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==Education and status of progressive poets==

==Education and status of progressive poets==

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

Many of the adults who write progressive poems demonstrate a working vocabulary below the standards of an average middle-school student. Despite this, they often graduate from PhD programs, win prestigious literary awards (such as the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]),<ref>The most recent "brilliant" winner in this prize's category: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/natalie-diaz</ref> are nominated as national Poet Laureates,<ref>A disgrace to the position of Poet Laureate: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-075/joy-harjo-appointed-to-third-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate/2020-11-19/</ref> occupy positions in English departments in universities worldwide,<ref>An essay on dying English departments: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/01/dying-english-departments-david-deavel.html</ref> and teach Creative Writing as a profession. As a consequence of the many honors they receive and their current dominance in the Western educational system, practitioners and teachers of progressive poetry play a much larger role in the widespread decline of aesthetics and morals than is generally acknowledged.<ref>"Literacy and Political Consciousness: A Critique of Leftist Critiques," by Donald Lazere. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709115</ref> In an effort to help their own work gain universal acceptance they are engaged in an ongoing attempt to erase the past, so as to not have to directly compete with poets who are far better than themselves. <ref>An article on the ongoing attempt to remove Homer and Virgil from college curriculum: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/</ref>

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