[1.] On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? -- "The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry -- Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish -- "When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline -- Aesthetic dodo -- [2.] On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction -- A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries -- These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts -- Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers" -- [3.] On teaching & the writer's workshop. The hammer -- Voice: what you say and how readers hear it -- Why kids hate poetry -- Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems -- [4.] After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.
