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Poetry Reading Thread
Ian Barnes
Landon Hall
I don't know what Veeky Forums will think... but I really like Rives (I promise this is not actually a ted talk) ted.com
Hudson Hernandez
I don't like performance poetry too much.
Hudson Mitchell
OK I'm pretty sure I misunderstood the intent of this thread, but I guess you at least get a bump out of it
Grayson Sanders
Whoops just saw your comment, sry user
Christopher Sanchez
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G3tpJbgzoE
Luis Wilson
I don't mind Rives but I just feel like there hasn't been any really good poetry written since the first half of the 20th Century. I mean, when I look at the people who win the national poetry prizes in my country I laugh at how simplistic they are and how egotistical it is (insofar as much as it is centred around their mental illnesses and mundane lives). Even the T.S. Elliot prize winner for 2017 had me baffled because it was just word salad without any true meaning built within the poems.
Logan Sanders
This is something I hear said here (in various forms) that I'm less frustrated with and more curious about. It's not that I don't make a habit out of reading, but I'm also passionate about music, and when people say things like, "There hasn't been any good ____ since ____" I have to wonder whether they are looking in the right places. Not that Rives is necessarily a good counterexample at all. Is it just that there's an aesthetic that you're really infatuated with?
Jonathan Ramirez
I don't like most of the poetry past the 17th century much either, save a few examples/poets here and there. I love Wyatt, Herrick, Marvell and the other English poets around that period and when I compare them to poetry I've read from poet laureates now I'm shocked. Word salad is fitting for much of what I see nowadays. No meter, no rhyme. They take out all the finesse and skill of crafting poetry and call it good afterwards.
Caleb Peterson
>meter is in any way challenging
it's like metalheads talking about the number of chords in a song