Is there something formally distinctive about American poetry?
Poetry in the United States reminds me of a thousand birds calling in millions of lights. Perhaps due to the general lack of support to sustain its value and condition its permanence, an unusual need surely exists here. The U.S. is one of a few countries in the world that isolates poetry and those that compose it, into reaches that seem deliberate entrapments, so that there is oftentimes an urgency beneath the work calling for attention to witnessing, acceptance, fairness, justice – whatever the need at hand. It seems to me poetry here is filled with this sense of, “Hey listen,” in the course of content pathway. Stated or implied, the call seems to permeate the field. What significance does popular culture possess in your sense of American poetry? Pop culture iconographically marks time and measures era. Each inclusion suggests reference and relative specification. Every suggestion invokes propensity occurring at a specific reveIing or grieving. Pop culture punctuates American poetry
