No More Blurbs
No more blurbs
No more letters of recommendation
No more MFA programs
No more low-residency degrees
No more chapbook competitions
No more first book prizes
No more Whiting Awards
No more Pushcart nominations
No more NEA grants
No more Guggenheim fellowships
No more MacArthur geniuses
No more Pulitzer winners
No more National Book Awards
No more NBCC finalists
No more Academy of American Poets
No more Poetry Society of America
No more Best American Poetry
No more poet-moms
No more prima donnas
No more self-promotion
No more judged by Mark Doty
No more selected by Louise Glück
No more chosen by John Ashbery
No “More of this sitting around like beasts!”
No more “There’s only room for one at the top of the steeple.”