Prose by Dave Read

I don’t know if any of these qualify as “essays,” but, I know they ain’t poems!

• Defund Poetry, Inc.
• Letter from an American poet
• On the bestowal of laurels
• Annals of American Poetry Authority
• What American poetry is
• How to be a poet
• Bob Dylan and the tyranny of prize
• Insurrection at Oswego, the place where it happened!
• Republican code talkers
• Red Mob Blue Mob