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“The biggest disappointment was that I found so little “poetry” in Poetry…. Very little of it was readable, enjoyable…. many of the poems were burdened with unnecessarily complex, high-falutin’ diction… as well as obscure references to literature and literary figures; abstract, illogical metaphors and comparisons (”postage-stamp bright” and “chasms of flatness”); tin-ear rhymes (”state/copulate” and “drowses/blouses”) and hamstrung syntax (”surfeit of distance and the wracked mind waiting”).” Link

So Little Poetry in Poetry

Of course, if you’re reading this on tumblr, you are probably already perverting the language.

How texting is wrecking our language

Eight shortcuts to writing timeless odes and getting $$$ for it!

new literary magazine may find the way to regain an audience

In a survey, Internet language — abbreviated wds, 🙂 and txt msging — seeping into academic writing.

What’s the strangest things you’ve found in used books?

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Social Media Is Counter-Intuitive…