More intimate, more social, more alive than ever, poetry is breaking out of the traditional confines of publishing and invading social networks, streets and performance halls. Meet the six authors who embody this renewal.
“Poetry is not luxury,” wrote American essayist Audre Lorde. Therefore, it is this quote that Aurel Olivier chose for the initiative of the famous collection Letters to young poets, 2021. called a “talking” festival. Because poetry, the literary genre we thought had disappeared with Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire and other blasphemies, is more alive than ever, embodied by figures like Amanda Gorman, who was a guest at President Joe Biden’s inauguration or Rupi Kaur, who is often mentioned. as “Instapoet”. Poetry has actually broken the classical codes and traditional chains represented by publishing houses and specialized magazines to invade social networks, theaters and concert halls, the walls of our cities and even our telephones via SVP (“poetry voice server”). ), a project that, like reactivation Dial-a-Poem by the late John Giorno, lets you listen to a poem by calling a toll-free number
Source: Le Figaro
