How do we move minds? How do we place HATE WITH LOVE? The answer is POETRY, and specifically poetry that connects us back to our higher selves, or who we once knew ourselves to be as children.
Where can you find such work? It is here in THE ROMANTIC SERIES! My Fourteen-Volume collection, which honors the English Romantic Poets, beginning with Wordsworth, and concluding with the Bluestocking women of the age.
The Romantic Series, and all my work in truth, has two goals:
1) To increase Poetry’s cachet (how much it is valued)
2) To benefit all of humanity.
HOW THE PERCEPTION OF POETRY HAS CHANGED OVER TIME
Poetry was once seen as a great art, and indeed Titian and other painters, along with Arisoto, had a lengthy debate as to which was the higher art form, painting or poetry. They concluded that both were of equal significance. In our era, painting is still esteemed in some circles, while poetry (unless you are in that intimate coterie of people who receive numerous monetary accolades, of which there are very few) is not. This leaves the majority who would acknowledge work of merit standing outside, shuffling our feet in the cold.
THE GAP
The gap they (the poetic publishing community, and others) have cunningly created leaves most outside. And indeed they have fashioned a homogenous, confined, and purposefully constructed elite circle. The very opposite of the ideals of the Romantics and the poem which my mother recited to me as a child:
He drew a circle that shut me out–
Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
A VERY UNPOETIC RESULT
At the same time, those inside it sneer at those without. This does not sound very welcoming, does it? Worse, it creates a lessening so that those who would read and support poetry do not, and those who do sit within their cramped Salons, penning polemics at any who dare breach the divide, while feasting greedily on their gains, counting their followers, subscribers, reveling in others’ downfall, all the though knowing that the work they are promoting and producing is inferior, and is not reaching the greater reading public.
Sounds horrid, doesn’t it?
Yet, my second goal, to benefit all of humanity, addresses the first goal, because it is INCLUSIVE, rather than EXCLUSIVE.
WE CAN HAVE A ROMANTIC CONCLUSION!
So, you may ask, how does poetry benefit me, let alone humanity? The answer is simple:
Poetry rewires the brain, opening long-dormant channels and flooding them, and reawakening emotions such as compassion, kindness towards others, courage, and love.
Poetry (like music, where it all began) is a well-known panacea for those suffering from dementia (such as Alzheimers’)
Poetry increases attention spans, something that, due to this age of tech, is truncated in most.
HOW DOES THE ROMANTIC SERIES ACCOMPLISH THIS?
The Romantic Series interweaves free verse and metrical forms to reach a wider audience, while excluding NO ONE.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I am passionate about this, something the Romantics would understand, because I truly believe the key to saving humanity from the death knell of Nihilism is POETRY.
However, I cannot do this without you!
I think Humanity is worth it, don’t you?
So, if you believe these goals are worthy, please join the campaign: PLEDGE, COMMENT, SHARE AND FOLLOW! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Aria Ligi 
