Poetry News

Gawker’s 50 Least Important Writers

By Harriet Staff

Gawker’s serving up the news that doesn’t exactly stay news with this rip, not on Louise Glück (and that’s Glück with an umlaut to you) but on poetry—yes, all of it!

Louise Gluck
Former Poet Laureate Louise Gluck is one of America’s most important living poets, which makes her one of America’s least important writers. Seriously, who reads poetry?
Less important than: An obscure experimental fiction writer.

Dear reader, get thee to our online archive and prove Gawker wrong!

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Posted in Poetry News on Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 by Harriet Staff.