Question about Censorship?

[PeterL]

I totally agree. Some modern poetry looks like it could have been written by anybody who's literate.
With the classic poems, you can see the degree of craft and skill, the way they use rhyme effectively and they don't just eschew it because they'd have to face up to the fact that they aren't that good.

Too much of modern poetry is like poorly written prose that is chopped up in peculiar ways so that people will think that maybe it isn't prose. Meter and rhyme aren't just pretty affectations, they are methods for emphasizing words, and they can be very effective.

[Virgil]

What do you think Lit-Net?
Should an artist be responsible, to a certain extent, to the audience/host, and avoid something where it may not be appropriate?

An artist has the right (in a free country presumably) to write or create whatever he so wishes. But the publisher or distributer or purchaser has to the right to discriminate in what he so chooses to publish, distribute, or purchase. The owner of that cafe has every right to establish what type of art he wishes to present on his property.

If those peots want to read their poetry, let them buy their own cafe.

Otherwise i can force you to buy my book. Wanna buy it?

[Ashbe Maeur]

I agree with what you said - if there are going to be poems of that nature read, then there should be some disclosure to the general audience. There's nothing wrong with allowing them to read their poetry, but maybe the owner could set up some type of special night for the individuals who feel that they need to write in this way.