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Lines Online: Poetry Journals on the Web

By LISA RUSS SPAAR

It was only about a decade ago that my students and I began talking about the fate of poetry in the electronic age. Would the celerity of information-age technologies so fragment time that we'd lose the reverie and concentration we associated with the "deep reading" of poems? Would it be possible to learn to love the feel of the mouse and the flickering motility...

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