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Poet laureate

2021-10-08T02:38:59Z

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A '''poet laureate''' is a title of honor conferred upon poets of merit, usually ones who are recognized as the most gifted poets of their time and place. In modern times it has become an office that requires the poet to organize public programs and perform verse for special occasions.

=Origins=

The office of Poet Laureate, as a bureaucratic position with certain public duties attached, is a product of modern times and did not exist in antiquity. As a custom of honor, however, it has a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Greek practice of bestowing a laurel wreath on poets and athletes. The bay laurel (''Laurus nobilis'') traditionally used for this observance is called ''daphne'' in Greek, a reference to the myth of Apollo and Daphne in which a nymph is transformed into a laurel tree.<ref>''The Greek Myths: Part 1'', by Robert Graves. 1955. p. 21</ref> The laurel is one of the symbols of Apollo, as it is said he made wreaths from this tree to allay the grief he suffered over his lost love.<ref>https://everything.explained.today/Laurus_nobilis/#Ref-18</ref>

==Virgil==
Although [[Virgil]] was never officially given the title of poet laureate, his name is closely associated with the [[Roman]] state due to his patriotic pastoral verse and his epic ''The Aeneid''. As a friend and supporter of the young [[Octavian]], Virgil praised the ascendant politician in his ''Eclogues'' by referencing “Jove’s ordering power, the reforming voice of Jove’s new progeny, and the allegory of divine Julius as a herdsman-god eternally guarding pastures and farms.” <ref>''Virgil’s Book of Bucolics: The Ten Eclogues'', by John Van Sickle. p. 33.</ref> According to John Van Sickle, Virgil became “the vatic voice of a new order,” and as Octavius’s faction rose to power, the poet was hailed as a prophet of “almost legendary status.” <ref>ibid.</ref> [[Tacitus]] relates an anecdote in which a crowd, after hearing the ''Eclogues'' recited in the public theatre, rose to applaud Virgil, “with a degree of veneration nothing short of what they usually offered to the emperor.” <ref>''Dialogue Concerning Oratory'', by Tacitus. “Dialogue XIII.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15017/15017-h/15017-h.htm</ref> Virgil amassed a large fortune of “nearly ten million sesterces” as a result of royal patronage, writes [[Suetonius]], and when visiting Rome he would be forced to “take refuge in the nearest house” from admiring mobs who would follow and point at him.<ref>''The Life of Virgil'', by Suetonius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html</ref> No poet before or since has ever achieved such success or public acclaim.

=Notable recipients=

==Petrarch==

In 1315, the dramatist Albertino Mussato became the first person since antiquity to be crowned with a laurel wreath. [[Francesco Petrarch]], however, is more famous for reviving the practice of conferring laureateship. For his epic poem ''Africa'', which took as its subject the Roman general Scipio Africanus, he was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome on Easter Sunday in 1341, surrounded by senators and Robert II, King of Naples and Sicily. During the ceremony Petrarch delivered an oration entitled the ''Collatio laureationis'' (''Coronation Oration''), quoting Latin authors to support his argument that poetry plays an important role in mediating between the past and the present. Petrarch imagined the ancient polis revived under a unified Christian Republic, embodied by the Holy Roman Empire. According to scholar Dennis Looney, “Inspired by Cicero, his restoration of the obsolete civic ritual of recognizing a victor’s excellence by crowning him with a laurel wreath was nothing less than an attempt to restore the values of classical Rome and to place the poet at the center of a new Roman civic and political life.”<ref>"The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory,” by Dennis Looney. ''Petrarch: A Complete Guide to the Complete Works.'' P. 133.</ref> This oration has been called the “first manifesto of the Renaissance,” and some scholars have pinpointed the moment of Petrarch’s crowning as marking the transition out of the Middle Ages towards the beginning of a new era.<ref>“Petrarch’s Coronation Oration,” by Ernest Hatch Wilkins. PMLA 68 (1951): 1242-50. Reprint, ''Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch'', p. 300.</ref>

==Tasso, “King of Poets”==

In 1594, Pope Clement VIII invited the Italian poet Torquato Tasso to Rome. In recognition of the international renown he had gained for his epic poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (''The Liberation of Jerusalem''), he was to receive a crown of bays on the Capitoline Hill, as Petrarch had two-and-a-half centuries before, and to assume the title “King of Poets.” Just a few days before this ceremony was to occur, Tasso died on 25 April 1595, leaving this honor unfulfilled.<ref> Article: “Torquato Tasso,” from the 1911 ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Tasso,_Torquato</ref> Since this time, no other poet has been named a candidate for this title.

==Dryden==
Although bestowing the title of “poet laureate” on court poets and according them stipends was a long tradition in England, having been granted to such figures as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, the official position was not created until 1668.<ref>“Who was the first Poet Laureate?” https://poetrysociety.org.uk/question/who-was-the-first-poet-laureate/</ref> [[Charles II]] appointed [[John Dryden]] to this post, and he received a salary of “one hundred pounds a year and a tierce of wine.” <ref>"The Life of Dryden,” by Samuel Johnson. https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/johnsons/lives/playrite.htm</ref> Scholar Richard Garnett, in ''The Age of Dryden'', noting that poets are often in the forefront of intellectual revolutions, sums up Dryden’s contributions to the Restoration era in which he lived and flourished by describing him as “the foremost writer of his country in his own day.” Garnett cites Dryden’s “great and versatile” powers in the fields of lyric poetry, drama, and criticism, and praises his “ample endowment” of “divine insanity without which, as Plato truly says, no one can be a poet.” <ref>''The Age of Dryden'', by Richard Garnett. p.39 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm</ref> Dryden remained Poet Laureate until 1688, when he fell out of royal favor for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary following the [[Glorious Revolution]]. It was Dryden’s successor Thomas Shadwell who began the custom of presenting official verses on special occasions.

==Tennyson==
Alfred [[Tennyson]], 1st Baron Tennyson, was named Poet Laureate following the death of [[William Wordsworth]]. His most famous works include patriotic poems like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and reflect on the role of empire through his treatment of mythological heroes such as [[King Arthur]] and [[Ulysses]]. According to W.J. Long, Tennyson was “the voice of a whole people,” the representative man of the Victorian era who expressed the nation’s spirit and occupied “the summit of poetry in England” during his lifetime.<ref>''English Literature'', by W.J. Long. p. 457.</ref> Tennyson—the only man to ever be raised to the peerage on the basis of his poetry alone—held this position for 42 years (1850-1892), the longest incumbency of any Poet Laureate.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson</ref> In the twentieth century, British poet John Masefield occupied the post for 37 years. <ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-masefield</ref>

=Modern office holders=
The Poet Laureate position became subject to a democratizing process in the 20th century. Instead of granting the title to a single towering figure who encapsulates an age, incumbents of the office today hold annual, rather than lifetime, appointments. In addition, the liberal bias inherent in social institutions has ensured that the office has become a revolving door system characterized by mediocrity and colonized by forgettable non-entities.<ref>https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-history/</ref>

In the United States, the Librarian of Congress selects the Poet Laureate. The current Librarian, Carla Hayden, has appointed poets largely on the basis of their ethnic background and social activism since her term began in 2016.<ref>An interview with Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/11/breaking-new-ground-dr-carla-hayden-and-tracy-k-smith-ep-265</ref>

While the works of previous poet laureates described here contain epic dimensions, grand themes, noble subjects, and an elevated style, recent incumbents focus on less lofty ideals. Their work may be characterized as belonging to the [[Progressive Poetry]] movement, a species of proletarian literature that involves celebrating cultural factionalism and highlighting the victimization of “oppressed” populations that, comparatively speaking, enjoy a higher standard of living than developing nations or any society that existed prior to their own.<ref>Proletarian literature defined: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0130.xml</ref>

==Joy Harjo==
Joy Harjo is widely believed to be a real poet.<ref>A “poem” by Joy Harjo: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92063/an-american-sunrise</ref> Based on this belief, she was appointed to the position of United States Poet Laureate in 2019, and is currently serving her third term. According to the Library of Congress, she is “the first Native American poet to serve in the position.”<ref>The Library of Liars: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/</ref> However, as A.M. Juster explained in an article for the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', the first Native American to hold this position was actually William Jay Smith (1968-1970), a poet of European and Choctaw ancestry whose book, ''The Cherokee Lottery'', “brought the epic tragedy of ‘The Trail of Tears’ from shameful obscurity into our national consciousness.” <ref> “The Library of Congress Disrespects a Poet Laureate,” by A.M. Juster. https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref> When Juster contacted the Library of Congress to clarify this fact, he was informed by its communications office that it “did not consider Smith to be a Native American.” To this day, Joy Harjo and the Library of Congress have yet to acknowledge Smith’s proven legacy.

