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The Slackted Poetry of Martijn Benders
if all hope is abandoned and you lay awake watching the Contenders play tapes of some obscure rock band you're welcome to enter and check out this slender, delicate verse with metaphors galore like a Roman brothel frothing incantations through the door Benders puts his fledgling words in a titanium blender and renders magic, genre-bending ...
Online Poem Generator
As someone who loves the belief that poetry is a form of communication, I am inclined to see its authenticity threatened by the emergence of automated poem generators. I am aware that strong AI will be among us within a few decades from now, if we believe the predictions of researchers in the field, but ...
To be a bad poet
who is not invited to exotic poetry festivals in cultural capitals, not celebrated for his otherness, not for the soothing justice that emanates from his professionally __translated words, not for the clapping of the audience when he reads and they see the scaffolding of a pristine soul To be that poet who loves the colors ...
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. - Audre Lorde
Instagram poetry
Giving in to the social media requirement of visuality and brevity, I also publish poetry on - Instagram. There are a lot of so called "instapoets" but in my humble opinion they are not exactly innovative and their language sounds pretty dull to me. As it happens - and this doesn't contradict my modesty - my ...
poetry is easy: make something out of nothing
poetry is easy: make something out of nothing to begin with, here is nothing, hiding somewhere in the o on your way to kindergarten you carry a pink umbrella, an antique lampshade, a fairytale turtle under which you are invisible and I think you wink to the man in the traffic light to go green ...
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault. - Yusef Komunyakaa
"Poetry for me is not work but pleasure, not a career but a second life—a play within a play."- Peter Davison