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

[Jason Quackenbush]

I think this stuff is a big red herring. people get plenty of poetry. it's just now a days they get it from pop music rather than from books.

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0906/comment_178560.html
> 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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