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Recorded Reading (1:30): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n5fdaurvjbh7bgdroui7g/To-Every-Collegiate-Poetry-Snob.mp3?rlkey=mkt33gl4fwhw7yheyad6eokbx&dl=0

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To Every Collegiate Poetry Snob

Herein find some illustrative
Posts, which may perspective give
To any academic snob
Insinuates might do my job
Better than I do myself
(Unworthy of my wretched pelf,
Such pathetic verses airing
For the carefully uncaring):

I can easily conform
To constraints of any form
— Difficult! And yet, the while,
Do it in most any style
Previously dignified
By your regard (now rarefied):
Don’t approve of rhythmic rhyme
Formerly you thought sublime?

Wipe your nose on Edgar Guest,
Browning, Blake, and all the rest,
Sounding “valueless” the siren
On the verses of Lord Byron?
Can’t find wisdom, pathos, fun
In the works of Dickinson?
Don’t fret — I accommodate
In the breadth that I create

Both the radical e.e.
And the divine Dorothy…
My claim’s awesome — ‘twould behoove it
I bestir myself to prove it!
That’s what I intend to do
Right here now, and straight to you

Think my claims are empty boasts?
Just read my last thousand posts!

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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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