Category: The New Verse Movement
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Poetry is dying. Actually, it’s pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984. Named after a brutal wrestling move, the slam saw…
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THE NEW VERSE MOVEMENT HAS ARRIVED THE “NEW VERSE MOVEMENT” HAS ARRIVED. THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT OPEN MIC FOR POETS, POETRY & WRITERS RETURNS TO DOWNTOWN ALBANY, NY ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH The Pearl Street Pub & Dirty Martini Lounge In Albany NO RULES. NO SCORES. NO AGENDAS. JUST YOUR WORDS ARE REQUIRED. 7:30pm Sign Up…
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Poetry, John Timberman Newcomb believes, has lost status in recent years. In the introduction to his new book, How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse (University of Illinois Press), Newcomb argues that American poetry has been “segregat[ed] … from modern social experience” — with the result that poetry is hardly even considered “literature”…
