Best American Poetry 2007: The Cartoon

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Against Identity Poetry, For Possibility

Rigid Scholarship on Male Sexuality

ESSAY
Revisiting the Canon Wars
By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: September 16, 2007
Two decades after Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” it’s generally agreed that his multiculturalist opponents won the canon wars.

So I know

BOOKS
80-Year-Old Poet for the MTV Generation
By MELENA RYZIK
Published: August 27, 2007
John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet known for his dense, postmodern style, has been selected as MtvU’s first poet laureate.

"Working Class Hero"*

On Promoting Poetry

Revolution song

In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers. His work is still causing controversy

James Campbell

Saturday August 4, 2007

The Guardian