The growth market? Listeners over 65, who were increasing in the morning and afternoon hours.īut the so-called "graying" of NPR may not be entirely universal. Listening among Morning Edition's audience has declined 20 percent among people younger than 55 in the past five years and, for All Things Considered, about 25 percent among those in the 45-to-54 segment. Afternoon listening is down 6 percent over the same period. Morning listening has dropped 11 percent overall since 2010, according to Nielsen research that NPR has made public. The Washington Post reports that NPR's research, for example, shows a growing gulf in who's listening to Morning Edition and All Things Considered, daily news programs that have propelled public radio for more than three decades. I couldn't speak English until I was way into elementary school, and so my choice of diction, all the accessible choices that I make, it's to make sure that it's tailored to the person that I was when I was growing up.Three decades later, many NPR listeners are reaching retirement age the network and its 900 local affiliates, including three in Arkansas, face a challenge in attracting younger and middle-aged audiences to replace them.
Like, who are we really creating art for? And so I think about who I was creating art for from the beginning - it was for myself, and for people that didn't have access to certain types of English language.
Art should be accessible to the masses, and when we start to tailor it in a way that keeps people out, then there's an issue with that. I don't respond, because I think there's no problem with my poetry being too accessible. he came up to me and he was like, "I'm not gonna lie, the first time I saw you perform, the poem was awful. I thought it was amazing, everybody was super kind and super supportive, but years later, when I realized it was really bad was when one of the guys. And I showed up there, and I got up on stage and I performed it, and there was just something amazing that happened while I was on stage, and it was the way the mic picked up my voice, and how I had all of these eyes looking up at me, and I'd never felt that sort of exhilaration and those many people attentive towards an idea that I have.Īt the moment, I thought it was fabulous.
I've always been writing poetry to get it out on paper, but there was an open mic night, and I had this wild and ridiculous idea of writing a terrible poem. Now she's out with her second collection, called the sun and her flowers. That confusion didn't stop Kaur's first book, milk and honey, from hitting the best-seller lists. "And so the gate-keepers of these two things are kind of confused at this moment." "I think the issue is because we have a form of art that is highly, highly traditional - meaning poetry - and then you have this other thing which is new and quite non-traditional, which is of course social media," Kaur says. And she's famous for the raw, minimalist poems she posts on Instagram for her 1.6 million followers.īut social media and poetry don't always seem to go together - Kaur's been criticized for skimping on depth in favor of reaching the widest possible Internet audience. Rupi Kaur has been called the "pop star of poetry." She's 24 she emigrated from India to Canada when she was 4.
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