21st Century Poetry

[Anonymous No.14086358]

Are there any good poets / individual poems written past the year 2010? It all seems like garbage but I'd like to be proven wrong

[Anonymous No.14086362]

We've gone crazy with the joys and pains of living we've become so free You're all that matters it's okay to not be perfect to feel what you're living it's okay to have your life and know where it's going I'd give anything for you to come home again But

[Anonymous No.14086363]

Yeah... me.

[Anonymous No.14086378]

>>14086358

There once was a simple response
For a thread question posed by a ponce
Now here I go
Hitting post to send "No."
Now /thread because that's all he wants.

[Anonymous No.14086420]

>>14086358
Nick McRae is a fine poet.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14086421]

Perhaps, taking a cue from >>14086362 and the notion that poets are “so free”, it’s all become too diffused. Perhaps poetry could try challenging itself with some Dogma 95 like restrictions. Several if you like. I don’t mean for it to mimic the filmmakers exactly, but more like, mimic past movements in some way. Whatever makes it fun, or meaningful, if that’s the chosen stricture.
Just a novice notion

[Anonymous No.14086426]

It was words that I fell for,
In the end, it was words that broke my heart

[Anonymous No.14086444]

Hiphop has replaced poetry

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.14086459]

>>14086444
Hiphop has replaced good African-American music
It just uses a variant of slam poetry, right?

[Anonymous No.14086807]

http://www.cosmoetica.com/American%20Imperium.htm

[Anonymous No.14086820]

>>14086362
>it’s okay to not be perfect
I’m perfect though
We all are

[Anonymous No.14087083]

>>14086421

Modern poets don't venerate written language as an avenue of transmitting their perceived meaning to others, they idolatrize their own experience and ejaculate narcissistic blurbs onto paper without concern for if other people graap their thoughts. Their object and subject is themselves, rather than their life as a subject for analysis by greater humanity to considerate objective meaning.

[Anonymous No.14087094]

>>14087083

"This thing happened to me" vs "Me, for which this thing happened".

[Anonymous No.14087155]

I want to write a letter to the best poet alive and ask their writing advice — who should I write to?

[Anonymous No.14087231]

>>14087155

If this was 1880, that girl would grow up to be an amazing wife.

[Anonymous No.14087439]

>>14087231
unga bunga my pp hard

[Anonymous No.14087469]

>>14087231
But not yours.

[Anonymous No.14087487]

>>14086358
Yeah, many of mine. I'm in the process of publishing a book of poetry, and it should be online and on the shelves within the next year or so, and it's good stuff. You should know it's me. I'd say what it is and all, but I know 4chan, and we have a collective tendency to destroy all that is good, so I wouldn't want to get DOXX'd or flooded or be implicated as being a deviant or a /pol/tard or whatever. Would hurt sales. Once it's out and does well and the tiny bit of negative press wouldn't compare to all the good press, I'll talk about it, maybe even do a Q&A on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.14087494]

>>14087487
Who are your favorite poets? I like TS Eliot

[Anonymous No.14087497]

>>14087487
Aint no money in good poetry sadly but godspeed.

[Anonymous No.14087526]

>>14087494
My personal favorites in chronological order, with the years of their births:

***Homer (810 B.C.), Virgil (70 B.C.), Ovid (43 B.C.),
Rumi (1207), Dante Alighieri (1265), *Hafez (1315), ***William Shakespeare (1564), John Milton (1608), *Basho (1644), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Thomas Chatterton (1752), ***William Blake (1757), *Robert Burns (1759), *William Wordsworth (1770), ***Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), *Lord Byron (1788)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), ***John Keats (1795), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), ***Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
***Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Emily Dickinson (1830), *Oscar Wilde (1854), Arthur Rimbaud (1854),
W. B. Yeats (1865),*Robert Frost (1874),
T. S. Eliot (1888), Langston Hughes (1902),
***Dr. Seuss (1904), *Dylan Thomas (1914),
Charles Bukowski (1920), *Allen Ginsberg (1926), ***Shel Silverstein (1930),
***Jack Prelutsky (1940), Rudy Francisco (1982), Sarah Kay (1988), Savannah Brown (1996)
***Annabelle Fuller (2000)
* = top favorite
*** = super favorite

While there are many other poets I'm aware of and would probably list among these, these are the ones I've read the most and are most familiar with.

Frost and Poe and Longfellow and Shakespeare, and children's poets like Dr. Seuss and Prelutsky and Silverstein, kickstarted my love of poetry from a very young age.

>>14087497
Thanks for the well wishes. I'm hoping to change all that with this upcoming book. Put all the other junk like Milk and Honey, Pillow Thoughts, and Love Her Wild to shame (although that's not a tall order.)

