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Analyzing American Poetry: Terms and Examples

Renee Nicole Good’s poem on the Academy of American Poets website (poets.org), for which she won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize, is a really interesting piece and very telling. It’s ironically titled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.” I encourage you to look it up, read it, and take it in. From the mountaintops, I will continue to exclaim that conservatives hate art. They hate art they want to be. They want art to be either propaganda or entertainment—and even then, the entertainment

Joy Harjo