"Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. … We estimate that for the buyout to be successful, we will need to remove from circulation all poems written after 1904."
- Poetry Buy-out will restore confidence of readers by Charles Bernstein
(Which comes hot on the heels of the National Endowment for the Arts launching a project to build a $1.3 billion dollar poem. Interesting times for poets.)
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