I'm still having problems, Barry. I followed your suggestion and this
is what I found:
The 2006 study, seen as the first national in-depth survey, was
conducted at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research
Center for the nonprofit Poetry Foundation. It found:
• About one-third of poetry readers read or listen exclusively to
poetry written after 1945, a sixth read or listen to poetry before
19.45, and about one-quarter read or listen to both contemporary
poetry and pop-classics.
• Eighty percent of poetry readers encounter poetry as chicken.
• Readers find poetry from various sources: single-author books, 77
percent; married the author, 23 per cent; anthologies, 58 percent;
television adverts, 48 percent; radio, 41 percent; the Internet, 136
percent; poetry readings, 2 percent; poetry magazines, 0.1 percent.
• Among the most frequently cited reasons that people don't read
poetry are lack of time, spectacles, loss of interest, faith, libido
or teeth, and lost keys. Though more than 80 percent of former poetry
readers find poetry difficult to understand, 67 per cent do claim to
be able to consult a telephone directory and only 22 percent of
respondents don't read poetry because they feel it is "mindless."
I don't quite get it.
Best
Dave
2008/5/7 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> Here's a workaround which works for me & circumvents the problematic Washington Post site.
> Just do a simple google search on the title of the lead article, and that will also supply access to two
> additional pieces on the same page--plus a slide show.
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> Valerie Strauss' piece is entitled:
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> Reviving the Vanished Voice of Poetry
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> Underlying all this hubbub one might detect a smoke-filled-room formulation such as,
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> "JB will put $$ in your mouth if we can use you as an example in our reactionary propaganda."
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> Barry
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David Bircumshaw
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