English @ SUNY Geneseo | Simone Louie | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/picnicsontrampolines/activity/ Activity feed for Simone Louie. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:54:52 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b14f5f59889845d7f2cf6dc4263013e1 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Expressing a Culture in the Context of Another Culture in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/04/20/expressing-a-culture-in-the-context-of-another-culture/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:48:14 -0500 (Similar to Chloe, I had trouble finding information about the cultural essay – all there seems to be is a short blurb on personal cultural criticism that Chloe used in her blog post already. But I think she did a […]

]]> 79f55d6cbf026e3ab79bc212f99a716d Simone Louie commented on the post, On Feeling, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/12/11/on-feeling/#comment-8881 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:27:06 -0500 Thanks for sharing, Emily, I really enjoyed Lorde’s essay! Especially the idea of there not being new ideas but only new ways of making them felt.

]]> ba30c1985ddddca1d0b4bbc4c947f078 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Love Poem by Susan Wheeler in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/12/06/love-poem-by-susan-wheeler/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:30:34 -0500 I wanted to share this haunting poem by Susan Wheeler. It reminded me of the negative capability we talked about in class – listening to the unspoken parts of the poem. The broken, haunting past of the narrator […]

]]> 7018a6642f31db0779e0eb05b8403b88 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Hiding Behind a Private Language in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/11/25/hiding-behind-a-private-language/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 04:54:56 -0500 I’ve found out that when I write or sing in a language that I know other people cannot understand, I feel more secure. It comforts me to know that I am the only one who has access to the words, at least in most […]

]]> 4ecbc1d7f7cb9af78bf58b7beb1bce7d Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Paradoxes in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/11/19/writing-exercise-paradoxes/ Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:09:38 -0500 Ugly Perfection vs. Beautiful Ugliness: Think of an image or incident where there is artificial/empty/superficial beauty, and think of an image or incident where there is a raw beauty that comes from something […]

]]> c7d9c915d579df1e7e2da542097c603b Simone Louie wrote a new blog post In Response to Carolina and Amanda in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/11/01/in-response-to-carolina-and-amanda/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 12:17:37 -0500 I love Carolina’s question: what kind of poet do we want do be? For me, another way to word it would be “what do we want out poems to do, and what kind of relationship do we want to have with our poems?” […]

]]> 434f763a7ab0942aaacd7345f16d3f07 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Truth and Emotion in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/18/truth-and-emotion/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:30:46 -0500 Something about what philosophers in our readings have been saying is bothering me – they seem to think reason and emotion are two opposites, that the truth is independent of emotions, that having your emotions […]

]]> 6b24f0f3f309f06d2471ba5e0a45fee6 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Does the Poet or Reader Make the Poem? in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/02/does-the-poet-or-reader-make-the-poem/ Sun, 02 Oct 2016 19:06:10 -0500 The first thing that pops up when I google “how to write a poem” is Poetry Writing: 10 Tips on How to Write a Poem. Here is an excerpt from the website:

If you are writing a poem because you want to capture a […]

]]> 26c12bafd7e5819c863c6a4d85f689a0 Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Bridge to Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/25/bridge-to-poetry/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 02:15:21 -0500 This post is me trying to figure out where the disconnect between me and poetry is. Or where the connection is, because there must be one…right?

I appreciate how creative and aesthetic poetry can be, but so […]

]]> f504b730547b0819e601ae7826abfa26 Simone Louie commented on the post, Where Do You Get Your Inspiration From?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/19/where-do-you-get-your-inspiration-from/#comment-8324 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:18:04 -0500 I think I get my inspiration from things that trouble me – personal convictions about my pride and selfishness, children and refugees in war, being away from home, sharing a friend’s burden, seeing the struggles […]

]]> 33b10f1e8a72f92eb63266c782d8be8c Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Poetry - a Foreign Language in the group The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/08/30/poetry-a-foreign-language/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:29:34 -0500 Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.

Naturally, your rhythmic structure should not destroy the shape of your words, or their natural […]

]]> 14a932d76167c066900faa904ab4b55b Simone Louie joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6848/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:20:20 -0500 0 1df993a4a192aa79d29def29b0a91e9b Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=774 Mon, 04 May 2015 22:55:13 -0500 In Chapter 5 of Moran’s Interdisciplinarity, there is a section called Geography as Text that talks about how the representation of geography can be used to manipulate or form people’s perception of geography or […]

]]> a67e405615ec358c896f8ea4e5180f84 Simone Louie commented on the post, Knowledge & Power, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/16/knowledge-power/#comment-48 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:03:06 -0500 Knowledge and power are definitely important for a leader in society as both are needed to make an effective leader, but with knowledge and power also comes responsibility, and a leader always has the […]

]]> b7bfe509a9e10e308fa121ab6e964972 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=492 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:24:35 -0500 “Where is the line between art and literature/creative nonfiction?”

