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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Don’t make me say it, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years ago
I feel like your poetry could absolutely keep a wall up and remain impersonal, there is no obligation to lay everything bare. But there absolutely is the misconflation between poetry being personal, and poetry […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years ago
You may know them, but I wanna point you towards two artists who try a very similar thing to what you describe here.
Evan Cohen (https://wetflakeybark.tumblr.com/) creates one-page graphic panels that have a […] -
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post “Film is an Empathy Machine, Poetry is a What Machine?” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years ago
I keep coming back to our in-class exercise prompt Wednesday: “Film is an empathy machine, poetry is a what machine?” I really didn’t grasp it then (“reverse-engineer code,” what?) and I still don’t know, but t […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Abstract Reality, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years ago
I don’t agree, I feel that, when used in conjunction with grounded images and striking actions, abstractions can be powerful. Of course, you don’t want to use a word like “envy” on it’s own, but when you connect […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Things I am going to STEAL, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years ago
Going back to our discussion about great poets stealing lines, I feel like there’s an imbalance in the way we think about intellectual theft- taking and improving on other people’s craft is absolutely essential to […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Cadence & Presentation in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years ago
As an introduction to
found poetry, Professor Beltz-Hosek made a poem out of the back of a pack of
Sticky Notes. She cut up each sentence into lines, and what surprised us all is
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Interaction between text and reader in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 1 month ago
One of the things I’ve started thinking about for my work here is the structure of poems- not the placement of words on a page, but how the reader interacts with the poem itself and how the poem informs the r […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post “What Got You Into Poetry?” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 1 month ago
What really got me into poetry in a meaningful way was as a tool of self-expression. I love to paint, too, but it’s very difficult to express or explore certain ideas in painting. You can capture emotions, s […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Lost in Stereo, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 1 month ago
You mentioned that you had been looking at awkward cadences as a source for inspiration- one song I know that has a tense/awkward cadence is A Handsome Stranger Called Death, by FOE. About halfway through the […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, My Source, Listed:, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 1 month ago
You mentioned you find inspiration in alternative like Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver: an artist that you may find similar inspiration in is Odesza, especially songs from their 2014 album In Return, like Sun Models, or […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Inspiration from (not-words) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 1 month ago
One source of source of inspiration for writing I’ve found, surprisingly, is Twitter. Sometimes people will write or share very short, very abstract, outlandish jokes, to stick out other posts, and those end up […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post What Poems Ask of Us in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
One of the things that struck me this past week was our analysis of There but for fortune. I noticed that the poem itself was incredibly straightforward and blunt, but our analysis assumed that the poem was a […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post sung lyrics vs written poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
I’ve been listening to a lot of music for inspiration, and I’ve been thinking about how poetry and song lyrics are tied together, yet so different. Rythym in poetry needs to be carried by the meter- the words […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Shape Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
I was inspired to try out shape poetry when our class turned in poems with unconventional formats- I had always used the done-to-death format of a flat wall of text . The idea that words should reflect what they […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, “English is the BEST major,” Maria Lima screams in her Brazilian accent., on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Snaps to Maria and Dr. T. My philosophy teacher said the same thing- he would always say that we should go to school and college for our own education, not to get grades. Grades, he said, don’t really matter as […]
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Y’all Should Read McCormack and Morrison in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 12 months ago
McCormack’s The Road and Morrison’s A Mercy are great inspiration for poetry, as well as great examples of affective prose that force the reader to take the same state of mind as the narrator. They’re novels, not […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Review of Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years ago
Very interesting to hear about poets from other cultures, how their different perspectives and backgrounds affect their work, how someone who wasn’t raised on Shakespeare and Frost might think about wordplay and syntax.
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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post King on Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years ago
There’s a Stephen King quote: “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” It’s a quote meant to quell the frustrations of writer’s block- that if you should simply sit down […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, When Poetry Goes Silent, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years ago
Reminds me of Amber Galloway Gallego’s work as an ASL translator for musicians. She mixes it up the same way Valli does, in that she adds emphasis through her hand motions, facial expressions, and she way she […]
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Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Sleep/no sleep, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years ago
3AM is always the best time to write, I don’t know what it is that makes it feel so profound. For me, I think it’s because the end of the day, when everything has happened and you have quiet to reflect on what’s […]
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