Wynter Poetry.
Poetry for the people. No pretentiousness.
Welcome to yet another place for poetry on the internet. Now let’s talk about why this one’s different:
Poetry belongs with the people. It’s everywhere in our lives and was born from folks gathering and telling stories. These days a lot of people are scared off of poetry by condescendingly-delivered samplers of dry, age-old ‘classics’ and grading rubrics for delightfully subjective material.
I’ll teach you the rules, then tell you to break them. For me, a lot of the terminology surrounding poetry was made up as some weird flex by a bunch of bored rich white dudes in powdered wigs. So while it can be interesting trivia and maybe inform your poetry, a lot of it is wholly unnecessary to enjoy consuming and producing poetry. And speaking of rich white dudes…
This Substack talks about the ‘Anonymous’ poets of history. Or, as was usually the case with anonymous authors, women and BIPOC. We’ll talk about the voices that often get shunted and shut out of the industry, both historically and currently.
Hopefully that’s enough of a reason to stick around! I’ll also keep you up-to-date on my current chapbook projects, curate poetry prompts and exercises to help cut your teeth or bust a writer’s block, and promote cool poetry events. Maybe with the odd poetry collection review or interview thrown in. Who knows? It’s a crazy world.