All literature is art, but not all art is in the form of literature.

All creative nonfiction is art, but not all creative nonfiction has to […]

]]> 730b06ad0a2f1160fbbd708c1690b547 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=477 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:15:36 -0500 The more I think about it, the more I do not comprehend how some people can believe that there is no absolute truth.

There are subjective truths–beliefs that hold true to any individual.

There are objective […]

]]> 742037e5c8a2b5a619eb9f314ff0b164 Simone Louie commented on the post, Frow and the Question of Writing Up and Down, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/25/frow-and-the-question-of-writing-up-and-down/#comment-44 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:47:06 -0500 It’s interesting how you pointed out the “talking up/down” relationship between the author and the reader. I think I’ve found a new tension between the author and the reader; it’s almost like a war of who has the […]

]]> 052f16adc7b05dc8a67e9fab449498b4 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=425 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:18:44 -0500 To be honest, after reading Lauren Slater’s Lying, I don’t think there will be another piece of self-called creative nonfiction work that I will consider fiction just because the author adjusts the way he/she […]

]]> 642bf685da2de9bc0bc6660f390ffecc Simone Louie commented on the post, Social Hierarchies and "Marrying Absurd", on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/11/social-hierarchies-and-marrying-absurd/#comment-38 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:16:08 -0500 That’s very true, the social hierarchies we put ourselves into definitely affect the way we interpret text. Do you think there are interpretations that are “more correct” though? And if so, what makes an […]

]]> 7ea24c5d3bd12bc9b36106e0c920e726 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=350 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 03:59:58 -0500 When an author admits to exaggerating and lying in her own memoir, can his or her memoir still be considered nonfiction? In the book Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater talks about her own emotions and thoughts […]

]]> e4183cb6362fbd4d2a035a4d84dea98e Simone Louie commented on the post, Lies in Lying, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/05/lies-in-lying/#comment-215 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:14:22 -0500 I love how you brought this up: “I don’t think she can help her romanticization of epilepsy because it represents, to her, something romantic in a very real sense.” I think Slater has stated in numerous places […]

]]> 5f163254541dce3df8eb2eef6cfb731a Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=339 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:34:33 -0500 ThumbnailI’ve just finished reading the Huffington Post article Virginia To Compensate Victims of Forced Sterilization. This particular paragraph stirred up the most emotions in me:

“The Virginia eugenics law was upheld […]

]]> beb216f34a357d46629950f6302c77f0 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=261 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:30:39 -0500

It seems I’m filming my life in order to have a life to film, like some primitive organism that somehow nourishes itself by devouring itself, growing as it diminishes. … It’s a little like looking into a mirror […]

]]> 31df96cf11ba50aff0846df6315c3fa9 Simone Louie commented on the post, Ross, the Tragic Hero, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/19/ross-the-tragic-hero/#comment-153 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:25:03 -0500 Mm. I like how you empathize with Ross (empathizing with Sherman). It’s helping me get a grip of how I want to understand Sherman’s March. While watching the documentary I think I was a bit too distracted by all […]

]]> 62909a535a9d3487adf2cfdb79711f05 Simone Louie commented on the post, Selling out and truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/02/selling-out-and-truth/#comment-138 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:15:52 -0500 Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. If you’re going to tell the truth, then there’s going to be both good and ugly sides to it, and by showing the ugly sides to the reader it would involve “selling someone […]

]]> 6c6dc2ee835c623251015b74b9869fe1 Simone Louie commented on the post, The Power and Limits of Voice, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/the-power-and-limit-of-voice/#comment-126 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:04:19 -0500 I agree that the best way to view the case in Serial objectively might be to read the manuscript and just listen to the audio clips of the interview. But is that the same as being the IDEAL way? How important is […]

]]> 772446c693ecf17775941ccc17204c42 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=173 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:05:04 -0500 (In the spirit of Valentines Day…)

“What’s the most important thing in a relationship?”

Many people would agree that the answer is trust, or honesty. Interestingly, the same answer could be given when […]

]]> d1c80a911733522ca7c4e62f632714e2 Simone Louie wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=58 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 05:39:59 -0500 I find it right for Didion to deny that she is a “camera eye”. To me, she is more like Instagram. In fact, all authors of creative nonfiction are in one way or another photo-editing apps. The camera can fix its […]

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