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Blog Posted:3/11/2020 1:36:00 PM

Is our craft important to anyone and if so, to whom? I've seen many articles about how "Important" poetry is to whatever - how it should factor in some elevated way into the corners of life either forgotten or obvious. I think we must get over ourselves and accept reality. Garrison Keillor recently opined, "My complaint about poets is: they write for each other, knowing that nobody else is interested, and for that reason nobody else is interested". There's much hyperbole here, but much truth as well?

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Leo Larry
Amadore

Date: 3/15/2020 4:54:00 PM

What an interesting topic, perceptive observations, and surprisingly open admissions that seem to express the generally common experiences and thoughts and opinions many of us on poetrysoup share. The truth of each of the opinions/views expressed is one of the valuable insights we all gain from this site. As difficult as it may be, perhaps we must realize that others may not (possibly/probably will not) value our output nor, in many cases, even attempt to comprehend our efforts. And that is often a painful and lonely reality, and hard to accept.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/15/2020 8:25:00 PM

Poetry isn't "Cool" never has been. Even if you liked it when younger you never would admit it to friends...you'd never admit liking that slow thoughtful song instead of that rock song others liked more but to be honest it really surprises me how some I never thought, in my circle of friends and family, would like the same---if we are proud--sort of like a gal not tugging at her mini skirt, of who we are--I think we'd be surprised how many kindred spirits surround us---we're not alone, believe me, but we must accept not drawing a big crowd--who likes crowds anyway!

Aqua
Marine

Date: 3/15/2020 4:16:00 PM

I love this blog, loved reading the comments, have loved writing poetry on and off for years, and wrote poetry. for myself, for many years. Poetry soup poets educated me about poetry in a way I most probably never would have taught my very uneducated self. So I say thank you for a thought provoking subject. I'm still writing for my own enjoyment, and have enjoyed reading poetry since childhood. And even if I dont post that often, I do come here to read poetry. Warm regards and respect to you all. ~~~Aqua~~~

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/15/2020 7:49:00 PM

I love your last posted poem - and others and proves in so many ways that poetry is a gift - you have that gift, which is to be able to share what you think/dream. I recall in one of my favorite old novels "Silas Marner" the great train of thought in the book and that's what you did. When we can all do that the rest is easy - the tough part is letting go--=and btw, we learn from each other.

Gregory Richard
Barden

Date: 3/14/2020 2:25:00 AM

Being a songwriter since age eight, I'd have to admit ... I am certainly all those things mentioned in previous posts below. That said, and being a huge Garrison Keillor fan, that is one point of his I take exception with ... in a very generalized way, of course, for there IS a contingent that fits that phrase. There is also a contingent that isn't interested because they just plain don't "get" us creative types, another that is jealous, another that's incapable of weaving words, etc.. In the end, (for me), it comes down to ME, and as selfish as that may seem, if you're not writing poetry for yourself, ultimately, I think perhaps you won't last long ... and certainly won't be happy at it.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/14/2020 9:42:00 AM

I try as best I can to put a leash on being pulled into the black hole of contemporary poetry yet the gravity and allure is so tempting and kind of fun to be honest but I also like it when a regular Jack or Jill says that they get it - both have their rewards.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/14/2020 9:24:00 AM

I agree Greg and that actually is his point in an indirect way. First, anything we do in life fits that mold as long as we're honest with ourselves. We can never be truly happy otherwise, as you say, yet somewhere in his thought is a truth and that truth is that somewhere in any passion there is a point of diminishing returns; a shrinking circle of artists who celebrate more and more improvisation until the melody is totally lost in the chaos - to the point where only the artist knows the song and even they are lost in their own ambiguity - the only ones applauding are others lost as well. Meanwhile, the general population has lost interest a long time ago--so, if we like that space for ourselves and are happy there we cannot expect the rest of the world to praise us "Just Because" - I certainly don't.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 3/12/2020 7:42:00 PM

little story for ya. In my gym sauna today, I got talking to a nice lady who paid me a compliment (she thought i was a lot younger than my age, so I immediately liked her!) She asked me what I do. I mentioned my teaching and also that I spent a lot of time at a poetry website, which is what I was doing at that moment on my cell phone in the sauna. She looked at me and said, "What?? A poetry website? Is that a thing?" So there ya go. THat is what the rest of the world thinks of us!!

