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_refugee_  ·  4038 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

The thing is, there is so much going on in modern poetry right now, you can find anything you want to. You can find complete nonsense which I expect you might dislike. You can find Amit Majmudar's "Save the Candor" which I talked about on my blog, but seem to have misplaced the post. You can find political poetry from war-torn countries.

You can find free verse, you can find blank verse, you can find haiku, sonnets, and every other form you know of (and some you don't).

I very selfishly link to my blog with most of these because I feel like part of this is the point of my blog: what is going on in poetry, now? I do definitely talk about 'older' poetry as well - it's kind of hard to talk about poetry without doing so - but one of my aims is definitely to point a helpful finger in the direction of "What's going on now in poetry?" or "What's an aspect of poetry I could learn more about?" (I eventually want to write some poets about more esoteric forms like gazhals and pantoums.)

I certainly can't give you a crash course in modern poetry... but Coursera can