[New-Poetry] NatPoMo

[TheOldMole]

I'm not convinced by the argument that if fewer people respond to 
something, it must ipso facto be more challenging.

Bob Grumman wrote:
>
>     I would also want to resist caricaturing mainstream poetry as
>     merely "easy-listening," as Bernstein and others persistently do. 
>     --David Graham
>      
>     But it is unarguably easy listening compared to language poetry
>     and visual poetry, the latter because it is apparently hard for
>     most people to appreciate anything, however simple, that uses two
>     or more expressive modalities; it is also hard, apparently, for
>     most people, to appreciate minimalism--which is intellectually
>     easy but aesthetically difficult.
>      
>     --Bob G.
>
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Tad Richards
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