There has also never before been so much published criticism about contemporary poetry; it fills dozens of literary newsletters and scholarly journals. Page 1 of Can Poetry Matter? - 91.05 23 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm 11/10/2003
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Just under a thousand new collections of verse are published each year, in addition to a myriad of new poems printed in magazines both small and large. No one knows how many poetry readings take place each year, but surely the total must run into the tens of thousands. And there are now about 200 graduate creative-writing programs in the United States, and more than a thousand undergraduate ones...
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