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Ars poetica

The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.

Word to the Wise

Makers make, they make their way solo, like Moby Dick.
In the furrows of their wakes collect professors, who
chum the waters and tease fingerlings into schools –

The New York School, Nuyorican,
New Formalist, Imagist, Symbolist,
Fauvist, Futurist, 3rd Wave Feminist…

Regimes need schools, they are the machines
of their perpetuation. Beware the whirrrrr, and know
the humdrum noise will hurt your ear and make you sick.

Dave Read

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