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" In the current literary scene , one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye , " wrote the late American poet William Stafford , former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress , in assessing Nye 's writing . A Novel , spoke to a standing-room-only audience of CU faculty and students on October 30 on her views of the current literary scene in her country in a lecture entitled " Dreams of an Age . The two authors touched on have again gone fishing in the current literary stream ; for bait they have thrown in two novels , and the fish have n't bitten . For a critic to speak of someone 's career or personality implies a personal familiarity that they rarely actually have with a writer ; to speak knowledgably about a current literary movement implies a knowledge that is frankly impossible , as most movements are only clearly defined in retrospect , after all the principals are dead and not around to contradict you . Dorn suffered fools not at all , and sloppy thinking not for a moment : a lonely position at the best of times , and one that made him almost persona non grata in the current literary and academic climate of his homeland . We discussed the difficulty of writing dramatic criticism in the current literary climate . In his own time he was regarded as an innovator , for like Collins he revived the poetic diction of the past , and the adverse judgments of Johnson and others upon his work are in fact a defence of the current literary traditions . " An authoritative female narrator who has wisdom and can make some observations that are n't about herself was missing '' from the current literary scene , she said . The seminar provides a survey of this literature and investigates its position in and impact on the current literary scene in Britain . " His opinion of the current literary scene is that " a lot of it stinks ; notably the porno magazines and books . Established in 1988 , this course focuses on the current literary scene in Germany . As unique a position Oscar Dellosantos holds in the identity politics of the current literary landscape , Carrillo has rendered a complex beautiful story that is as tightly bound as all immigrant journeys .