Open
Letter to Poetry editors Christian Wiman, Don Share, and Fred Sasaki, as well
as Valerie Jean Johnson:
A satirical cartoon on Poetry magazine (Eliza
Griswold) is currently posted on The American Dissident blogsite (seewwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com). Will you actually be
curious… or like most average-Joe poets incurious? Of
course, I’ll probably never know. No
matter.
The fundamental flaw with
Poetry magazine is that its editors refuse to publish harsh criticism with its
regard, as well as with that of the established-order poetry milieu in
general. Byron and Pope hit the poet
laureate of their time with sledgehammers, but Poetry mag would never publish poems
like theirs today relative to one of our laureates.
The PC-multiculti
dogma reigns at Poetry, where ostracism and banning under the guise of
moderation are currently effected.
Apathy to ostracism and banning has become a pitiful trait of today’s
poets. The Academy of American Poets not
only censored my comments after having posted them, but also banned me, a poet,
from participating in its poet forums.
Do you care? It is highly
unlikely that you do or, at best, would justify the censorship and
banning. Poetry Foundation has
ostracized The American Dissident from its vast network in refusing to list the
journal with other literary journals listed.
In a nutshell,
censorship, banning, and ostracism form your protective cocoon, making it
happy-face bland and PC safe. You
represent that shameful aspect of far too many poets in America today.
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