Actually I was hoping for a more critical response to form and content in contemporary US and UK poetry. That is why I posted in Musing on Mastery rather than General Talk.
Does anyone in this room read any poetry other than their own or what appears on the Eratosphere workshops?
Is the poetry floating out of the publishing houses and clouds about navel fluff, or national politics, or the working class, or weighty existential queries and meditations?
Is contemporary work formal, or humorous, or spread out all over the page, a kind of connect-the-words?
Does it arrive from a publishing house or self-published on a cloud?
Are poets channeling the old masters or assembling structures from refrigerator magnets?
Do poets borrow poetry at the library, or buy poetry from some source--what source?
Do poets actively seek out new work or just routinely "like" on social media?
What poetry do you think gets the most reads--poetry of past or contemporary elite/recognized or the smallish poetry pal constellations?
Do aspiring poets care about anyone's poetry except their own?
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