Poetry in motion: Social media revives genreLONDON: Eighteen-year-old Londoner Danique Bailey is one of a new generation of poets using social media to revive the art. “Social media made a lot more people interested in poetry, including myself,” she told Agence France-Presse, calling it a “really fun and satisfying way to express yourself in a short amount of space.”She is not the only millennial getting into the genre. “Of course, there are long poems, but mainly, poems are short and it works really, really well to read on a phone, to swap around, to read, to find on social media,” she added. Her collection, Milk and Honey, which combines poetry, prose and illustrations, has grown in popularity in Britain, driving overall poetry sales. “There’s a big audience in Instagram poetry, but we were overwhelmed with the submissions” from budding poets, National Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe told AFP.

Source: Manila Times September 29, 2019 00:45 UTC