If Patton Oswalt is making fun of poetry, doesn't that mean that poetry is hip? Kind of? I mean, he name drops Kay Ryan ("a fearsome, Sapphic wordsmith"), Stanley Kunitz, Wallance Stevens, and Hart Crane!
I'm a poet and a graduate of the University of Michigan's MFA program. In 1998, a monkey touched me and changed my life. In 2009 a bear did the same. And now you know.
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