Alexandra Petri:

And this might be the silver lining for poets. The kind of news you get from poems, as William Carlos Williams has it, must come from somewhere. And there is a similar hunger for poetry that persists. We get it in diluted doses in song lyrics. Song lyrics are incomplete poems, as Sondheim notes in the book of his own. If it is complete on the page, it makes a shoddy lyric.  But there is still wonderful music to be found in those words. We get it in rap. If we really want to read it, it is everywhere.

"Is poetry dead?"