Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include: -Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray -Portrait of the artist in a digital world -The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century -The decline and fall of poetry -Four paths to pecuniary stability -My episode on Amit Majmudar -"Patronage" by Amit Majmudar -Techno-feudalism -The linger of poetic mystique -Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia -Commissions for Occasional poetry -From philanthropy to patrona...