Poetry and the Masses

[clemonz]

Dead poets usually hog all the attention. I've known people that think of poetry only in terms of the past. It might surprise them to know that there are famous or well known poets these days.

i dunno... on the one side you've got to be optimistic, and there's a lot of people writing poetry now.

but also the achievements of modernism etc. are [aren't they?] more radical than new poetry, and maybe most important poets are dead just cos poetry's been written for so long.



what new poetry schools / movements are there?