[New-Poetry] Dark Horses

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Sun Dec 7 12:10:23 EST 2008


Linda Sue Grimes wrote:
> What are the criteria for determining an "Establishment" vs a 
> "Non-establishment" poet? 
>  
> lsg
That's easy: an establishment poet is a poet who is doing nothing in his 
poetry that wasn't commonly done fifty or more years ago by American 
poets.  Another definition: a poet whom many English professors would 
claim to admire, or an imitator of such a poet.

--Bob G.

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