What is 'bad-assery'? More than simply a mood, tone, theme, or mechanical approach, surreptitiously, imperceptibly this new verve far beyond the quaint, drawing-room politeness of traditional verse has taken hold of the poem and shaken it free from its place as artistic expression of rarified intellectualism and mollycoddle elitism. No longer is the poet everyone, as Walt Whitman claimed, but everyone is a poet; now being a bard is no-holds-barred. And with this, arguably, has come greater vulnerability, honesty and perceptiveness as well as a will to treat all of life in contemporary verse, while also breaking down poetry's performative pretenses. This reading brings together three of the finest practitioners of Bad-assery today, Annmarie O'Connell, Andreas Fleps and Phill Provance, for a reading of their work followed by a discussion what Bad-assery and the Bad-ass means for poetry today and in the future.
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