Does Poetry matter?

I dislike much of modern poetry, even when Garrison Keillor recites it, because too much of it seems to be bad prose about trivia written by narcissists.

However, poet Dana Gioia has been working hard to revive modern poetry...

Gioia is one of the leading poets of the New Formalist movement, which championed the return to traditional poetic techniques such as rhyme, meter, and established forms, as well as to the importance of narrative poetry with less “autobiographical” emphasis. He writes, “As long as there have been poets, those poets told stories. Those stories were rarely about their own lives but about imagined lives—drawn from myth, legend, history, or current events.”

Here is his thoughtful essay "can poetry matter"...





So why not try Gioia by Kiellor?


try listening to this.

or THIS.