A lot of righteous indignation about Charles Bernstein, who has called for complexity and nuanced uses of language in anti-war poetry. I suppose if he were taken as saying that only "language poets" were allowed to write anti-war poems, his critics would have a point!

I hate to see poetry being the dumping ground, though, for everything that cannot be expressed in good prose. Heriberto Yépez has a great article on the literary deficiencies of Subcomandante Marcos [leader of Zapatista revolt]. What is the point of attacking the literary style of a political leader like this, one with whom Yépez has some degree of sympathy? The point is to tell the truth and not to think good intentions make good literature.