Great Regulars: The flower poem may have political

sensitivities, but the Occupy poem is likely so flushed with partisanship as to be lousy as poetry and stale as politics.

Take a gander at the Occupy Poetry Anthology online, which is now 400 poems thick and growing by the hour, and you'll see what I mean.

Of poets who have successfully navigated the difficult task of wresting poetry away from the dully partisan into the more complex political-lyric terrain, few are as skilled as Alice Notley.

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: What is the role of poets in politics?

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