Even NPR's Poetry Coverage Spews Talk Against American 'Empire

Tim Graham
April 22nd, 2011 11:28 PM
On Friday’s Morning Edition, National Public Radio celebrated poetry – especially the left-wing, anti-war, anti-American "empire" kind. Poets were constructing a Japanese "renga" – a "kind of poetic relay race." Anchor Renee Montagne handed off the summarizing to poet Carol Muske-Dukes: So the poets were in conversation with each other. In a line that Michael Ryan, for example, making a riff…