OT: Will poetry become a new phenom?

[buddybikes]

Amanda Gorman's writing/reading at the presidential inauguration was so beautiful (watch if you haven't seen/heard). Think any chance poetry will become more popular in schools, books, and public recitals? Let's hope so

[Wattvagen]

I agree that her passion was inspiring. what a cool opportunity for her to have the national stage like that.

poetry is either something you get and appreciate, or you dont. i remember as a boy in school the thought of reading poetry made me nauseous, much like classic literature and history, etc. It was not until well into my adult years that i found a real love of history, literature, art, etc.

i am with you in that maybe this exposure to the nation of a young women's passionate talent can inspire some to the art of poetry, but i can not see it taking any real dominant place in american society.

[Bruce K]

A spoken word poet won the latest season of America’s Got Talent.

So, yes, I believe this art form is a coming thing.

BK

[David Kirk]

We can only hope it does.

dave

[Blown Reek]

I hope that Slam poetry and Krumping finally get the recognition they deserve.

[fiamme red]

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he's a very wealthy man. So "poetry" can be commercially successful.

[M_D_S]

It was quite a performance, and her title is well-deserved. I watched it twice. I'm hopeful that she will inspire others..

[joosttx]

I hope so. For what it is worth, my kids Public school spend about a month writing poems. It’s really beautiful.

[Clean39T]

As an English major in college, some twenty odd years ago, I read a lot of poetry - gobs of it.. The tough thing is so much modern poetry is just unapproachable word-vomit.....obscure for the sake of obscurity. At its best, poetry conveys feelings and emotions through the calculated use of language in a way that prose has a hard time approaching. It stops you and makes you think. Over the years my poetry reading has gravitated more to the spiritual side of things - poets who are communicating universal truths about the nature of reality and humans' place in the cosmos..... that's a deep vein to mine that travels across cultures and millennia. Mary Oliver to Basho. Han Shan and Hafiz. Whitman and Ginsberg. And Snyder. And Rupi Kuar, who I guess you could say is Amanda Gorman's contemporary - another poet who is not hung up on convention but more is using the medium as a way to connect and ennoble. I dig it.

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[Tz779]

Lets bring back Slam poetry!

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Wattvagen

her passion was inspiring.

Originally Posted by Bruce K

A spoken word poet won the latest season of America’s Got Talent.

Originally Posted by M_D_S

It was quite a performance

I still haven't seen the entire thing, but the excerpts I've watched reminded me that there are two components to spoken word poetry:

The words...and the speaking.

Amanda's poem was exactly what this country needed to hear, and a wonderful addition to the many equally eloquent and poignant speeches uttered on that day.

But her delivery was astonishing. Poetry may or may not become a new phenom, but Amanda Gorman most certainly will. I would listen to her recite the phonebook.

[wc1934]

Yes - it was so great!!
I read that she wrote the second half of the poem after the riots on Jan 6th.
Inspiration/creativity comes quickly to those who have it - she clearly has it.

[NHAero]

Amen, Brother Bob

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

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I would listen to her recite the phonebook.

[NHAero]

I too was a creative writing major in college (and fortunately got the engineering degree too, a bad poet's gotta eat!) Dan, you and I read eye to eye on our poets!

“This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” – Mary Oliver

Originally Posted by Clean39T

As an English major in college, some twenty odd years ago, I read a lot of poetry - gobs of it.. The tough thing is so much modern poetry is just unapproachable word-vomit.....obscure for the sake of obscurity. At its best, poetry conveys feelings and emotions through the calculated use of language in a way that prose has a hard time approaching. It stops you and makes you think. Over the years my poetry reading has gravitated more to the spiritual side of things - poets who are communicating universal truths about the nature of reality and humans' place in the cosmos..... that's a deep vein to mine that travels across cultures and millennia. Mary Oliver to Basho. Han Shan and Hafiz. Whitman and Ginsberg. And Snyder. And Rupi Kuar, who I guess you could say is Amanda Gorman's contemporary - another poet who is not hung up on convention but more is using the medium as a way to connect and ennoble. I dig it.

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[XXtwindad]

Originally Posted by Wattvagen

I agree that her passion was inspiring. what a cool opportunity for her to have the national stage like that.

poetry is either something you get and appreciate, or you dont. i remember as a boy in school the thought of reading poetry made me nauseous, much like classic literature and history, etc. It was not until well into my adult years that i found a real love of history, literature, art, etc.

i am with you in that maybe this exposure to the nation of a young women's passionate talent can inspire some to the art of poetry, but i can not see it taking any real dominant place in american society.

This.