Nip and tuck long branch12/30/2023 The show flyers described readings featuring multiple poets followed by open mic segments, and they were held at a variety of venues in Monmouth County, including bars, boutiques and smoke shops. Others, conversely, may envision the starkly different environment that is a poetry slam which, for better or worse, is by nature a bit more theatrical, intense and competitive.īut the broader question might be the better one: Is poetry accessible today? Will the average person, searching for a release on, say, a random weeknight, travel out of their way to attend a reading/slam? While events that promote inclusion and growth like open mics for music and comedy are now prevalent, does poetry have a similar environment? Is there an audience that can support poetry’s reemergence to the level of prominence in popular culture it held a century ago?Ī few months ago, NJ Indy started getting tagged in a bunch of poetry events on social media. When thinking of poetry readings, the average person might imagine a stuffy room full of academics melodramatically basking in the prose of esteemed poets (a lot of turtlenecks and ironic eyeglasses, for sure). ![]() Perhaps poetry’s popularity has been suffering due to a branding problem. But with New Jersey’s rich history of poets-Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and many others-you’d think that poetry, and more specifically live readings, would still have a home here that it’d be a place poetry would thrive. For myriad reasons-evolving reader habits, publishing standards changing, the decline of literary mags-poetry, and related readings and events, is in decline (in the mainstream, at least).
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