Eminem - Rapper Max Headroom - Hacker Limericks - Irish Poem 5 lines Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and have 8 syllables Lines 3 and 4 rhyme and have 6 syllables Thought to have originated in Ireland. Often humorous. Haiku - Japanese Nature Poems
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Poetry Slam 7:40 Maya Angelou (former national poet laureate) - The Power of Words Dan McWhorter - The Daily Beast - 6/28/14 Poet and I Know It - Americans Have Never Loved Poetry More—But They Call It Rap Poetry is no longer something we curl up to with a cup of tea. Instead, we take it in through earbuds. And America has never loved it more.One hears a certain baleful cry regularly in writerly circles that Americans don’t care about poetry anymore. A widely read Atlantic piece by Dana Gioia in 1992 was a signature statement. Granted, that was a while ago now, but times don’t seem to have changed much: Comments in the wake of Charles Wright’s anointment last week as America’s poet laureate kept the lamentation going. The drill goes that back in the day, kids recited Longfellow in school, but today poets are a tiny guild writing largely for one another. Americans, anti-intellectual and numb to the artistic as always, have become a people deaf to heightened renditions of their language. It sounds right. I myself a long time ago even threw my hat in on the subject. But the whole notion is, in fact, nonsense. NEW POET LAUREATE |
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