A recent article in The New York Times, cleverly titled “Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral,” highlights a bevy of young writers who use Instagram, Tumblr and other outlets to garner audiences for their creative pursuit of choice: the once-thought-dead art of poetry. The group, which includes an Internet-famous writer who outsells Louise Glück in spite of having no critical acclaim, is described as, “a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal...
A recent article in The New York Times, cleverly titled “Web Poets’ Society: New Breed Succeeds in Taking Verse Viral,” highlights a bevy of young writers who use Instagram, Tumblr and other outlets to garner audiences for their creative pursuit of choice: the once-thought-dead art of poetry. The group, which includes an Internet-famous writer who outsells Louise Glück in spite of having no critical acclaim, is described as, “a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal...
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