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robph wrote a new blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface pt.3 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months ago
Following is the third and final installment of my essay on film poetry.
Read the first part here: http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/05/film-poetry-deforming-the-surface/
And the second part […]
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robph edited the blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface pt. 2 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago
Following is the second installment of my essay on film poetry. Read the first part here: http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/05/film-poetry-deforming-the-surface/
Even poetry that doesn’t heavily focus on the visual has to acknowledge the presence or absence of white space on the page. To be more specific poems have to deal with the di…[Read more]
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robph wrote a new blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago
In honor of National Poetry Month I am serializing the essay I wrote during my directed study on poetry and the visual with Dr. Lytton Smith. The videos I made for the other half of the project with Dr. Melanie […]
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robph commented on the post, In regards to Children’s Poetry posts, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 4 months ago
Shel also wrote some great song definitely intended for maturer audiences:
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 4 months ago
Lemony Snicket properly starts the introduction to his poetry portfolio All Good Slides are Slippery with what I consider to be the golden rule of good children’s literature, and the reason I hesitated to agree […]
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robph commented on the post, Rhyme Time, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
It might not be much help in a form that calls for end stop rhymes (or maybe could, if you want to mess with the form), but a good way to rhyme that is much easier to avoid the sing-songy quality with is internal […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
Because we’ve been talking about book reviewing a bit I thought I share this with you […]
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robph commented on the post, What Makes a Place Unpoetic? , on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
The way we chose unromantic, industrial places as un-poetic goes to show that even as practicing poets we still have commonly held notion that poetry is romantic and mysterious somewhere in our heads. Obviously we […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
While I was hanging out with my friends Saturday morning (read: 2:30 pm) one of them kept mentioning that she really wanted to eat eggs. This naturally reminded of my friend Robin’s poem “Egg.” Its one of his older poems, so I had to scroll a bunch to find it, and while quickly seeing all the poems he has shared with me, and few new ones, I decided to read a bunch later.
After I read “Daydream” (http://robinmendozadotcom.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/daydream/) I was so excited, because I finally had a good excuse to share Robin’s poetry on the blog. The poem takes place in a Lowe’s parking lot! I remember having a conversation with him before he wrote this poem about how strange parking lot lighting is, particularly the sunsets and twilights. If only I had done this the weekend before I could have asked Erika how she felt about Lowe’s. Her answer might have been similar to something Robin told me about how the facades of them look in front of the sun.
I began thinking about how Robin really introduced me to poetry, and how lucky I am to have a friend writing such cool stuff (and a little sad because he’s not writing much anymore). If I keep at this poetry thing like I plan to do, Robin could be the most influential person in my life behind my parents, so I was wondering if all of you have anyone like that in your lives? And if not, how did you come to poetry?
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robph commented on the post, Under pressure, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
I know that the writing I just let go is the most fun for me to write, more than agonizing over every little word (although that, in the end is satisfying in a different way). Sometimes the words come out in these […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I made a playlist for my poems:
I tried to strike a balance between songs that have actually inspired poems with their […]
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robph commented on the post, Music & Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I think Gallaher might be a little imperious with his definitions, but as someone who doesn’t know much about music and gets totally annoyed when someone talks about the poetry of something that isn’t poetry I can […]
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robph commented on the post, Fixations in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
Hey Katie,
Not sure how deep you’ve been into that Wikipedia article, but for you and everyone else here is a video of the only scientist who has kept these jellyfish alive in captivity, Shin Kubota, singing a […]
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robph commented on the post, When to Stop Writing, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
With first drafts I know to stop writing when I either feel like “Ok, this is in a good place for now” or “I really can’t stand this anymore.”
But to stop writing after your first draft is rarely beneficial to […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
With Prufrock getting a fair amount of attention in class I wanted to post a recording of Eliot reading the poem in the hopes that you all will have some line of it repeating in your heads on the way to class. By […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
As I finished writing my comment on Katie’s post about the “Geneseo School” I was comparing the different types of writing going on in our class by referring to it by the writer’s name (see my title) and I […]
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robph commented on the post, Is There a Geneseo School of Poetry? , on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
There’s something to be said about the relatively similar literary places we occupy in our lives. We’re young, probably haven’t been seriously writing for more than 5-10 years and like nascent jocks we want to […]
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robph wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
Like any other wild friday night my roommate and I were listening to some poetry recordings. I put on “An Album of Modern Poetry Vol.1” that I had bought for the Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot on it. First up, […]
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robph commented on the post, Blackouts, Cabbages & Kings, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
I can’t remember how it happened, but sometime last semester I got erasure/blackout poetry fever. I never ended up making one, I’ll have to add that to the list of poetry things that I haven’t done and must do […]
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robph commented on the post, Why More People Should Study Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
I got a new reaction to “I’m studying creative writing” in a chinese restaurant in Albany just a few days before came back to Geneseo. He was a professor at SUNY Albany (To be fair, a math professor) and his […]
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