I Often Wonder

 

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what I am doing wrong (poetically)?

I write from the heart and post my best –
then notice how other blogs get lots of likes for seeming tripe…

Do I have to feed TwitFace and offer a FaceGram share?
Did I neglect to check the box on some vapid social media setting?

What the holy lyrical hell has blogging come to?
Is asking fellow word-addicts to READ what I write too much?

It only confirms my suspicion that CONTENT has taken a reluctant back seat to insta-digestibility.

Please advise.

 

Just Get the Poems Out There

One of the healthiest elements about poetry blogging is how poetry blogland more accurately mirrors the nature of Poetry than has traditional canon-making poetic machinery. There have always been more poets and poems than those marble-ized in Norton anthologies, “best of” anthologies, et al. . . .
There is no center—or there are many centers—in poetry.

read more by Shanna Compton @ poetryfoundation.org

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