“to poets everywhere” — a short brief on Red Brick Keshner’s public post
A concise guide to the post-pub reaction and the central themes Red Brick Keshner addresses: satire, indignation, and the economic pressures that shape contemporary poetry.
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Red Brick Keshner’s piece combines comic edge and righteous indignation to criticize those who commodify art.
The post frames poetry as both creative expression and an economic struggle against scammers, spammers, and market pressures.
The post appears on Write Out Loud, a community site that invites donations to support poetry outreach.
The useful part
It treads the comic edge of poetic injustice, railing against the vultures in wolf's garb who see art not as soul-work, but as leverage, a means to pecuniary ends. Behind the laughter and the lyrical punchlines lies a sharper truth: to write is to survive the very world that tries to commodify the voice that dares to speak. It stings and sings at once and no one could accuse this poet of going quietly.
How it works
- In the last 24hrs I have read Ginsberg's Howl multiple uncountable times...It still ties me up and spits me out mind fucked.
- I am very much enjoying all your work atm, my apologies for not saying so more often.
- learn how your donation helps Echoes: 'a glorious anthology...
- Thanks for speaking out against the outrage of scammers and spammers and the like.
- As always, RBK 🙏🏻🕊️ David RL Moore Fri 18th Sep 2026 14:06 Hi RBK, I like this very much, I am not going to tell you particularly why.
What to take from it
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Details worth keeping
to poets everywhere | Write Out Loud Changing lives through poetry. Other than to say I felt it and it rang bells. I am fond of a little righteous indignation myself.
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