Dale Favier has written a wonderful post over at his blog, Mole. He asks and answers compelling questions, telling us ” … once again, we are writing in small circles. We are publishing our poems in human-scale numbers: editions of a dozen or a hundred copies. We are talking to each other in poetry.”
He suggests that while there may be more poetry than we “need,” it is a wonderful thing (unless you want to be a “good poet” of the essential kind, memorialized in anthologies of the best of, or even one that makes money).
“The floodgates are open, and we’re swimming in poetry.”
Enjoy the entirety of Dale’s essay — there is more rich material than we can recount here.
