I mean, honestly

Isn’t Newsweek beating once more on the same tired old dead horse of a story we’ve all read who knows how many times before?

As the French say, Donnez moi une break!

Here’s the story in a nutshell:

“Of course, poetry has been supposedly dying now for several generations.

[...]

Despite what national surveys may suggest, and despite rumors of its demise, poetry seems likely to persist, in one form or another.”

You can actually write your own version of this story at home (and probably publish it this fall, just in time for the new school year), by taking these two evergreen truths, padding them with your own anecdotal evidence and/or quotes from a notable poet about the slow death of poetry, and serving it all up in the context of a survey by Dana Gioia or John Barr. Et voila!