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Poetry is dead. Yes, it has been said many times and before you get defensive, there is plenty of proof. Newsweek announced poetry’s death in 2003. Although the statement outraged Western poets, it was correct. Poetry has fallen into the cracks. And poets and poetry readers are left asking, “what the hell happened?”
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Daniel Zomparelli is the editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine. He currently runs the Community Creative Writing Project for Megaphone Magazine. He is on the editorial board of Geist and formerly worked at Adbusters magazine. His work has been published and is forthcoming in magazines and anthologies across Canada. He is currently completing his first manuscript of poetry.
