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PAUL E NELSON

The Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation

Dispatches from the Poetry Wars was a great little, shit-stirring website that reminded us that poetry wars are ongoing and critical, if they lead to dialog. Community happens only when there is real dialog and I feel like Dispatches was a community. Still is, in many...

Left. Egalitarian. Sandernista.

In an essay I wrote ten years ago (!) I compared subcultures in North America to make a point about poetry cultures. The essay is Changing a Culture: (A Look at Cultural Modernism and Free Market Verse).  In it I allude to Modernist culture and my inspiration for that...