[Michael Cantor]

I am sick and tired of people writing about people writing about people writing about people writing about poetry, and we appear to have a fresh outbreak on the Sphere recently on this and several other threads. You want to be a poet? Write poems! Write whatever you personally regard as poems. Bounce them off some people you trust, find a local group you feel comfortable with, work with Eratosphere or equivalent. The focus should be on writing, not on blathering on about the future of poetry, the meaning of poetry, the end of poetry.