{"id":5936,"date":"2018-11-07T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:15:40","slug":"the-future-of-poetry-by-tj-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/the-future-of-poetry-by-tj-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Poetry by TJ Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6040\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_7326-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kicking off the panel, the moderator, Dami Ajayi asks the panelists, Theresa Lola, Wana Udobang, Inua Ellams, Logan February and Ishion Hutchinson what is responsible for the global dwindling of poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6041 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_7297-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logan February opines that there is a revival which he believes is good. He however acknowledges the fact that poetry is not like other genres of art. \u201cPoetry,\u201d he says, \u201cis an art form that forces the audience to think.\u201d Poetry for him, demands introspection, so the question is, who is the audience? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6043\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_7298-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wana Udobang says she does not think poetry is dwindling. She believes poetry is taking other forms, morphing into new things. She mentions that people are doing poetry in films and performing it in theatres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6044\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_7305-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ishion Hutchinson says poetry always addresses posterity and it is impossible to project posterity in a present moment. He acknowledges that it has never had commercial value, because what is marketed cannot be sold. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theresa believes the future of poetry involves having more mediums. She observes that companies and international organizations are now using poetry in advert campaigns. She believes that poetry would eventually become mainstream\u2014not in the sense of losing its quality if artists are careful to protect the craft\u2014but in the sense of gaining wider audience as it travels through new mediums. She shares an example of poets in the UK being invited to teach poetry in schools and how their enthusiasm with students has sparked a renewed interest in poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6045\" src=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_7334-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>When asked whether the future of poetry lies in performance poetry or page poetry, Inua Ellams replies that poetry is the future of poetry to a riotous applause.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Kicking off the panel, the moderator, Dami Ajayi asks the panelists, Theresa Lola, Wana Udobang, Inua Ellams, Logan February and Ishion Hutchinson what is responsible for the global&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-style\" href=\"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/the-future-of-poetry-by-tj-benson\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-34"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Poetry by TJ Benson - Ake Arts &amp; 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