makalani bandele
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Bro, the poetry game is so weird. I write mostly experimental, hybrid, visual poems. I have been runner-up or won every contest for non-conventional poems I have entered. But, I get zero luv when I enter those types of poems in the conventional, mainstream contests. In a lot of ways my poems do more
08:23 PM - Dec 22, 2023
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makalani bandele
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In a lot of ways my poems do more heavy semantic & linguistic lifting than conventional poems. Either readers & judges have no interpretive ground upon which to appreciate my work, or they feel like my kind of poems don’t belong in the contest, or similarly they are purist & feel like real poems are
08:23 PM - Dec 22, 2023
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makalani bandele
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text only with all moves, devices, & innovation being in the language. Sorry to inform you old, stodgy, stuck-in-the-past, purist poets. We live in a visual culture & that visuality is only becoming more intense. You can keep retooling & rehashing 12th century poetic forms, I’m breaking new ground
08:23 PM - Dec 22, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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In response to makalani bandele.
I stopped going to poetry open mics because I was tired of the same rhythms, same subject matter, same movement of spirit every time.

Do you.

Rooms need the fresh air you bring with you.
08:33 PM - Dec 22, 2023
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makalani bandele
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In response to My Flying Car 2020.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
That’s it, I can’t do nobody else but me. I started out trying to conform & fit my roundass in their square space. I mean, I did alright but it wasn’t me & I gotta be more than alright, I gotta be excellent, one of the best out there. Can’t say I didn’t know what I was gettin myself in2
08:44 PM - Dec 22, 2023
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