiar […]

]]> 0 e0dc504d795e9324e48e915215c1a887 Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post ra/p/oetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10739/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:05:51 -0500 Mac Miller released “The Divine Feminine” exactly two years and four days ago. Two days ago his vigil was held, because thirteen days ago he overdosed.

This death is heartbreaking for a lot of reasons; Mac was […]

]]> 0 fe331ac1bda291167d7f6126d4951410 Natalie Hayes changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10738/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:40:10 -0500 0 7f4502bff9b5fc2d0201ee2fa5643729 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, The naive poet and erotic poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10737/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:30:03 -0500 Daniel,

I’ve always felt similarly about eroticism in poetry. I’ve been interested in it and certainly respected it, but never quite felt the urge to write it into my own work. Not necessarily out of […]

]]> 0 6c145c0e6baf091e541507e70ae2ae7b Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post for the stuck in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10629/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:07:30 -0500 For me, undoubtedly the hardest part of writing a poem is starting it. Unless I get direct external inspiration, it’s nearly impossible for me to just sit down and start writing anything; and, on that note, it’s […]

]]> 0 c5ab7cc17961d08e95b22146ecc944dd Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post writing (re: ranting) about writing in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10611/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:05:10 -0500 I get that this is a blog about poetry, but I’m going to take today’s post to talk a little bit about non-fiction, and just writing in general.

This semester, I’m taking two workshops: this one and, you guessed […]

]]> 0 14d7671e4661686116d90c49821409fe Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post check this out!!! :-)!!! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10028/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:30:48 -0500 Hey guys! I already posted this week but one more thing! There’s this really cool project going on and I thought I’d share it with you. It’s called “The Lost Poem” and it’s been put together by Saint Flashlight, a […]

]]> 0 c9f92d137985d38f0aa198fe06582291 Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post poetry in prison in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10026/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 01:40:07 -0500 I’ve always had a fascination with the prison system here in the United States, as it’s a pretty convoluted one. The implications of institutions like death row and solitary confinement are brutal to the psyche […]

]]> 0 fcb49d294a4f9f78beffea4b9eda4875 Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post i'm going to write until i figure out why i haven't been writing in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10000/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:18:35 -0500 I mean that literally; this blog post is going to be a stream-of-consciousness wherein I try to figure out why I haven’t been writing much lately. In other words, a therapy session wherein I am both the therapist […]

]]> 0 6d241a874043c990affad17f72e6c8a1 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Do We Limit Ourselves with Labels?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/08/do-we-limit-ourselves-with-labels/#comment-11731 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:01:47 -0500 Rachel,

I definitely think we limit ourselves with labels, both inside and outside of the realm of poetry. For me, I find myself constantly struggling with the differences between “artist” and “poet” and […]

]]> f19183a63c3693d9bd84486522ad608a Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post found sound in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9890/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:24:22 -0500 This is pretty tangential to poetry, but I want to talk about it. Hope ya don’t mind!Anyways, as an assignment for another class I’m taking with Lytton I’ve been tasked with developing a piece of installation art […]

]]> 0 099efc92845dd00eb0095a097708f043 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Be Bold, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/22/be-bold/#comment-11596 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:19:18 -0500 Bri,

First off, I really love the poem you submitted; it was raw and confrontational, and it addressed an important issue that people (as we saw in class) often have difficulty discussing.

I commend you for […]

]]> a8d6cf1a9bd4f0ed4e86725a01981c5a Natalie Hayes edited the blog post performative poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9755/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:06:45 -0500 Let me preface this post with a quick advertisement:Tomorrow from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM there’s going to be an open mic focused on female artistic expression at Cricket’s. Truthfully, I don’t know a whole lot about it but I’ll be performing around 9:00 PM. If you’re free, consider swinging by and supporting some talented women!Alright, now back to…[Read more]

]]> 0 88131da58e762e8e89337172401c2388 Natalie Hayes edited the blog post memory© in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9620/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:06:36 -0500 There’s a lot of scary things that happen when you want to become a writer, for example:

People ask “what do you hope to do with your degree?” and you say “write” and they say “okay, but how will you make a living?” and thus you are propelled into a brief existential crisis wherein your heart yells “WRITE!” and your brain momentarily devolves…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1049723b66e4d4f6c27218270aa2376 Natalie Hayes edited the blog post sounds of slam and song in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9494/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:05:55 -0500 My relationship with sound in my poems is very much reflective of my relationship with sound in my daily life; in both instances, I rely upon sound to fill up empty spaces. Interestingly, though, the former seems to be done in an act of repression, almost, given I feel the urge to fill spaces of silence as to ensure that I don’t think too much…[Read more]

]]> 0 b838ebedeca5a7fd67957f314be97a70 Natalie Hayes edited the blog post on the urge to explain in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9845/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:04:58 -0500 Truthfully, I debated whether or not I should submit the piece I handed out to you all last class up until the moment I physically handed off the stack to be circulated around the room. This isn’t because the poem, or I guess poems, were tremendously vulnerable with regard to their content, but rather because I decided to play around with form in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8365128fda8b64c190e5a37564ad5e3e Natalie Hayes wrote a new blog post building bridges instead of walls in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9780/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:31:52 -0500 During last class’ writing exercises I generated “self-sufficiency” and “appearing strong both physically and emotionally” as some of my obsessions, and “being vulnerable or weak” as one of my fears. From there I […]

]]> 0 adc7961984d92f400768e017b1af43a8 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Truth About My Pieces & The Addiction Within Them, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/21/truth-about-my-pieces-the-addiction-within-them/#comment-11403 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:32:17 -0500 Julia,

I very much relate to this, and I can definitely appreciate how difficult confronting addiction in your work can be — I write about very similar subjects. Regardless, you’re doing an excellent job, I […]

]]> 397f8dc7e0d420f772c7d4d0f48a36ee Natalie Hayes edited the blog post illustrated poetry (no, not like rupi kaur's) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9659/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:42:29 -0500 Since/because of our last class, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is that makes a poem good, but also fundamentally what it is that makes a poem a poem. In my mind, the visual arts and poetry exist in the same spaces, and are therefore sometimes indistinguishable in my work. In the past, this has manifested primarily as either:

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]]> 0 926bf53b4c83d4937a7a0667523b7097 Natalie Hayes commented on the post, Snark Zuckerberg, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/01/30/snark-zuckerberg/#comment-11228 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:48:35 -0500 Julia,

I very much appreciate this thoughtful consideration of attitude in poetry; I, too, have find that my work often calls upon a similar raw, sometimes snarky passion. Interestingly, though, I think that […]

]]> 611ddf9186ea54af792a37edc06dd3ae Natalie Hayes joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9491/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:22:56 -0500 0 6cbb9e0765a8891661bb42d70df666e8 Natalie Hayes became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9489/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:19:25 -0500 0