The Once and Future Poet: Essays on 25 Years of Poetry

I will compose each sentence with care by minding what the rules of writing dictate. For example, all sentences will begin with capital letters. Likewise, the history of the sentence will be honored by ending each one with appropriate punctuation such as a period or question mark, thus bringing the idea to momentary completion.

In other words, I do not regard this as a poem of great imagination or a work of fiction.

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Also, historical events will not be dramatized for an interesting read. Therefore, I feel most responsible to the orderly sentence; conveyor of thought. It knocked me in my tracks because I felt I was witnessing a new kind of confession—yes, something troubled with emotion recollected in the free space of metaphor, imagery and rhythm. But also a confession that went beyond any specific historical time.

Kim teaches her students to think of the blank page as not merely that, but also a piece of canvas—one that must be studied and filled, but also emptied. For decades, she has made the spacing of the poem into a radical act that emphasizes the appearing and disappearing edges trapped behind, between words and syllables. Though her poems can sometimes contain more white space thank ink, I am tempted not to think of her as a minimalist since there are no poets who force me to strain so clearly to see the pockets of pauses, breaks and ruptures that only poetry seems capable of allowing for inside the house of language.

There are many now active Native poets transforming the codified, obsolescing traditions of American poetry. Natalie Diaz is yet another. Much has been written about her works fearless ability to write poems about life on the reservation, basketball and grief. But for me she is simply put one of our great erotic poets. I hope she and her publisher will forgive me for quoting so much here, which readers should read in its entirety on The The Poetry Blog:. Call to me— I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock right now —so to them I come—struck-dumb chime-blind, tolling with a throat full of Hosanna.

How many hours bowed against this Infinity of Blessed Trinity? Communion of Pelvis, Sacrum, Femur. My mouth—terrible angel, ever-lasting novena, ecstatic devourer. Lambent slave to ilium and ischium—I never tire to shake this wild hive, split with thumb the sweet- dripped comb—hot hexagonal hole—dark diamond— to its nectar-dervished queen. Meanad tongue— come-drunk hum-tranced honey-puller—for her hips, I am—strummed-song and succubus. They are the sign: You think I have a chance to becoming a successful writer?

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My talent happens to be songs,stories,and poems. Anyone know where to submit to? Hi Mandakini, unfortunately, most journals do not pay for poetry to be published. I have good collection of poems it is been published different magazines but I am not being paid anything if any printing press can help me out.

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Dear Darlene, Thanks for your comment. But is poetry really on life support as a cultural force in America? Or are people just consuming it in surprising new ways? Centuries ago, poets were like rock stars, widely celebrated for their insights and graceful way with words. Homer, Rumi, Dante, Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and others left vast literary legacies that continue to this day.

Just think of all the phrases that classical poetry have given to daily speech: To err is human; to forgive, divine. Not with a bang but a whimper. Do not go gentle into that good night.

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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Will we be quoting today's poets centuries in the future? Maybe, but we're not quoting -- or even reading -- them now. Census Bureau on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts. That decline in participation was the steepest found in any literary genre. In today's market, a book of poems is lucky to sell 5, copies. This is not the fault of the many talented contemporary poets but the fact that poetry in its traditional forms, with little marketing muscle behind it, has trouble penetrating mainstream American consciousness.

Between TV, movies, music, video games, sports and the Internet -- not to mention the fine arts -- consumers are overwhelmed with content. To cut through the clutter, our entertainments are becoming louder, edgier and flashier. That leaves little room for the quiet charms of poetry, which can demand close readings to be fully appreciated. Many Americans' exposure to poetry today is limited to inspirational snippets on fridge magnets or a few verses recited every four years when a poet is trotted out at a presidential inauguration.

There are also stubborn perceptions that free-verse poetry is a challenging form of code that can only be taught or deciphered by academic gatekeepers. This makes some people leery of the art form, says Dargan, of American University. But it's not about right or wrong; it's about what you see in the poem," he said. Herrera believes poetry, or "verbal art," as he calls it, is at the heart of almost all text, from chants and songs and sacred books to ads and greeting cards. You could argue that many of today's mainstream poets are songwriters and rappers , whose lyrics are analyzed for meanings the way scholars used to pore over T.

There's even poetry to be found in the compressed, fragmented language of texting, Twitter and other messaging platforms of the digital age. In times of national crisis, when ordinary language fails us, we still turn to poetry to express the inexpressible. Witness the tender days after September 11, when many circulated a W. Auden poem about the outbreak of World War II in an attempt to make sense of the terrorist attacks. More recently, educators have encouraged students to write poetry to express their feelings about racially charged clashes with police in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri.

Polito, the Poetry Foundation president, argues that poetry's reach shouldn't be measured merely by sales of books or literary journals. As it has with everything else, the Internet has democratized poetry by making it free and instantly accessible to everyone, he said. There are thousands of poetry blogs, and Facebook is overflowing with poets not all of them good. More than , people now subscribe to the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series , which distributes classic and unpublished poems daily via e-mail and social media.

Then there is the growing poet laureate movement. Most are published poets who receive small grants to promote the art form through readings, workshops and other projects.