Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?

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  Posted By: jrichfavor12 @ 08/31/2009 6:34:49 AM

  I enjoyed your essay but I do not agree. I believe poetry is alive and has evolved over time. I could not name one poet but I do write and will educate myself on the poets of the past and current. I believe poetry is a way to express true words of the heart. I enjoy the symbolism, metaphors, and the play on words. For me, writing heals. So, don't stop believing and never stop writing. I lived a fast life and no matter how waisted I was I wrote every night. I hate I threw away those journals because of the explicit content. Now, I know it was just a phase in my life and now the words are lost forever. So, today i continue to write. It is art. Art of the soul and mind. It is true beauty.

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  Posted By: cheyo @ 03/30/2009 5:31:11 PM

  Obviously, the writer of this essay is out of contact with the reality of poetry. I find it difficult to believe the author would have this perception about poetry, more so with him living close to Chicago since the Chicago metropolitan area is one of the bastions of poetry in the United States (go to ChicagoPoetry.com). Yet this perspective is held by mainstream America. I know since I???ve been a poet all my life and in my experience Americans in general do not regard poets or artists for that matter with respect or admiration as in other countries. For example, the portrait of Juana de Ibarbourou, a poet from Uruguay, is on the 1,000-peso bill. The author is right in some of his comments. Poetry does require work and therefore the mentally challenged ???as the author- will find poetry difficult to read.
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  Posted By: cheyo @ 03/30/2009 5:28:24 PM

  Obviously, the writer of this essay is out of contact with the reality of poetry. I find it difficult to believe the author would have this perception about poetry, more so with him living close to Chicago since the Chicago metropolitan area is one of the bastions of poetry in the United States (go to ChicagoPoetry.com). Yet this perspective is held by mainstream America. I know since I???ve been a poet all my life and in my experience Americans do not regard poets or artists for that matter with respect or admiration as in other countries. For example, the portrait of Juana de Ibarbourou, a poet from Uruguay, is on the 1,000-peso bill. The author is right in some of his comments. Poetry does require work and therefore the mentally challenged ???as the author- will find poetry difficult to read.
  Jose Bono Rovirosa