Harry Horsman
Date: 3/13/2020 10:36:00 PM

For below, Andrea, so true about family. i had an aunt that loved them, and took them to chapel, to be placed in the chapel news sheet every week...She sadly died a few years back, and no one else is interested at all, In fact it was 20 years, before i even dare to come out, after i had one published in a works mag..but no i'm the same as so many, alone except for folk here on Soup...

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 3/13/2020 4:25:00 PM

I told her a little about my writing, Craig. I tell many people about Soup and about my own writing. Mostly we are poets here reading each other because the rest of the world does not give a fig. (sorry, it's just how I feel.) I believe of my many family members, only two of them even bother to read poems I send to them by mail. At my daughter-in-law's house, I saw her open my Xmas card in front of me and not even glance at my poem page. I can assume it quickly went to the trash. My hubbie won't read them and not my son either. The times I taught poetry (even easy poetry by famous poets) my students could not wait for the topic to be changed. I have met just a few lady friends who appreciated my poetry and that felt good. As for the rest of the world, It is what it is! (I should try not to be so negative. I truly do appreciate the "world of poetry" I have been immersed in the past 20 years and all my fellow poetry friends)

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 9:57:00 PM

Where did it go from there Andrea - how about, "Yes, there are many of them and there are thousands like me who write to them, do you write creative notes at all? You should try it " Much of this poetry ignorance is our own fault, the first of which is that we "Deserve" some special respect and acknowledgement because we write and if it's not received or reciprocated we feel bad about it. No, we should wear it with honor. The surest way to win new respect and readers or ,better yet, participants is to be comfortable in our own skin ---so much so that "The World" wants to be us. You should be immensely proud of your passion for teaching and passion for writing and what you share with your students. There are ignorant people everywhere and many of them, most of them, exist because they don't think we exist. I've usually gotten more, "Really, I've written some too". Or especially from woman "Wow, that's a great hobby". Meanwhile, the world owes us nothing and we owe it everything.

Eve
Roper

Date: 3/12/2020 2:11:00 PM

Craig, I write to please myself and others and if it pleases someone, I boil with enjoyment. If I had people giving me negative comments I will cease to write. Just as I feel about a job, art, or even a marriage. Yes, I am totally sensitive. I have always had everyone here on soup be kind. Yes, once in a while I'll see something negative, but I will say something. I did once have a negative comment through e-mail about my Sonnets contest and that is why I will not have a sonnet contest again.

Eve Roper
Date: 3/12/2020 10:34:00 PM

thank you :)

Eve Roper
Date: 3/12/2020 10:34:00 PM

thank you :)

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 9:36:00 PM

Sensitive yes, a quitter no---just like giving a gift, it's in the giving and that is the reward. Do I like approval, yes - disapproval no---and indifference the worst--any emotion that you create is okay, let it inspire you. Make your sonnet contest about modern sonnets - no meter - no exact rhyme - no specific syllable count - just 14 lines of creativity and it becomes what the contemporary poets look for anyway. Title your requirement a specific sonnet form like English sonnet and there are requirements that should be respected like any traditional form but there are other roads to take - take them. Or, as most publishers want, don't ask for a form at all - just plain and special creativity and screw the rest.

John
Watt

Date: 3/12/2020 2:02:00 PM

3) So, yes, I think we poets write for each other and support each other at venues such as Poetry Soup, because nobody else in the world appears to be interested. That said, poetry does have a place in culture, through the medium of music. People love good poetry when it is packaged in Pop, Country, Rap, Opera, Folk, Rock, you name it. We have become so used to the extra dimension added by music, that to strip away the sound and see poetry just as words on paper (or computer screen) is like watching a movie with the sound turned off. Just my 3 cents.

