I want to be a poet, because that literary form appeals to me

Who cares about other people lol

>>9563517
Nah, desu noone does that anymore. I find poetry terribly boring, the world already has so many things to get distracted with that a thing that requires a lot of Patience and reflection like poetry can not longer have a monetary success...

But if thats what you love do it, who the fuck cares what the rest of the world think..
I'm sorry for my shitty english, is my third language.

>>9563517
A small, dedicated audience, consisting mostly of other aspiring poets and academics. If you make it big then your readership massively expands to include the general literature reader, the one who only really reads the big names in poetry. Plenty of people read John Ashbery or JH Prynne, for example.

>>9563517

>but is there even an audience for it anymore?

NOPE.

But you should disregard the boorish sensibilities of the plebs and do it anyway if you want to. That is truly /lit/.

>>9563529
>I find poetry terribly boring,

opinion immediately discarded

>>9563517
If yoy want something you'll go for it no matter what.

My first book came out last week. Yesterday I was signing in a fair, and I learnt a lot. The audience is YOUR audience. If you somehow convince someone to read you book, your poetry, then everybody wins.

It is your job, as a poet, to enrich the masses with your oeuvre. If you depend on only submitting your art to the people already enlightened, and thus those who cannot achieve any personal gain from your work; so much so that you doubt your own art upon the lack of intelligentsia in the world, you are, quite literally, a hack.

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kys op

also i'd wager good money that rupi kaur's poetry has about the same amount of literary merit as yours

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>>9563564

>that pic

Damn OP just got poached. Serves you right for trying to talk about lit on plebbit.

>>9563564
>>9563580
Oh noes, OP hangs out at another place besides our secret treehouse, whatsoever will we do?

>>9563617
People like you should be shot on sight

>>9563617
hi op

>>9563564
But anon, this also means you are on reddit.
Its a double betrayal.

>>9563517
People? Yes.
Lots of people? No.

>>9563692
i have a script that searches /lit/ posts and matches them to the main books/lit related subreddits. i dont have to go on reddit myself.

>>9563889
That's even more pathetic than going on reddit.

I've been published in a variety of outlets (Poetry Magazine, Straylight) but never published a book or a chapbook.

The state is necessarily awful; most succeful poets see this. It's really about meeting those in your niche, working with eachother, and making a name from the most obscure journals to the top.

>>9564056
It seems autistically reasonable if you're trying to sort out pasta or people parroting criticism.

why does everyone want to make a living from their hobby.

get a job