Don't Just Sit There

THE FORMALIST REVIVAL

" At a time when so much American poetry is fulfilling its tenure-bid driven destiny of becoming as cortex-bound as possible – as if poetry’s primary function were to advance knowledge, an absurd and decadent theory – Colorado, where there are still new stories to be told, still new things to describe, still new feelings to be sounded, still new relations to describe, is one of the places where the verbs are. These poets characterize themselves as searchers. That is as it should be. But I have a sense that the muse, exasperated by her recent attendance at so many academic conferences, has also been searching for them, has begun spending time here, and is finding it more and more delightful to visit."  

- David J. Rothman