Poetry...

[judasmachine]

I'm just curious as I've been involved in the art scene in most places I've ever lived. But it seems everywhere I go, poetry seems to be going the way of the mime. Anyone here into it? I realize this is a geek forum but figured someone here is into art, in more than a Playboy centerfold manner.

Or perhaps I just need to take some BC powder and go to bed...

 

[AstroManLuca]

I've never really enjoyed reading poetry, but recently a friend dragged me to a poetry slam and I really enjoyed it. Hearing the poets read their own material is pretty impressive. Look for a place that has a good reputation for hosting good poets. It's fun. If I enjoyed it, anyone would.

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm sure a lot of people here read poetry. I've read/written.. I don't think poetry is going the way of the mime as much as writing/literature in general are being pushed back in favor of more "exciting" or "glamorous" media.

 

[pontifex]

I've read some - Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Poe, Francis Ledwidge

 

[lxskllr]

Very little. I always liked Langston Hughes. Poe is good too, but I prefer his stories.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
I've never really enjoyed reading poetry, but recently a friend dragged me to a poetry slam and I really enjoyed it. Hearing the poets read their own material is pretty impressive. Look for a place that has a good reputation for hosting good poets. It's fun. If I enjoyed it, anyone would.

Long before there were poetry slams I held that poetry was an oral art, that you need to hear it read aloud to fully appreciate the music in it's language.

Otoh, there is the tendency of poetry slams do dumb down poetry to rap like crowd pleasers.

Still like 'em (most slams and /or readings), though. I've heard some of the very best poetry I've ever heard in obscure locations from people whose names I don't remember.

In this way, it's somewhat like the overall music scene, in that popularity and renown don't necessarily scale exactly with talent. -- some of the biggest hacks are the most well known and some of the very best will die poor and virtually unknown.

Art has always been that way.

 

[judasmachine]

I just write it all the time, and have performed some in the past. I enjoy it, but seem to find less and less places that have readings. Maybe I'm just getting old and am out of the loop. My faves have always been the beat poets. But Poe, and even Shelley are on my bookshelf.

 

[Madwand1]

You don't have to read it, or have it read to you -- it's enough to see it and feel it. Then of course comes the impulse to express it, but repress that, and you're done for a while.

 

[se7en]

I write all the time and most of what I do is poetry. I'll go to an open mic here or there to read sometimes but thats like once in a blue moon. I doubt any of it is really any good but I enjoy it so it's whatever.

 

[judasmachine]

Yeah mostly I just put it on my facebook, and let my friends read mine. They tell me it's good, but what are they going to say?

 

[TruePaige]

Oh it is a very exciting medium, though some of the more fun stuff I just tend to group in to the literature category.

Poetry isn't dying off, it is literature in general that is being cast aside, sadly.

 

[Red Irish]

I always liked the war poets, such as Siegfried Sassoon.

 

[Juddog]

I have a poem:

Old Miss Hubbard
Went to her cubbard
to fetch her dog a bone.
She bent over
Rover took over
now she has a bone of her own.

 

[nageov3t]

like, contemporary poetry? not really, at least not since graduating college.

but alexander pope will always have a special place in my heart.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I want to kill myself...

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: Juddog
I have a poem:

Old Miss Hubbard
Went to her cubbard
to fetch her dog a bone.
She bent over
Rover took over
now she has a bone of her own.

Little boy blue,
Hey, he needed the money!

 

[nanette1985]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
I'm just curious as I've been involved in the art scene in most places I've ever lived. But it seems everywhere I go, poetry seems to be going the way of the mime.

Wait, are you telling me that mimes are finally disappearing? Praise the lord!


I love poetry. Especially the type that begins

There once was a man from Nantucket . . .

 

[BlackTigers]

I love poetry. I'm more a fan of writing my own than reading, though.

 

[OCGuy]

Cut Cut
Slice Slice
My life is in shambles
nothing seems right
Daddy is not there
The kids in school bully
Crawwwwwwling in my skiiiiin

 

[Gibsons]

I appreciate that some of it's brilliant, but I prefer plots/stories or information. (I know some poems do have plots and stories...). For voluntary book reading, it's usually fiction or history.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: BlackTigers
I love poetry. I'm more a fan of writing my own than reading, though.

Gotta read to write decent poetry.

 

[nerp]

Stuck on e e cummings for years.

 

[acheron]

I have a book of John Keats' poetry at home; for some reason his poems struck me. But other than that, basically no.

 

[OCGuy]

These words, they will not heal

 

[zinfamous]

I dig poetry. always been a fan of Yeats, Rilke, Whitman.