tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post4119963279082854759..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Patronage??!King Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-11740401675741340742010-09-08T06:25:33.747-07:002010-09-08T06:25:33.747-07:00Note Seth's response to a comment I made at hi...Note Seth's response to a comment I made at his blog. He restricts the matter to POETRY-- when clearly what I'm talking about is the sad fate of the American short story.<br />The poetry scene IS fairly healthy today-- outside the academy. Academic poetry, of the kind which appears in standard university lit journals, is terrible. Anyone who attends an academic reading, and compares it to "street" open mics, can immediately see the difference.<br />********************<br />All one has to do, though, is read Seth's main post regarding writing programs to see the mentality at work with the professionalization of lit, and how it deforms literature. Look at the language! This is the apparatchik mentality.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.com