Is 21st century poetry just a meme?

[Anonymous No.19048119]

[Anonymous No.19048125]

Poetry as a whole is a meme.

[Anonymous No.19049735]

>>19048119
That's not poetry.

[Anonymous No.19049770]

>>19048119
M-maybe the poet of our era has just gone unnoticed
Such things happen...

[Anonymous No.19050234]

>>19049770
'If you're a writer, declare yourself the best writer.'
- Hem

[Anonymous No.19050256]

>>19049770
It was already difficult to achieve something worthwhile in the past and today that's become pretty much impossible. Not a single good thing will come of what's left of this terrible century.

[Anonymous No.19050273]

Geoffrey Hill, John Ashbery, Derek Walcott all published in the 21st century.
Instagram is not an indication of where modern poetry is at, you have to read magazines and contemporary collections for that

[Anonymous No.19050520]

>>19049770
As Nicanor Parra said
First requirement of a masterpiece: Go unnoticed.

[Anonymous No.19050540]

It's not all bad.

[Anonymous No.19050558]

>>19048119
Poetry was better when everyone could do it, and nobody showed it off.

[Anonymous No.19050573]

>>19048119
Nope. Anon's Collected Taliban Poetry is pretty alive.

[Anonymous No.19050581]

>>19050520
>As Nicanor Parra said
>First requirement of a masterpiece: Go unnoticed.
Nicanor Parra is a hack though. Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.19050592]

>>19050273
>you have to read magazines and contemporary collections
and lit/ for that.

[Anonymous No.19050621]

21st century everything
is a joke

- Anon

[Anonymous No.19050645]

>>19048119

[Anonymous No.19050669]

>>19050273
can you recc any magazines and/or collections? id love to dive in

[Anonymous No.19050703]

>>19050645
lmao did she steal her fucking tips under the guise of sisterhood?

[Anonymous No.19050719]

an anonymous space
for me to place
the things no longer allowed
only to to express inward
if just the n-word

[Anonymous No.19050740]

>>19050581
t. EOP

[Anonymous No.19052265]

>>19048119
Poopi Kaur is an instagram whore, not a poet

[Anonymous No.19052268]

>>19050573
Where?

[Anonymous No.19052271]

>>19050234
I’m the best poet

[Anonymous No.19052275]

>>19048119
>Words that have little meaning
>No depth at all
>Short and idiotically easy to comprehend
>Purely performative and awkwardly egotistical
Yes, it is a meme.

[Anonymous No.19052287]

>>19048119

[Anonymous No.19052325]

ezra pound and ts elliott pretty much ended poetry. Modern poetry is just minorities virtue signaling to an audience that already agrees with them

[Anonymous No.19052386]

>>19048119
I can never distinguish her actual work from the parodies.......not a good sign for a poet

[Anonymous No.19052398]

Poetry is a dead medium.

It is either too embedded in Romanticism-era clichés or it is too academic.

Also people are not properly educated on poetry in schools so cannot tell the difference between soppy cliché-ridden pop ballads and pop/slam poetry and actual poetry. Hence why someone like Rupi Kaur is so popular; easy to digest and point blank.

Nobody reads contemporary poetry anymore except academics, people interested in serious literature, and other poets. And even then most literature hobbyists don't read contemporary poetry. Even John Ashbery, who until his death was probably the most lauded living poet in the English language, could not make a living off of it.

[Anonymous No.19052469]

>>19052398
How do we change this?

We need to get the sexiest people and celebrities to start reading both classic and contemporary poets.

Any other suggestions?

[Anonymous No.19052473]

>>19052469
Write poetry for a supernatural audience

[Anonymous No.19052496]

>>19052469
>How do we change this?
The language is at your disposal, and self-publishing has never in human history been so accessible.

[Anonymous No.19052508]

>>19052496
Not sure if you read to the post that I replied to but what I’m trying to change it’s peoples reading habits not writers publishing.

[Anonymous No.19052542]

>>19052508
Yep.

[Anonymous No.19052548]

[Anonymous No.19052550]

>>19052469
Educate people at school level how to properly read and appreciate poetry

[Anonymous No.19052560]

>>19052469
Write a novel and include a character who writes poems or something. Have your poem be his dialogue. No one is going to buy a book full of poetry. Well, maybe a femoid will buy one, but only if it has Live,Laugh,Love on the cover.

[Anonymous No.19052604]

>>19052287
Deep (in that hole).