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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Memoir As Truth-Telling: Orange is the New Black in the group
Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years, 7 months agoWe’re all aware of the popular Netflix drama, Orange is the New Black, but how many people were interested in the real memoir by Piper Kerman, which the series is based on? If you look at the book’s sales af […]
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Nicole Pero edited the blog post Breaking from Sound in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoI think that the hardest part of taking a poetry workshop after just finishing one is the tendency to hold onto the attention to sound. Last semester’s key or cornerstone was sound: how it paces poems, the way different groupings of sounds can make a line or stanza feel different emotively, etc. I used a lot of music as inspiration this s…[Read more]
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Nicole Pero commented on the post, Taking Apart: “The Municipal Gum”, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Noah,
This poem is sonically gorgeous. The repetition of sounds is so rich and lilting, I feel as if it could be put into song. I really liked how you talked about the feeling of dislocation in this poem, […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Poetry on the Internet, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Mary,
I think you’re right in saying that the move to online databases of poetry has changed the way I read poetry, but I think it is more positive than negative. WhenI would read from a book or collection, it […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Revision Rituals, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Rachel,
I do something similar. I pull up the original draft, then copy it into a new file, often adding “revision #whatever,” and then use workshop comments to either tweak an already successful poem or […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Walt Whitman on contradiction;, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
DongWon,
I really appreciate this idea about poetic flexibility, because while I believe that poems are fixed in time and (sorry) context, they are also able to be revised and changed based on the poet’s wishes. […] -
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post A Temporary Farewell to the Poetry Workshop in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoAs some of you know, I’m going to be taking the Writing and Production Workshop next semester, which is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. My first two workshops have been in poetry, and I’m definitely […]
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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Word Obsessions in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoLooking back at the past two semester’s worth of poems, I realize that a few words keep popping up, over and over: gilt, press, skin, sloughing, etc. I decided to run my last portfolio through a word counter, […]
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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Found Poems and Copyright in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoAs an English major, formerly a lit major, I sometimes wonder as to the morality of found poems and blackout/whiteout poems. In scholarly work, we’re encouraged to cite the works we pull from, as well as credit […]
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Nicole Pero commented on the post, Cool Places for Poets to Share!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
I’m not really sure, to be honest. I could shoot her an e-mail, I suppose!
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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Nicole’s Nonsensical Revision Cycle in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoAnd here I go about revisions again. I’ve been looking over this semester’s poetry, plus a few oldies, and I find myself going from radical revisions to writing completely new poems, based on the older poems I’m […]
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Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Tyehimba Jess’s “Mercy” and Politics in Poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months agoI spent some time recently reading and re-reading a few poems by Tyehimba Jess, whose unbelievably precise yet playful mastery of sound really brings something to life in me. If you want to feel simultaneously […]
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Nicole Pero commented on the post, Google Poetics, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
“Sleeping”
Sleeping Beauty, sleeping with other people, sleeping pills.
sleeping with the enemy, sleeping on your left side,
sleeping disorders, sleeping to dream,
sleeping in Spanish, sleeping Venus.I […]
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Nicole Pero commented on the post, Shakespeare, Anyone?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Rachel,
I think I exist somewhere between you and the disgruntled Shakespearian student. I picked up Romeo and Juliet for fun in fifth grade, and while I definitely lacked some of the knowledge that makes […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Poetics of Trauma, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Will,
I think that what’s important when allowing your poetry to speak about trauma is to let voices that are less privileged than your own speak above you. Your experience at a Trump rally might be scary for […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Ecstatic about Ekphrastic!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Rachel, here’s a bit of a poem I’ve started based on the second image:
a torch passed over the water sputters and while my fingers skim the oily film,
gutters out. unruly fish send bubbles up my way, and I […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Fragmentation, Distillation, Transformation: How much context do we need?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Gabi,
I’m with you. While I do sometimes feel that a poem that presents itself as a kind of narrative requires some context, I don’t think that a poem’s context should dominate the conversation about that poem. […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, On Performing Poetry and Authorial Intent, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Rachel,
I totally agree. I usually have a theme or feeling in mind as I write a poem, but if that doesn’t directly translate to the reader, I’m okay with it. I want my words to reach people, and maybe change […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Teaching Poetry?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Gabi,
I really like how you included Tupac as a poet because I think that if we’re going to continue as ambassadors of poetry, we need to look to the words of those who have been silenced as well as those who […] -
Nicole Pero commented on the post, Trying Black Out Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 4 months ago
Gabi,
This poem is really gorgeous, and while I want to try out something similar, I’m totally terrified of defacing a book I’ve spent good money on! Maybe I can dig through and destroy a book from Humanities […] - Load More