[Anonymous No.14087531]

>>14087526
Sorry, Robert Frost should be ***, if not ****

If I had to pick one favorite poet, it'd probably be him. He's really my poetry idol.

[Anonymous No.14087577]

>>14087231
She used to date a 6'4 10 years older Chad who was also a drug dealer. She's drug free though. Good girl.

[Anonymous No.14088148]

>>14087577

I said "haha."

[Anonymous No.14088196]

>>14087577
>tfw no ken gf

[Anonymous No.14089293]

>>14086459
>It just uses a variant of slam poetry, right?
Other way around kiddo

[Anonymous No.14089338]

Dionne Brand is a fantastic Canadian poet that blends high intellectual metaphors with references and allusions to the canon. I would highly recommend her.

[Anonymous No.14089668]

>>14089338
>her

[Anonymous No.14089696]

>>14089668
Are you insinuating there are no good women poets?

[Anonymous No.14089765]

>>14089696
The number of woman poets who are as good as the best male poets, not just "good for a woman", I could count on one hand.

[Anonymous No.14089773]

Tiana Clark is pretty great. Very recent stuff.

[Anonymous No.14089821]

>>14089765
I feel bad for you. There's a plethora of women poets that are just as good as men poets. I mean, at least in American poetry, Emily Dickinson, alongside Walt Whitman, are the two greatest. Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver are absolutely fantastic. Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Carol Ann Duffy, and Anne Sexton are all powerhouses. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti were both more popular than their male counterparts during the Victorian era (though in that era I'd still argue Tennyson as the strongest poet). Sappho is highly underrated in Classical studies, as well as H.D, and Marianne Moore for the Modernist period. Then there's so many good contemporary women poets like Sharon Olds, Anne Carson, Anne Finch, and others.

Maybe instead of just tossing women poets, you should actually read some?

[Anonymous No.14089836]

>>14089821
>Emily Dickinson
agreed
>Sylvia Plath
trash
>Elizabeth Barrett Browning
agreed
>Sappho
agreed


Haven't read the others.

Even so, my general statement still stands. The male to female 'great poet' ratio is 90% to 10%, if not more male-leaning.

[Anonymous No.14089844]

>>14089836
How on earth is Sylvia Plath trash?! Sure, I can agree that her collection "Ariel" is overrated, but "The Colossus" is an amazing collection!

[Anonymous No.14089866]

>>14089844
Dude, she's the original annoying feminist poet, writing in away that's emasculating to men, and is just generally very dry in subject matter and style. Trash.

Don't get me wrong, she outranks nearly every recent writer that passes as a 'poet' nowadays, but that's not saying anything.

[Anonymous No.14089914]

>>14089821
>Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
how about kys you tasteless nigger

[Anonymous No.14090025]

>>14089696
I'm insinuating that women make me want to coom

[Anonymous No.14090062]

Alice Oswald
Ilya Kaminsky
Nick Laird
Simon Armitage
Don Paterson

poetry is as strong as ever, only people who think otherwise are the ones who like to gurn about student slam poetry and hip hop and think thats what the mainstream of poetry has become all for the purposes of slamming on those libtard millenials with EPIC memes

we live in the shadows of Hughes and Heaney, Plath and Duffy - our generational great poets will be recognised within time

[Anonymous No.14090066]

poetry ended after this was published

[Anonymous No.14090079]

>>14090062
>poetry is as strong as ever
Faux. Please stop though, dear anglo.

[Anonymous No.14090090]

>>14090079
>user comes to anglo board
>asks in english about poetry
hmmm

[Anonymous No.14090100]

>>14090066
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.14090279]

>>14090066
Probably my favorite poetry collection ever.

[Anonymous No.14090317]

There is Nael's The Tiger.

[Anonymous No.14090337]

alice oswald

[Anonymous No.14090361]

>>14090066
I can never decide if this is the best poetry collection I have ever read or the worse, most pretentious

its certainly an extreme example of something, just can't decide what

[Anonymous No.14090378]

>>14087526
>Ginsberg
Get out, you fucking hack.

[Anonymous No.14090401]

>>14090378
Ruth is a powerful woman

[Anonymous No.14090444]

>>14087155
Idk if he's the best, but I've been to a couple of David Bottoms' lectures on poetry in Atlanta, and he's a great poet who cares about the craft. Look him up.

[Anonymous No.14090674]

>>14090378
I don't like a lot of his shit and its needless vulgarity and degeneracy, but he has a lot of great stuff. Howl, Kaddish, White Shroud, Sunflower Sutra, and, my favorite, Wales Visitation, are beautiful and some of the greatest poems of all time. Fight me.