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Sarah Fiegel wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
Well, here we are: we’re getting down to the last few days before our portfolio is due. Ever the procrastinator, I have (naturally) left my biggest problem pieces for the final two days; I keep hoping that maybe […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Geneseo Writing Community & the Poet-tree, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
I think we have a lot of really excellent opportunities for students, but I wish each of those separate venues talked more. I wasn’t able to be in Creative Writing Club this year (damn you, student teaching & a […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Modified Exercise I Should Have Posted A Month Ago, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
I love this idea. My writing style is often best defined as, “type and see what happens,” so I particularly like your suggestion of writing a few lines of your own based on another’s poetic statement. Not only […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Endless Revision, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
You’re not crazy, I assure you; as Diego has mentioned, I’ve never gotten that “done” feeling from a piece. Not permanently, at least. Sometimes, it drives me wild knowing that no matter how much time and effort […]
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Sarah Fiegel wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
As the end of the semester draws near, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about this class. I remember when I signed up, I was so excited to have a reason to write poetry: finally, something to keep me accountable […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, The Feminist in Me Says The Personal is Political, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
I think your last point here is something we all need to remember; even if we intend it or not, people are going to read into our work & find things we may not have intended to be there. Throughout workshop, […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Getting in the Mood… (for Writing), on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
Diego,
Your methodology is so interesting! I love how specific it is–particularly the sock thing. I’m with Ashley on the “make this a poem” thing.As to my own methodology, I find that it varies widely […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Poetry meet-up 1!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
I would so love to be a fly on the wall for most of these meet-ups, because I feel like everybody has such interesting things to say. Juliana & I met at Crickets, and it was a really nice time. I think what I […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Poetry Slam Hosted by RLK, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
First of all, props to you for reading! That’s super cool, & I’m glad you had a positive experience. I used to have an extraordinary aversion to showing anybody any of my poetry; if you saw a poem I wrote, I was […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, Hate What You Write, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
Your comment here about re-reading things and continuing to look at them even though you hate them (and even, perhaps, because you hate them) is so germane to my world right now. I’m trying to get a head start on […]
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Sarah Fiegel wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
As this semester has continued, I have found more and more that I’m very interested in examining how form (or a lack thereof, formally) can lend to the idea or message a poem is trying to convey. I keep circling […]
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, The Collective Poem, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
I definitely agree with Arianna in the sense that it’s super hard to do (major props to you for actually pulling it off in high school, even if it “felt forced,” because I can’t write a poem individually in 40 […]
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Sarah Fiegel wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
In my reading of Aaron Shurin’s poetry for this week, I found myself very caught up in the fact that most of his poems seem to be prose poems. While I don’t want to detract from Sara’s presentation, I am very […]
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Sarah Fiegel wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
Our in-class discussion today on white space was super helpful to me in terms of interpreting white space, but I feel like I still have a long way to go in the way of actually utilizing it myself in a way that […]
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Sarah Fiegel joined the group The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
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Sarah Fiegel commented on the post, What’s your image creating process?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
I definitely agree with your sentiment that processes get in the way of composing sometimes. I’m reminded of one of those little infographics that detail the writing process via pie chart, usually satirically. […]
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Sarah Fiegel became a registered member 9 years, 2 months ago