Is Taylor Swift a poet?

On sad girlies, Sylvia Plath, madness, and the body on pop

Try to engage with even the most casual Swiftie about the mildest analysis of Taylor Swift and you’ll be met with the same retort: she’s such a great lyricist, they’ll say. Don’t worry, I’m not here to argue that today, nor I am interested in drawing some distinction between the high art of Poetry™ and the low poetics of what Taylor does. I have written