"Yawn" is right. I taught an Intro to Poetry course at OSU in the spring, and there were 37 students. Course reviews were full of students saying "I was always intimidated by poetry, but I now love it" -- paraphrasing, but that was the gist.
Teaching composition this past semester (i.e. a non-poetry course) I had a student choose to focus his semester-long writing project on Duffy's "Delilah." I didn't even mention poetry in the course -- he had simply come across Duffy's work in the past and liked it.
Poetry's not as ubiquitous as other art forms, but so long as lips can kiss, and eyes can see, it's not going to the grave.
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