[New-Poetry] Questions on form

[Bob Grumman]

> Although with the options available to contemporary lyric poets i fail 
> to see why one would want to remain shackled to received forms and 
> meters.
You don't feel a poet can work with a received form and meter once in a 
while and at other times take advantage of the options available to 
contemporary lyric poets?

Also, to respond to the post of yours that asks about slam poets, I feel 
Bob Holman has very catholic taste, and seems supportive of all forms of 
poetry.  But, as a visual poet, I sympathize with the slam poets who 
think of themselves as a we against the them of Kooser, Bernstein and 
other Establishment Poets, most of whom  are as biased against poetry 
not like theirs as the slam poets you were referring to.

--Bob G.