Hope for the Future

Tonight was our YA Cafe Poetry Slam at the library and I must say it was a truly amazing evening of verse and  meta.  I was far more impressed by the poets that the kids were reading as opposed to the verse they were writing.  It's strange to see teens passionately discussing Blake and Milton.  And getting it.   We even had a debate about the significance of symbolism and the author's intent.  I was shocked. 

At their age, I was into reading cummings, Bukowski, Kerouac,  and Ginsberg.   Of course,  when I was their age, I also used the phrase "(insert person's name here)'s going to be the first person up against the wall when the revolution comes" on a daily basis.