Poetry: The Original Social Media

The Society of Classical Poets is holding a poetry competition

The lines of great poets spill out like sweet nectar from heaven, reverberating with rhythm and rhyme as they touch the palate on their way to the soul. “The Seeds and Fruit of English Poetry,” 1845, by Ford Maddox Brown. Public Domain

It was in an Epoch Times newsroom, in July 2012, where my fellow reporter Joshua Philipp and I lamented the state of poetry today. We both had literary backgrounds and had separately come to the very same conclusion: Really good poetry just didn’t have a place to call home anymore.

By “really good poetry,” I am referring to well-written classical poetry, or what is sometimes called formal or traditional poetry. This is poetry written in the vein of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Frost.