Letter from Poetry Magazine

Letter to the Editor

BY Vincent Francone

Originally Published: March 01, 2013

Dear Editor,

I enjoyed the “Antagonisms” very much. They were some of the liveliest bits of writing you have published in recent memory. Still, while I’m all for having my sacred cows butchered from time to time, I feel Mr. Cummings got it particularly bad, mostly by the dismissive hand of Michael Robbins, who writes, “Of course Thomas is a better poet than Cummings (who isn’t?).”

If Mr. Robbins wants an answer to that question, he need only look in the mirror.