I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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