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I don't get poets.

They are just writers of short texts representing insights into being human, aren't they?

I feel you have to read a lot of peoples to find one to take home with you. To find one worth remembering. Thus it seems perceived quality of poets just directly correlates to how much you agree with the poets personal opinions about things.
Or are there actually insights to be gained from such short texts?

Don't get me wrong, I love witty lines, but it's just that it doesn't feel like more than that. Not really worth a genre.

>>8003640
Poetry is about intense, condensed aesthetic experience. It's about being able to use language to illicit emotions in the most compact way possible. Why read a whole novel when every page of poetry contains just as much?

Nicanor Parra, Homero Aridjis.

>>8004006
Any english language poets?

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mine

>>8004035
She is a whore

Does anyone else think Ben Lerner's a faggot?

Debora Greger. She's very good. Anyone here going to University of Florida have her as a teacher?

>>8004035
noice. is that dudu?

Myself desu

>>8004248
>uf
I dropped out this semester

>>8004274
What was your major?

>>8004279
Engineering

>>8004286
oh nvm then

>>8004248
fuck uf

>>8004248
also
>2016
>reading female poets

>>8003972
This. English major?

i want to try to get some of my poetry published, what are some good poetry magazines to send my submissions to, or is it best to send it to competitions?
also, most of the big ones have like 3-6 months waiting time.

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We have a tinychat if anyone is interested in talking to fellow readers.

We have a resident jazz musician and a resident brazilian

We may or may not read excerpts from poetry and the Journal of Albion Moonlight

>>8004520
No, history major at Middlebury. I hated formal English education in high school and coming here confirmed my suspicions that college English isn't much different, at least undergraduate.

Does anyone here read contemporary poetry?

Fuck

Was hoping for some good suggestions in here.

Anyone read Robert Fernandez?

>>8004797
Never heard of him but his stuff seems pretty interesting

>>8004514
Her poetry is actually not that bad.

>>8004035

Mark my words. Someday I'm going to hate fuck her so hard and she is going to beg me for more. God damn it I can't stand her and want to bury my dick into her cunt as she wraps her legs around me and I fuck her against the wall and she bites my lower lip and tells me she loves me.

Fuck.

>>8004110

I think he's a poseur.

>>8004560

>i want to try to get some of my poetry published, what are some good poetry magazines to send my submissions to, or is it best to send it to competitions?

>also, most of the big ones have like 3-6 months waiting time.

Me too. I'm clueless. And yeah, the wait time feels insane and makes me not want to submit.

>>8004248
Post a poem of hers.

Also if you post your favorite living poet please post your favorite poem of theirs so I can judge them. I would really like to enjoy some contemporary poetry but haven't found any I like.
Thanks

>>8006008

I like this number.

Ezra Pound

>>8006429
Me too. I can't wait for what he's going to do next

Don Paterson

>>8006024
it's symmetrical

>>8003601

Peter Gizzi

Geoffrey Hill

JH Prynne

Bum

>>8006501
Palyndrome is the word you're looking forq

>>8006008
>>8004110
I think you're just mad that he won 600,000 dollars.

>>8007168

You beat me to Geoffrey Hill.

I also like Henri Cole a lot, but I'm biased because he lives in my neighborhood

>>8006002
Understandable