I have evaluated and rated each poet's response to the Lance Phillips question: "How important is philosophy to your writing?"
On a scale of 0-5 (0 being "not important," and 5 being "critically important"), I have listed the results in descending order.
The next step in this "unscientific" study will be determining patterns in the types of poetry being written (some are beginning to emerge already)...
Meena Alexander 5
Aaron Belz 5
Joshua Corey 5
Annie Finch 5
Noah Eli Gordon 5
Gabriel Gudding 5
Patrick Herron 5
Joris Lenstra 5
Sheila E. Murphy 5
Maggie Nelson 5
Ravi Shankar 5
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino 5
Tony Tost 5
Rodrigo Toscano 5
Mark Yakich 5
Betsy Andrews 4
David Baker 4
Dan Beachy-Quick 4
Mairéad Byrne 4
Tim Earley 4
Alan Gilbert 4
Ray Hsu 4
T.R. Hummer 4
Noelle Kocot 4
Hank Lazer 4
Sarah Manguso 4
Deborah Meadows 4
Ethan Paquin 4
Lance Phillips 4
D.A. Powell 4
Susan M. Schultz 4
Barry Schwabsky 4
Laura Solomon 4
Sofia M. Starnes 4
Todd Swift 4
Rae Armantrout 3
Martine Bellen 3
David Bircumshaw 3
Daniel Bouchard 3
Marcella Durand 3
Benjamin Friedlander 3
Joanna Fuhrman 3
Kate Greenstreet 3
Aaron Kunin 3
Carl Martin 3
Jonathan Minton 3
Tracie Morris 3
Christopher Nealon 3
Standard Schaefer 3
Spenser Short 3
Ron Silliman 3
Dana Ward 3
Stephen Burt 2
Jason Camlot 2
Christopher Davis 2
Thomas Sayers Ellis 2
Lisa Fishman 2
Jennifer Grotz 2
Christine Hume 2
Elizabeth James 2
Kent Johnson 2
Ben Lerner 2
Reb Livingston 2
Tod Marshall 2
Aaron McCollough 2
K. Silem Mohammad 2
Heather Nagami 2
Kerri Sonnenberg 2
Stephanie Strickland 2
Stacy Szymaszek 2
Dan Taulapapa-McMullins 2
Barbara Tran 2
Michael Tyrell 2
Rebecca Wolff 2
Matthew Zapruder 2
Ray Branchi 1
Lee Ann Brown 1
Patrick Chapman 1
Betsy Fagin 1
Michael Farrell 1
Ed Foster 1
Graham Foust 1
Brian Henry 1
Brian Howe 1
John Latta 1
Christopher Luna 1
Richard Meier 1
Donald Revell 1
Anthony Robinson 1
Elizabeth Robinson 1
Larry Sawyer 1
Matthew Shenoda 1
Dale Smith 1
Lee Upton 1
G.C. Waldrep 1
F.J. Bergman 0
Edmund Berrigan 0
Alan Catlin 0
Connie Deanovich 0
Geoffrey Gatza 0
Janet Holmes 0
Lisa Jarnot 0
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen 0
Shara McCallum 0
Jeffery McDaniel 0
Simon Perchik 0
Matthew Rohrer 0
Matthew Thorburn 0
John Trantner 0
Ton Van't Hof 0
Catherine Wagner 0
C.D. Wright 0
2 comments:
This project interests me greatly. I'm looking forward to seeing where it leads.
Thanks Thomas.
Just a quick additional note, that I am not heading toward any "better-than," or "worse-than" results here; nor am I assigning points as higher=good, lower=bad (these are all much-appreciated poets). This is not about that at all. The plan is to create points on a chart and see what relationship(s) exist (even as perhaps, just interesting abstracts).
-Phil
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