User:William P. Coleman

Modernist poetry has a See also, several of whose references to national schools are themselves are not yet even stubs but would need to be created.

It also cites two perhaps unnecessarily competing lists: List of modernist poets and List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers. Both of these lists are exclusively English-language, and both indiscriminately mix precursors, high modernists, late modernists, and post-modernists. They should be reorganized into list(s) that are international and that give the reader some idea of chronology and of specific movements.

I think the main article should be international and make general comparisons and contrasts, while the national articles should describe chronology and movements within each country.

I'd start by researching names of poets suggested by Marjorie Perloff in the course of an article on anthologies that mentions which modernist poets she feels belong where:

there was little doubt as to the position of the Great Modernist Precursors. True, one could quarrel as to the relative merits of Robert Frost or of e. e. cummings, true such forgotten women poets as Mina Loy and Laura Riding Jackson had not yet been rediscovered. But whose list did not include Eliot and Pound, Stevens and Williams, Moore and H.D., Gertrude Stein and Hart Crane? Add to these the English poet Auden, the French Valéry and Reverdy, Apollinaire and Cendrars, the German Rilke, Trakl, and Brecht, the Spanish Lorca, and Argentinian Neruda, and you have a pretty fixed notion of what Modernism-in-Poetry would look like. . . . such 'forerunners' of Modernism as Blake, Hölderlin, Dickinson and Rimbaud through the Futurisms, Dada, Surrealism, and Objectivism . . .

Others:

• Russians: Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Symbolism, Valery Bryusov, Maximilian Voloshin, Osip Mandelstam, Acmeist poetry, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova
• Americans: Fugitives (poets)
• English: Yvor Winters, Cecil Day-Lewis, Cecil Day-Lewis#A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940 (1941), Cecil Day-Lewis#The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955 (1956), Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender
• French: Rimbaud and modern culture, Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire
• Spanish and Latin American:
• Italian:
• Polish:
• German: Hermann Hesse, Paul Celan, Expressionism

• • Gay teen suicide. There's currently an article teenage suicide that has problems, IMHO.
    • It's far too cold and impersonal, even for an encyclopedia article. No teenager thinking of suicide would be even slightly deterred.
    • Its mention of LBGT teens is too buried to be very noticeable.
    • I don't know how good the chances are that any suicidal teenager, LGBT or not, would happen to stumble on it.
  • Homeless LGBT youth. My search doesn't reveal anything about thise topic, although there are reputable studies in the past year showing an "epidemic."
    • The Task Force study shows "LGBT youth: epidemic of homelessness — Of 1.6 million homeless American youth, 20-40% are LGBT. Why do they become homeless? 26% of gay teens who come out to parents/guardians are told to leave home. More suffer physical, sexual, or emotional abuse."
    • A newer study by Empire State Coalition says 3,800 people under 25 live on streets of NY, and 30% are LGBT. This is 3 times the % of NY’s LGBT community. 42% sleep on streets, in subways or empty buildings. Some turn to prostitution to spend the night.
  • I don't know if we have findable articles that give information about and access to the many services helping gay teens or empowering them to help themselves against abuse or discrimination at home, in school, or in later life.
  • A more subtle problem is that -- even without overt abuse or discrimination -- it's emotionally hard growing up LGBT: figuring yourself out, coming to have a sense that you can build an emotionally fulfilling life in this world. We could have articles that are not recruitment and not counseling -- but that (within the boundaries of factual reporting) let teens know that they're not alone, that others feel these things and that there is a variety of possibilities and opportunities for a variety of people.
  • I'd be glad to help out with these social service issues (I do know links to a number of resources) but I would need collaborative help, due to the following deficiencies:
    • I'm not exactly super-proficient as a Wikipedia editor.
    • I'm not experienced in fending off the local variety of homophobes.
    • I don't know zip about social work or counseling in any formal way.
    • Although I was once a teenager, it was back around the year 1810 and I'm a little out of touch.

In some ways, their message now seems out-of-date, with changing conditions and changes in the attitude of youth. However, there's also something timeless in their call for respecting the freedom of the individual and the dignity of young people.

Although I'm not a sociologist or educator, I would like to work on expanding coverage of the publications of both these men, and I'd be grateful for any help.