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Rap might not be poetry to most literature professors or the Academy of American Poets, but I would ask them what poetry is. I licked up some definitions online of what poetry actually is. Poetry is a means of expression. Poets use language to express an idea: to make it tangible in a form that can be shared. That is why we say that books, paintings, musical compositions and films are poetic. Some modern poets claim that poetry is a way to access the individual and colle