I counter your hatred of beat poetry with Andrea Gibson and Buddy Wakefield. Beat poetry's not really my style generally, but I saw them live last year and they did actually manage to make a good third of the audience tear up a little (myself included). Spoken word poetry also allows interaction between poets that poetry doesn't usually, and they had a really good comedic back and forth going with "short poems". Couldn't find any clips of it though...
I don't have a problem with spoken word poetry, only when people write written poetry as if it were spoken word. And when that's like all they write. It makes for a nice effect when used sparingly, but using it everywhere is like writing only harry/draco hatefics.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoWNnt4Fdh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHX3qtJlmdU&feature=related
Also, you do realize that you're judging based on one college publication, right? Just saying.
I thought "A Winter Day" was sweet, liking the seasonal imagery.
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I don't think your poem is pretentious at all. It sounds very sincere. Andrew doesn't know what he's talking about.
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