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explore!

and don’t feel pressured to enjoy everything contemporary or all the classics or what’s popular or what we’re taught in school. there’s truly no right or wrong way to enjoy poetry—but not everything appeals to/resonates with everyone so if ur feeling like ur bored or not “getting it” that might be an invitation to try a different style! like i didn’t really like ocean vuong’s time is a mother, but i love richard siken’s crush. i love mary oliver, lucille clifton, and frank o’hara; but i don’t like ts eliot, emily dickinson, and allen ginsberg. there are no rules and there are plenty of kinds of poetry to explore! you maybe just haven’t found what you like yet. i also suggest finding accounts on other social media that post poetry and/or sign up for poetry fdn’s “poem of the day” emails. and when you find a poem you enjoy, check out that poet’s collection(s) at the library and read through them! :)

@marxinista

Jul 4, 2024

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Read poems out loud

Poetry is often short and so we just skim over it and are left underwhelmed. Sometimes we need to make ourselves hear and feel it more, I find that reading the poem out loud really helps with this! Also maybe try to find videos of poets reading their own poems. (I’ve attached a Mary Oliver reading, I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like Mary Oliver haha) Also remember that “poetry” is such a huge and nebulous literary form and that you may well dislike a lot of it (I detest so much poetry that I find it a little embarrassing as a poet). Just because you don’t like a poem, or a hell of a lot of poems, doesn’t mean you don’t like poetry, you’ve just not found the poems you like. If you find one poem that you like, find more from that same poet. If you like a poet, look at who their fans like, or who the poet has cited as inspiration. You’re allowed to find lines you love but not like other lines in the same poem. It’s all worth it when you find one line that hits right through you. “you do not have to be good…you just have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”.

@mouse

Apr 1, 2024

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poetry

This is the greatest love of my life (and, in a sense, my career given my future MFA career, stay tuned), but you really should read more poetry in general. It's fantastic. okay yes "Instagram poetry" is en vogue hot garvage and frankly, makes me sick to my stomach, but poetry as an art form which contains and focuses experience, emotion, and attention, is one of the most profound things (ideally) we continue to produce. Poetry is, in a sense, something which moves towards a potentiality of art and writing in general in a current moment where it seems almost lacking. What, then, can we do as poets or writers?

@joepeters

Feb 24, 2024

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persisting

im still going!

@segronich

Mar 22, 2024

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taking up space

i keep finding myself feeling embarrassed when i post a lot on this app, but im having fun!!! and the genuineness of humans in this weird little online community is filling such a void in me that began to stop believing that people really are Good and Kind. in other words, i’m grateful for everyone here and i’m going to keep flooding this silly little app with my silly little words

@segronich

Feb 20, 2024

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listening to your old playlists

this does sound like spring 2022!

@segronich

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