=References=
{{reflist}}

=See also=
[[Poetry]]

[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

=External links=
[https://classicalpoets.org/2018/12/01/ms-hayden-on-your-selection-of-our-next-poet-laureate-and-other-poetry-by-joe-tessitore/ ‘Ms. Hayden, On Your Selection of Our Next Poet Laureate’], a poem by Joe Tessitore

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Progressive Poetry

2021-10-08T02:25:55Z

ABBrown: added internal link

'''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>''Children Forced to Write Anti-Britain Poems by Woke National Trust.'' 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> ''What's the Latest US Literacy Rate?'' https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</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>Some poems by kids that are better than anything written by award-winning leftist poets: 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>''An Afternoon with Maya Angelou; A Wordsmith at her Ingaugural Anvil'' 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>''Do We Really Need More Political Poetry?'' 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>''Poetry is Going Extinct, Government Data Shows'' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''ressentiment'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>NPR's hyperbolic celebration of six of the worst poets in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are appointed to the position of [[poet laureate]],<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

==External links==
[https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/ The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition], an essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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Poet laureate

2021-10-08T02:08:04Z

ABBrown: updated external link

A '''poet laureate''' is a title of honor conferred upon poets of merit, usually ones who are recognized as the most gifted poets of their time and place. In modern times it has become an office that requires the poet to organize public programs and perform verse for special occasions.

=Origins=

The office of Poet Laureate, as a bureaucratic position with certain public duties attached, is a product of modern times and did not exist in antiquity. As a custom of honor, however, it has a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Greek practice of bestowing a laurel wreath on poets and athletes. The bay laurel (''Laurus nobilis'') traditionally used for this observance is called ''daphne'' in Greek, a reference to the myth of Apollo and Daphne in which a nymph is transformed into a laurel tree.<ref>''The Greek Myths: Part 1'', by Robert Graves. 1955. p. 21</ref> The laurel is one of the symbols of Apollo, as it is said he made wreaths from this tree to allay the grief he suffered over his lost love.<ref>https://everything.explained.today/Laurus_nobilis/#Ref-18</ref>

==Virgil==
Although [[Virgil]] was never officially given the title of poet laureate, his name is closely associated with the [[Roman]] state due to his patriotic pastoral verse and his epic ''The Aeneid''. As a friend and supporter of the young [[Octavian]], Virgil praised the ascendant politician in his ''Eclogues'' by referencing “Jove’s ordering power, the reforming voice of Jove’s new progeny, and the allegory of divine Julius as a herdsman-god eternally guarding pastures and farms.” <ref>''Virgil’s Book of Bucolics: The Ten Eclogues'', by John Van Sickle. p. 33.</ref> According to John Van Sickle, Virgil became “the vatic voice of a new order,” and as Octavius’s faction rose to power, the poet was hailed as a prophet of “almost legendary status.” <ref>ibid.</ref> [[Tacitus]] relates an anecdote in which a crowd, after hearing the ''Eclogues'' recited in the public theatre, rose to applaud Virgil, “with a degree of veneration nothing short of what they usually offered to the emperor.” <ref>''Dialogue Concerning Oratory'', by Tacitus. “Dialogue XIII.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15017/15017-h/15017-h.htm</ref> Virgil amassed a large fortune of “nearly ten million sesterces” as a result of royal patronage, writes [[Suetonius]], and when visiting Rome he would be forced to “take refuge in the nearest house” from admiring mobs who would follow and point at him.<ref>''The Life of Virgil'', by Suetonius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html</ref> No poet before or since has ever achieved such success or public acclaim.

=Notable recipients=

==Petrarch==

In 1315, the dramatist Albertino Mussato became the first person since antiquity to be crowned with a laurel wreath. [[Francesco Petrarch]], however, is more famous for reviving the practice of conferring laureateship. For his epic poem ''Africa'', which took as its subject the Roman general Scipio Africanus, he was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome on Easter Sunday in 1341, surrounded by senators and Robert II, King of Naples and Sicily. During the ceremony Petrarch delivered an oration entitled the ''Collatio laureationis'' (''Coronation Oration''), quoting Latin authors to support his argument that poetry plays an important role in mediating between the past and the present. Petrarch imagined the ancient polis revived under a unified Christian Republic, embodied by the Holy Roman Empire. According to scholar Dennis Looney, “Inspired by Cicero, his restoration of the obsolete civic ritual of recognizing a victor’s excellence by crowning him with a laurel wreath was nothing less than an attempt to restore the values of classical Rome and to place the poet at the center of a new Roman civic and political life.”<ref>"The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory,” by Dennis Looney. ''Petrarch: A Complete Guide to the Complete Works.'' P. 133.</ref> This oration has been called the “first manifesto of the Renaissance,” and some scholars have pinpointed the moment of Petrarch’s crowning as marking the transition out of the Middle Ages towards the beginning of a new era.<ref>“Petrarch’s Coronation Oration,” by Ernest Hatch Wilkins. PMLA 68 (1951): 1242-50. Reprint, ''Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch'', p. 300.</ref>

==Tasso, “King of Poets”==

In 1594, Pope Clement VIII invited the Italian poet Torquato Tasso to Rome. In recognition of the international renown he had gained for his epic poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (''The Liberation of Jerusalem''), he was to receive a crown of bays on the Capitoline Hill, as Petrarch had two-and-a-half centuries before, and to assume the title “King of Poets.” Just a few days before this ceremony was to occur, Tasso died on 25 April 1595, leaving this honor unfulfilled.<ref> Article: “Torquato Tasso,” from the 1911 ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Tasso,_Torquato</ref> Since this time, no other poet has been named a candidate for this title.

==Dryden==
Although bestowing the title of “poet laureate” on court poets and according them stipends was a long tradition in England, having been granted to such figures as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, the official position was not created until 1668.<ref>“Who was the first Poet Laureate?” https://poetrysociety.org.uk/question/who-was-the-first-poet-laureate/</ref> [[Charles II]] appointed [[John Dryden]] to this post, and he received a salary of “one hundred pounds a year and a tierce of wine.”<ref>"The Life of Dryden,” by Samuel Johnson. https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/johnsons/lives/playrite.htm</ref> Scholar Richard Garnett, in ''The Age of Dryden'', noting the poets are often in the forefront of intellectual revolutions, sums up Dryden’s contributions to the Restoration era in which he lived and flourished by describing him as “the foremost writer of his country in his own day.” Garnett cites Dryden’s “great and versatile” powers in the fields of lyric poetry, drama, and criticism, and praises his “ample endowment” of “divine insanity without which, as Plato truly says, no one can be a poet.”<ref>''The Age of Dryden'', by Richard Garnett. p.39 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm</ref> Dryden remained Poet Laureate until 1688, when he fell out of royal favor for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary following the [[Glorious Revolution]]. It was Dryden’s successor Thomas Shadwell who began the custom of presenting official verses on special occasions.

