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It seems the overstimulated and hyper connected world had fostered a new generation of micro-poets that appealed to the generation's short attention span. With the daily readership having grown to more than twelve million, poetry was having a major come back on the world stage in the form of short micro-poems.
The last time poetry had been so popular was the beat generation, as Ginsberg and Kerouac remade the world in a wave of revolution and art. As the publisher of this decades most successful poets including Lang Leav, Rupi Kaur, rh Sin, and others, Andrew Mcmeel understood what hip-hop fans know to be true, the masses love poetry when it is accessible.
Their roster of micro-poets continue to shatter global records, proving once again that poetry can have a voice on the world stage. With millions sold in an almost totally forgotten genre of books, while the gritty underground publishers were stirring up chaos, Andrews McMeel was launching the renaissance. The relationship would prove monumental, as it allowed Analog to introduce them to Crown Anthologies , and a new alliance was immediately forged.
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It was only a matter of time before the emerging poetry subculture collided with a visionary backer like Andrews McMeel. The newly formed partnership was shaping up to be a powerful force in modern poetry. Can words really make a difference? They come alive in our minds and direct the course of our lives. Every great renaissance began with poetry because words have the power to reshape culture.
On that trip to the desert, they learned a critical lesson from Jonathan Swift about how great art is not just the aesthetic; the words or the sound, the visuals or the rhetoric. But rather, truly great art is a mirror for an age, a sincere and true reflection of the world. When someone sees themselves in this reflection, in a mirror of the world that doesn't look the way they thought, they are forced to consider some great new idea.
Swift's mirror of the age has the power to break people free of indifference. What they learned was that the DNA of great art is impact. Each great novel was a reflection of its age, a voice for its generation. They learned on that pivotal retreat to Joshua Tree that great art has purpose; that art can make impact on a generation in ways no other influence can.
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They returned with a vision for a new collective, one they hoped would be a voice for a lost generation. By mid , current events were growing volatile.
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Many of the subcultures' leaders were speaking almost daily about the plight of our lost generation. About how we are born in a digital age where truth has gone the way of alternative facts, social good has become secondary to economic gain, beauty is defined by photoshop and prejudice and injustice have become the dominant voices of our generation.
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Each trip unpacked the mission even further, and by summer of their vision for the future was clear. Lost Poets would be the new vehicle of the resistance. Among the new advisors were: John Lenac, a former global Yahoo! It was becoming apparent that a great poetry renaissance might not just be hyperbole.
The only rules for membership: Their mission is to be a voice for equality, human rights, the hopeless and the voiceless— to create art not just for the sake of art, but for the greater good. The resistance has already begun. The renaissance is forthcoming. Lost , Dan Brown 5. A Lost Friendship , Dr. Book 01 , John Milton Lost Star , Rabindranath Tagore The Lost Dancer , Jean Toomer Lost Time , Rabindranath Tagore Lost , Anthony Spadaccini The Lost Women , Lucille Clifton The Lost Mistress , Robert Browning Lost Leader, The , Robert Browning Lost Mistress, The , Robert Browning Lost , Banjo Paterson Lost , Carl Sandburg Book 02 , John Milton The Lost Leader , Robert Browning Waiting for the moment when your wings detach from your sides, catch the wind underneath their feathers like sails.
Then you learn to flow with the change of the breeze, learn to find your rhythm in the wake of change with each flap, each shift, each breath.
To be lost is nothing to fear, for everything that is lost is on the path to being found. You are not the only one who feels this way, who walks with tender steps, too afraid to be led down a path that will take you farther from home.
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Home is everywhere your feet have wandered, every place where you have laughed or drank or slept or kissed. Home is in the faces of the ones you love. Home is the hearts beating in their chests, calling for you to return again. Home is wherever you claim it as your own. And so you are never lost, just wandering. Finding, rediscovering, claiming all the places you now belong. She is learning to pull faith from the wind, breathe it in and set her worries free. My eyes are red.
My ribs are cracked. My lips are bruised. My soul is sleepy. My hands are weak. My legs are numb. My lungs ache with each lonely breath. You are a person, a soul, a creation made of muscles and matter that are stronger than you could ever imagine.