Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month

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 you can fit in Dylan Thomas only if you exclude someone else. 

I find this kinda beautifully said, too. I'm under the impression that, in America, they're working to include other minority voices to the canon, but the work seems rather scattershot, not because of any faults in the poets, but because there doesn't seem to be much concerted effort in who should these poets be. There could also be some sort of whitewashing going on, with the likes of Dumas being black perhaps not being well known enough, or maybe America just isn't there yet when it comes to culture: the way America's education, especially in the arts, is underfunded might be emblematic of how the country lost the plot when it comes to having erudite citizens being both cultured and specialized. But really I have no idea.

Beautifully said, but I wish Dylan Thomas, I hope Dylan Thomas will always be in the Canon.  I think Busker knew that   Out of curiosity, I did a fruitless google search on most commonly taught poets, but came up empty.  So how would you define the canon?  I was going to look in my son's enormous college poetry anthology, but I can't lay hands on it at the moment.

Black poetry had yet to be included when i was a college student who took a lot of poetry classes (early 70s).  When I went back to school in 89, I did get introduced to Amira Baraki.  But I sought it out on my own since then.