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Your Poem Is Not That Good Because by Christopher Fox Graham

2025

Your Poem Is Not That Good Because (A Response)

By Christopher Fox Graham

Graham looks back across generations of poetry slam, acknowledging its failures, rivalries, mythology and imperfections while arguing that poems need not transform the entire world to matter deeply to an audience—or even to one poet.