/lit/ - Literature

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>>23189740
yes but i will not tell you who they are

>>23189740
Rupi Kaur

>>23189740
Amanda Gorman.

>>23189740
https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214237/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CCePrJlaU

>>23189740
No, none at all. And only a few from the early 20th century are worth your time. The 19th century had many great poets, however.

David Berman

>>23189740
>poetry
>21st century

>>23189740
my gut feeling is that it'll be more obvious in 20 years or so, right now poetry-award-grade poetry is an incestuous circle-jerk and instagram poetry doggerel. both are symptoms of capitalist civilization hurling itself off a cliff so line go up but for some reason that doesn't produce interesting art (no one knows why)

>>23190186
topkek

>>23190203
Aren't dying civilizations supposed to produce great art?

It would be really funny if videogames wound up as the new dominant art form

>>23190203
>poetry-award-grade poetry
So you haven't looked at all

They're called song writers nowadays.

>>23190474
Different art form

>>23190545
People with affinity and talent to the form of words use it for the music industry.

>>23190559
People with verbal affinity and talent use it for a great many number of things. Different art forms.

>>23190565
My point is that "poets from the 21st century" publish their work along with a backing track of music. Surely they write poems on their notebooks, but the ones that end up in public aren't likely in "text first" format as it doesn't sell.

>>23190581
The lyrics to all modern music that I've ever seen are utter garbage as poems.

>>23190588
Some of them are good

>>23189740
Probably, but we aren't going to know for another fifty years, so why waste your time with them now?

>>23189740
I'm currently looking for a publisher for my collection, but conservative or even neutral publishers are exceptionally hard to find. The poets you would probably want to read don't really have a way in anymore.