Is Poetry Dead?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_iftekhar_071009_is_poetry_dead_3f.htm

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Is Poetry Dead?

Who reads poetry today? And who reads the modern and contemporary poets? And yet ‎there is a deluge of poetry – for the producers and consumers of poetry constitute a giant ‎industry, from which the 'average' reader is left out. ‎