Thousands of years of history show that there will always be a poet around who survives by the joy of making. It is this conviction that keeps magazines like Sparrow publishing sonnets, serious criticism, music scores. We keep the memory thriving, and our public finds us despite the noise of academic advertising. In some ways, art has always been a commodity. The problem in modern society is advertising, not buying and selling.
Advertising drowns out the competition, and our creative writing programs are so much advertising.