[New-Poetry] 'Can poetry matter?' international style...

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Poetry  fest: Ding-dong, the poet is (not) dead 
Hera Diani, The Jakarta Post,  Jakarta
 
Egyptian poet Ahmed Abdul Mooty Hezagy was restless; he felt that poetry no  
longer existed in people's lives. There was a population of around 250 million 
 in Indonesia, he said, but a single poetry collection is only read by, what, 
 1,000 readers? 
 
He pointed to Egypt where, with a 70 million population, one book is read  by 
the same number of readers, or 2,000-3,000 readers tops. 
 
"We need poetry in life, but why is poetry not popular anymore?" he asked. 
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