Hey everyone. I’m working a night shift right now and can smell burning… can’t figure out where it’s coming from so can’t really settle my mind and thought I’d jump on here.
We‘ve had multiple topics on what we think as Covers about certain aspects of poetry. Gabbie Hanna, Emoji Poetry, and I posted earlier today on the news thread about what I believe to be someone trying to make a statement to get him and his podcasts in the news. So the question I put to you is, what is happening to poetry right now? How did it get to this point? It was once considered such a beautiful and considered art form and for a long time (and wrongfully so), something only the high classes of society were involved with, but it feels like such a money grab these days for so many, or am I just being a gate keeping stiff here? What are your thoughts and answers to these questions?
I wonder if it is down to the long line of teachers and outdated educational syllabus that taught poetry in such a drawn out way that it killed the potential passion in many (like myself) or if it is just because we live in an 'instant' society where everything is easy and instantaneous.
First of all, I would like to say how lucky I am to have this platform to express poetry in its entirety. Poetry will always be an avant-garde, no matter if you are a specialist or a simple Sunday poet. The Desinstagration is not far and we must look for this pauperization of poetry, already by the vision of what is the poet, in his posture always tortured, who lives only in Paris, London and under the rain. I would like to write this manifesto: Poets! Let's corrode conformity, mediocrity of polished verses of varnish.