{"id":8078,"date":"2016-07-22T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2016-07-22T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:16:32","slug":"can-poetry-be-popular-fun-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8078","title":{"rendered":"Can Poetry Be Popular, Fun Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"style246\">No one has perfected a method<\/span> to restore poetry\u2019s place in public culture. It is unlikely that the art will ever return to the central position it once held. But is it unreasonable to hope that poetry can acquire some additional vitality or that the audience can be increased? Isn\u2019t it silly to assume that current practices represent the best way to sustain the art into the future? There are surely opportunities for innovation, renovation, and improvement. Literary culture needs new ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poet Dana Gioia learned &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com\/danagioiapoetrya.html\">students actually liked poetry<\/a> once they took it off the page.&#8221; He recommends exploring new ways to revive the place of poems in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has perfected a method to restore poetry\u2019s place in public culture. It is unlikely that the art will ever return to the central position it once held. But is it unreasonable to hope that poetry can acquire some additional vitality or that the audience can be increased? Isn\u2019t it silly to assume that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Poetry Be Popular, Fun Again?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[635],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-dana-gioia"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}