Sometimes I Still Publish Things

Like this essay about poetry's stuck-in-the-mud aspirational self-help culture

First is a huge ‘thank you’ to The Point for ensuring that this saw publication.

This is an essay that sprung up out of “the tweet” from last year that provoked a lot of discomfort in the literary world.

Danielle Rose 🇺🇸 @danirosepoet

I wish poets understood that the general population has no interest in what we do, so when we speak we are speaking only to each other. The delusion that poetry is something powerful is a straight line to all kinds of toxic positivities that are really just us lying to ourselves.

You can read the essay here.