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...Nora C. Barr ’10, a resident of Pforzheimer house, said she used the new kiosk only once to order a meal because “I realized I could just do it from my room...
...everyone in the poetry world took Barr's criticisms kindly. A response from Sidney Wade, president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, included the words peculiar, laughable, nonsense and offensive. (Poetry, to its credit, printed most of the letter.) "I can name 20 exciting poets writing today in one breath, and, I bet, so can you," wrote a blogger. "Perhaps what has gone stale is Barr's reading of contemporary poetry...
...person, Barr plays down the controversy. "We're definitely not trying to dumb down poetry," he says. "We're not trying to introduce the notion that we would judge quality by book sales or even accessibility. But if poetry has somehow lost touch with a broader readership, there's an opportunity to reverse that. People are going to love poetry when they get back to it." As that last statement suggests, Barr has a tendency to express himself in marketingspeak, which may irritate his critics as much as the actual content of what he's saying. "It's easy...
Should poetry be more entertaining? Have we failed poetry by not bothering to read it? Or has poetry failed us, by not seducing us into reading it? Even if you don't agree with Barr's solutions, he has at least admitted a fundamental and painful cultural fact: that something has changed, that the great voices of our time no longer speak in verse...
...their will. What poetry really needs is a writer who can do for it what Andy Warhol did for avant-garde visual art: make it sexy and cool and accessible without making it stupid or patronizing. When that writer arrives, cultural change will come swiftly, and relatively effortlessly. And Barr will be waiting, with a check...