Sarah Browning, co-founder of Split This Rock, said it best: If there was anything I would put above Instagram and Youtube as the reason for poetry’s meteoric rise back into fashion, I would say it would be the proliferation of diverse writers. Because that’s what poetry does.Īnd while social media has likely had one of the largest impacts on many of our recent artforms, there is more than one way to account for the direction poetry has been turning. Like the handmaids and Marthas passing letters one house to another until they made it out of the community, poetry would just as surely found a way to respond to the current crisis we face in the world. However, to give the power of creation solely to a delivery method being used is like saying the atomic bombs would not have made it to Japan had there been no Enola Gay. There’s no denying that social media has impacted just about every facet of our lives, and so it should be no surprise that it has also helped bring more art in front of us. The diversification of the form is the main culprit. But the success of “Milk and Honey” isn’t the only reason you see more people cracking open a collection of poetry. Instapoets and organizations like Button Poetry have been bringing verse into the new generation, much to the chagrin of a number of more “traditional” poets. Articles from the Washington Post and USA Today point readily at social media being a large part of the success for the art form’s impressive growth spurt. For young readers, ages 18-24, that number has doubled. The following post is largely in reference to this article.Īccording to a recent study published last week by the National Endowment for the Arts, people are reading poetry at a rate 76% higher than the last time this study was produced, in 2012. political trash political poetry dark poetry poetry poets on tumblr new poets society tylo writers of tumblr

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