The Catalepsy of Poetry in America

More poetry than ever is written and published in media outlets now than at any point over the last century, yet the genre appears to possess both less social impact and be given less attention by the wider American information-consumer. William Shakespeare and Robert Frost are well-known names by a majority of the American public, but how many can name a contemporary like Ocean Vuong? This paper follows the trends of nineteenth-century poetic composition and media consumption so as to quantify whether the artform is a dying artifact or if it can endure to a new age and its technology