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National Poetry Month is over next week, and no one is more relieved than Dean Young and Tony Hoagland — two of America’s most highly regarded poets. They think that maybe poets should be paid NOT to write poetry. We eavesdrop on their phone call.
National Poetry Month is over next week, and no one is more relieved than Dean Young and Tony Hoagland — two of America’s most highly regarded poets. They think that maybe poets should be paid NOT to write poetry. We eavesdrop on their phone call.