Poetry and the Masses

[Leanne]

The cantos? That's like saying "the sonnets" or "the haiku".

I said no, by the way. If someone wanted to pay me for poems I'd already written, then I probably would have said yes, but I believe that art must be created for its own sake. Introducing payment into the equation means that the focus shifts, even if it's an unconscious thing, and you're writing to please a market.