==Tennyson==
Alfred [[Tennyson]], 1st Baron Tennyson, was named Poet Laureate following the death of [[William Wordsworth]]. His most famous works include patriotic poems like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and reflect on the role of empire through his treatment of mythological heroes such as [[King Arthur]] and [[Ulysses]]. According to W.J. Long, Tennyson was “the voice of a whole people,” the representative man of the Victorian age who expressed the nation’s spirit and occupied “the summit of poetry in England” during his lifetime.<ref>''English Literature'', by W.J. Long. p. 457.</ref> Tennyson—the only man to ever be raised to the peerage on the basis of his poetry alone—held this position for 42 years (1850-1892), the longest incumbency of any Poet Laureate.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson</ref> In the twentieth century, British poet John Masefield occupied the post for 37 years. <ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-masefield</ref>

=Modern office holders=
The Poet Laureate position became subject to a democratizing process in the 20th century. Instead of granting the title to a single towering figure who encapsulates an age, incumbents of the office today hold annual, rather than lifetime, appointments. In addition, the liberal bias inherent in social institutions has ensured that the office has become a revolving door system characterized by mediocrity and colonized by forgettable non-entities.<ref>https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-history/</ref>

In the United States, the Librarian of Congress selects the Poet Laureate. The current Librarian, Carla Hayden, has appointed poets largely on the basis of their ethnic background and social activism since her term began in 2016.<ref>An interview with Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/11/breaking-new-ground-dr-carla-hayden-and-tracy-k-smith-ep-265</ref>

While the works of previous poet laureates described here contain epic dimensions, grand themes, noble subjects, and an elevated style, recent incumbents focus on less lofty ideals. Their work may be characterized as belonging to the [[Progressive Poetry]] movement, a species of proletarian literature that involves celebrating cultural factionalism and highlighting the victimization of “oppressed” populations that, comparatively speaking, enjoy a higher standard of living than developing nations or any society that existed prior to their own.<ref>Proletarian literature defined: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0130.xml</ref>

==Joy Harjo==
Joy Harjo is widely believed to be a real poet.<ref>A “poem” by Joy Harjo: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92063/an-american-sunrise</ref> Based on this belief, she was appointed to the position of United States Poet Laureate in 2019, and is currently serving her third term. According to the Library of Congress, she is “the first Native American poet to serve in the position.”<ref>The Library of Liars: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/</ref> However, as A.M. Juster explained in an article for the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', the first Native American to hold this position was actually William Jay Smith (1968-1970), a poet of European and Choctaw ancestry whose book, ''The Cherokee Lottery'', “brought the epic tragedy of ‘The Trail of Tears’ from shameful obscurity into our national consciousness.” <ref> “The Library of Congress Disrespects a Poet Laureate,” by A.M. Juster. https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref> When Juster contacted the Library of Congress to clarify this fact, he was informed by its communications office that it “did not consider Smith to be a Native American.” To this day, Joy Harjo and the Library of Congress have yet to acknowledge Smith’s proven legacy.

=References=
{{reflist}}

=See also=
[[Poetry]]

[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

=External links=
[https://classicalpoets.org/2018/12/01/ms-hayden-on-your-selection-of-our-next-poet-laureate-and-other-poetry-by-joe-tessitore/ ‘Ms. Hayden, On Your Selection of Our Next Poet Laureate’], a poem by Joe Tessitore

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[[Category: Political Terms]]

Poet laureate

2021-10-08T02:02:41Z

ABBrown: grammar correction

A '''poet laureate''' is a title of honor conferred upon poets of merit, usually ones who are recognized as the most gifted poets of their time and place. In modern times it has become an office that requires the poet to organize public programs and perform verse for special occasions.

=Origins=

The office of Poet Laureate, as a bureaucratic position with certain public duties attached, is a product of modern times and did not exist in antiquity. As a custom of honor, however, it has a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Greek practice of bestowing a laurel wreath on poets and athletes. The bay laurel (''Laurus nobilis'') traditionally used for this observance is called ''daphne'' in Greek, a reference to the myth of Apollo and Daphne in which a nymph is transformed into a laurel tree.<ref>''The Greek Myths: Part 1'', by Robert Graves. 1955. p. 21</ref> The laurel is one of the symbols of Apollo, as it is said he made wreaths from this tree to allay the grief he suffered over his lost love.<ref>https://everything.explained.today/Laurus_nobilis/#Ref-18</ref>

==Virgil==
Although [[Virgil]] was never officially given the title of poet laureate, his name is closely associated with the [[Roman]] state due to his patriotic pastoral verse and his epic ''The Aeneid''. As a friend and supporter of the young [[Octavian]], Virgil praised the ascendant politician in his ''Eclogues'' by referencing “Jove’s ordering power, the reforming voice of Jove’s new progeny, and the allegory of divine Julius as a herdsman-god eternally guarding pastures and farms.” <ref>''Virgil’s Book of Bucolics: The Ten Eclogues'', by John Van Sickle. p. 33.</ref> According to John Van Sickle, Virgil became “the vatic voice of a new order,” and as Octavius’s faction rose to power, the poet was hailed as a prophet of “almost legendary status.” <ref>ibid.</ref> [[Tacitus]] relates an anecdote in which a crowd, after hearing the ''Eclogues'' recited in the public theatre, rose to applaud Virgil, “with a degree of veneration nothing short of what they usually offered to the emperor.” <ref>''Dialogue Concerning Oratory'', by Tacitus. “Dialogue XIII.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15017/15017-h/15017-h.htm</ref> Virgil amassed a large fortune of “nearly ten million sesterces” as a result of royal patronage, writes [[Suetonius]], and when visiting Rome he would be forced to “take refuge in the nearest house” from admiring mobs who would follow and point at him.<ref>''The Life of Virgil'', by Suetonius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html</ref> No poet before or since has ever achieved such success or public acclaim.

=Notable recipients=

==Petrarch==

In 1315, the dramatist Albertino Mussato became the first person since antiquity to be crowned with a laurel wreath. [[Francesco Petrarch]], however, is more famous for reviving the practice of conferring laureateship. For his epic poem ''Africa'', which took as its subject the Roman general Scipio Africanus, he was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome on Easter Sunday in 1341, surrounded by senators and Robert II, King of Naples and Sicily. During the ceremony Petrarch delivered an oration entitled the ''Collatio laureationis'' (''Coronation Oration''), quoting Latin authors to support his argument that poetry plays an important role in mediating between the past and the present. Petrarch imagined the ancient polis revived under a unified Christian Republic, embodied by the Holy Roman Empire. According to scholar Dennis Looney, “Inspired by Cicero, his restoration of the obsolete civic ritual of recognizing a victor’s excellence by crowning him with a laurel wreath was nothing less than an attempt to restore the values of classical Rome and to place the poet at the center of a new Roman civic and political life.”<ref>"The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory,” by Dennis Looney. ''Petrarch: A Complete Guide to the Complete Works.'' P. 133.</ref> This oration has been called the “first manifesto of the Renaissance,” and some scholars have pinpointed the moment of Petrarch’s crowning as marking the transition out of the Middle Ages towards the beginning of a new era.<ref>“Petrarch’s Coronation Oration,” by Ernest Hatch Wilkins. PMLA 68 (1951): 1242-50. Reprint, ''Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch'', p. 300.</ref>

==Tasso, “King of Poets”==

In 1594, Pope Clement VIII invited the Italian poet Torquato Tasso to Rome. In recognition of the international renown he had gained for his epic poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (''The Liberation of Jerusalem''), he was to receive a crown of bays on the Capitoline Hill, as Petrarch had two-and-a-half centuries before, and to assume the title “King of Poets.” Just a few days before this ceremony was to occur, Tasso died on 25 April 1595, leaving this honor unfulfilled.<ref> Article: “Torquato Tasso,” from the 1911 ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Tasso,_Torquato</ref> Since this time, no other poet has been named a candidate for this title.

==Dryden==
Although bestowing the title of “poet laureate” on court poets and according them stipends was a long tradition in England, having been granted to such figures as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, the official position was not created until 1668.<ref>“Who was the first Poet Laureate?” https://poetrysociety.org.uk/question/who-was-the-first-poet-laureate/</ref> [[Charles II]] appointed [[John Dryden]] to this post, and he received a salary of “one hundred pounds a year and a tierce of wine.”<ref>"The Life of Dryden,” by Samuel Johnson. https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/johnsons/lives/playrite.htm</ref> Scholar Richard Garnett, in ''The Age of Dryden'', noting the poets are often in the forefront of intellectual revolutions, sums up Dryden’s contributions to the Restoration era in which he lived and flourished by describing him as “the foremost writer of his country in his own day.” Garnett cites Dryden’s “great and versatile” powers in the fields of lyric poetry, drama, and criticism, and praises his “ample endowment” of “divine insanity without which, as Plato truly says, no one can be a poet.”<ref>''The Age of Dryden'', by Richard Garnett. p.39 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm</ref> Dryden remained Poet Laureate until 1688, when he fell out of royal favor for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary following the [[Glorious Revolution]]. It was Dryden’s successor Thomas Shadwell who began the custom of presenting official verses on special occasions.

