Why we must make poetry manly again

Throughout English-speaking history, up until about 50 years ago, there had always been men famous in their day for writing beautiful poetry, from William Shakespeare, to Lord Byron, to Robert Frost. Yet, sadly today, our society does not see the poet as a manly figure at all. This erasure of male voices in poetry was not an accident. Like so many of our society’s woes, it was created by a leftist elite (snip) What happened, more or less, was a disastrous decision to tell young men there is nothing masculine about literature, and especially not about poetry.