$.02

All I'm going to say about this is one should write about what he/she is passionate about (whatever that may be), not what someone else thinks that person should be writing about. Especially when that someone else is a snarky hater lacking the chops to come clean with his/her identity.

Tony is an awesome poet and there's no need to feel sorry for him. His poems rock because they're passionate and he didn't need the help of that MFA program to make that happen.