Billy Collins says we need better poets in the US: “There’s an awful lot of bad poetry out there. I’d say about 87 percent of the poetry in America isn’t worth reading.” Collins may be right–the question is who makes up that 13%. And that’s the debate that makes up about 90% of what gets blogged about in poetry.
Speaking of that debate, Stan Apps dissects the latest issue of Poetry. I dare say he and Collins would disagree on what’s considered “good poetry.”
The latest (last?) from T.R. Hummer’s The Education of This Poet series he did for Linebreak.
Finally, Barbara Jane Reyes on the MFA Industrial Complex. I love that term.
