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What the internet needs is a….
Yes. A million times, yes.
Cool! I’m a poet. Finally, I get to put my BA to work.
Not that I disagree, but didn’t you famously proclaim that “poetry is a dead language”? Plus, aren’t poets kind of like hippies?
What poetry needs is a poet.
Which I think is what you meant by poetry is a dead language.
I absolutely agree!! You’re one in fact Groomy. You brought us EduPunk. I found another artist – Tracky Birthday
@Matt,
That had you written all over it.
@Laura,
You’re a natural choice after your NV video, that is for certain.
@Mikhail:
You won;t ever let me live that down, will you? In fact…
@Brad’s point about the absence of poetry needing a poet is at the heart of the form not dealing with the changing language and forms we all know it is. Maybe poetry is too specific an idea here, but poetry is precisely what we need as a way of succinctly seeing this space through new figures. Through a variegated lens. Look at Dos Passos using novel’s like Big Money to try and make sense of the film camera and the emergence of modern Newspapers. That is a wrestling with the form through art and poetry.
@Leigh:
If EDUPUNK is poetry we’re all dead 🙂 But Tracky Birthday is exactly right, the real deal. That’s an expression of this space and the aesthetic. Bingo! You found one.
Live it down? You’ve all but convinced me.
To paraphrase Cracker,
“I don’t know what the world may need,
But I’m sure as hell that is starts with me.
And that’s a wisdom,
I’ve laughed at….
Cause, what the world needs now
Is a new kind of tension.
Cause the old one just bores me to death.
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another poet blogger
Like I need a hole in my head.”
Cogdog,
why are you barking at me? What’d I do, I’ve been blogging these days while you yucked it up at NV, I was running out of material 😉
Hmmm. I haven’t submitted to New Verse News for a while (http://search.freefind.com/find.html?pageid=r&id=81943023&query=webb&ics=1&fr=0) – this may be just the push I need. A gauntlet thrown down…
My bark was all love for the Rev.
I imagine this has already made the rounds in your circle, but just in case:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rives_controls_the_internet.html
Ask and ye shall receive. http://blog.igenoukan.com/2009/02/strangled-by-apathy.html
Poetry may be a dead language, but so is Latin. Carpe Somnia!
Somnia => http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1985
it looks as if you’ve started carrying the torch here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/3302201663/
How about a poet-CIO? Are hyphen titles allowed? If so, I’ll aspire to be one.
@Brad nonsense. I doubt poetry has ever been more alive and diverse and packed with quality in different forms and traditions than it is right now– between the ongoing center-stream, vizpo, post avant, flarf, school of quietude, etc etc etc with all kinds of amazing cross-currents and battles, poetry poking out in every form of media and self-publishing given over to publishing of the self…
Anyone who isn’t finding good poetry today isn’t looking hard enough!
But I agree with Jim’s contention (as I read it) that a few poets (not to mention a variety of other artists) might help blow away some of the stale smoke obscuring all the luminous mechanisms in the vast new machine.
Not much to add other than, agreed. I am tired of all the other noise. Some poetry might do me some good.
Appropriately enough:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/4863351/Internet-is-causing-poetry-boom.html