how to poet is a blog designed to shamelessly attract attention to poetry.
The poets at The Poetry Society of New York are having a little fun: we’re creating literary content, criticism, and entertainment using devices typically reserved for online attention-getting (listicles, how-to’s, trending topics, SEO, hashtags, hyperlinks, hyperbole, sensationalism, puff, and fluff), so that we can reach outside the established poetry community to encourage wider audiences for poets and their work.
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March on the internet finally wore me down: I deleted the Facebook app. After learning how many poets in my community had ditched the platform years ago, I was a little embarrassed that I still had it. Even without social media (or certain forms of social media), the internet itself persists and with it, our curiosity. Here’s a look at what’s on our collective minds this month, per Google Trends.