Manifesto

Look. The Generation Poetry Project wants to undress the salad, perhaps? We believe that fundamental, asyetunknown, paradigmatic change is happening at a pace that requires nothinglessthan a response from our basest of codes. We believe that a new language is evolving, the young already fluent, fresh minds reaching out to grace and trace an environment we can barely see. We believe they encounter the world as it is, now, all the fragments, all the images, of our solid understandings, never having been whole to them, are entirely new, while we rollercoaster up and down our grand and prescriptive narratives expecting our stories to play out the way we were told. Beginning, middle, end, again. We believe our old stories are dead, that story itself is dead. This is an age of abstraction. We believe there is more to this new nowness than our heretofore superficial processes of parsing patterns can preform or project. This state of ignorance is where The Generation Poetry Project scaffold leans in and opens. The Generation Poetry Project is just beginning but we have been around forever.

Listen. We believe the generational shoe is fit for this purpose. We hold the Greatest Generation in our lens along with the Boom and Y. Hipsters Hippies Hackers Hopers. This is the perspective of X and we believe we share something ineffable with these young people as we ourselves mature into the elders of their young society. We believe we need to confront the future together. We believe we have been avoiding our responsibilities. Nonetheless we believe in non-linear time.    

Understand. That when it comes to Poetry, we too dislike it, but The Generation Poetry Project believes that doubt is a prelude to joy. Poetry is where we turn in our need to outline what overwhelms us. We use it to grasp what we cannot hold. Poetry gives form to the formless. since feeling is first, The Generation Poetry Project believes that the medium no longer need be the message, we R.

The Generation Poetry Project considers itself to be very likeable. Please join us in the poetics and pretence of playing at positive performance plus peering through pretty portals in the epoch of the panopticon.