==Tennyson==
Alfred [[Tennyson]], 1st Baron Tennyson, was named Poet Laureate following the death of [[William Wordsworth]]. His most famous works include patriotic poems like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and reflect on the role of empire through his treatment of mythological heroes such as [[King Arthur]] and [[Ulysses]]. According to W.J. Long, Tennyson was “the voice of a whole people,” the representative man of the Victorian age who expressed the nation’s spirit and occupied “the summit of poetry in England” during his lifetime.<ref>''English Literature'', by W.J. Long. p. 457.</ref> Tennyson—the only man to ever be raised to the peerage on the basis of his poetry alone—held this position for 42 years (1850-1892), the longest incumbency of any Poet Laureate.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson</ref> In the twentieth century, British poet John Masefield occupied the post for 37 years. <ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-masefield</ref>

=Modern office holders=
The Poet Laureate position became subject to a democratizing process in the 20th century. Instead of granting the title to a single towering figure who encapsulates an age, incumbents of the office today hold annual, rather than lifetime, appointments. In addition, the liberal bias inherent in social institutions has ensured that the office has become a revolving door system characterized by mediocrity and colonized by forgettable non-entities.<ref>https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-history/</ref>

In the United States, the Librarian of Congress selects the Poet Laureate. The current Librarian, Carla Hayden, has appointed poets largely on the basis of their ethnic background and social activism since her term began in 2016.<ref>An interview with Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/11/breaking-new-ground-dr-carla-hayden-and-tracy-k-smith-ep-265</ref>

While the works of previous poet laureates described here contain epic dimensions, grand themes, noble subjects, and an elevated style, recent incumbents focus on less lofty ideals. Their work may be characterized as belonging to the [[Progressive Poetry]] movement, a species of proletarian literature that involves celebrating cultural factionalism and highlighting the victimization of “oppressed” populations that, comparatively speaking, enjoy a higher standard of living than developing nations or any society that existed prior to their own.<ref>Proletarian literature defined: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0130.xml</ref>

==Joy Harjo==
Joy Harjo is widely believed to be a real poet.<ref>A “poem” by Joy Harjo: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92063/an-american-sunrise</ref> Based on this belief, she was appointed to the position of United States Poet Laureate in 2019, and is currently serving her third term. According to the Library of Congress, she is “the first Native American poet to serve in the position.”<ref>The Library of Liars: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/</ref> However, as A.M. Juster explained in an article for the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', the first Native American to hold this position was actually William Jay Smith (1968-1970), a poet of European and Choctaw ancestry whose book, ''The Cherokee Lottery'', “brought the epic tragedy of ‘The Trail of Tears’ from shameful obscurity into our national consciousness.” <ref> “The Library of Congress Disrespects a Poet Laureate,” by A.M. Juster. https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref> When Juster contacted the Library of Congress to clarify this fact, he was informed by its communications office that it “did not consider Smith to be a Native American.” To this day, Joy Harjo and the Library of Congress have yet to acknowledge Smith’s proven legacy.

=References=
{{reflist}}

=See also=
[[Poetry]]

[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

=External links=
[https://classicalpoets.org/2018/12/01/ms-hayden-on-your-selection-of-our-next-poet-laureate-and-other-poetry-by-joe-tessitore/ ‘Ms. Hayden, On Your Selection of Our Next Poet Laureate’]

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Political Terms]]

Poet laureate

2021-10-08T01:54:23Z

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A '''poet laureate''' is a title of honor conferred upon poets of merit, usually ones who are recognized as the most gifted poets of their time and place. In modern times it has become an office that requires the poet to organize public programs and perform verse for special occasions.

=Origins=

The office of Poet Laureate, as a bureaucratic position with certain public duties attached, is a product of modern times and did not exist in antiquity. As a custom of honor, however, it has a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Greek practice of bestowing a laurel wreath on poets and athletes. The bay laurel (''Laurus nobilis'') that is traditionally used for this practice is called ''daphne'', a reference to the myth of Apollo and Daphne in which a nymph is transformed into a laurel tree.<ref>''The Greek Myths: Part 1'', by Robert Graves. 1955. p. 21</ref> The laurel is one of the symbols of Apollo, as it is said he made wreaths from this tree to allay the grief he suffered over his lost love.<ref>https://everything.explained.today/Laurus_nobilis/#Ref-18</ref>

==Virgil==
Although [[Virgil]] was never officially given the title of poet laureate, his name is closely associated with the [[Roman]] state due to his patriotic pastoral verse and his epic ''The Aeneid''. As a friend and supporter of the young [[Octavian]], Virgil praised the ascendant politician in his ''Eclogues'' by referencing “Jove’s ordering power, the reforming voice of Jove’s new progeny, and the allegory of divine Julius as a herdsman-god eternally guarding pastures and farms.” <ref>''Virgil’s Book of Bucolics: The Ten Eclogues'', by John Van Sickle. p. 33.</ref> According to John Van Sickle, Virgil became “the vatic voice of a new order,” and as Octavius’s faction rose to power, the poet was hailed as a prophet of “almost legendary status.” <ref>ibid.</ref> [[Tacitus]] relates an anecdote in which a crowd, after hearing the ''Eclogues'' recited in the public theatre, rose to applaud Virgil, “with a degree of veneration nothing short of what they usually offered to the emperor.” <ref>''Dialogue Concerning Oratory'', by Tacitus. “Dialogue XIII.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15017/15017-h/15017-h.htm</ref> Virgil amassed a large fortune of “nearly ten million sesterces” as a result of royal patronage, writes [[Suetonius]], and when visiting Rome he would be forced to “take refuge in the nearest house” from mobs of admirers who would follow and point at him.<ref>''The Life of Virgil'', by Suetonius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html</ref> No poet before or since has ever garnered such wealth or public acclaim.

=Notable recipients=

==Petrarch==

In 1315, the dramatist Albertino Mussato became the first person since antiquity to be crowned with a laurel wreath. [[Francesco Petrarch]], however, is more famous for reviving the practice of conferring laureateship. For his epic poem ''Africa'', which took as its subject the Roman general Scipio Africanus, he was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome on Easter Sunday in 1341, surrounded by senators and Robert II, King of Naples and Sicily. During the ceremony Petrarch delivered an oration entitled the ''Collatio laureationis'' (''Coronation Oration''), quoting Latin authors to support his argument that poetry plays an important role in mediating between the past and the present. Petrarch imagined the ancient polis revived under a unified Christian Republic, embodied by the Holy Roman Empire. According to scholar Dennis Looney, “Inspired by Cicero, his restoration of the obsolete civic ritual of recognizing a victor’s excellence by crowning him with a laurel wreath was nothing less than an attempt to restore the values of classical Rome and to place the poet at the center of a new Roman civic and political life.”<ref>"The Beginnings of Humanistic Oratory,” by Dennis Looney. ''Petrarch: A Complete Guide to the Complete Works.'' P. 133.</ref> This oration has been called the “first manifesto of the Renaissance,” and some scholars have pinpointed the moment of Petrarch’s crowning as marking the transition out of the Middle Ages towards the beginning of a new era.<ref>“Petrarch’s Coronation Oration,” by Ernest Hatch Wilkins. PMLA 68 (1951): 1242-50. Reprint, ''Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch'', p. 300.</ref>

==Tasso, “King of Poets”==

In 1594, Pope Clement VIII invited the Italian poet Torquato Tasso to Rome. In recognition of the international renown he had gained for his epic poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (''The Liberation of Jerusalem''), he was to receive a crown of bays on the Capitoline Hill, as Petrarch had two-and-a-half centuries before, and to assume the title “King of Poets.” Just a few days before this ceremony was to occur, Tasso died on 25 April 1595, leaving this honor unfulfilled.<ref> Article: “Torquato Tasso,” from the 1911 ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Tasso,_Torquato</ref> Since this time, no other poet has been named a candidate for this title.

==Dryden==
Although bestowing the title of “poet laureate” on court poets and according them stipends was a long tradition in England, having been granted to such figures as [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, the official position was not created until 1668.<ref>“Who was the first Poet Laureate?” https://poetrysociety.org.uk/question/who-was-the-first-poet-laureate/</ref> [[Charles II]] appointed [[John Dryden]] to this post, and he received a salary of “one hundred pounds a year and a tierce of wine.”<ref>"The Life of Dryden,” by Samuel Johnson. https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/johnsons/lives/playrite.htm</ref> Scholar Richard Garnett, in ''The Age of Dryden'', noting the poets are often in the forefront of intellectual revolutions, sums up Dryden’s contributions to the Restoration era in which he lived and flourished by describing him as “the foremost writer of his country in his own day.” Garnett cites Dryden’s “great and versatile” powers in the fields of lyric poetry, drama, and criticism, and praises his “ample endowment” of “divine insanity without which, as Plato truly says, no one can be a poet.”<ref>''The Age of Dryden'', by Richard Garnett. p.39 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm</ref> Dryden remained Poet Laureate until 1688, when he fell out of royal favor for refusing to swear allegiance to William and Mary following the [[Glorious Revolution]]. It was Dryden’s successor Thomas Shadwell who began the custom of presenting official verses on special occasions.

