Introduction
A Note from the Editor
Who Killed Poetry?
Joseph Epstein
An Editor's Response
Arthur Vogelsang
The Grand Cacophony
Askold Melnyczuk
Dead Languages
Bruce Duffy
The Myth of a Single Canon
Bill Tremblay
Response to Joseph Epstein
Dana Gioia
Poetry & the Golden Age
David Lehman
Some Scattered Responses to Joseph Epstein
Henry Taylor
Poetry & Mediocrity
Charles Simic
Boundless Poetrybr />
E. Ethelbert Miller
"What Though Lovest Well..."
Edward Hirsch
The World's Best Kept Secret
Maxine Kumin
Surgery With Bulldozer
Michael Ryan
Play It Again, Sam...
Robert Creely
Unhappy But Important Subjects
Robert McDowell
Sermon in a Weed-Choked Garden
Robert Peters
The Bear Who Cried Wolf
Stephen Dunn
Wheels of Fortune
Terence Winch
Elitism & Rebellion
Toi Derricotte
Songlines: Downunder, USA
Walter Bargen
