Million Poems Show - Jordan Davis - Joshua Clover Reads

[rubiksluver]

my dream is to meet joshua 

[JoshASchneider]

awesome. i don't get you haters.

[SYNYST3RxSH4D0W]

sooo boring... :(

[dvoraswickle]

Is this a childrens poem.  ? ?

[PoetReid]

I'm steaming. I am not and will never deign to be a part of the poetry establishment. I have zero academic or performance credentials. I have NO axe against this Joshua Clover person, except to grind hard against all of you who DO NOT KNOW how to read a poem aloud, intelligibly. Give me negative points, I don't care. What I care about is to say: poetry today is ruined by foo-foo mumblings of people who have no idea how to use their voices. LISTEN to old movies, records, trained voices, DICTION

[PoetReid]

I must be very careful because Reid Baer is a famous youtube poet much respected for his honesty and boldness. I AM NOT that Reid.

My name is Reid Welch. Do not harm Baer for any "insult" you may incur from me.

[evottenh]

What you're describing as DICTION. is contrived, overly artificed and conformist. That type of DICtion makes me dry heave. It's like excessively cakey foundation on a forced face. It's sounds Orwellian. Diction is as beauty. Beauty is not beautiful. REAL is beautiful. What we call 'beauty marks' are abnormalities in pigmentation. 'Beauty' is a fucked up word to describe what it is meant to represent. Maybe you're just not an auditory learner, I've never misunderstood a word.

[PoetReid]

This guy reads very poorly. I can't follow his flat, scrambled egg diction. Very bad. This is the kind of reader that gives poetry a bad rep.

[tetsuyabh]

Yeah.

But he's a totally wicked poet, so nyah.

[PoetReid]

OK, sez you. I guess I'll get another "-1" for noting that his poem is inarticulate and not very poetic. I'm not anti-faggot, either, being one myself. I'm just anti-shitty diction. Americans today don't know how to speak intelligibly, generalization, but fairly true.

This guy's poem gives reason why poetry is generally hated today by normal people. Reid Baer (no relation) is a much, much better speaker. So is baby Reid (no relation) to whom I've dedicated my "the electric airplane pome).

[KrumpyJ]

His "poetry" is almost as bad as his reading voice. Have another sip of beer behind the mic. It won't help anything. It's too late and too damn bad. Others did it before you, and were much better at it.

Simply ridiculous

[roger20hot]

definitely. and about his poetry: is it enough to look inward? no.

and cleverness is useless.

[howardbeasley]

in 2002 i was walking onto a tram when i remarked to a friend that i thought missy elliot was a methd out hobag when a man pushed me against the wall, slapped me in the face, & said, "that's what you get for being a dumb bitch" before walking off in the other direction. i now realize that man was joshua clover. fuck this guy.

[teefcake]

if he actually did this, joshua is more of a genius than i ever knew.