THE ’60s IN POETRY

An upcoming academic conference on poetry in the 1960s gives one of the first glimpses at “how the academy – or at least the progressive/experimental poetry wing of the academy – will be canonizing the period.” Accordingly of the 200 papers to be presented, “there were 151 US poets in the 1960’s who are now worthy of study. Twenty-seven are the subjects of multiple papers.” – Exquisite Corpse