[New-Poetry] Does Most Contemporary American Poetry Have To Be Chopped-Line Prose?

[Judy Prince]

I should have finished that question with...."in order to be considered
acceptable"?
Is it that American poets now feel that the best poetry is prose that has
been line-chopped just short of bumping into the right-margin as prose does?

Is it that American poets now feel that poetry is prose....that there is
really no difference between the two?

Is it that American poets now feel that poetry is a short story?

Is it that there are no or few American POETS now?  Have 'they' disappeared,
mutated, their work morphing back to prose because that is the Choice of
Most Contemporary American Poets?

Shall we who do not consider ourselves contemporary American poets ONLY
because we do not think, and I mean this most fervently, that poetry is the
same as prose with chopped line endings, just keep writing poetry but wait
for a couple decades until poetry is considered poetry again in order for
our work to be acknowledged?

Am I becoming the new Bob Grumman?

Best,

earnest Judy
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