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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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from an ex-english major

i switched out of the english major after 1 year, but i used to be super into reading and writing poetry for most of my teenage years i am by no means an authority on this, but genuinely, i think it’s just about finding what you personally like. there are so many different styles of poetry and some might connect with you while others don’t. i don’t think that makes any style objectively bad, it‘s just about what triggers an emotional response for you! and that might change at different stages of your life. for example, for a few seasons when i was an incredibly moody and pretentious teenager, i loved charles bukowski. now his stuff does not connect with me at all! and that’s ok! it was still important to me at the time, and i can appreciate that regardless of how i feel now tldr; i just think poetry is so subjective and it’s just about what makes you feel emotionally invested at any given time :) … except for the rupi kaur brand of poetry, that’s just bad

@segronich

Mar 31, 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

Top Recs from @meangreenalienmachine

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dyeing and re-dyeing my hair

for ages i'd been terrified to do anything out of the ordinary with my appearance - middle school is a rough experience for everyone, i think, and i got the REALLY short end of the stick. but people mature, slowly start to care less about how others choose to express themselves, start to treat others as real people. and now i have friends that love my neon, glow-under-uv-light, radioactive, eye-burningly green hair ^_^ and i love it too !

@meangreenalienmachine

Feb 17, 2025

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the satisfaction of finding a solution

i have been coding for the past 3ish(?) hours trying to get my textboxes to align on a page the way i was imagining it. it was the most tedious thing i'd ever done - back and fourth, running the code and then checking the css file to see where i could fix stuff, trial and error and trial again. i'm surprised i didn't give up, but my brain wasn't gonna let me do anything else until i fixed it. and so i did. i adore web design because it's one of the most gratifying hobbies i've picked up - it's so easy to want to bash your head into the wall after the 43rd try, but it's fulfilling and so rewarding when you finally get it right.

@meangreenalienmachine

Feb 2, 2025

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wasp rave - mailpup

or anything fast, loud, n electronic

@meangreenalienmachine

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