/lit/ - Literature

>>12430157
>90% of poetry nowadays is slam poems
it's not though, but it's popular and something useful may someday come of it. A lot of shit needs to get written before good shit comes of it. The shit shit is necessary shit, there are many shitty bricks in a temple, but few absolutely necessary pillars to keep the structure up.

>>12430157
Define "nowadays."

>>12430157
What do you mean? People still write poetry, it's pretty common, why would you follow whatever outlets push your description? 90% of poetry is not slam poems, those are just publicised and promoted in certain circles in the U.S. So, why bother with those circles?

I think Borges said something about books on the shelf being dead, and coming to life suddenly when someone opens one.

While I share your aversion to slam poetry, this business about "woke obese black women" is a racist caricature, and "stupid white women" is distastefully misogynistic. If I were to describe slam poetry, I would say

"Its got a lot of earnest younger people who view reality through an unfortunately myopic though well intended lens that sees people and identity as essentially political matters, and therefore reduces all artistic approaches to political statements."

I would apply this statement as readily to people such as you, subject to the following two emendations

> "inauthentic" instesd of "earnest"
> "and bitterly malicious" instead of "though well inteded"

>>12430181
this might just be the cringiest post i’ve ever read on /lit/, and there’s a lot of cringey bullshit on here

>>12430494
>Is poetry dead as an autistic medium? 90% of posts nowadays is shit posts by woke obese white men about racism or stupid cuck betas about how they were wronged in some way on account of their bones.

>>12430494
Oh no!

>>12430181

>>12430499
I haven't seen any poetry from those types of people.

>>12430181
Oh sweetie

>>12430505
>>12430512
H-he used the word racist! Uhhhh...

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>>12430506
I meant to write /lit/ instead of poetry
And I fucked it up and fail at life