Also see Charles Bernstein's site at the Electronic Poetry Center. Oh, and if you'd like to read some poetry anyway, check out our poetry catalog , with links to lots of excerpts. But it's my creed That these songs yield No value at the commencing Only later, when one earns it. Then perhaps we could designate August as National Unpopular Poetry Month. This program is intended to promote safe reading experiences and is based on ARF's founding principle that safe poetry is the best prophylactic against aesthetic experience.
Free poetry is never free, nor is free verse without patterns.
As if poetry will turn people off to poetry. The kind of poetry I want is not a happy art with uplifting messages and easy to understand emotions. I want a poetry that's bad for you. Certainly not the kind of poetry that Volkswagen would be comfortable about putting in every new car it sells, which, believe it or not, is a 1999 feature of the Academy's National Poetry Month program. The most desirable aim of the Academy's National Poetry Month is to increase the sales of poetry books.