Joe Amato

ROUNDTABLE RESPONSES TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Ange Mlinko, Annie Finch, Barry Schwabsky, Bill Freind, Daisy Fried, Dale Smith, David Lau, David Orr, Don Share, Eric Lorberer, Joe Amato, Johannes Göransson, John Beer, John Bradley, John Latta, Kristin Prevallet, Mark Halliday, Mark Wallace, Maureen McLane, Michael Robbins, Michael Theune, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Rebecca Porte, Richard Owens, Robert Archambeau, Robert Baird, Rodrigo Toscano, Scott Esposito, Stephen Burt, Tim Atkins, Tom Orange, V. Joshua Adams

: : V. Joshua Adams : : Joe Amato : : Robert Archambeau : : Tim Atkins : : Robert Baird : : John Beer : : John Bradley : : Stephen Burt : : Scott Esposito : : Annie Finch : : Bill Freind : : Daisy Fried : : Johannes Göransson : : Mark Halliday : : John Latta : : David Lau : : Eric Lorberer […]

JOE AMATO’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Joe Amato

At first blush, Kent Johnson’s proposal makes a lot of sense. Problem: how to reenergize the review mechanism, which — as Johnson has it — suffers from the puffery of academic poet-careerists who are only too willing to forgo genuine critique for the chance to gain a leg up in the poetry lottery. Though Johnson’s […]