Cultural Isolation

[fibitz]

I attribute the public decline in appreciation of poetry in the U.S. mainly to one phenomenon: the academization of poetry journals. The rise in MFA-to say nothing of Ph.D.-creative writing programs has created a cottage industry of academic literary journals that generally do not pay their contributors and do not market outside academia-or at all

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academic poetry, vs. the stuff people actually read

[geoffrey_landis]

I blogged about this a little over at clevelandpoetics: there's too much money in poetry