16 July 2018
Twenty-eight million American adults read poetry this year - the highest percentage of poetry readership in more than 15 years, according to a survey of arts participation conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau.
"We've never seen an increase in poetry reading. If anything there had been a decline - a pretty sharp decline - since about 2002 at least," said Sunil Iyengar, NEA director of research and analysis.
