News at Eleven: "One of the reasons people don't read

as much poetry anymore is the fault of the poets," he said. "It's not the public's fault. There's an awful lot of bad poetry out there. I'd say about 87 percent of the poetry in America isn't worth reading."

It's the other 13 percent, [Billy] Collins said, that he lives for. "Poetry should be transparent. Transparent poems tend to teach themselves."

from The Norman Transcript: Former U.S. Poet Laureate: Country needs better poets

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