==Tennyson==
Alfred [[Tennyson]], 1st Baron Tennyson, was named Poet Laureate following the death of [[William Wordsworth]]. His most famous works include patriotic poems like “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and reflect on the role of empire through his treatment of mythological heroes such as [[King Arthur]] and [[Ulysses]]. According to W.J. Long, Tennyson was “the voice of a whole people,” the representative man of the Victorian age who expressed the nation’s spirit and occupied “the summit of poetry in England” during his lifetime.<ref>''English Literature'', by W.J. Long. p. 457.</ref> Tennyson—the only man to ever be raised to the peerage on the basis of his poetry alone—held this position for 42 years (1850-1892), the longest incumbency of any Poet Laureate.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson</ref> In the twentieth century, British poet John Masefield occupied the post for 37 years. <ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-masefield</ref>

=Modern office holders=
The Poet Laureate position became subject to a democratizing process in the 20th century. Instead of granting the title to a single towering figure who encapsulates an age, incumbents of the office today hold annual, rather than lifetime, appointments. In addition, the liberal bias inherent in social institutions has ensured that the office has become a revolving door system characterized by mediocrity and colonized by forgettable non-entities.<ref>https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-history/</ref>

In the United States, the Librarian of Congress selects the Poet Laureate. The current Librarian, Carla Hayden, has appointed poets largely on the basis of their ethnic background and social activism since her term began in 2016.<ref>An interview with Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/11/breaking-new-ground-dr-carla-hayden-and-tracy-k-smith-ep-265</ref>

While the works of previous poet laureates described here contain epic dimensions, grand themes, noble subjects, and an elevated style, recent incumbents focus on less lofty ideals. Their work may be characterized as belonging to the [[Progressive Poetry]] movement, a species of proletarian literature that involves celebrating cultural factionalism and highlighting the victimization of “oppressed” populations that, comparatively speaking, enjoy a higher standard of living than developing nations or any society that existed prior to their own.<ref>Proletarian literature defined: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0130.xml</ref>

==Joy Harjo==
Joy Harjo is widely believed to be a real poet.<ref>A “poem” by Joy Harjo: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/92063/an-american-sunrise</ref> Based on this belief, she was appointed to the position of United States Poet Laureate in 2019, and is currently serving her third term. According to the Library of Congress, she is “the first Native American poet to serve in the position.”<ref>The Library of Liars: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/</ref> However, as A.M. Juster explained in an article for the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', the first Native American to hold this position was actually William Jay Smith (1968-1970), a poet of European and Choctaw ancestry whose book, ''The Cherokee Lottery'', “brought the epic tragedy of ‘The Trail of Tears’ from shameful obscurity into our national consciousness.” <ref> “The Library of Congress Disrespects a Poet Laureate,” by A.M. Juster. https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref> When Juster contacted the Library of Congress to clarify this fact, he was informed by its communications office that it “did not consider Smith to be a Native American.” To this day, Joy Harjo and the Library of Congress have yet to acknowledge Smith’s proven legacy.

=References=
{{reflist}}

=See also=
[[Poetry]]

[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

=External links=
[https://classicalpoets.org/2018/12/01/ms-hayden-on-your-selection-of-our-next-poet-laureate-and-other-poetry-by-joe-tessitore/ ‘Ms. Hayden, On Your Selection of Our Next Poet Laureate’]

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Political Terms]]

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2021-10-04T07:43:26Z

ABBrown: grammar edit

The '''Pulitzer Prize for Poetry''' is a formerly legitimate award given for recognition of merit in the creation of exceptional verse. In the twentieth century it was awarded to such acclaimed real poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay, [[Robert Frost]], W.H. Auden, [[Robert Lowell]], and Elizabeth Bishop. While it is still the most prestigious American award that is bestowed on the author of a book of poetry, it has, in the twenty-first century, been exclusively awarded to “poets” on the basis of their radically liberal political views.<ref>”A Pulitzer for liberal piety.” The New Criterion, May 1992. https://newcriterion.com/issues/1992/5/a-pulitzer-for-liberal-piety</ref> As with other awards, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award, political content and the [[intersectional]] background of the author have taken precedent over aesthetic merit in the distribution of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]. This has resulted in a number of effects:

# “Major” literary awards such as the Pulitzer have become a laughing stock among intelligent people of sound judgment.
# The number of people who still pay serious attention to these awards is confined to the individuals who win them, their cronies in academia, and the talking heads of liberal media outlets.
# The random individuals who stumble upon these award-winning books in garbage cans, sewer grates, and the ashes of bonfires receive the impression that poetry is dead.
# Although not apt for teaching children the rules of grammar, morality, or proper taste, these award-winning books continue to make useful tissue paper for wiping bodily fluids. (WARNING: the partial and unintended use-value of award-winning poetry books as described here is limited to times of public crisis when brand-name toiletry products are in shortage.)

==Early Formalist Winners==

Edward Arlington Robinson was the first poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this category in 1922, and would go on to win it three times in total. Robinson was a formalist poet who adhered to traditional rhyme and meter schemes, and was “strenuously opposed to free verse,” according to scholar Robert Gilbert.<ref>A biography of Edward Arlington Robinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-arlington-robinson</ref> Robert Frost, another traditional poet, would go on to win the award four times. Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the prize in 1923.<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edna-st-vincent-millay</ref> Since this time, contemporary poets who write within the tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Millay, and who are largely confined to those associated with [[the Society of Classical Poets]], have not won the Pulitzer Prize.

==Recent Leftist Turn==

According to [[Wikipedia]]—which should never be cited, as it is indicative of very bad scholarship—the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry</ref> Books by recent winners have, however, proven themselves neither distinguished nor particularly original when compared to the aesthetic standards of the past.<ref>An underwhelming example of contemporary verse by a recent winner: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57690/host-56d23b6d60c1a</ref> Due to the bias against formal verse in liberal academies, in the twenty-first century the prize has been awarded almost exclusively to practitioners of free verse—an open form which, in its disregard for meter, rhyme, or musical patterns, has become a vehicle for the leftist agendas espoused by [[Progressive Poetry]].

==2021 Prize==

The members of the 2020-2021 Pulitzer Prize Board served in various editorial and administrative capacities at such formerly legitimate media outlets as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles times, NPR, and the New Yorker, as well as at formerly legitimate universities such as Harvard, UCLA, and Columbia University.<ref>A confederacy of dunces: https://www.pulitzer.org/board/2021</ref> Although today's [[Harvard]] bears the same name of, and occupies the same grounds as, the college from which John Adams once graduated, any similarities with the past stop there. [[The Washington Post]], likewise, was once a publication that reported real news. The selection of board members from these institutions ensured that during the year 2021, no person of merit received the Pulitzer Prize. (The same is true of all other recent calendar years.) In the poetry category for the year 2020-2021, Natalie Diaz was awarded the prize for ''Postcolonial Love Poem'', a book that is not about genuine love and does not constitute a set of real poems. In this “anthem of desire against erasure,”<ref>''Postcolonial Love Poem'', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> Diaz, who has also been the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,”<ref>A Foundation eroded of its bedrock: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2018/natalie-diaz</ref> uses sexual metaphor in her descriptions of violent acts committed against racial minorities, and also portrays a series of homoerotic encounters that succeeds in giving the reader a cross-section of her promiscuous lifestyle. According to reviewer Stephanie Burt, “parts of Diaz’s work seem designed for first readings, laying everything out on the surface, perhaps at times choosing clarity over depth.”<ref>A review of ''Postcolonial Love Poem'': https://poets.org/book/postcolonial-love-poem</ref> Despite this criticism, Diaz is still considered one of the nation’s foremost poets. Conceptual depth, a relevant book title, and an authentic moral compass are not among the necessary requirements listed for the faculty qualifications of Arizona State University,<ref> the illiterati of Arizona State University: https://english.asu.edu/about/faculty</ref> and it is unknown whether Diaz described herself in any of these terms when applying to the position of associate professor that she currently holds there. It is most likely, however, that she found such personal qualifications unnecessary, given that she is an institutionally-certified “genius.”

