In response to David Biespiel’s essay in this month’s Poetry Magazine, Gregory Cowles investigates whether or not poets have a place in civic life:
I had some fun substituting “pipe fitter” for “poet” throughout Biespiel’s essay (“As go America’s pipe fitters, so goes American democracy”), because, really, shouldn’t everyone be more engaged? And I’m not sure [...]
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David Biespiel, in this week’s Poetry Wire, is taking on lyric poetry. He offers up ten observations, and then asks for yours, dear reader, in the comments section. ‘ A Sample: I know, just by titling this piece — “What Is Lyric Poe... Read Post
Over at the Rumpus, David Biespiel is being inundated. “All of a sudden my inbox is filling up with links from friends to two essays related to poetry that have almost everything and nothing in common at once, and whose implications... Read Post
The Huffington Post picked up Biespiel’s feature in this month’s Poetry magazine, “This Land is Your Land,” and some of the HuffPo readers have taken issue with his claim that “American poetry and America’s poets remain amazingly in... Read Post