[New-Poetry] Poetry beats out plays

[Anny Ballardini]

Hopefully nobody is sick round here? You're all well?


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From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poetry beats out plays


> Trying to remember the last time I read a play, not counting Shakespeare. 
> Wait...it wasn't so long ago. Last year -- or maybe 2006 -- 
> I read a couple of Stoppard's plays. They were wonderful.
>
> Peter Joseph Gloviczki wrote:
>> Interesting, Tad. I wonder how many of the people who had read plays
>> were/are also actors? The practice of reading plays often seems to be
>> relegated to middle school English, which is a shame.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2008 12:37 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>>
>>> NEA report;  According to the survey, the most popular types of
>>> literature are novels or short stories, which were read by 45 percent or
>>> 93 million adults in the previous year. Poetry was read by 12 percent or
>>> 25 million people, while just 4 percent or seven million people reported
>>> having read a play.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tad Richards
>>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>>>   --Corey Ford
>>>