Dana Levin, Poet

 

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No email address on the internet available for Dana Levin. So, I sent the above cartoon to the Great Brick Wall of Poets & Writers magazine, which interviewed/advertised Levin.  In fact, that magazine is nothing but a platform for smiley-face advertising of poets.  It incarnates "Poetry Is Dead."

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The Spineless

(For Poet Dana Levin, who incarnates this poem)

Those who buffer themselves 

from outside criticism, 

by, for example, 

keeping their contact info secret, 

tend to be weak, 

narcissistic—self-laudatory—, 

and ideologically conformed and confined.  

Just look at their me-me-me websites

—mere lists of their establishment credentials.

Such persons ought to stay the hell 

out of the limelight, 

instead of constantly seeking to be under it,

    ever slobbering for renown and anointment.   

Notes on “The Spineless”

From an idea— 

a taboo thought—, 

I tend to create a poem, 

which tends to render it

not a poem, 

though only in the eyes 

of the bards in control 

of the poetry establishment

—the money, the platforms, the positions.