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Unread 03-18-2016, 04:46 AM
Erik Olson Erik Olson is offline
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Originally Posted by ross hamilton hill View Post
Actually my point was quite serious, most young people get their poetry through songs, not books. If you check out Julie's link or my suggestion, these two poets are performance artists, Julie's a rapper, mine Kate Tempest, a performance poet who memorizes all her poems and wows them around the world.
The media has changed and slim volumes of verse are not going to make it in the future and are not making it now.
This seems a radical statement to me and for such a place as this at that. Should we all start rapping or singing then? Should we all become beat poets? Do you realize how our art is connected to the page? If this were religion it would be heretical. You would sound like a sure apostate.

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