the reason why so much black poetry sucks nowadays is because all the weird artsy kids who would write poetry became rappers

Poetry by black people is fine. I mean relative to other poetry it's fine, there's not a lot of great poetry by anyone else writing in English either. The same widespread rot afflicts everyone. just a few top people straggling on, usually old. Geoffrey hill and Les Murray just died, they ain't black but white people lost2 real ones there. Jay Wright is live one of the people you'd talk about as best living in English rn, he's black so good job to Jay and his parents, they did good getting together, no doubt with the expectation that their son would be black, like they were, and indeed, as it turns out, he was. The gamble paid off. Sometimes you have to risk everything. Right now I like Alice Oswald, although a lot of hers don't do it for me some really do

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