Steve Evans' five-part (or three, depending on how you measure) analysis of Poetry Magazine's huge bequest and the rise of the Poetry Foundation, to be printed in full in The Baffler, can be found online—in order—here, here, and here. Explicating the social logic that speaks through characters like Dana Gioia and John Barr with such clarity seems exactly what arts journalism could aspire to: historicized art criticism, or material aesthetics.
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