Making Poetry Popular

Jen:

I don't consider it to be -- because it's not. I'm not some elitist gatekeeper of poetry, but I do think that including that type of writing as 'poetry' is not right.

And I agree in at least one sense, poetry isn't really dying, good poetry is dying. More people write poetry now than ever before in the history of the world -- and it's almost completely shit.

Poetry isn't dying but its relevance is. Its saleability. Its meaning in every day life.

• stephan