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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Friday, June 3, 2022 at 1:40:07 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> Questionable to you, Pendragon, a person who has fantasies of burning some of the greatest poetry of the last Century, such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski.
>>
>> In other words, you're not a good judge of poetry.
>>
>> HTH and HAND.

> No, Donkey.  It's status of being considered "poetry" is currently being questioned:

> https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/is-rap-poetry/

> http://bowenstreetpress.com/blog/2016/9/28/is-rap-music-poetry#:~:text=Though%20some%20rap%20is%20poetry,that%20are%20intricate%20and%20complex.

> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/t-magazine/rap-hip-hop-poetry.html


Both sides can be argued for:

"...rappers and the poets who claim affinity with them are resuscitating a body of literary practices mostly neglected in poetry during the 20th century. These ghost appendages of form — repetition, patterned rhythm and, above all, rhyme — thrive in song, especially in rap [...] MEANWHILE, A PARALLEL evolution is underway in poetry, spurring a renaissance of sorts. In 2012, according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, only 6.7 percent of adults reported having read poetry in the last year. By 2017, the number had nearly doubled, with the largest increase (from 8.2 to 17.5 percent) occurring among 18- to 24-year-olds.

Several factors have contributed to poetry’s resurgence: the influence of Twitter, Instagram and TikTok as performance and promotion platforms; the proliferation of small presses and online journals publishing increasingly varied work; the pull of poetic language, as both balm and bludgeon, during periods of national struggle. Poetry’s growing readership is no doubt also tied to its expanding authorship, as a diverse array of voices are now choosing to express themselves in patterned words. “Access is all you need,” the poet Morgan Parker says. “People just don’t know that they like poetry.”

And so it goes.