[New-Poetry] Poetry gets uppity and some folks don't like that...

[JforJames at aol.com]

_http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630571,00.html_ 
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630571,00.html) 
Poems  for the People
Thursday, Jun. 07, 2007 By LEV GROSSMAN  Enlarge  Photo
 
Champion students representing all 51 states, stand on stage at the Poetry  
Out Loud Competition at George Washington University in D.C., May of 2007.
 
In 1876 an American Civil War veteran named Eli Lilly founded a  
pharmaceutical company. He did pretty well for himself: you can thank Eli Lilly  & Co. 
for, among other things, methadone, Cialis and Prozac. But Lilly's  reclusive 
great-granddaughter Ruth is apparently more interested in poems than  in Prozac.
 
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Chances are, you don't read much poetry, at least not the new stuff. Don't  
feel bad, hardly anybody does. To hit the best-seller list for verse, a book 
has  to sell only around 30 copies. Poetry is the spinach in America's media 
diet:  good for you, occasionally baked into other, tastier dishes (like the 
cameo that  W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues made in Four Weddings and a Funeral) but 
rarely  consumed on its own. In the hierarchy of cultural pursuits it sits 
somewhere  just below classical music and just above clogging.
 
 



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