National Poetry Month May Be Over...

...But Jordan Davis doesn't see that as any reason to stop reading the stuff.

"Poets talk about the attention brought by National Poetry Month the way kids talk about food at summer camp--" says Davis, "it's terrible, and there's not enough of it. For the rest of the reading world, the initiative has all the appeal of a charity drive. While there's plenty of good poetry being written today, there's at least six times as much of the not-so-good variety. Take heart: Slate has winnowed the stack down to a manageable few."