“Without obvious fanfare, over the past 10 to 20 years a seismic change in publishing has occurred: Poetry has become our fastest-growing literary cottage industry, relying less on legions of editors in New York and elsewhere to shape literary tastes than on the energy and inventiveness of the poets themselves.”
The story of how poetry is alive and well thanks to poets who have “stopped whining about the death of art as we know it and embraced the new reality.”
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