Making Poetry Popular

I'm not sure if it is poetry itself that is being devalued so rather than a devaluation of society as a whole. People are reading less and less, we are bombarded with so much that they cannot differentiate as easily as we once could.

With the advent of mass-media and mass-marketing all the works and ideas that otherwise would not 'make the grade' are out there, bold and clamouring for attention which would and should be otherwise put into reading and understanding the truly sublime things that are buried beneath the onslaught.

Saying all that, I still believe poetry is not a dead art-form, and it's possible to bring it back to the forefront, and Stephan's ideas are a good point from which to start. We must strive, otherwise be buried ourselves.