Who are the contemporary poets that are worth a damn? Are all good poets either dead or about to die?
Pic is Diane Wakoski who wrote,
Will I,
do you suppose,
have my choice
of being deadly
or
dead?
>>8092718
desu, the trendy SJW feminist poets are probably the best. I know that seems like a troll but look at any poetry thread on /lit/ and watch yourself cringe. At least they seem to be getting somewhere and people actually enjoy it. /lit/ poetry aka white 20's male is just teenage angst balled out with the last poet they read.
>>8092722
can you post some examples?
>>8092722
Care to provide a single example of good poetry in that vein?
>>8092722
>people actually enjoy it
So... You think popularity is a measure of value, and yet you're here? That's some powerful cognitive dissonance, anon.
>>8092722
People enjoy Dan Brown too.
ITT Everyone just got fucking baited.
>>8092722
Guaranteed +25 replies, good show sport
>>8092753
fuck you, the suggestion was made that there's decent poetry out there, fucking post it. we're on the same side here, don't make it about anything but getting toasted on verse.
>>8092753
The first post was believable, this one is too far. You have a decent grasp of subtlety, just put more effort into exercising it.
On the off chance that you are serious, I suggest taking a break from this website, since it's obviously negatively affecting your attitudes towards people.
>>8092775
Idiot, the second post is more believable. The first one he wrote isn't.
>>8092913
What, no?
The second post is a clear parody
>>8092924
Even if it is everyone here does have a bias towards female writers. Bring up any female writer and watch the chaos unfold. Can't disagree with the state of poetry on /lit/ as well. It is corny and terrible.
>>8092718
JH Prynne would be memed as much as McElroy or Gass if /lit/ read poetry.
>>8092718
How is that a good poem?
>>8092913
Ok, let me educate you. In the first post, he used the word "SJW" to signal that he himself was not one, just someone who supposedly appreciates their poetry. He then acknowledges that it seems like a troll, and goes on to insult /lit/'s poetry, which doesn't seem like bait because /lit/ hates nothing more than people who are like them but put effort into things. He also talks shit on people who appear immature, because /lit/ loves feeling mature. The whole thing is tailored to look like it's from an average poster who simply has one out-of-the-norm opinion.
In contrast, the second post sounds like an actual SJW, using the word "sexist", and it employs the classic internet feminist technique of saying people who disagree with them are bitter failures. Also, it's overtly hostile whereas the first post was measured and directed its contempt toward an abstract group of people not present in this thread.
It's probably not even the same person, honestly, the tone changed quite a lot.
>>8092939
>corny
Yeah, what a bunch of jive turkeys we are! Seriously, apply yourself. You can do better.
>>8092950
Eugh, you're retarded and the reason why everyone thinks /lit/ is pretentious. Stop trying to prove your ego over the internet.
>>8092946
It's about how if looks could kill, that mug of hers would be the Mao Zedong of faces
>>8092718
>contemporary poets
>worth a damn
That you still think any exist is sad.
>>8092726
>>8092727
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>>8092988
Sounds like a bunch of shuckin' and jivin' hi[ hop nonsense to me.
>>8092992
That's alright, to each their own
>>8092978
If you switched 'poets' with 'art' i would genuinely think i was on /mu/.
>>8092988
This is terrible, who is this?
>>8093005
Slug, from atmosphere. A hip-hop group. He's written some better stuff.
>>8093007
That's dissapointing, i heard they were supposed to be good
>>8093010
Hip-hop isn't meant to be read.
>>8093013
Neither is poetry, familial
>>8093013
Shut the fuck up
This thread had potential, but the OP's horrid taste ruined it from the start, and then some misandrist autist came along and started shitting it up even further. It'd be best to just make a new thread and start over.
>>8093023
That's why I don't read it.
>>8093033
What will we do now?!!?
>>8093033
Or we could actually discuss poetry and salvage the thread.
>>8093015
>he thinks "nigguh nigguh weed on da streetz" is poetry
Holy shit I hate this. This is the ultimate proot that innumerable adults are just hopelessly locked in perpetual adolescence.
>>8093041
*Tips fedora*
Whether you like it or not, Rappers have inherited the poetic tradition. Shit's real, mang.
>>8093122
And most inheritances, even the grandest, are quickly squandered by wastrel heirs.
