English @ SUNY Geneseo | Troy Seefried | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/troyseefried/activity/ Activity feed for Troy Seefried. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 aa7e6e5547a950686dcdc940e88423e7 Troy Seefried wrote a new blog post Abstract Reality in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14986/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:24:27 -0500 One of the most challenging thing for writers, in my
opinion, is avoiding abstraction in your work, especially in a medium like
poetry. I’ve fallen victim to the use of words like “fear,” “anger,” and
ironi […]

]]> 0 5452907bcde78a7c735b247977600a65 Troy Seefried wrote a new blog post Source Code in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14961/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 02:55:52 -0500 So, I’ve noticed that when writing poetry, my poems tend to
turn out better when I’m doing a writing exercise rather than if I’m just
sitting down writing from nothing. I think it gives credence to the idea that […]

]]> 0 4a4c7005dee3af8e79a54d505d322afc Troy Seefried wrote a new blog post How I got here in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14841/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:32:52 -0500 To be honest I never found myself attracted to the idea of
writing poetry. I never wrote poems growing up, nor did I find myself picking
up poetry books in high school or in college. But I did eventually grow […]

]]> 0 7a780e9f4b6fc0e42a31ae549663ca64 Troy Seefried commented on the post, You like what...?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14705/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:17:34 -0500 The way you describe your thought processes in traffic and the effect the lights have on you reminds me of the song ‘Midnight City’ by M83. The whole song drops visual imagery of lights like the lines “Look at th […]

]]> 0 bd74687833ba161710711e47157319d2 Troy Seefried commented on the post, My Inspiration, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14704/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:20:42 -0500 Music is a big inspiration of mine as well. I love that you have a specific hammock for writing. It seems so peaceful. Seeing how you also take inspiration from music I would suggest looking into Erik Satie’s G […]

]]> 0 06123298f5e534ffefd6ebbc496fd3ae Troy Seefried wrote a new blog post The Method in my Madness in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14661/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:22:13 -0500 For many years, my father would look at my creative process
and gasp at how chaotic it becomes. Most of my notebooks are organized like
that one movie scene from A Beautiful Mind starring Hollywood’s m […]

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