Poetry

» genXpoet - I agree that poetry isn't 'dead'.

Dear Linda Sue Grimes,
I liked how you started off your article with quotes from the critics of poetry, in essence, saying that poetry is dead. You then lead on to eventually talking about how if you google poetry, you get thousands or millions of hits. Obviously pointing out that poetry is definitely not 'dead'.

I think the thing is about those critics who may have once loved poetry just don't help themselves from being drammatic with their comments. I think there is a flourishing of poetry in our country, probably also around the world, and because of this, there's bound to be much poetry which isn't well-crafted. So the critics might be thinking that poetry's dead because of all the so-called 'bad' poetry out there.

I think that this flourishing of poetry is great though. Because even with all that the 'bad' poetry making some people cringe, my theory of literary evolution is that the survival of the fittest poets and their poems in our culture and memory will make our current century look like a golden one.

-- posted by genXpoet