Poetry fight! Poetry fight!

The board of the 97-year-old Poetry Society of America, whose members have included many of the most august names in verse, has been rocked by a string of resignations and accusations of McCarthyism, conservatism and simple bad management.

Got that? Rocked by accusations of … conservatism! The NYT explains.

The whole thing brings to mind the opening line of a Yeats poem:

I think it better that in times like these
A poet’s mouth be silent