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

[TheOldMole]

It's bad, but it's not as bad as you think. I run a bulletin board on the internet for discussion of news issues, and the people who post there are not po-biz types, not academics, not slammers, not nothin' that we're told the entire poetry audience is. But there are people who love Carolyn Forche -- and not just "The Country Between Us." Every now and then I'll do something like -- as I did today -- post something like Snodgrass's "April Inventory," and get a response like 

Wonderful poem!!! I read it many years ago but barely remembered it. I never could have connected it to the author's name. Thanks for posting that, Mole.


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


  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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