Are hip-hop lyrics poetry?

Read and discuss:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/12/06/101206crat_atlarge_sanneh

GQ Asks: What Does Your Tie Knot Say About You?

by Gena Parsons

i think if you had worn

your tie in a double windsor

i might have loved you a little

bit more. silk sliding against silk

sliding against an overly starched

collar. i want, maybe, to see

you loosen your tie in

frustration- but this has nothing

to do with planets orbiting the sun

which have nothing to do with the

way you offered to pay for

dinner or how you squeezed

my hand and leaned in to

whisper that your suit is

genuine armani

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           Strange Commons is a blog managed by Lawrence University's Tropos Literary Magazine. It will feature works submitted by students that include fiction, poetry, art, and anything that engages the artistic imagination, whether it be a scribble or a rant.

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