"Locating the poetry in worldly information, and locating worldly information inside poems, might not be easy, but if contemporary poetry is to claim the status of ongoing relevance, it must interest itself in the stuff of mortgage crisis, insurgency sponsorship, and lithium batteries." - Tony Hoagland
I’d add social media to Hoagland’s list of “worldly …
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