What Does it Mean to Be a Poet? (and why today’s poetry is so awful)
Erik Rittenberry Medium | Dec 29, 2024 Contemporary society is overrun with self-proclaimed “poets” who relish in the title yet produce very little poetic fire. Much of what parades as poetry these days reeks of self-pitying confessions dressed up in the garb of “artistic expression.” It fixates on the temporal and panders to the superficial […]