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

==External links==
[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 List of Pulitzer winners in the poetry category]

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2021-10-04T07:40:14Z

ABBrown: added internal link

The '''Pulitzer Prize for Poetry''' is a formerly legitimate award given for recognition of merit in the creation of exceptional verse. In the twentieth century it was awarded to such acclaimed real poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay, [[Robert Frost]], W.H. Auden, [[Robert Lowell]], and Elizabeth Bishop. While it is still the most prestigious American award that is bestowed on the author of a book of poetry, it has, in the twenty-first century, been exclusively awarded to “poets” on the basis of their radically liberal political views.<ref>”A Pulitzer for liberal piety.” The New Criterion, May 1992. https://newcriterion.com/issues/1992/5/a-pulitzer-for-liberal-piety</ref> As with other awards, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award, political content and the [[intersectional]] background of the author have taken precedent over aesthetic merit in the distribution of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]. This has resulted in a number of effects:

# “Major” literary awards such as the Pulitzer have become a laughing stock among intelligent people of sound judgment.
# The number of people who still pay serious attention to these awards is confined to the individuals who win them, their cronies in academia, and the talking heads of liberal media outlets.
# The random individuals who stumble upon these award-winning books in garbage cans, sewer grates, and the ashes of bonfires receive the impression that poetry is dead.
# Although not apt for teaching children the rules of grammar, morality, or proper taste, these award-winning books continue to make useful tissue paper for wiping bodily fluids. (WARNING: the partial and unintended use-value of award-winning poetry books as described here is limited to times of public crisis when brand-name toiletry products are in shortage.)

==Early Formalist Winners==

Edward Arlington Robinson was the first poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this category in 1922, and would go on to win it three times in total. Robinson was a formalist poet who adhered to traditional rhyme and meter schemes, and was “strenuously opposed to free verse,” according to scholar Robert Gilbert.<ref>A biography of Edward Arlington Robinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-arlington-robinson</ref> Robert Frost, another traditional poet, would go on to win the award four times. Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the prize in 1923.<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edna-st-vincent-millay</ref> Since this time, contemporary poets who write within the tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Millay, and who are largely confined to those associated with [[the Society of Classical Poets]], have not won the Pulitzer Prize.

==Recent Leftist Turn==

According to [[Wikipedia]]—which should never be cited, as it is indicative of very bad scholarship—the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry</ref> Books by recent winners have, however, proven themselves neither distinguished nor particularly original when compared to the aesthetic standards of the past.<ref>An underwhelming example of contemporary verse by a recent winner: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57690/host-56d23b6d60c1a</ref> Due to the bias against formal verse in liberal academies, in the twenty-first century the prize has been awarded almost exclusively to practitioners of free verse—an open form which, in its disregard for meter, rhyme, or musical patterns, has become a vehicle for the leftist agendas espoused by [[Progressive Poetry]].

==2021 Prize==

The members of the 2020-2021 Pulitzer Prize Board served in various editorial and administrative capacities at such formerly legitimate media outlets as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles times, NPR, and the New Yorker, as well as at formerly legitimate universities such as Harvard, UCLA, and Columbia University.<ref>A confederacy of dunces: https://www.pulitzer.org/board/2021</ref> Although today's [[Harvard]] bears the same name of, and occupies the same grounds as, the college from which John Adams once graduated, any similarities with the past stop there. [[The Washington Post]], likewise, was once a publication that reported real news. The selection of board members from these institutions ensured that during the year 2021, no person of merit received the Pulitzer Prize. (The same is true of all other recent calendar years.) In the poetry category for the year 2020-2021, Natalie Diaz was awarded the prize for ''Postcolonial Love Poem'', a book that is not about genuine love and does not constitute a set of real poems. In this “anthem of desire against erasure,”<ref>''Postcolonial Love Poem'', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> Diaz, who has also been the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,”<ref>A Foundation eroded of its bedrock: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2018/natalie-diaz</ref> uses sexual metaphor in her descriptions of violent acts committed against racial minorities, and also portrays a series of homoerotic encounters that succeeds in giving the reader a cross-section of her promiscuous lifestyle. According to reviewer Stephanie Burt, “parts of Diaz’s work seem designed for first readings, laying everything out on the surface, perhaps at times choosing clarity over depth.”<ref>A review of ''Postcolonial Love Poem'': https://poets.org/book/postcolonial-love-poem</ref> Despite this criticism, Diaz is still considered one of the nation’s foremost poets. Conceptual depth, a relevant book title, and an authentic moral compass are not among the necessary requirements listed for the faculty qualifications of Arizona State University,<ref> the illiterati of Arizona State University: https://english.asu.edu/about/faculty</ref> and it is unknown whether Diaz described herself in any of these terms when applying to the position of associate professor that she currently holds there. It is most likely, however, that she found such personal qualifications unnecessary, given that she is an institutionally certified “genius.”

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

==External links==
[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 List of Pulitzer winners in the poetry category]

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2021-10-04T07:37:20Z

ABBrown: added categories

The '''Pulitzer Prize for Poetry''' is a formerly legitimate award given for recognition of merit in the creation of exceptional verse. In the twentieth century it was awarded to such acclaimed real poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay, [[Robert Frost]], W.H. Auden, [[Robert Lowell]], and Elizabeth Bishop. While it is still the most prestigious American award that is bestowed on the author of a book of poetry, it has, in the twenty-first century, been exclusively awarded to “poets” on the basis of their radically liberal political views.<ref>”A Pulitzer for liberal piety.” The New Criterion, May 1992. https://newcriterion.com/issues/1992/5/a-pulitzer-for-liberal-piety</ref> As with other awards, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award, political content and the [[intersectional]] background of the author have taken precedent over aesthetic merit in the distribution of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]. This has resulted in a number of effects:

# “Major” literary awards such as the Pulitzer have become a laughing stock among intelligent people of sound judgment.
# The number of people who still pay serious attention to these awards is confined to the individuals who win them, their cronies in academia, and the talking heads of liberal media outlets.
# The random individuals who stumble upon these award-winning books in garbage cans, sewer grates, and the ashes of bonfires receive the impression that poetry is dead.
# Although not apt for teaching children the rules of grammar, morality, or proper taste, these award-winning books continue to make useful tissue paper for wiping bodily fluids. (WARNING: the partial and unintended use-value of award-winning poetry books as described here is limited to times of public crisis when brand-name toiletry products are in shortage.)

==Early Formalist Winners==

Edward Arlington Robinson was the first poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this category in 1922, and would go on to win it three times in total. Robinson was a formalist poet who adhered to traditional rhyme and meter schemes, and was “strenuously opposed to free verse,” according to scholar Robert Gilbert.<ref>A biography of Edward Arlington Robinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-arlington-robinson</ref> Robert Frost, another traditional poet, would go on to win the award four times. Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the prize in 1923.<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edna-st-vincent-millay</ref> Since this time, contemporary poets who write within the tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Millay, and who are largely confined to those associated with [[the Society of Classical Poets]], have not won the Pulitzer Prize.

==Recent Leftist Turn==

According to [[Wikipedia]]—which should never be cited, as it is indicative of very bad scholarship—the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry</ref> Books by recent winners have, however, proven themselves neither distinguished nor particularly original when compared to the aesthetic standards of the past.<ref>An underwhelming example of contemporary verse by a recent winner: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57690/host-56d23b6d60c1a</ref> Due to the bias against formal verse in liberal academies, in the twenty-first century the prize has been awarded almost exclusively to practitioners of free verse—an open form which, in its disregard for meter, rhyme, or musical patterns, has become a vehicle for the leftist agendas espoused by [[Progressive Poetry]].

