“Even if there are fewer readers, people will be listening.”

Dana Gioia, the newly installed chief of the National Endowment for the Arts and a poet, has been paying attention to the decline of print culture, books and magazines increasingly supplanted by electronic media, and the accompanying rise of popular poetries, mostly oral and performance forms -- exactly what we’ve been writing about over the past 6 years here at About Poetry. Gioia's assessment of the current state of the poetry world is entitled “Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture,” and you can read it in PDF format at The Hudson Review where it was originally published, or in HTML format at Poetry Daily. Stop in at the Poetry Forum and join the discussion after you've read his article.