Does anyone anymore?
Do you read poetry?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 17, 2019 1:11 PM |
Yes. I’m currently reading Robert Frost.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 5, 2019 4:08 PM |
I have renewed reading poetry. This year I read Frank O'Hara, some small hardcover collections by subject, an Oxford anthology of comic verse. I have some Wendy Cope volumes.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 5, 2019 4:11 PM |
Yes. Last night I read from the works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. A contemporary of Robert Frost, I believe, R1.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 5, 2019 4:14 PM |
Do song lyrics count?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 5, 2019 4:46 PM |
Does anybody still wear a hat?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 5, 2019 4:47 PM |
I'm fairly widely read but not in poetry.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 5, 2019 4:52 PM |
Occasionally Walt Whitman and ee Cummings - but in general, no. It is a fading art form. Probably because it’s way too slow. I mean, we don’t even take time to write anymore, AFAIK.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 5, 2019 5:03 PM |
Poetry will not die. It's never popular. Itivrs on because of what it is.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 5, 2019 5:16 PM |
Poetry is what language is for.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 5, 2019 5:30 PM |
What can be explained is not poetry.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 5, 2019 5:33 PM |
I
Do.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 5, 2019 5:35 PM |
Who
You?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 5, 2019 5:43 PM |
I read DataLounge poetry:
MARY! MARY! Quite Contrary.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 5, 2019 5:48 PM |
Evidently not, or they wouldn't have given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 5, 2019 5:53 PM |
I’ve been rereading my Tory Dent. Autumn is the time to reap.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 5, 2019 7:30 PM |
It's funny, I used to devour poetry & long complex novels (for my age group) in highschool. Then in College I ill-advisedly took some bad pills from a quack Doctor for a skin condition and became very depressed, which killed my desire to read. I'm like a different person now.
Decades on I retain song lyrics better than anything else in my life and graze on short stories just fine, but I haven't ever returned to my enthusiastic teen habit of cover-to-cover barrelling through writing. It's not for lack of time or effort, I just can't get back into the right mindset. I fall into fugue just thinking about it. I figure I either sustained lobe damage or something in my soul just died after the tablets, but who knows. Perhaps it's to do with the jading of age, too (at least I hope so, that would make me feel less abnormal...)
I miss loving, reading and writing poetry. But now I look at NY Times poem or a slam video and feel my mind blank and stomach sink, as if I'm physically just unable to take it in.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 17, 2019 1:01 PM |
I condole you r16. But that’s just aging.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 17, 2019 1:05 PM |
no, i paint my life in prose
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 17, 2019 1:07 PM |
I don't but I want to. Any recommendation? Something neither too complex nor too easy - just to get me into it.
R16 If you seriously want to start again, get a reading partner for a while or join a club. It will get you started. My friends and I did this when we started college - it worked. Also choose someone you know properly and are likely to run into- not someone who you can ghost, because then you will exactly do that and not read.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 17, 2019 1:08 PM |
I have hated poetry since childhood . I skip all poetry.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 17, 2019 1:11 PM |