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Unread 07-07-2007, 08:47 PM
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It's my experience that the alleged general lack of interest in poetry is because so much poetry is serious and self obsessed. I have seen people who never normally read poetry spend hours pouring over anthologies of humorous verse.
The problem is that so much "humorous" verse falls into two categories: cornball, unoriginal, un-witty observations put in rhyme and meter (i.e. not funny), or overly subtle/elliptical literary in jokes (i.e. not funny). We need more good examples to inspire us.

When I was editing Folly I learned that many poets don't know what satire is. Which is weird, because you see satirical humor on TV all the time.
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