Is Poetry A Dying Art?  

According to the Time Magazine June 18,2007 edition it is. I have been writing poetry since I was 12 years old and I have yet to recieve a dime for it, although people are quick to tell me how good my work is.
Time Magazine says that Heiress Ruth Lilly, daughter of Eli Lilly,(Prozac creator) donated $200 million to The Poetry Foundation. Her plan was to help the foundation and get people to reading poetry again. So far, they say, it has not done much good.
As a writer of poetry, I have to agree that the writing of poetry has become to much like a hoomework aasignment, than the free flow of natural feelings. There are poetry classes to teach you to write a certain way and to be honest, it just makes poetry boring and complicated as far as I am concerned.
I guess I would have to say that my poetry is more modern. I don't write poetry that one hast to take a class to interpret. I write poetry that everyone can understand and relate to. Recently I submitted some of my work to Blue Mountain Arts and apparently they did not like any of my work.
They discouraged me from sending poems that rhyme, but that is my best stuff. Maybe it was too juvenile for them, who knows. Then the one site that has ever given my work any recognition, isn't even truatworthy. Poetry.com is so bogus to me.