What happened with poetry?
#21
(03-26-2022, 09:37 AM)rowens Wrote:  Donald Trump is like so sicks years ago.

You're right,
that was uncalled for.
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#22
(03-26-2022, 07:57 AM)rowens Wrote:  ...

A Donald Trump meme signals the dying squirts of a dry thread.

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Yeah, drawing to Trump in 2022 is like reverse Goodwin's Law - instead of trying to shut down discussion by playing the Hitler card, they try to Frankenstein-zap a dead one to pseudo-life.
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#23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...ntrump.jpg


Ya'll can't handle Frankentrump
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(03-26-2022, 10:56 PM)Semicircle Wrote:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morni...ntrump.jpg


Ya'll can't handle Frankentrump

Now I like this one.  We are off topic I guess, but this is a cool riff on Trump.  The original Frankenstein was released in a green tint; I watched it on TV the night I waited for my first child to be born.

TqB
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#25
That’s a coincidence, because Frankenstein helped deliver my wife’s baby.

We named him after my favorite president…


Roosevelt
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#26
(03-27-2022, 01:38 AM)Semicircle Wrote:  That’s a coincidence, because Frankenstein helped deliver my wife’s baby.

We named him after my favorite president…


Roosevelt

Hmmm...feeling like a straight man in a burlesque show now.

To steer this back in the lane, I think the daily Guernicas being acted out in Ukraine almost make poetry irrelevant right now.  Not that I've stopped tryiing to write it.  It's all I can do not to go a little mad.

I read more prose than poetry.  This site is my main source of reading anything new in the poetry world.  Names come up, rowens is pretty good at giving leads, and I follow them. And no, I've tried using it on an iPhone while on trips and it's not the same.  SURELY that alone cannot keep us down.
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#27
Esenin is another horribly translated Russian.
When I was in Belmont in 2004, a redhead Russian chick was teaching me Russian.
I had a textbook from Goodwill that was published in Soviet Union times. All about the day at the Factory.
My poet of choice that I got at the Russian bookstore was Esenin. And we studied that together.

There doesn't appear to be much impressive there. But I used to get a lot out of him. And probably would get more now. But I never read him anymore.

I still prefer the dead poets. Reading them in my dark room of nights is a seance.
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#28
know what, when i was in russia, it was two red haired women who taught me bits of the language. they also talked about how nice St Petersburg was (we were near Moscow). this can't just be a coincidence xD

i hope they're doing fine, though. kinda lost contact years ago Sad
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(03-27-2022, 01:07 PM)RiverNotch Wrote:  know what, when i was in russia, it was two red haired women who taught me bits of the language. they also talked about how nice St Petersburg was (we were near Moscow). this can't just be a coincidence xD

i hope they're doing fine, though. kinda lost contact years ago Sad

They should be fine, at least with reference to the present circumstances. It's Kiev that's being bombed, not Petersburg
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#30
I tried promoting the pigpen on tiktok
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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#31
(03-28-2022, 09:22 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote:  I tried promoting the pigpen on tiktok

Where are all the busty dancing women?

I don't feel advertised to right now
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#32
(03-28-2022, 09:22 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote:  I tried promoting the pigpen on tiktok

‘Twas a brave endeavour
but you need an influencer to endorse it -
someone with pizzazz,
no acerbic wit….
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#33
Perhaps we could kidnap;
otherwize apprehend,
hold them at gunpoint
and ask nicely,
for some viewers they can lend.
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#34
(03-28-2022, 09:40 AM)Semicircle Wrote:  
(03-28-2022, 09:22 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote:  I tried promoting the pigpen on tiktok

Where are all the busty dancing women?

