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Category Archives: Free Blog
April 10
It’s been pretty hard to come up with blog ideas recently since we have been posting here for such a long time already. We have discussed so many different poems and prose of different style. They all were different. Each … Continue reading
blog 4/9/2013
From the readings that are due tomorrow, I have realized our transition from Harlem to sort of narrative poems. I noticed that UN was mentioned by James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara. Although they were both descriptive, I noticed their different … Continue reading
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Naked Cowboy: no big deal
After reading Allen Ginsberg’s Mugging, it was quite hard for me to decipher what exactly was going on. It first started off with this fast paced routine, where Ginsberg listed everything he saw on his way, everything from the “Coca Cola & … Continue reading
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the rewriting and drafting process
In my free blog for today/tomorrow, I want to discuss the topic of the rewriting and drafting process. I spent majority of my weekend working, running errands, tackling some spring cleaning and rewriting my paper (our first paper). While doing … Continue reading
Special Moments
While living in New York, certain moments will always stick out to you. Sometimes life here seems too hard to keep up with it, with all its enormous expenses, living and working 24 hours a day, and endless crowds in … Continue reading
Aging New York
To me, reading each poem, essay, or memoir in this course pretty much gave a picture of New York at each author’s time of writing. It confirmed and changed some of views on the city’s history. It easy to see … Continue reading
Posted in Free Blog, HMWA
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The Dark Side of NYC
It was incredibly shocking to read all the pieces about NYC and the negative, dark, and depressing views the authors had toward it. NYC has always been to me, the city of glory, fame, and fortune. It was hard to … Continue reading
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A Better Understandings
I’ve wrote a blog before how sometimes I don’t understand some of the readings we have in class and that poetry doesn’t seem to excite me like a good book would. Even though its not really “poetry”, I actually enjoyed reading ““Poetry … Continue reading
Red Meat = Dangerous?
As I love FOOD, it is always frustrating to read something bad that researchers found in the food. I like any kind of food as long as it is delicious. Today when I read an article from BBC website about … Continue reading
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When the Negro was in vogue
When I read “When the Negro was in vogue, I thought that the popularity and influence of the Negro Style and Art stemming from Harlem sort of paralleled to the 1980s drag queen culture in Harlem and its popularity. The style and performances of … Continue reading