If Walt Whitman Vlogged - The New Yorker. What does it mean to be an Internet poet?
Since 2010, Steve Roggenbuck, a twenty-six-year-old who lives in rural Maine, has been producing poetry that is made, distributed, and viewed almost exclusively on the Web, taking the form of tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, and image macros. He became best known for a series of videos that are a mix of Walt Whitman and Ryan Trecartin, showing Roggenbuck either in bare apartments or out in the forest, manically improvising poems that celebrate the cosmos and our place in it. 11 ways race isn’t real. It was surprising — and, to many, annoying — to learn that Raven Symoné, the brown-skinned girl who played the adorable youngest character on TV's seminal black sitcom, The Cosby Show, doesn't consider herself "African-American.
" (In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, she said she thought of herself as "a colorless person. ") This, of course, does not mean that the concept of race isn't hugely important in our lives. Although race isn't real, racism certainly is. Symoné ultimately responded to those who'd called her comments misguided or tone deaf, clarifying in a statement to theGrio.com, "I never said I wasn't black. " Mentalgassi. PopMatters. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. We don't tell you what to think. The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and life – TheAtlantic.com.
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