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Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post “Film is an Empathy Machine, Poetry is a What Machine?” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Cadence & Presentation in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months 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
that it didn’t not work. Breaking […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Interaction between text and reader in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post “What Got You Into Poetry?” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Inspiration from (not-words) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post What Poems Ask of Us in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post sung lyrics vs written poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Shape Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Y’all Should Read McCormack and Morrison in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 5 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 […]
Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post King on Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 6 months 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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