Just off the top, Gerald, I know of several museums that are as or much more alive than their gallery counterparts. So I personally would not use the 'museum' as a figure or site of 'cultural exhaustion'.
I think the 'serial' use of the long poem (serial in the sense of Spicer or Blaser) is much alive and well. Lisa Robertson's works equal a quick & often brilliant example.
As to readership - in age of Twitter short cuts - the 'long poem' may be in trouble. I suspect - overloaded with information to the point of disease - we're becoming a world of 'word skimmers.' !
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Wed, 4/7/10, Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 25 Questions: # 5
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Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:11 AM
25 Questions, # 5:
Is the long poem still relevant or is it just a museum?
Gerald Schwartz
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