John Watt
Date: 3/12/2020 3:22:00 PM

Craig, great comments on the music side of art. I was a music composition minor at a major university, and was blown away that there was no academic interest whatsoever in melody, harmony, counterpoint, etc. Academic was all about making creative layers of noise, the more random, the higher the grade. We were required to listen to Stockhausen, Varese, and Schoenberg, with their chaotic sounds, or in the case of John Cage, long periods of silence. The whole concept of theme and variation really makes a nice allegory for all art in that it creates a spectrum of the familiar to the unfamiliar wherein the artist and audience seek to find the happy medium. Audiences almost always prefer the familiar and artists tend to push the envelope towards the new and inventive. We poets hover between the public's appetite for Hallmark greeting card poems (short, sing-song, sentimental) and our desire to not repeat what's been already overdone.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 3:06:00 PM

2--Ah, but then, a well written poem can Tango on its own for a reader who has acquired a taste for its genre. Same with music--glad you brought that up--I love jazz. I think jazz is the musical equivalent to certain types of poems I like but...I don't like the Jazz to be too loud nor complex with the improvisation too far from the melody. I like classical music - but same thing - somewhere beyond the creative edge but not so far as to think the composer was too full of themselves and everyone that likes them should have to appreciate it--just because. Art is an infinite conundrum of paradoxes impossible to label so certainties do not exist. The only certainty is a moving target that cannot be defined because it is too dynamic and that's a good thing - how boring is the predictable?

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 2:50:00 PM

Exactly John, except a couple things; I certainly think poetry has a place in culture but it's a relatively small group when it comes to the type of poems most publishers are seeking today which is predominantly no rhyme (or just sneaky rhyme - internal/slant etc), no true form, no meter or just some, the very abstract use of uncommon word pairings and deep ambiguity. It's obvious in the selections for international contest winners. Yes, song lyrics are a type of poetry but the most successful songs on the charts have very simple words with refrains combined with melodies with the purpose of being toe-tappingly unforgettable or tear jerkingly painful. Of course there are exceptions like some Bob Dylon/Paul Simon etc lyrics but there are "exceptions" to everything. Song lyrics for the most part aren't meant to stand on their own - much like a Tango isn't meant for one.

John
Watt

Date: 3/12/2020 2:02:00 PM

2) There are many answers to that question: 1) Poetry is not emphasized in school (other than the abstruse variety in college courses), 2) People do tend to have diminishing attention spans, 3) Poetry has sadly taken on a stereotype much like mimes, circus clowns, and pun humor; dismissed with a smirk and a condescending glance. I have been naive enough to give loved ones a thoughtfully crafted poem as a gift, only to have it be received like I had handed them a bag of dog poop to be set aside and never mentioned again.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 3/13/2020 8:07:00 PM

hahaha. I know the feeling, my friend!! You get to know which people to give poetry to. Even then you can't be sure they really like it or are just telling you so to be nice.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 3:09:00 PM

I think John, this goes back to the "know your audience" thingy---we wouldn't bring a rap band to Grand Ma's party---I've had to learn the same.

John
Watt

Date: 3/12/2020 2:02:00 PM

1) Keillor's point is probably directed at the 'academics' who write abstruse poems because that is what other academics consider good art. But Keillor is an entertainer at heart (and a great writer too, shout out here for his wonderful books) and he has had a platform in "Prairie Home Companion" to have some down-to-earth poetry read, including his own. Most of us do not share such a platform, and find there is almost no audience whatsoever for our serious efforts at poetry, other than those who also write, and thus have an empathetic ear, and a symbiotic relationship of read/comment/share/reply. But is that the "reason nobody else is interested"?

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 3:26:00 PM

I think of poetry soup--Hmmm__??!!--as an individual with multiple personalities (A Sybil of sorts). So that the personality of the day will neither inflate nor deflate me to any extreme. Not only that but the rest of life and, of course, the "nobody" is hyperbole and there are those in real life as well that truly seem to enjoy our poetic expressions - again, we just must decide which song to sing aloud.

Gary
Radice

Date: 3/12/2020 12:32:00 PM

I reluctantly agree in general with Mr Keillor and really wish I didn't. 2018 did, however, see record sales of published poetry in the UK: This was the year following the Manchester bombings and Grenfell fire. "At these moments of national crisis, the words that spread and the words that were heard were not the words of politicians, they were the words of poets..Language gets stale in politics. Words begin to lose their meaning. Poetry occupies a different space to the humdrum. It is a way of renewing what words actually mean. It offers you a different way of looking at the world.” (Susannah Herbert, director of the Forward Arts Foundation The Guardian 21/1/19) I'll buy that.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/14/2020 9:31:00 AM

Very true Gary

Gary Radice
Date: 3/13/2020 7:18:00 AM

I must add that despite poetry publishing experiencing a UK boom in sales during 2018, it was still small fry in terms of ££s. As one journalist put it: "..it’s rather like supermarkets saying: 'Hooray, we sold more pomegranates than ever this year!'.. Good for those of us who like pomegranates, and for those who grow pomegranates, but completely irrelevant to the many who always bypass the exotic fruit section in a supermarket"

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 3:39:00 PM

Impossible to argue Gary.

