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_refugee_  ·  4041 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

The thing is, there is so much going on in modern poetry right now, you can find anything you want to. You can find complete nonsense which I expect you might dislike. You can find Amit Majmudar's "Save the Candor" which I talked about on my blog, but seem to have misplaced the post. You can find political poetry from war-torn countries.

You can find free verse, you can find blank verse, you can find haiku, sonnets, and every other form you know of (and some you don't).

I very selfishly link to my blog with most of these because I feel like part of this is the point of my blog: what is going on in poetry, now? I do definitely talk about 'older' poetry as well - it's kind of hard to talk about poetry without doing so - but one of my aims is definitely to point a helpful finger in the direction of "What's going on now in poetry?" or "What's an aspect of poetry I could learn more about?" (I eventually want to write some poets about more esoteric forms like gazhals and pantoums.)

I certainly can't give you a crash course in modern poetry... but Coursera can





humanodon  ·  4041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, are you talking about Modern poetry or contemporary poetry? I don't consider contemporary poetry to be Modern and perhaps not even Post-Modern, or at least moving away from it.

_refugee_  ·  4041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm, I was talking more about contemporary poetry, I suppose. Aren't we post-post-modern now, technically?

humanodon  ·  4041 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe. I'm sure in 20 years someone will have labeled whatever is going on now.

_refugee_  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Hipster."

humanodon  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know. The Beats were referred to as hipsters in their day, which is where the terms stems from.