![]() ![]() You just have to make yourself known to them. Your people, your readers, are out there. Whether you write traditional poetry or lean more toward Ginsberg or Bukowski, you may have considered starting a poetry blog. ![]() It survives because poetry still has the ability to move us in ways that Buzzfeed or Facebook never will. Yet, the written word survives and thrives in the face of overwhelming change. Most of the ink-on-paper poetry magazines of the 20th century disappeared with the rise of the internet. But a poetry blog would be no less a marvel to an early 20th-century poet than an ancient Egyptian.Īll of this is to say that technology and society have changed quickly and dramatically during our lifetimes. Contemporary poetry, the kind you may write, has a much more recent history. Egyptians built pyramids and wrote poetry, but it’s hard to imagine what they might make of a modern poetry blog. People have been writing poetry for thousands of years. ![]()
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