The problem with poetry today
NOTE: The following is a post I wrote for Brad’s Reader when I used the Blogger platform. In those days I got very little traffic, so I’m assuming most of you haven’t read this post (if you have, then I apologize). What you read here is just as the original was posted, only I cleaned up some very embarrassing mistakes.
Poets generally live in a different world than the rest of society. That is not necessarily a bad thing. However, there is also a pervasive idea among the poetry community that anything "mainstream" or "popular" is bad because it somehow cheapens a poem. This is where the problem starts to emerge.
Poetry is not as wildly popular today as it once was, that is no secret. Most poets will not make a living writing poems. If a book of poems sells over 2,000 copies, then it’s considered a success. By all signs, poetry has fallen off the radar of the general public.
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