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| January 28, 2012 at 8:42 pm #44589 | |
 Nick Ruff | Which artists/poets give you inspiration for your writing style? What music helps you write (if any)? A big influence for me would be Aesop Rock because I love the way he writes with heavy allegory, alliteration, symbolism and metaphor so intense sometimes that it kind of becomes a challenge to decipher his lyrics to find their meaning. Two of my favorite songs: Daylight and Battery. I also like to listen to songs by Nujabes as a bunch of his songs put me in the right frame of mind for writing, like Tsurugi No Mai does. What about you guys? |
| January 29, 2012 at 1:07 am #44863 | |
 Kurt | Aesop Rock always brings good stuff to the table. I’ll have to check out Nujabees, as I’m afraid I’m unfamiliar. I tend to draw inspiration from contemporary stuff. Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s Heavenly Questions is an absolutely gorgeous work, both emotionally candid and weaving art and science with a deft hand. I’m definitely influenced by Suzanne Buffam- particularly her work The Irrationalist. She has this fantastic sense of humour without compromising the deep observations she’s so good at making. As for artists, The Mountain Goats have some of the best lyrics out there. George Watsky, of course, is a great hip hop artist and a Nerdfigher to boot. Neutral Milk Hotel’s lyrics paint some of the most deft imagery I’ve ever seen. Uh. Heard? I guess it’s clear how visual they are if I mistake my senses. Do you have any work on the Internet, Nick? I’ve got a couple works up on my tumblr, if there’s curiosity… this is a reading of a piece I wrote called “Danger P. Risky”: |
| January 29, 2012 at 1:57 am #44878 | |
| Nick Ruff | Nujabes was a Japanese DJ who created some very beautiful instrumental music, and had collaborated with a many American underground rappers, as well as helped shaped the music for the anime “Samurai Champloo”. I’ll confess that I don’t usually read the work of other poets; at least, not in such a way as to gain any inspiration from their writings. Instead, I like to write about things that are on my mind that pique my interest, so poetry for me acts as more of a way to vent myself. Sometimes, though, I take so long in writing that I eventually stop and save it for later, but never return to it. :\ Yeah, The Mountain Goats are good, although I’ll admit that I haven’t really listened to much of their work. >.< George Watsky is pretty amazing, but I didn't know he was a Nerdfighter (I guess it was pretty obvious in hindsight). Ooohhhhh, no. I don't think I could ever bring myself to publish my works on the net, especially since I'm still such an amateur. xD I took a listen, that was pretty awesome. xD |
| January 29, 2012 at 7:48 pm #45266 | |
 Jerky Malloy | I started out in slam poetry, so my material still carries much of that. I tried to grow beyond it, realizing that slam is poetry for people who can’t write real poetry, but haven’t managed it yet. I like the romantics and try to incorporate classical elements into my poetry, but I have a feeling my stuff’ll never measure up to such a lofty standard. |
| February 8, 2012 at 8:18 pm #50970 | |
 J.Merrill | So I hate to be the jerk who brings up the sort of poets that you know get put in Norton anthologys, but the two poets who have framed both how I write and think about poetry most have likely been William Carlos Williams and Denise Levertov. In both cases, their understanding of the raw mechanics of poetry — the enchanting lyricism of rhyme, the flowing cadence of alteration, the raw evocative power of the line break — have given me greater appreciation for the modern form and helped my understand just how many tools lie within the poetic form. Good lord, that sounded pretentious. Umm… Llamas with funny hats. |
| February 8, 2012 at 8:57 pm #50993 | |
 Will | @gaypher slam poetry is for people who can’t write real poetry? Err, George Watsky? |
| February 8, 2012 at 11:29 pm #51068 | |
 Alex McMillan | All I can think of is John Cooper Clarke to be honest. |
| February 9, 2012 at 2:24 am #51189 | |
| Jerky Malloy | @willcharles Yeah, he seems to have quite a following around here. He’s certainly more technically accomplished than many, but his material nonetheless suffers from the same amateur prosaicness. It’s bathos. And it’s not even necessarily the subject matter, because there are some honestly profound ways of dealing with shitty teenager feelings; he just chooses not to apply them, out of ignorance or inability or fidelity to his fanbase or whatever. I suppose I’m probably more sensitive to it as I was surrounded by it for the majority of my regrettable adolescence, but I find that’s the case with the vast majority of slam poets. A poetry slam is a verbal circle-jerk, even when Twatsky’s featuring. |
| February 11, 2012 at 7:53 pm #52344 | |
 Indigo | I think Sarah McLachlan is the biggest one for me. But I am probably influenced by many others and I am just not as aware of it. |
| February 12, 2012 at 11:11 pm #52959 | |
 Josh White | I’m never aware of the influences until other people tell me ‘this sounds like’… and then I admit they’re right. I don’t know why this happens. |
| February 13, 2012 at 1:40 am #53435 | |
 Fog | This is probably cliche but Emily Dickinson’s work has had a big influence on me. I get inspired by a lot music as well.
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| February 16, 2012 at 10:57 pm #55713 | |
 Mislav | Well, a bit of a cliche I guess but while I like a lot of poetry, I draw in mostly from Longfellow and Coleridge for my own stuff. Frost to an extent as well. I love how I always learn a new word each time a I read him and then have to use it as soon as possible. Whitman is my absolute favorite because of his thoughts and the way he flows but I can’t emulate his style for the love of me, it’s too “freeish” for my taste. Maybe eventually but I quite like having a box in which to put myself in. Yeah, I can get how many people are bored of constantly seeing ABAB, ABCB and the simple rhyme structures but I still adore them to death because they are just straightforward. |
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