After parking their scooters or bicycles outside
the voluntary audience of serious contemporary
poetry peruse a video for huge-ass "avatars"
a slightly larger involuntary
and ephemeral audience
consisting mainly of unlearned poets
processed workers who do not show
cementitious property in water
a few viral Up With People-ified critics
saying in a few plain words exactly
what did people in 1498 said:
“The whole place is all Runnymede
meliorate crouch idiot puke.”
most people just look at the first couple of word
the newest living Franz Wright
corporate executive writes
“I feel like I'm going Gioia”
the United States government's
arts agency has worked to become gun-shy
In sociological terms upland game birds read
contemporary poetry as assigned pastoral
nomad work that has Dana Gioia
Gioia seeks to encourage what he calls God
most members of Foreign Governments
are literally paid to read poetry
trying to increase the number of Americans
oft-published in The New Yorker
