[New-Poetry] mo natterin' bout po no matterin'

[JforJames at aol.com]

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American Poetry in the New Century 
by John Barr

 
The need for something new is evident. Contemporary poetry's  striking 
absence from the public dialogues of our day, from the high school  classroom, from 
bookstores, and from mainstream media, is evidence of a people  in whose mind 
poetry is missing and unmissed. You can count on the fingers of  one hand the 
bookstores in this country that are known for their poetry  collections. A 
century ago our newspapers commonly ran poems in their pages;  fifty years ago 
the larger papers regularly reviewed new books of poetry. Today  one almost 
never sees a poem in a newspaper; and the new poetry collections  reviewed in the 
New York Times Book Review are down to a few a year. A  general, interested 
public is poetry's foremost need.  

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