![]() ![]() It explains the loss of audience, with everybody talking and nobody listening. It explains the rise of the seminar, MFA and Creative Writing course, creating more and more "poets" who can't tell verse from free verse, let alone free verse from prose. It explains the expansion of poetry's definition to include forgettable poetry-prose and doggerel that even the author couldn't be bothered to memorize. It explains the vanity press (too expensive in centuries past) and the "showcase" website. ![]() It explains the blurbosphere with its absence of real criticism. This, and nothing else, explains the concentration on production. It treats poetry as a conversation in which everyone gets their chance to speak. The open mic is, as far as it goes, a rather accurate reproduction of poetry's origin: cave-dwellers meeting around a fire and telling stories. There are at least two ways to interpret this famous statement literally: ![]()
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