Poets

  • Getting Your Words Out: Winning Free Poetry Contests
    There are two types of poets in the world. The first are those that will take the time to develop their poems, submit them to different areas, and work on every word. Then, there are poets who will write a poem, stick it in their dresser, only to find it five years later and reminisce about the reasoning behind writing the poem. In one way or another, everyone is like both poets. However, it is up to you to decide, which poet are you going to be? If you are going to be the kind that believe Read More...
  • Poetry and Popular Culture
    Is poetry too complicated for the average reader? Is it too cryptic, scholarly? If you ask a large group of average people what they like or don't like about poetry, you'll get a few different answers, but there is an overwhelmingly common category of responses. One of the main reasons that people say they aren't addicted to contemporary poetry is that they feel it is too cryptic. The language, they say, isn't tangible. Despite the fact that there are a great many contemporary poets out the Read More...
  • Poets & Poems: Blessing of the Poem
    1) Anne Sexton: poems come from the abyss, painfully, and a life obviously as scornful; literary they could use some substance other than nakedness. 2) Howard Nemerov: good lyricism, one of the poets I ran after in my early days in college to read and try to understand. He writes well, yet I find there is usually something missing, perhaps they need to march to the end of the road (His poems). 3) Allen Ginsberg: when he was in his 20s, he wrote his best works, thereafter, he lost it to good t Read More...
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