A found this link, and it gives me some hope.
http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/20poets.html
The American Poetry Society held a dealie for 20 new poets. They read their poems to a packed auditorium in New York (I keep picturing dudes with berets). I only glanced through the page because I am at work and this computer is too blurry and those words are too small.
The cool thing is there is a blurb about each poet (and they are young, not old and stogy) and some of their works.
You read a few and I'll read a few, and we can talk about if we think these guys are the future of poetry or not. :)
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Some hits and some misses in the link you posted, I'd say. So much of it echoed the pretentious, abstract, obscure-reference "artiste" poetry that came into vogue in the late nineties or so. I can't relate to poems like that, and think they do more to alienate readers than any other form possible. However, there are a few gems; Major Jackson's "How to Listen" for one. Tess Taylor's imagery scored another hit for me. I think and hope that poetry's headed back to a tangible, recognizable form that doesn't involve unconventional spacing or accentuating every other syllable.
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