Kent Johnson asks "Could Someone Tell Me Why?"

Kent Johnson has written an eight-page poem about The Best American Poetry, the American poetry scene and his place in it. "It is all in the honorable, august traditions of satire," he says. The poem is entitled "Could Someone Tell Me Why?" Click here to read the poem, which he prefaces with these sentences:

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Yeah, so some of the people who were my former
friends are now dead. I feel bad about that, but then I
think to myself, Hey, life is short and at least you were
published in the Best American Poetry! No, I don’t
really mean that, just kidding, I’ve never thought that,
and never would I.
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