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Gioia, a poet, didn’t suggest that people had stopped reading poetry because the supply of stanzas had outstripped demand. Rather, he argued that this was a problem not merely for authors and publishers, but for all Americans. He warned that the decline in “engaged literacy” would result in a nation “less informed, active, and independent-minded. These are not qualities that a free, innovative, or productive society can afford to lose.
— The Guardian - How To Make America A Nation Of Theatregoers by Alexis Soloski
