The poem is abominable, but
Poetry has run wretched poems before. Take this abomination from a prominent architectural critic from the magazine's early days:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...er-two-windows
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, like Yoko Ono, was mostly known for something else, though her inclusion had less of a starf*cking quality than so much recent editorial practice under the Other Donald (as Kevin Higgins calls him). Does everything in
Poetry magazine suck? No. Has the overall trend in recent years been faddish, #woke, and increasingly dumbed-down? Hoo boy!
An amusing side note: Don Share has me blocked on Facebook and Twitter despite my never having directly interacted with him on either platform. I noticed, I think, when I curiously checked to see if there were any Tweets of the Damned about this colossus of contemporary poetry in the almost uniformly wretched Tavi Gevinson issue:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...222/fuck-stuck
It's easing up a bit, but the emails from the Poetry Foundation (I let my subscription lapse years ago) have been pretty good about alerting me to my New Least Favorite Thing on a monthly basis for some time now.