News at Eleven: [David] Kirby continuously tries to reinvent

what a poem can mean. In Ultra Talk, he writes, "[F]or the greatest part of our common Western history, the poetry was, though quite formal, entirely unrhymed. Those were the days ... almost everybody went to a poetry reading at least once a week. They called it church."

from Creative Loafing: David Kirby: Flights of fancy

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