Re: Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of DÃ(c)tente f=?ISO-8859-1?Q?or=20Creative-Wri=20ting=20Programs ?=

[Bob Grumman]

AlMaginnes at aol.com wrote:
> If the work is really first rate, someone will see it and publish it. 
> No one ever asks where I went to school when I submit work somewhere.
Nor will they be able to tell MFA poetry, whether by a genuine MFA or 
not, from--well, what I compose.  Sure, some people think my work good 
enough to publish, but no paying publisher does.  No university press, 
either (in bookform).  I think the whole subject boils down to the 
incontestable fact that this country has a Poetry Establishment that is 
closed to all poetry except Wilshberian poetry and--now to a slowly 
increasing degree after years of careerist academic machinations, 
language poetry.  The MFA programs are part of this.

But it's nothing new.  And establishments never prevail forever.  I see 
signs that visual poetry will seep into the establishment as language 
poetry has.  It's much more difficult because visual poetry requires a 
rarer kind of mind to appreciate than language poetry, a mind at home in 
both the visual and the verbal.

--Bob
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