Ten years ago, Dana Gioia published a book of essays called “Can Poetry Matter?” In the title essay, he made a compelling argument about the problem with poetry today: that it’s largely a fruitless endeavor taught by self-indulgent MFAs and studied by undergraduate creative writing majors, a group cloistered from the real world by the […]
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