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The Outrage Chronicles: Poetry 451

How Cancel Culture has Ruined Literary Criticism

Jay Sizemore
The Curmudgeon Review
8 min readJun 27, 2020

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If there ever was a time in which the literary world needed reminding of the necessity for mutual respect in their corner of the artistic playground, that time is now. Yesterday, outrage erupted across social media when one reader shared a thread denouncing a poem in the latest issue of Poetry…

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Jay Sizemore
The Curmudgeon Review

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA: a novel of the future. Cat dad. Dog dad. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.