I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction and I would not have predicted that.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand...
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
If you want to learn something, just steal it