Yeah, there seems to be the impression that because they're in college everything they write has to be deeply intellectual and world changing. And most of its not.
Heh, the most pretentious poem read there (I think anyway) was actually by a member of the faculty that was there. About a dead squirrel, and I don't know, just by the way he presented it, it seemed like he wanted us to be amazed and awed by it, like that was what poetry was supposed to be. It kind of annoyed me.
Not to say the whole night was bad, there was this one guy who wrote this amazing short story that sort of ended where it began. And it gave me shivers. He was also the one that actually had a question for everyone that turned the meeting into an actual discussion rather than a bunch of writers trying one-up eachother.
Anyway, thank you for you comment! It's nice to know that I wasn't being completely silly, and to be reminded that I won't forever be bombarded with pretentious crap. ;)
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Date: 2008-09-09 04:51 pm (UTC)Heh, the most pretentious poem read there (I think anyway) was actually by a member of the faculty that was there. About a dead squirrel, and I don't know, just by the way he presented it, it seemed like he wanted us to be amazed and awed by it, like that was what poetry was supposed to be. It kind of annoyed me.
Not to say the whole night was bad, there was this one guy who wrote this amazing short story that sort of ended where it began. And it gave me shivers. He was also the one that actually had a question for everyone that turned the meeting into an actual discussion rather than a bunch of writers trying one-up eachother.
Anyway, thank you for you comment! It's nice to know that I wasn't being completely silly, and to be reminded that I won't forever be bombarded with pretentious crap. ;)