[New-Poetry] Big Bucks in Poetics

[Bob Grumman]

My final belief on this topic has always been that to be a great poet 
you have to compose great poetry AND somehow make a fraction of the 
literate public admiringly aware of it.  In a fair world those good at 
the first and terrible at the second would make at least ten percent of 
the money those terrible at the first but terrific at the second make.  
It'd be nice to live in a world in which non-poets believing themselves 
to be dedicated to supporting poetry actually tried to do that instead 
of writing, as critics, about poetry other critics have been writing 
about for a decade or more (although not necessarily about /poets/ other 
critics have been dealing with) or, as tradesmen in the arts, published 
or otherwise trying commercially to exploit something other than what 
other publishers have been publishing or otherwise pushing for a decade 
or more, or, as patrons, bestowed grants and fellowships on poets who 
have not been getting them for a decade or more--or writing just like 
them. 

--Bob G.

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