Does the average American male read poetry?

Some other Brontë-related news for the first Saturday of June.

The New York Times once again resurrects one of those somehow tiresome topics. The reason why adult males don't read is that as teenagers they are not pointed in the direction of more suitable literature

One reason the average American male reads only one book a year may be the emotional trauma suffered in trying to hack his way through “Wuthering Heights” at the age of 14. (Joe Queenan)

Andrea Potos is also an old acquaintance of this blog. She is a poet and a Brontëite and this article in The Capital Times is a good example:

For Madison poet Andrea Potos, growing up in a Greek immigrant household in Milwaukee seemed normal. Sure, her grandmother sometimes said words in a language that Potos didn't speak, but the food was excellent and the family stories never stopped entertaining.
"For me it was a very ordinary way of growing up," Potos recalled.(...)
Currently Potos is finishing her second manuscript, a process she said has been made easier by the lessons learned in assembling "YaYa's Cloth."
Titled "We Lit the Lamps Ourselves" (a line taken from an Emily Dickinson poem), the new collection focuses on women writers and the act of creation and includes a series of poems about the Bronte sisters and other women writers, as well as personal poems about Potos' own creative experience. (Heather Lee Schroeder)

And now for some short notes. A couple of blogs post about their recent visits to the Brontë Parsonage Museum: Robin Hill (the guitarist) and Sassy McFrench Abroad. Meanwhile Twitch Film reviews the new DVD edition of Jane Eyre 1944.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brontëites, Jane_Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights