Upvoted because the death of an art form is interesting to contemplate ... I'd suggest that the problem with poetry is much more complex than this essay recogn

Upvoted because the death of an art form is interesting to contemplate ... I'd suggest that the problem with poetry is much more complex than this essay recognizes. I'd also note that there is no scope for monetizing it any more because the commercial poetry market imploded between 1918 and 1940; these days it's virtually impossible to sell poems, and about the only people making money from the field are doing so indirectly, via academic research/teaching posts. It should be possible for poets to use the same self-publishing channels as everyone else who's banging on about the "ebook revolution" ... so why aren't they? You can disrupt a living, breathing field. It is somewhat harder to disrupt a body that's been dead for so long that the corpse is fully skeletonized.