Streaming verse: Looking into the mirror

In this article, I investigate the way multiple contemporary poets incorporate medium of television and its many genres into their poems. take as a starting point continuing centrality in culture seeks to both represent understand itself examine that poetry takes on challenge addressing ubiquitous medium. By incorporating responding mass media, is likewise seeking poet’s place within it. examining texts by Susan Stewart, Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine Bianca Stone, consider appearance mythologising force and, age 24-hour news live streaming, ambient noise, while ways these move between description, critical observation interpretation, active mimesis. slippage approaches, we see undertaking act ‘audiencing’ (Turnbull, 2020, p. 13), shifting passive modes engagement.