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

[Jason Quackenbush]

i'm maybe inordinately proud of the fact that i don't think either publication would consider printing anything of mine. i find both of them skull 
crushingly boring, and as far as i can tell christian wiman and the influx of cash have only managed to make Poetry more irrelevant than it was before.

Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Well, Finnegan, over the years APR has published quite a ferw of my 
> poems & Poetry has published exactly zero, so you could say I'm biased. 
> I disagree about APR, though.
> 
> jd
> 
> On 1/2/07, *JforJames at aol.com <mailto:JforJames at aol.com>* 
> <JforJames at aol.com <mailto:JforJames at aol.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In a message dated 1/2/2007 2:07:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>     duemer at gmail.com <mailto:duemer at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>         Wimin's panel looks a lot like the Iraq Study Group to me. A
>         group of eminences whose conclusions are known before they
>         begin. With neither side of the debate, ultimately paying any
>         attention to them. Political Kabuki at Poetry Magazine.
>          
> 
>     To quibble, Joe, I wouldn't call any of that crew an 'eminence'. In
>     the big circulation poetry
>     mags of which there are only two, the APR rag is looking more tired
>     these days. Poetry
>     more full of spit and vinegar than I can ever remember it. Either it
>     was Wiman's doing or the
>     Lilly heiress' cash...but something's changed in Chicago other than
>     the address of
>     their offices.
>     Finnegan
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> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
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