Poets who’ve grown up in slam tend to have less sense of themselves as poets within the long arc of poetic history. Less vision for the future, less ambition for universality, less urge to strive to reach/surpass poetic masters past and present.
It’s a personal observation, not a very scientific one, and I’m not sure whether it is a negative or a positive or a neutral.
Discuss.
Dark Matter 
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