English @ SUNY Geneseo | Zachary Vila | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/zackvila/activity/ Activity feed for Zachary Vila. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 418712871de4456b3c1e3b0b25fb792a Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15039/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:12:54 -0500 So recently I’ve been in the planning stages of my Great Day presentation and in doing so I’ve believe I have found another source for poetry; what I’m speaking of is perspective. Almost every human being has the […]

]]> 0 bb2d12f7319e8e4d3130f9529e440032 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Repressed memories? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15028/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:43:02 -0500 In my past blog post “Home Depot by Brian Turner,” I talked about poetry being able to draw out repressed memories. After doing some digging, I found that the memory I was describing as repressed could be arg […]

]]> 0 9d17bbfd34d3443556e89e2755996517 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Here, Bullet in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15003/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:11:55 -0500 In this week’s blog post, I was gonna talk about a point I brought up in my previous one. In which poetry and writing has the ability to bring forward suppressed memories. However, my copy of Here, Bullet by B […]

]]> 0 3403103b2a793add1f2ef68f16cbddb1 Zachary Vila commented on the post, How Poetry Evokes Emotion, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14965/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:13:47 -0500 I 100% agree with your point that different poets act differently with different poems. I must admit, in workshop there has been some poems that I didn’t feel comfortable work shopping. I believe while reading […]

]]> 0 83e1132cc5e16607c875d7ef5299840a Zachary Vila commented on the post, Poetry in Music, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14964/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:04:33 -0500 So while reading your post, my initial reaction was to dispute your opinion that Justin Bieber’s music is any way poetic. However, I do agree that music innately has poetic elements to it and contemporary music is […]

]]> 0 954fa3237d16dcb639d668b41db41435 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Home Depot by Brian Turner in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14963/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:51:10 -0500 During one of our past classes, Professor Smith referenced a poem by Brian Turner called Home Depot. After he mentioned it and the themes that surrounding the poem, such as a soldier’s PTSD and dealing with it i […]

]]> 0 6735288a207dd2898f9166f26ee38678 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Looking Towards Prose for Inspiration in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14853/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:13:08 -0500 While the recommended blog post this week was supposed to explore our beginnings in writing poetry, I believe that I covered that sufficiently in my last post. Instead I would like to deviate from the path a bit […]

]]> 0 2ede468d2cb9f9f8ca9b686a03f23616 Zachary Vila commented on the post, What I draw inspiration from, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14711/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:50:05 -0500 After reading your post I get a sense that you love spending time with your friends and visiting cool and interesting places. With that I would recommend the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Not only is the […]

]]> 0 430282ca064397d8110630fc9574aca6 Zachary Vila commented on the post, Papercuts, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14710/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:10:20 -0500 After reading your post and now learning you are a “Pack Rat” (don’t worry, I’m a bit of one too), I would recommend Game Informer magazine through Gamestop. Game Informer magazine is a magazine that keeps its rea […]

]]> 0 60a83b1140ea38fb9488b06c622a002c Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post The Start of my Writing and my Evolution in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14626/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:48:24 -0500 If someone were to ask me “what poets do you draw inspiration from while writing?” I wouldn’t have the slightest idea on how to answer. Truth be told, I don’t follow or read many other poet’s works (though […]

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