I don't feel advertised to right now

Tiktoks algorithm kinda uses your search history, I'm fine with it, I mostly see music and autistic videos, for a while I was stuck on conspiracy TikTok, there are plenty of spoken word people on it trying to get their face around.  TikTok is definitely one of the best 'social media apps' for artists.  I've had more interaction on TikTok than Facebook and YouTube and Instagram combined.  It is addictive, but feeding my ego for now
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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#35
(03-28-2022, 10:00 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote:  
(03-28-2022, 09:40 AM)Semicircle Wrote:  
(03-28-2022, 09:22 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote:  I tried promoting the pigpen on tiktok

Where are all the busty dancing women?

I don't feel advertised to right now

Tiktoks algorithm kinda uses your search history, I'm fine with it, I mostly see music and autistic videos, for a while I was stuck on conspiracy TikTok, there are plenty of spoken word people on it trying to get their face around.  TikTok is definitely one of the best 'social media apps' for artists.  I've had more interaction on TikTok than Facebook and YouTube and Instagram combined.  It is addictive, but feeding my ego for now

Tiktok is a perfectly fine site and just like anything, 
most people want to make porn out of it.

My parents are on Tiktok, and I'm not.
Does that make me old?

I'm 16.
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#36
Hi All,

I don't know if it will make anyone feel better about the health of poetry in the world, but I woke up in the middle of the night about a month ago and just started writing shit down. Don't know why, but that's the way it is now. My story has inspired two of my friends to start following their aspiration of writing. All of you have been a great life line, one that I have needed to help me be more effective. I don't expect to ever be "great", but I do want to improve to the best of my ability. So thank you for helping me do that.

PS I can't believe a significant number you don't have smart phones. How are you going to bring good poetry to the masses?
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#37
(05-15-2022, 01:00 PM)brynmawr1 Wrote:  Hi All,

I don't know if it will make anyone feel better about the health of poetry in the world, but I woke up in the middle of the night about a month ago and just started writing shit down.  Don't know why, but that's the way it is now.  My story has inspired two of my friends to start following their aspiration of writing.  All of you have been a great life line, one that I have needed to help me be more effective.  I don't expect to ever be "great", but I do want to improve to the best of my ability.  So thank you for helping me do that.

PS I can't believe a significant number you don't have smart phones.  How are you going to bring good poetry to the masses?

Nobody here is a great poet, though some members who don’t post that often anymore, come close to being as “great” as any talented professional poet.
Most published poets are pretty average. It’s not just because they’re bad, but because we have become a practical species, valuing objective truth, sourdough toast, and medium rare steak above potatoes, maggoty wounds, and fairies.
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#38
(05-15-2022, 01:00 PM)brynmawr1 Wrote:  PS I can't believe a significant number you don't have smart phones.  How are you going to bring good poetry to the masses?

I think I'm the only freak without a smartphone.

It's good to see you here using the site the way that it's meant to be used. 

So you say that you've started two others writing. Hmmm send them to us.  Thumbsup Much appreciated
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#39
I'm 24 and one of the reasons I'm not as active as I used to be is because it's harder to post on my phone than on my laptop, but then my laptop has video games xD

As for bringing poetry to the masses, for now my hope is at some point I get the means to reach out to editors, then get something formally published. I posted stuff in my personal facebook page a while back, but I stopped due to embarrassment. Maybe I could have made a proper facebook page, but there's a very good reason why I got so embarrassed: I'm not that arrogant. Plenty of people that get published don't deserve getting published, but at least those who aren't self-published share their arrogance with their editor. Posting on a facebook page featuring your own poetry? Or on instagram? Or even on twitter? It's like most self-publishing: arrogant. It's a healthy attitude to assume you're not William Blake, and even if you were, Blake was a *professional* printer. Are you willing to make instagram poetry your job?

I post some stuff, even raw stuff I don't bother to have critiqued, on various discords, some with communities in the thousands. But I don't post in anything but channels dedicated to original writing -- I haven't joined a community that's poetry-specific in discord, neither -- and those channels are rarely visited anyway. I *am* arrogant, but not to the point of being unvirtuous.

Instagram poetry, or what I read of it that occasionally pops up on my reddit (where I don't post original stuff, either, not even in workshopping communities, if those still exist), is shit. Lang Leav, who as far as I know isn't an Instagram poet, is also not very good. She just seems kinda...idk, lucky? especially since she started as a visual artist.

