Instapoetry

[rayheinrich]

Just went and looked at a decent number of instapoems.
The short format with an image is what I do so I proclaimed
to the gods my instapoetness. The second I did that I felt
a sudden rush of au courant pour over me and soak into
my veins. It's simple, short stuff made for sharing on social
media (hence the "insta" taken from Instagram). I like it
because it encourages people to write and share poetry.
Its quality is on par with most other socially shared internet
and pre-internet poetry. In fact, except for the literal imagery,
it's hard to tell instapoems from the poems posted on the
pre-web Usenet poetry newsgroups I loved to post on in
the 80's and 90's. Usenet newsgroups were arguably the
first computer-based social media.

P.S. And Hi Y'all!

P.P.S. "Quality" is, as ever, outrageously subjective.

P.P.P.S. Critiquing someone who has become popular and
successful at publishing instapoetry is not unlike critiquing
the Kardashians; certainly amusing, but largely pointless.