{"id":1472,"date":"2009-03-26T18:45:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/03\/no\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T21:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T04:49:24","slug":"no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/26\/no\/","title":{"rendered":"No."},"content":{"rendered":"

from Newsweek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The End of Verse?<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent NEA report finds fiction reading on the rise, while readership of poetry has dropped significantly. Is an art form dying?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marc Bain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newsweek Web Exclusive<\/p>\n

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In January, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report titled “Reading on the Rise,” announcing that the number of American adults reading fiction had increased for the first time since the NEA began tracking reading habits in 1982. According to the report, 50.2 percent of adults had read a work of fiction in the previous year, compared with just 46.7 percent in 2002. The results were greeted with a mixture of excitement and caution by education experts. Some saw them as the long-awaited reversal of the trend toward a dumber, TV-obsessed United States; others, more wary, called them a statistical blip. Almost as an afterthought, the report also noted that the number of adults reading poetry had continued to decline, bringing poetry’s readership to its lowest point in at least 16 years.<\/p>\n

The dismal poetry findings stand in sharp contrast not only to the rise in general fiction reading, but also to the efforts of the country’s many poetry-advocacy organizations, which for the past dozen years have been creating programs to attract larger audiences. These programs are at least in part a response to the growing sense that poetry is being forgotten in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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