Where does poetry fit into popular culture?
\nIf you take a basic definition of poetry — that it\’s an artistic use of words — then it fits in every facet of popular culture. Lots of people sing poetry; lots of people preach poetry; lots of people use poetry in their everyday life. If you think of poetry as captive on the page or as something that only certain people do in terms of a career, then you might think it has outlived its usefulness or you would think that poetry is not as meshed into popular culture as it once was.\n \n\n So, it\’s still relevant as an art form? \nIt\’s extremely relevant as an art form and it keeps reinventing itself. For me, I am a poet. If I don\’t write poetry, or hear poetry or see poetry, or read poetry in a day, I don\’t feel quite right. I feel uneasy. It\’s so much a part of my life that I have to have some sort of experience with it everyday.\n \n\n How does someone interested in reading poetry learn to read poetry in a way that\’s meaningful? \nI would think that they\’d start with poetry