==2021 Prize==

The members of the 2020-2021 Pulitzer Prize Board served in various editorial and administrative capacities at such formerly legitimate media outlets as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles times, NPR, and the New Yorker, as well as at formerly legitimate universities such as Harvard, UCLA, and Columbia University.<ref>A confederacy of dunces: https://www.pulitzer.org/board/2021</ref> Although today's [[Harvard]] bears the same name of, and occupies the same grounds as, the college from which John Adams once graduated, any similarities with the past stop there. The Washington Post, likewise, was once a publication that reported real news. The selection of board members from these institutions ensured that during the year 2021, no person of merit received the Pulitzer Prize. (The same is true of all other recent calendar years.) In the poetry category for the year 2020-2021, Natalie Diaz was awarded the prize for ''Postcolonial Love Poem'', a book that is not about genuine love and does not constitute a set of real poems. In this “anthem of desire against erasure,”<ref>''Postcolonial Love Poem'', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> Diaz, who has also been the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,”<ref>A Foundation eroded of its bedrock: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2018/natalie-diaz</ref> uses sexual metaphor in her descriptions of violent acts committed against racial minorities, and also portrays a series of homoerotic encounters that succeeds in giving the reader a cross-section of her promiscuous lifestyle. According to reviewer Stephanie Burt, “parts of Diaz’s work seem designed for first readings, laying everything out on the surface, perhaps at times choosing clarity over depth.”<ref>A review of ''Postcolonial Love Poem'': https://poets.org/book/postcolonial-love-poem</ref> Despite this criticism, Diaz is still considered one of the nation’s foremost poets. Conceptual depth, a relevant book title, and an authentic moral compass are not among the necessary requirements listed for the faculty qualifications of Arizona State University,<ref> the illiterati of Arizona State University: https://english.asu.edu/about/faculty</ref> and it is unknown whether Diaz described herself in any of these terms when applying to the position of associate professor that she currently holds there. It is most likely, however, that she found such personal qualifications unnecessary, given that she is an institutionally certified “genius.”

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

==External links==
[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 List of Pulitzer winners in the poetry category]

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Pulitzer Prize

2021-10-04T07:34:01Z

ABBrown: added internal link

[[File:Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.jpg|thumb|Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.]]
The '''Pulitzer Prize''' is an American award for predominantly [[liberal]] [[journalism]]. There are other associated awards also called Pulitzer Prizes for other areas such as [[literature]]. In all, 21 Pulitzer Prizes are given out each year. The Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal is awarded each year to the American newspaper that wins the Public Service category of the journalism competition. The awards are named after [[Joseph Pulitzer]] who bequeathed a legacy to [[Columbia University]] in 1911.

==Background==
The awards are administered by Columbia University<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/ The Pulitzer Prizes]</ref> with the winners of the Pulitzer Prize being determined by The Pulitzer Prize Board.<ref>[http://pulitzer.org/CurrentBoard/CurrentBoard.html Current Board]</ref> They often are awarded to [[liberal]] works. For example, in 2007 the '''Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting''' was awarded to [[Charles Savage]] for his attack on [[George W. Bush]]'s use of signing statements.<ref>[http://archive.boston.com/news/specials/savage_signing_statements/ 2007 Pulitzer Prize: Charlie Savage, National Reporting], [[Boston Globe]]</ref> In fact, over 15 years earlier [[George_H._W._Bush|Bush's father]] also attached statements to bills that he signed. One of two honored finalists for the same prize was a work claiming that an innocent man was subjected to the [[death penalty]].<ref>This honored finalist was work by "Maurice Possley and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune for their investigation of a 1989 execution in Texas that strongly suggests an innocent man was killed by lethal injection." [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/national-reporting/ Pulitzer Prize Winners]</ref>

Only U.S. citizens are eligible to apply for the Prizes in Letters, Drama and [[Music]] (with the exception of the [[History]] category in Letters where the book must be a history of the United States but the author may be of any nationality). For the Journalism competition, entrants may be of any nationality but work must have appeared in a U.S. newspaper published at least once a week, on a newspaper's Web site or on an online news organization's Web site.<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/faq Frequently Asked Questions]</ref>

==Questionable winners==
In 1921, [[Louis Seibold]] of the New York World was given access to [[Woodrow Wilson]] for an interview, for which Wilson was later revealed to have been incapacitated by a stroke. The entire interview was a fabrication.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/10-journos-caught-fabricating-079221 10 journos caught fabricating], [[Politico]]</ref>

In 1932, Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for a set of stories about the [[Soviet Union]] which were published in the ''[[New York Times]]''. These articles denied the famine which killed millions in Ukraine, known as the [[Holodomor]]. At the insistence of [[Joseph Stalin]] they misled the world about this genocide. Amid growing [[conservative]] criticism of this award and a request for independent review by the ''New York Times'', Mark Von Hagen (Professor of Russian History at Columbia University), reviewed Duranty's work and declared that "For the sake of ''The New York Times''' honor, they should take the prize away."<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-22-ny-times-pulitzer_x.htm N.Y. Times urged to rescind 1932 Pulitzer], [[USA Today]]</ref> However, the ''New York Times'' refused to relinquish the award and the Pulitzer Prize committee refused to rescind it.

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==See Also==
[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]

==External links==
* http://www.pulitzer.org/ Official Website
*[http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2007/col20070417.asp The Pulitzer Racket], [[L. Brent Bozell III]], ''[[Media Research Center]]'', April 17, 2007
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={D85EFC82-F382-4E53-AD53-13B1DE30CFDD} The Pulitzer Prize: No Conservatives Need Apply], [[George Shadroui]], ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]'', April 7, 2004
*[http://www.pulitzer.org/new_eligibility_rules Pulitzer Prizes broadened to include online-only publications primarily devoted to original news reporting.]

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Progressive Poetry

2021-10-04T07:31:39Z

ABBrown: added internal link

'''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>''Children Forced to Write Anti-Britain Poems by Woke National Trust.'' 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> ''What's the Latest US Literacy Rate?'' https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</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>Some poems by kids that are better than anything written by award-winning leftist poets: 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>''An Afternoon with Maya Angelou; A Wordsmith at her Ingaugural Anvil'' 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>''Do We Really Need More Political Poetry?'' 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>''Poetry is Going Extinct, Government Data Shows'' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''ressentiment'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>NPR's hyperbolic celebration of six of the worst poets in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

==External links==
[https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/ The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition], an essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

2021-10-04T07:29:50Z

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The '''Pulitzer Prize for Poetry''' is a formerly legitimate award given for recognition of merit in the creation of exceptional verse. In the twentieth century it was awarded to such acclaimed real poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay, [[Robert Frost]], W.H. Auden, [[Robert Lowell]], and Elizabeth Bishop. While it is still the most prestigious American award that is bestowed on the author of a book of poetry, it has, in the twenty-first century, been exclusively awarded to “poets” on the basis of their radically liberal political views.<ref>”A Pulitzer for liberal piety.” The New Criterion, May 1992. https://newcriterion.com/issues/1992/5/a-pulitzer-for-liberal-piety</ref> As with other awards, such as the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award, political content and the [[intersectional]] background of the author have taken precedent over aesthetic merit in the distribution of the [[Pulitzer Prize]]. This has resulted in a number of effects:

# “Major” literary awards such as the Pulitzer have become a laughing stock among intelligent people of sound judgment.
# The number of people who still pay serious attention to these awards is confined to the individuals who win them, their cronies in academia, and the talking heads of liberal media outlets.
# The random individuals who stumble upon these award-winning books in garbage cans, sewer grates, and the ashes of bonfires receive the impression that poetry is dead.
# Although not apt for teaching children the rules of grammar, morality, or proper taste, these award-winning books continue to make useful tissue paper for wiping bodily fluids. (WARNING: the partial and unintended use-value of award-winning poetry books as described here is limited to times of public crisis when brand-name toiletry products are in shortage.)

==Early Formalist Winners==

Edward Arlington Robinson was the first poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this category in 1922, and would go on to win it three times in total. Robinson was a formalist poet who adhered to traditional rhyme and meter schemes, and was “strenuously opposed to free verse,” according to scholar Robert Gilbert.<ref>A biography of Edward Arlington Robinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-arlington-robinson</ref> Robert Frost, another traditional poet, would go on to win the award four times. Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the prize in 1923.<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edna-st-vincent-millay</ref> Since this time, contemporary poets who write within the tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Millay, and who are largely confined to those associated with [[the Society of Classical Poets]], have not won the Pulitzer Prize.

==Recent Leftist Turn==

According to [[Wikipedia]]—which should never be cited, as it is indicative of very bad scholarship—the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year.”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry</ref> Books by recent winners have, however, proven themselves neither distinguished nor particularly original when compared to the aesthetic standards of the past.<ref>An underwhelming example of contemporary verse by a recent winner: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57690/host-56d23b6d60c1a</ref> Due to the bias against formal verse in liberal academies, in the twenty-first century the prize has been awarded almost exclusively to practitioners of free verse—an open form which, in its disregard for meter, rhyme, or musical patterns, has become a vehicle for the leftist agendas espoused by [[Progressive Poetry]].

