Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets?

A professional poet talks about being tapped to write mediocre verse for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film.

In her new film “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a frustrated aspiring poet who discovers that a boy in her kindergarten class may be a budding literary genius, and begins co-opting his verses as her own.

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