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I’ve seen it time and again from magazines and quarterlies. We don’t take poetry, please don’t send us your poems. Dear god, but we hate poems and if you send us one we’ll track you down and slash your tires. They’re maligned in movies, lampooned in sketches, and satirized in audio fiction. Poems are the whipping boy for most of the creative writing world. They’re the kids standing off in the corner smoking while everybody else dances, and I don’t think that’s fair.
So over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to try to convince you to go talk to those crazy misanthropes, ’cause you might find they have some interesting things to say.
Now before you unfollow me, I’d like to assure you that I will be covering other topics unrelated to poetry, so if rhyme and meter really turn your stomach, there will be other things to read. However, I do intend to focus primarily on poetry for a while.
Ready?
The reason people say they don’t like poetry is modern poetry, poetry in name only, without rhyme and rhythm – prose arranged in verses.
I’m getting to that.
Why do you feel that poetry isn’t complete without rhyme and meter?
Because it simply becomes prose without the distinguishing marks of poetry.
Which I think include but are not limited to rhyme and meter. I’ll go into that in greater depth in a later post.