Saturday, January 26, 2013

Coverage of 'the death of poetry' & 'too many poets' conversations


What follows are links to articles and counter-articles about "the death of poetry." I have also included articles about whether there are "too many" poets.  

• July 27, 2014: Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Laureates Are Any Indication - Jennifer Schuessler - New York Times
• June 20, 2013: Why Is Contemporary American Poetry So Good? - HuffPost Books - Seth Abramson
• June 20, 2013: Why Is Modern Poetry So Bad? - Washington Post - Ron Charles
• June/July 2013: Poetry Slam, Or, the decline of American Verse - Harper's - Mark Edmundson
• January 25, 2013: ‘Poetry is not dead,’ says poetry -- Washington Post -- Alexandra Petri
• January 23, 2013: A Journalist’s Derisive, Wan Opinion That Poetry Is Dead -- Poetry Foundation - Harriet Staff
• January 22, 2013: Open Letter to Alexandra Petri -- Coldfront magazine -- John Deming
• January 22, 2013: Is Poetry Dead? -- Washington Post -- Alexandra Petri
• November 29, 2012: "Too many poets, deja vu!" -- Squandermania and other foibles -- Don Share  
• November 28, 2012: "The Demographics of American Poetry" -- Boston Review -- Mike Chasar & Jed Rasula
• October 7, 2012: Poetry is dead and academics killed it -- The Rocky Mountain Collegian -- Hamilton Reed
• Sept. 12, 2012: The Poetry Factory: On Mass-Submission Culture -- VQR -- Sean Bishop 
• Sept. 11, 2012: Too many poets don't spoil the soup (or do they?) -- Squandermania and other foibles -- Don Share 
• Sept. 9, 2012: Too Many Writers: The Best Problem in Contemporary Poetry -- Bark -- Brett Ortler
• May/June: 2012: Poetry on the Brink -- Boston Review -- Marjorie Perloff 
 • April 10, 2012: Poetry is Dead. Long Live Poetry! -- Creative Research Center -- Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
• December 10, 2010: Is American Poetry at a Dead-End? -- Huffington Post
• January 18, 2010: Poetry Is Dead: What the hell happened? -- Poetry is Dead -- Daniel Zomparelli
• January 2006: Poetry in America: Report Summary -- Poetry Foundation 
• May 13, 2003: Once again, poetry is dead -- AboutPoetry -- Victor Infante
• May 4, 2003: Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care? -- Newsweek -- Bruce Wexler
• May 1991: Can Poetry Matter? -- The Atlantic Monthly -- Dana Gioia
• 1989: Death to the Death of Poetry -- Poets.org [originally in Harper's] -- Donald Hall
• August 1988: Who Killed Poetry? -- Commentary -- Joseph Epstein
• 1928 -- Is Verse a Dying Technique -- Edmund Wilson

Related:
• January 26, 2013: Ignoring black poetry and readers
• December 18, 2012: The demographics of African American Poetry

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