In November 1999, the PSA (in collaboration with Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and the New School Writing Department) presented the festival "What's American About American Poetry." In preparation for the festival, a survey with general questions about the current state of poetry in America was mailed to poets across the country, representing a diverse range of genres, cultures, and aesthetics.
Ten years later, the Poetry Society asked a new group of poets a version of those questions. Over the next few months we will be adding those answers to the archived answers from 1999.