Poetry has been moved to aisle 12, between the get-well cards and the pantyhose.
Consumers are understandably tentative.
Assistant Professor of English Bob Perelman received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and came to Penn in 1990. Perelman teaches courses in contemporary poetry and theory, American literature from 1900-1940, and modernism. His most recent critical book, The Marginalization of Poetry, is due out from Princeton University Press this year. But this kind of support for the arts is crucial to jump start many programs. I come from the small-press poetry world.