[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

From the web site link:

Today's poetics typically expresses allegiance to two conflicting sets of desiderata:

1) vividness, emotional expressiveness, poignancy,
a powerful impact on the mind and emotions of readers

2) a tone of uncertainty and confusion about what is happening, an ironical or pained or numbed distancing from the experience, a muting of emotional response, descriptions featuring blurred outlines and fleeting sensations, and insistent foregrounding of the instability, fragmentariness, and confusion of human experience.


I believe that allegiance to this second set makes achieving the first (emotional expressiveness and impact) almost impossible--as a survey of poetry journals of the last three decades shows all too clearly.

The Poetry Revolt wants the poems you have written that are not fragmentary, muted, confused, and baffled by the instability of human experience. We want the dramatic, intense ones --those with sharp focus, bite and power. Write anguished, bitter, exultant, rageful poems about intensely lived experience (exploding out from an initial repressed numbness if you like--let's not be rigid here) and send them to us.

Wow, what a novel idea -- allowing a poet to express emotion! This kind of expressive writing is frowned upon to an irritating degree which leaves a lot of poems inappropriately restrained (in my opinion). No wonder you call it Poetry REVOLT! No doubt, there's a niche for this kind of journal.

Anne