How popular is poetry today?

New Poetry Research Finds Dramatic Increases In Readership As the NEA reports: “Nearly 12 percent (11.7 percent) of adults read poetry in the last year, according to new data from the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). That’s 28 million adults.

Are poets still a thing?

Forty-five U.S. states now have poet laureates, and many cities and counties do as well. Most are published poets who receive small grants to promote the art form through readings, workshops and other projects.

Do people still read poetry 2020?

That’s according to the results of a new survey by the National Endowment for the Arts, which announced Thursday that “as a share of the total U.S. adult population, this poetry readership is the highest on record over a 15-year period.”

Why are poems popular?

Poetry is so important because it helps us understand and appreciate the world around us. Poetry’s strength lies in its ability to shed a “sideways” light on the world, so the truth sneaks up on you. Poetry teaches us how to live.

Do people still write poetry?

Poetry will never die. Poetry is music, and music is poetry. Like I said, more and more people are writing. Just I don’t think it’s ever been a thought of whether people still write poetry, but a matter of how many more. People think the book will die, but now more than ever young people are writing and getting published.

What percentage of Americans read poetry?

In 1992, 17 percent of Americans had read a work of poetry at least once in the past year. 20 years later that number had fallen by more than half, to 6.7 percent.

Is poetry dead?

Everyone wants to write poetry, but almost no one bothers to read it. If poetry has died, it was the multitude of contempory poets that killed it. So now here we are today; everyone is a poet and almost no one is a scholar of poetry.

Does poetry have a larger audience now than ever before?

Given the widespread availability of poetry on the internet, “it’s possible that poetry’s audience might be greater now than ever,” wrote Kate Angus in The Millionslast year. But the numbers below show that that’s emphatically not the case.