Great Regulars: According to a recent study

by the Poetry Foundation, "Poetry is most often experienced at private ceremonies such as weddings . . . with 80 percent of nonusers and more than 90 percent of poetry users reporting that they've been exposed to poetry at one of these private occasions." Granted, this makes poetry sound like a combination of heroin and the Marburg virus (most nonusers were exposed at private ceremonies, were they?).

from David Orr: The New York Times: A Toast to the Happy Couplet

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