(often minority residents) of poor urban areas are displaced, due to rising rents and property taxes, by newer, wealthier (often young and white) residents. It's seen as a possibly inevitable but nevertheless regrettable and even cruel phenomenon. It's also one of the most cockamamie metaphors for academic-institutional literary production this author has encountered, given that prior to the popularization of the creative writing MFA the literary establishment in the United States was almost exclusively white, male, straight, and coastal.from Seth Abramson: The Huffington Post: National Poetry Month 2013 Contemporary Poetry Reviews (Part 1)
then Seth Abramson: The Huffington Post: National Poetry Month 2013 Contemporary Poetry Reviews (Part 2)
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