Category Archives: KMWA

Digital Ideas

Posted on April 18, 2013 by js147740

So instead of choosing a poem for this project I decided to choose a song that has a lot of creativity and meaning behind it. I don’t want to say what song it is yet because I don’t know if … Continue reading →

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My First Poetry Reading 04/16/13

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Vanessa

And possibly my last. I went to Interpreting Lorca at the CUNY Graduate Center. When I arrived, I was a little optimistic and hopeful. I thought, “Hey this might be fun.” It’s New York, there can’t be boring events. The … Continue reading →

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Black Art- changing history with poetry

Posted on April 15, 2013 by kn146613

From my point of view, when we write we either write from the inside, from the outside or a combination of these two. Poets like Amiri Baraka have the guts to start a revolution without guns and violence but with … Continue reading →

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The Many Faces Of Amiri Baraka

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Alvino

Wow! Amiri Baraka is quite an interesting character. It’s crazy to me how sometimes you are able to understand  writers’ works so much better by analyzing their lives and different times in their lives. And who better to analyze than … Continue reading →

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Black Art?

Posted on April 15, 2013 by cb151503

I enjoyed reading, “Black Art”, by Amiri Baraka. The tone of the poem had a lot of emotion possessing anger yet nearing the end, uplifting  and hopeful. Judging by the aggressiveness towards the behavior placed upon African Americans in this … Continue reading →

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Personism – Shades of Grey

Posted on April 14, 2013 by am138791

When I saw the videos on the writing and thought process of Frank O Hara in class, I found him to be an incredibly remarkable individual, short of being eccentric though, but nevertheless interesting. In my mind, I have always … Continue reading →

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‘Personism’ by Frank O’Hara

Posted on April 14, 2013 by tl143728

After reading Frank O’Hara’s essay , “Personism: A Manifesto”, I realized that a lot of writings by “great” writers are difficult to understand. For example, I remember reading a long essay by a writer named Gertrude Stein a while ago. … Continue reading →

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Personism is GREAT

Posted on April 14, 2013 by ac140642

I loved “Personism: A Manifesto” by Frank O’Hara. After the videos we watched in class, I really admired and took a liking to him after seeing how laid back he was as a person and a writer. After having this … Continue reading →

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“Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”

Posted on April 14, 2013 by aq143586

When I first read this by myself, it thought that the writer was very depressed. Considering that the title said  suicide note in it, I thought that the writer was actually contemplating suicide. The “holes” that he talks about may … Continue reading →

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“Personism”

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Edward Pinkhasik

Reading “Personism” by Frank O’Hara just made me appreciate and like the poet even more after the videos we’ve seen in class of his process of writing. In Personism, he describes the way that he writes poetry which he demonstrated … Continue reading →

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