Oh Poetry...

Words on the art of poetry and poetry scams from Jordan Davis and Joshua Corey, and more on MFAs from Gabe Gudding and in repsonse Ron Silliman. This is generally a topic folks want to avoid publicly it seems to me (though I once heard Franz Wright rant at length about the evil MFA programs to an audience full of high school students and poets at a festival)...oh, and Mary Burger on fiction in the New Yorker...