But good poetry is occasionally shared on reddit too, usually poetry by established authors Anglophiles would never otherwise hear about. My books app is how I read Louise Gluck; Adobe Acrobat, how I read Yehuda Amichai and Anne Carson's Sappho. And Spotify---Kendrick Lamar just dropped a new album, and it is hot.

By default, you can only be a great poet once you've been published. I think mercedes and leanne have had some of their stuff published, but both of them have moved on now, one (afaik) due to publishers' contracts (some publishers will make you delete your stuff before it gets published), and the other due to cancer.

ps I stopped using facebook years ago, too, but while I often find myself browsing reddit and I definitely use discord, facebook and tiktok just ruined another election, only, if y'all Americans cried over a racist and sexist motherfucker dismantling your throne over international relations, here we cry over a motherfucker who calls his father plunging us into poverty and disappearing thousands of innocents a golden age. tiktok seems like fun. Fuck tiktok.
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(05-15-2022, 07:44 PM)RiverNotch Wrote:  I'm 24 and one of the reasons I'm not as active as I used to be is because it's harder to post on my phone than on my laptop, but then my laptop has video games xD

As for bringing poetry to the masses, for now my hope is at some point I get the means to reach out to editors, then get something formally published. I posted stuff in my personal facebook page a while back, but I stopped due to embarrassment. Maybe I could have made a proper facebook page, but there's a very good reason why I got so embarrassed: I'm not that arrogant. Plenty of people that get published don't deserve getting published, but at least those who aren't self-published share their arrogance with their editor. Posting on a facebook page featuring your own poetry? Or on instagram? Or even on twitter? It's like most self-publishing: arrogant. It's a healthy attitude to assume you're not William Blake, and even if you were, Blake was a *professional* printer. Are you willing to make instagram poetry your job?

I post some stuff, even raw stuff I don't bother to have critiqued, on various discords, some with communities in the thousands. But I don't post in anything but channels dedicated to original writing -- I haven't joined a community that's poetry-specific in discord, neither -- and those channels are rarely visited anyway. I *am* arrogant, but not to the point of being unvirtuous.

Instagram poetry, or what I read of it that occasionally pops up on my reddit (where I don't post original stuff, either, not even in workshopping communities, if those still exist), is shit. Lang Leav, who as far as I know isn't an Instagram poet, is also not very good. She just seems kinda...idk, lucky? especially since she started as a visual artist.

But good poetry is occasionally shared on reddit too, usually poetry by established authors Anglophiles would never otherwise hear about. My books app is how I read Louise Gluck; Adobe Acrobat, how I read Yehuda Amichai and Anne Carson's Sappho. And Spotify---Kendrick Lamar just dropped a new album, and it is hot.

By default, you can only be a great poet once you've been published. I think mercedes and leanne have had some of their stuff published, but both of them have moved on now, one (afaik) due to publishers' contracts (some publishers will make you delete your stuff before it gets published), and the other due to cancer.

ps I stopped using facebook years ago, too, but while I often find myself browsing reddit and I definitely use discord, facebook and tiktok just ruined another election, only, if y'all Americans cried over a racist and sexist motherfucker dismantling your throne over international relations, here we cry over a motherfucker who calls his father plunging us into poverty and disappearing thousands of innocents a golden age. tiktok seems like fun. Fuck tiktok.

I forget that you're terribly young
nothing a person says before they're 30 has any meaning. Unless it's a woman, and she's a young mother.
Or it's mathematics.

But on the subject of poetry - I have read some absolutely sensational Instagram poetry. Not poets, but regular poetry from all eras posted as images.
That's how I came across this gem: http://www.universeofpoetry.org/mvskoke-...ves%20here.

 If you look with the mind of the swirling earth near Shiprock, you become the land beautiful, and understand how three crows at the edge of the highway laughing, become three crows at the edge of the world laughing.
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