Poetry as we know it—sonnets or free verse on a printed page—feels akin to throwing pottery or weaving quilts, activities that continue in spite of their cultural marginality. But the Internet, with its swift proliferation of memes, is producing more extreme forms of modernism than modernism ever dreamed of.
In the New Yorker, poet Kenneth Goldsmith analyzes new forms of poetry surfacing online, which might possibly be replacing traditional structures. Turns out there’s much more to it than meets the eye.
