8 Surprising Celebrity Poets

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Poetry is the universal art form: Everybody writes it and nobody reads it.

Still, that isn't stopping celebs like Nicole Richie, Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell from taking a stab at it.

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Comments

[jlab]

05:02 PM on 08/29/2011

Nicole R., mad as a hatter
Writing about fecal matter
If you think that's kinda dull:
Well, that's all that's in her skull.

[Tom Hendricks]

12:58 PM on 08/29/2011

Mainstream poetry is indeed awful - it's almost always undecipherable gibberish, or its prose cut into lines to look cute. And no matter which problem it has it's also always old forms, nothing new or innovative. It's bad gibberish prose.

Great poetry is 3 things. 1. It communicates clearly its message - even if the message is ambiguous - its a similar ambiguity for every reader, 2. it has something worthwhile to say. 3. it says it in some magical way.

There are great poets out there, very very great poets, and each is working in new poetic styles. Sadly mainstream publishing won't publish poetry (only novels and nonfiction tomes) so it is portrayed as dead but is alive and prospering.

[eric14]

03:14 PM on 08/29/2011

its a similar ambiguity for every reader
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Would Empson agree?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity_(Empson)

I think one future for new poetry is the radio, and on the Internet.

[Tom Hendricks]

07:41 PM on 08/29/2011

Yes he would.

[c-tom]

09:41 PM on 08/29/2011

Considering the overall popularity of poetry today perhaps another word than mainstream would be less ambiguous.

[Tom Hendricks]

12:30 AM on 08/30/2011

Better word than mainstream? Poetry that is impossible to understand, and prose broken up into lines. Then add any poetry that doesn't have those 3 things mentioned above. That's pretty specific.