“Most of the LANGPO vs. Black Mountain poetry war was fought before I was invested in poetry, so I have done my best to catch up, but a recrudescence has occurred thanks to Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, a website dedicated to poetry and connected to people who made the Resist Much/Obey Little anthology happen…. It was interesting to watch the dialog on a recent Facebook post, with one of the primary combatants from that 1978 event making fun of the other’s penchant for myth and crystals and then deleting his comments! An M.O. quite like the one that would prevent release of such an audio clip, even 39 years after the fact.”

Read the rest at Paul Nelson’s blog:
http://paulenelson.com/2017/05/23/poetry-wars-revived/