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Beyond McPoetry: Contemporary American Poetry in the Institutionalized Creative Writing Program Era

Porter, Julie LaRue2012

… modeled largely after Graham's. Next, I consider Billy Collins' aggressive courting of the general reader of poetry as an antidote to academe's exclusion of non-specialist readers. I argue that Collins' impressive popularity and subversive tendencies serve as a counterweight to the literary …

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