We Can Still Make Works of Deep Value at a Time of Shallow Resources

We Can Still Make Works of Deep Value at a Time of Shallow Resources

“I would expect the editor-in-chief of any major publication to understand this point,” jabbed one reader in a recent email. They were unhappy about some nuance in our reporting I had evidently missed. Then the sentence landed with a sharp elbow—“even if their background is in poetry, not public policy.” Ouch. But hey, fair. I did start in poetry. Which is another way of saying: I started in precarity. I wrote because I had to, and published whe…