[lit-ideas] Re: Camille Paglia: getting Americans to read poetry again?
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:31:38 -0600
I don't know about current American poetry reading statistics, but I
read just today in the Air France "in-air" magazine that France
celebrates "Printemps des Poe'tes" (excuse American apostrophe
substitution) from Mar. 4 through 13, and that there were "15,000
events" including "1,000 poetry cafe's throughout the country." (Again,
don't read that as an apostrophe; it's an e thingie.)
Mirembe Nantongo wrote:
>http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bktalk4188338mar27,0,3723067.story?coll=nyc-books-bottom-promo
>"What Paglia wants to do next is get Americans to read poetry again."
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>Does anyone really know how many Americans read poetry today and how many used
>to read it way back when (ie during that always-unspecified Golden Age of
>Poetry Reading in America)? I would bet that the same proportion of Americans
>read it now as read it then.
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