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What's you're favorite new poetry? I know alt-lit is a thing, but I'm not down with it. So what's going on in poetry? And outside the English language?

>> No.5564072

I can define modern poetry aphophatically. Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, and everyone else I've read recently has failed to move me.

>> No.5564100

>>5564072
>Alexie
I thought Diary of a Part-Time Indian was good, but his poetry doesn't bring much.
>Collins
I went to one of his readings last year. I could the number of good lines with my two hands, and the good poems with one.

Please prove me wrong if I've missed something great of theirs.

>> No.5566645

Have you tried the works of Stephen Dunn, Devin Johnston, Ben Lerner, Maureen McLane, Linda Pastan, Frederick Seidel, Brenda Shaughnessy, Karen Solie, Henri Cole, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Jane Hirshfield, Adam Kirsch, Nick Laird, Ange Mlinko, Les Murray, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Charles Simic, John Ashbery, Dorothea Lasky, Carol Muske-Dukes, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Sylvie Baumgartel, Emily Moore, Kevin Prufer, Charlie Smith, Susan Stewart, Monica Youn, Dan Chiasson, Durs Grünbein, Jana Prikryl, Luigia Sorrentino, Craig Morgan Teicher, Geoffrey Brock, Patrizia Cavalli, Rachel Hadas, Karl Kirchwey, Gretchen Marquette, Dennis Nurkse, Henk Rossouw, Donna Stonecipher, Charles Harper Webb, Peter Cole, John Freeman, Tony Hoagland, Melcion Mateu, Kevin Young, Steven Cramer, Regan Good, Geoffrey Hill, Joshua Mehigan, James Fenton, August Kleinzahler, Bernadette Mayer, Jason Zuzga, Sophie Cabot Black, Lucie Brock-Broido, David Ferry, Raúl Zurita, Susan Barbour, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicanor Parra, Jonathan Galassi, David Wagoner, Jeff Dolven, Forrest Gander, Paul Muldoon, Sharon Olds, Meghan O'Rourke, Cathy Park Hong, Iman Mersal, Lia Purpura, Chris Andrews, Linda Gregerson and Clare Rossini, OP?

>> No.5566647

>>5566645

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lmvX00TLY

>> No.5566651

>>5566647
So you haven't.

>> No.5566658

>>5564065
disgusting
they don't rhyme even when they write on the bathroom walls
if it goes that way even rappers will stop rhyme

>> No.5566669

>>5566658
I think one of the words was cut off, kitty, and I can only guess at what that word could be, but I suspect it's one that rhymes with "pee."

>> No.5566699

>>5566669
oh simple 4 line, i'm an inattentive baka

>From the bonny bells of heather
>They brewed a drink long-syne,
>Was sweeter far then honey,
>Was stronger far than...

their meter is meh anyway unlike stevenson's, but english poetry still has a hope, the language didn't refuse the rhyme completely :3

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5566707

mira gonzalez is my litfu

>> No.5566722

>>5566707
lel is that Herzog?

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>>5566722
Certainly looks like it.

>> No.5567388

>>5566645
Who do you like, faggot? I wasn't asking for the wiki list.

>> No.5567394

>>5564065
Greentext.

>> No.5567395

I think the only living poets I have read are Don Paterson and John Ashbery. I really like Paterson.

>> No.5567397

>>5566699
>meter
/ u / u /
u / u / u /
/ u / u
u / u / u /

That's sound. Check your ears.

>> No.5567409

>>5567397
i dunno what you mean but that "something happens" part disturbs the flow imo

>> No.5567419

>>5567409
I scanned the poem. The third line is questionable, but still works.

>> No.5567479

>>5566647
>Shocking 20somethings is shocking the world
Way to go for the easier audience possible.