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Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Most of the psychological work on poetry has investigated the poet (Mason, Mort, Woo, 2015; Jamison, 1989) or the expressive act of writing poetry (Fink & Drake, 2016, Coulehan & Clary, 2005). The National Poetry Foundation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the general habits of the American public in terms of reading and sharing poetry. This survey found:

14% of American population reads poetry.
Readers in general and poetry readers in particular tend to be women with higher level of education.
Poetry readers are not loners – high amounts of leisure activity and high sociability.
Poetry readers tend …

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The Blitman Anthology: Quotes, Poems, And Essays For The 21st-Century College Student, Andrew Blitman

Andrew Blitman

A paperback compilation of poems, essays, articles, and other writings by Andrew Blitman, this book is geared toward high school and college students. "The Blitman Anthology" is designed to be quick and hard-hitting; its lessons originated from the author's personal college experiences. A must-read for Millennials.

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