==2021 Prize==

The members of the 2020-2021 Pulitzer Prize Board served in various editorial and administrative capacities at such formerly legitimate media outlets as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles times, NPR, and the New Yorker, as well as at formerly legitimate universities such as Harvard, UCLA, and Columbia University.<ref>A confederacy of dunces: https://www.pulitzer.org/board/2021</ref> Although today's [[Harvard]] bears the same name of, and occupies the same grounds as, the college from which John Adams once graduated, any similarities with the past stop there. The Washington Post, likewise, was once a publication that reported real news. The selection of board members from these institutions ensured that during the year 2021, no person of merit received the Pulitzer Prize. (The same is true of all other recent calendar years.) In the poetry category for the year 2020-2021, Natalie Diaz was awarded the prize for ''Postcolonial Love Poem'', a book that is not about genuine love and does not constitute a set of real poems. In this “anthem of desire against erasure,”<ref>''Postcolonial Love Poem'', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> Diaz, who has also been the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,”<ref>A Foundation eroded of its bedrock: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2018/natalie-diaz</ref> uses sexual metaphor in her descriptions of violent acts committed against racial minorities, and also portrays a series of homoerotic encounters that succeeds in giving the reader a cross-section of her promiscuous lifestyle. According to reviewer Stephanie Burt, “parts of Diaz’s work seem designed for first readings, laying everything out on the surface, perhaps at times choosing clarity over depth.”<ref>A review of ''Postcolonial Love Poem'': https://poets.org/book/postcolonial-love-poem</ref> Despite this criticism, Diaz is still considered one of the nation’s foremost poets. Conceptual depth, a relevant book title, and an authentic moral compass are not among the necessary requirements listed for the faculty qualifications of Arizona State University,<ref> the illiterati of Arizona State University: https://english.asu.edu/about/faculty</ref> and it is unknown whether Diaz described herself in any of these terms when applying to the position of associate professor that she currently holds there. It is most likely, however, that she found such personal qualifications unnecessary, given that she is an institutionally certified “genius.”

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

==External links==
[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 List of Pulitzer winners in the poetry category]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-02T16:58:29Z

ABBrown: streamlined the 'see also' section

'''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>''Children Forced to Write Anti-Britain Poems by Woke National Trust.'' 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> ''What's the Latest US Literacy Rate?'' https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</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>Some poems by kids that are better than anything written by award-winning leftist poets: 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>''An Afternoon with Maya Angelou; A Wordsmith at her Ingaugural Anvil'' 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>''Do We Really Need More Political Poetry?'' 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>''Poetry is Going Extinct, Government Data Shows'' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''ressentiment'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>NPR's hyperbolic celebration of six of the worst poets in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]

[[The Society of Classical Poets]]

==External links==
[https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/ The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition], an essay by Joseph S. Salemi

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-02T16:56:38Z

ABBrown: updating footnote links

'''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>''Children Forced to Write Anti-Britain Poems by Woke National Trust.'' 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> ''What's the Latest US Literacy Rate?'' https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/</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>Some poems by kids that are better than anything written by award-winning leftist poets: 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>''An Afternoon with Maya Angelou; A Wordsmith at her Ingaugural Anvil'' 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>''Do We Really Need More Political Poetry?'' 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>''Poetry is Going Extinct, Government Data Shows'' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/24/poetry-is-going-extinct-government-data-show/</ref>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''ressentiment'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>NPR's hyperbolic celebration of six of the worst poets in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
[[Poetry]]
[[The_Society_of_Classical_Poets]]

==External links==
[https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/ The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition], an essay by Joseph S. Salemi

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-02T16:33:36Z

ABBrown:

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/[[Poetry]]
https://conservapedia.com/[[The_Society_of_Classical_Poets]]

==External links==
[https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/ The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition], an essay by Joseph S. Salemi

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-02T16:24:32Z

ABBrown: expanded a paragraph slightly

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” which is “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism” by stringing together derogatory terms that have been obsolete since the 19th century. <ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/Poetry
https://conservapedia.com/The_Society_of_Classical_Poets

==External links==
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-01T23:47:50Z

ABBrown: grammar edit

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including allusions to previous literature written by the dead white male figures who collectively comprise the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” a sonnet “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, this is not perceived as constituting an oppressive tactic, since it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism.”<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/Poetry
https://conservapedia.com/The_Society_of_Classical_Poets

==External links==
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-01T22:07:28Z

ABBrown: grammar edit

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including references and allusions to literature written by dead white male figures represented in the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” a sonnet “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, use of this is not seen as constituting an oppressive tactic, as it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism.”<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/Poetry
https://conservapedia.com/The_Society_of_Classical_Poets

==External links==
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Poetry

2021-10-01T21:51:22Z

ABBrown: added internal links to progressive poetry and the society of classical poets

[[Image:Poem.jpg|right]]
'''Poetry''' is the most compressed form of [[literature]]. It is composed of carefully chosen [[word]]s expressing great depth of meaning. Poetry uses specific devices such as [[connotation]], alliteration, and rhythm to express the appropriate combination of meaning and emotion.

There are two basic types of poetry:

* ''traditional'' - poetry that follows standard rules of [[grammar]] and syntax with a regular rhythm and rhyme scheme. This practice, in abeyance for the past century, is currently being revived, as exemplified by [[The Society of Classical Poets]].

* ''modern'' - avoids rhyme and standard grammatical organization and seeks new ways of expression. The majority of this type of verse today tends to take the form of [[Progressive Poetry]] that espouses leftist propaganda and mistakenly associates formlessness with social democratic values.

There are many poems written about the important parts of life,
and there are names for poems with these subjects:

* ''epithalamium'' - a poem that celebrates a [[wedding]]
* ''[[elegy]]'' - a poem that remembers the [[dead]]
* ''pastoral'' - a poem describing the joys or sorrows of living close to [[nature]] and away from the city
* ''[[love]]'' - a poem filled with expressions of joy, despair, passion, or unrequited love.

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream. [http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe/poems/18847 A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe]

== See also ==

*[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]]
*[[Famous Art]]
*[[Famous American writers]]
*[[First Century Aramaic Jewish Christian Gospel and poetry]]
*[[Adonic]]
*[[Christian poetry]]
*[[Atheism and poetry]]

== External links ==

*[http://poetry.about.com/od/poets/l/bllaureates.htm Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.]
*[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/ Famous Poets and Poems]
*[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/American_poets.html American Poets and Poems]

[[Category:Poetry]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-01T21:37:15Z

ABBrown: removed comma

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including references and allusions to literature written by dead white male figures represented in the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” a sonnet “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, use of this is not seen as constituting an oppressive tactic, as it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism.”<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/Poetry
https://conservapedia.com/The_Society_of_Classical_Poets

==External links==
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]

Progressive Poetry

2021-10-01T21:32:58Z

ABBrown: Created page with "'''Progressive poetry''', alternatively known as “woke” poetry or postmodern poetry, is a leftist development within modern poetry that promotes racism, misandry..."

'''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>

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>

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of Modernism, a nihilistic reaction against Romantic and Victorian poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement typically do not demonstrate the erudition of such Modernist poets as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, or T.S. Eliot,<ref>https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref> as including references and allusions to literature written by dead white male figures represented in the Western Canon would be seen as contributing to an oppressive society.

Practitioners of progressive poetry emphasize using simple language and a lack of traditional forms, as this is erroneously correlated with promoting equality in socioeconomic or cultural status. In the rare event that they use traditional forms, this also ostensibly contributes to promoting social equality. Commenting on her sonnet “Slurret,” a sonnet “comprised mostly of slurs used against black people,” progressive poet Ashley M. Jones told National Public Radio that use of rhyme and iambic pentameter represent the “trappings of the oppressor.” Although Jones herself uses rhyme and meter in her poem, use of this is not seen as constituting an oppressive tactic, as it is not about “the fair maiden, or a rose, or any of the other non-political white subjects,” but is instead “attacking racism.”<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/04/28/700903340/a-bouquet-of-poets-for-national-poetry-month</ref>

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance, they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==See also==
https://conservapedia.com/Poetry
https://conservapedia.com/The_Society_of_Classical_Poets

==External links==
https://classicalpoets.org/2020/12/13/the-struggle-for-the-formalist-tradition-an-essay-by-joseph-s-salemi/

[[Category: Poetry]]
[[Category: Propaganda]]