Charlotte
Puddifoot

Date: 3/12/2020 7:19:00 AM

i think poetry is a minority interest (that's true of most things i suppose) but because we like it ourselves we tend to assume everyone else does too lol as writers we think we have things to say that everybody else wants/needs to hear (a bit like politicians really), we like the sound of our own voices but on paper lol :)

Daniel Turner
Date: 3/12/2020 11:34:00 AM

I believe, you stand a better chance of someone stumbling across your poem on the internet than you would selling a book. I also think people who do read poems prefer short poems. Most people's attention span is not very long, especially when it comes to poetry. When they hear the word poetry, they envision sitting in an English class with some teacher forcing Macbeth down their throat. They do not know modern poetry is different.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/12/2020 7:56:00 AM

Interesting analogy Charlotte, which brings a funny thought into play relative to our own voices. Just picturing singing alone in the house (no matter our talent) because it's fun and even more so in the shower where we "sound" better, yet writing poetry in the shower would be rather messy - though I haven't yet tried lol...

Connie
Pachecho

Date: 3/11/2020 6:23:00 PM

The newborn pup that I brought home, and into my heart some years back was poetry. He was wide eyed, curious and wild always nipping at passerby's pant legs. But I loved him. Nurtured him. Slept with him. Gave him treats often. In the ensuing years I watched him grow. And even on his best haircut and shampoo day he was far from best in show. But in my eyes he was. This is the importance of what I take away from poetry-the self satisfaction of watching the pup grow into a beautiful dog that I adore.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/11/2020 6:32:00 PM

Tears here Connie as we lost our long time friend Sherman in October--the little Doxie we adopted--best move we ever made and I think we'll go back to the well again---the house is empty when we arrive---the poems are part of life as well for those of us that write them---it's our home, it's our pets, it's our poems.

Brian
Strand

Date: 3/11/2020 6:01:00 PM

Craig,For 80%,of my life poetry was a no-no,then suddenly it satisfied an inner need(still does)..so it is important to me.Happily I found PS in 2007 and some 'like-minds'.I was no longer alone .PTL

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/11/2020 7:54:00 PM

Not only that but you've contributed at least two worthy new forms I'm aware of that others can write to - that's special stuff.

Daniel
Turner

Date: 3/11/2020 2:26:00 PM

I believe you are correct. I can't ever remember a book of poetry being on the Times best seller list. On this site, even the poets rarely read anymore. This once was a thriving community of excellent and supportive poets. It is amazing how egos can consume and destroy such a vibrant community. People need to get over themselves. None of us do this for a living and if you do, I'll bet you are not wealthy from it. That ought to tell you something.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/11/2020 3:52:00 PM

I think for the most part it still is Daniel, there were past storms/misunderstandings/understandings etc. Some of the most valued relationships are born - egos are fragile and temperamental especially among creative souls---yet I stray from the subject matter.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/11/2020 3:43:00 PM

And I know these comments are coming from people that love it anyway and will continue because it's their passion and that is the value---I think if my Mom or Dad or Grandparents had written that I would sit down and read them all to better understand them and appreciate their passion as well---but perhaps that's because I write?

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/11/2020 3:35:00 PM

Most don't read poetry anymore in any form really. I think some put poetry books on the bookcase to appear more scholarly. last summer we rented a cabin on the ocean and there were poetry books scattered about so I wrote a couple poems to leave for her (not ambiguous ones) about the ocean etc, she admitted to me later that she really didn't read the books but were given by friends who thought she did and thanked me for those I gave her. There are some though that love and understand them - sometimes it is someone I never expected to. Many don't talk about it I think because they think it would be perceived as weird?

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