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so does poetry even exist anymore?

I mean more directly, is poetry dead?

I have had this conversation with friends and poets alike
and have come up with a million different answer each time

maybe its just the whole idea of spoken poetry bothers me

I mean it all sounds either really drab, half-assed beat rip off, or
some amalgamation of new age hip hop, lesbian riot cheer,
or part time stand up comedian.

the reason I bring this all up is that I went to go see
a good friend of mine read some poetry on sunday night
and had a really weird displaced feeling from the whole art.
(could have been the night)

thankfully her poetry is actually really good and you can read it here
but she writes things with some emphasis on relating
to some classic themes as well as experiences of recent times
she's also a similar age to me and I think that makes it is a little easier to relate
to some of her topics .

but to listen to a 50 year old woman tell me about swooning some
cary grant look alike, it just doesn't do it for me
and it may do something down on print but in performance it
doesn't do anything

how did people sit through the classic beat generation poetry sessions
without losing it after the 3rd poem?
maybe I just have a bad case of ADD but I can only take so much
at a time, its kinda like classical music sitting in one place, not talking
it just makes it really hard to enjoy something.

I mean I really love poetry and don't think it is dead(yet?)
but do think it needs something.
what that is, I don't know, but it definitely does

I guess that doesn't really offer up a whole boatload of help
but thought it an interesting topic and would like to hear people's opinions

it also reminds me of how blues(already dead),jazz, painting, and photography
are all pretty much dead as well.

I mean you get to a point where you try to reinvent an art form that
you end up getting right back where you started a million years ago
like painting where you get to the point where you
paint nothing and then 20 years later people start painting in some classical
style that has already been painted how does anything progress

does art have a difinitive ending in some mediums?

"...hold on voltaire "