https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-661-having-a-moan en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:55:24 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-10384-it-s-good-and-dead-long-live-zombie-poetry. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-10384-it-s-good-and-dead-long-live-zombie-poetry. Is poetry dead?  Who cares?  How many times have we had this discussion?  No, it's not dead, you cry.  There's more poetry being written now than there ever was.  Look around you.  The internet is a marvel of communication.  Poets, poets everywhere and something about slimy things. Blah.  Poetry didn't go through an amazing resurgence with the coming of the internet; what surged was people's ability to get in other people's faces without ever having to properly commit to any kind of relationship.  This nice safe little interface created a haven for the imagination, but there was a problem: imaginations just aren't what they used to be.  As a consequence of two or three generations of being told precisely what to think, how to act, who to vote for and so forth etc ad infinitum, "creativity" has come to mean "see what else is around that you like and think you can manage, then copy it".  The personal diary became the public blog, and poetry in the key of I was soon de rigueur.  ... more Leanne Hanson Having a moan Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:43:21 GMT /section-661-having-a-moan#comments 24 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/10384 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/10384 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A10384 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11967-to-criticise https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11967-to-criticise No censure or unneeded praise comes from a master, only roads gone upwards.  A true guide will raise, by coaxing or at times with goads, the seeker to an equal plain if such exists.  To crush does naught but shrink the pool; small fish may gain and yet that kind is always caught. A poem only ends when we decide to close our eyes; no page holds everything there ought to be if closed off minds will not engage. Leanne Hanson Having a moan Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:03:37 GMT /section-661-having-a-moan#comments 15 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11967 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11967 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11967