/lit/ - Literature

>>16312216
A muse

>>16312216
read poetry
write poetry
that's it

>>16312216
>How do I write poetry without reading the foundation of poetry
Sounds like you already know what you want to do, you’re just seeking others approval.

>>16312226
Explain to me right now why people find this el goblina faced bitch hot!

>>16312278
Politics has a REALLY low bar for what’s considered hot. Your face just has to be remotely symmetrical and you’re in.

>>16312216
>he wants rules for poetry
>he hasn't started with the Greeks
you either read Aristotle's Poetics or become a shitty writer, these are your only options

>>16312297
>>16312235

>>16312216
Just take an undergrad class in poetry

>>16312216
Fuck the greeks. Read poetry you like, write poetry you write.

This. The book will have you reading poems of different poets from the last 200-ish years then copying their style in order to learn how they write. Good poets create, great poets steal...or something like that. When you finish read "Letters to a young poet" to help with inspiration then just write.

>>16312755

Last in a long line of literary kleptomaniacs. /
(a time honoured tradition)
[Sarah Kane]

>>16312216
I get the position you're in, and while these answers "just read poetry" are frustrating, they are correct. But I think you need a latter to climb before you can kick it away. I used Marie Kinzie's "A Poet's Guide to Poetry". Check out the table of contents. Reading that book gave me the confidence to read poetry and evaluate it on its own terms.

But, in retrospect, it was quite obvious that she (and in fact any poet who writes about poetry) was promoting a self-serving aesthetic. Every poet has their own poetics, and you can only develop one by braving the wilderness yourself.

>>16312278
High testosterone

>>16312216
study the poetical feet and meter. dont bother with rhyme but a structure is necessary otherwise it's just cheap sentimentality

>>16312216
the Ode Less Travelled and Mary Oliver's Poetry Handbook. I'm gonna type up some pastes and start a poetry general, seems like this gets asked every day

>>16312278
>t. never been to Capitol Hill
The competition is the likes of Chuck Grassley.