A recently posted article by Austen Rosenfeld, “Why Billy Collins is America’s Most Popular Poet,” points out pertinent thoughts about poetry today. Mainly, has academia hijacked the art of poetry or is it alive and well but mutilated in the public sector? But we’re missing the point. The poetry world has never provided much direction […]
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