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'''Progressive poetry''', alternatively known as “woke” poetry or postmodern poetry, is a leftist development within modern [[poetry]] that promotes [[racism]], [[misandry]], selfishness, ignorance, and the [[Seven Deadly Sins]]—particularly [[pride]] and wrath. These practices are justified through the lenses of radical ideologies such as [[critical race theory]], [[Marxism]], queer theory, [[feminism]], post-colonialism, the [[fat acceptance movement]], and other liberal “isms.” As a body of writing that is often confused with real literature, it results in the harmful indoctrination of youth<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/04/07/children-forced-to-write-anti-britain-poems-by-woke-national-trust/</ref> and ensures that the adults who read it will retain a low literacy level.<ref>https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</ref>

'''Progressive poetry''', alternatively known as “woke” poetry or postmodern poetry, is a leftist development within modern [[poetry]] that promotes [[racism]], [[misandry]], selfishness, ignorance, and the [[Seven Deadly Sins]]—particularly [[pride]] and wrath. These practices are justified through the lenses of radical ideologies such as [[critical race theory]], [[Marxism]], queer theory, [[feminism]], post-colonialism, the [[fat acceptance movement]], and other liberal “isms.” As a body of writing that is often confused with real literature, it results in the harmful indoctrination of youth<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/04/07/children-forced-to-write-anti-britain-poems-by-woke-national-trust/</ref> and ensures that the adults who read it will retain a low literacy level.<ref>https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</ref>

Writers of progressive poetry tend to write in free verse and employ a style of extreme minimalism that is characterized by a lack of form, a small lexicon, and a narrow range of rhetorical devices that are unskillfully deployed when used. Due to this their work shares numerous features in common with poetry written by schoolchildren, with the difference that examples in the latter category are judged as superior by the more rigorous poetic standards that were dominant from the beginning of written history (as exemplified by the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]]) to the early 20th century.<ref>https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/children/by-kids/</ref>  

Practitioners of progressive poetry tend to write in free verse, adhering to a style of extreme minimalism characterized by a small lexicon and a narrow range of rhetorical devices that are unskillfully deployed when used. Due to this their work shares numerous features in common with poetry written by schoolchildren, with the difference that examples in the latter category are judged as superior by the more rigorous poetic standards that were dominant from the beginning of written history (as exemplified by the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]]) to the early 20th century.<ref>https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/children/by-kids/</ref>  

Although in the past such “poetry” would be dismissed as doggerel, it is now widely praised by corrupt liberal institutions, venal politicians, and publications that were once venerable bastions of critical judgment.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/20/style/an-afternoon-with-maya-angelou-a-wordsmith-at-her-inaugural-anvil.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7OjD4vSp8wIV_m5vBB3W9gklEAMYASAAEgI32PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds</ref> Despite the detrimental effect this poetry has on the human mind, body, and soul, it has grown to be synonymous with most verse being written in the early 21st century,<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/do-we-really-need-more-political-poetry/</ref> which has resulted in fewer and fewer people reading poetry than ever before.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>  

Although in the past such “poetry” would be dismissed as doggerel, it is now widely praised by corrupt liberal institutions, venal politicians, and publications that were once venerable bastions of critical judgment.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/20/style/an-afternoon-with-maya-angelou-a-wordsmith-at-her-inaugural-anvil.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7OjD4vSp8wIV_m5vBB3W9gklEAMYASAAEgI32PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds</ref> Despite the detrimental effect this poetry has on the human mind, body, and soul, it has grown to be synonymous with most verse being written in the early 21st century,<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/do-we-really-need-more-political-poetry/</ref> which has resulted in fewer and fewer people reading poetry than ever before.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>