Purely anecdotally but I do see a lot more poetry being quoted & alluded to on Twitter & Facebook. Being short, poems are sharable in same way GIFs & memes are.
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Demographic breakdowns: Women more likely to read poetry then men, blacks much more than whites, and the more education the more poetry reading.pic.twitter.com/6afxMw4Ef2
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Six Americans now read poetry.
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And both of us are happy with that fact
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It's no coincidence that rising interest in poetry has coincided with increasingly degraded politics. Plato warned us.
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Did they filter out all the icebox plum jokes?
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Rap is more likely the genesis of spoken word poetry. Social media may amplify it.
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