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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: 9 years, 6 months ago

We’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 […]
Nicole Pero edited the blog post Breaking from Sound in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 months ago

I 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]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post A Temporary Farewell to the Poetry Workshop in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 months ago

As 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 […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Word Obsessions in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

Looking 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, […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Found Poems and Copyright in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

As 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 […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Nicole’s Nonsensical Revision Cycle in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

And 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 […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Tyehimba Jess’s “Mercy” and Politics in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

I 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 […]
Nicole Pero edited the blog post Cool Places for Poets to Share! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

As everyone knows, I’m a huge Mary Lambert fan. Her music is poetry, but her poetry is so transcendent and beautiful I just want to bathe in a ceramic tub full of it. She’s also a wonderful lady, and I want to share her poetry blog with you! Every week, she does different themed days and shares poetry she receives in the form of submissions, an…[Read more]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Service Job Poetics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the issues that exist within the service industry, particularly the ways in which class and race intersect in workplaces where the employees make minimum wage, or close to […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Can Multilingual Poetry be Based on Sound? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 4 months ago

I’ve been listening to a lot of music in languages I’m not fluent in lately, and I’ve been spending time wondering about poetry that uses language the author isn’t fluent in. Is it enough to value the language […]

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