[New-Poetry] Does Poetry Have A Social Function?

[JforJames at aol.com]

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Someone took a pot shot at Christopher Wiman recently, but I have
to say reading Poetry magazine has once again become a pleasure
under his editorship. He's doing some of the things that made  Countermeasures
(a short lived journal out of New Mexico) so fun to read...like creating a 
panel discussion around a particularly knotty question.
 
So does poetry have a social function? If so, why? If not, why
not?
 
Finnegan
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