“Poetry is not the kind of thing people are going to run into on their own,” poet and associate professor Kyle Dargan of American University told CNN. “It’s not Jurassic World.”

Dargan was proved correct when Nielsen Bookscan, a data provider for the book publishing industry, followed the number of poetry books bought from 2004 to 2007. In those four years, Americans bought 12 million poetry books, the same number “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” sold in one day.

Yet, in 2016, poetry has become prominent in today’s culture. Since 2007, technology has advanced and pushed poetry to a whole new level. Facebook and Twitter are spilling over with poetry blogs. Over 350,000 people subscribe to a website called the Academy of American Poets that supplies poetry lovers with daily poems via email and social media.

So while poetry books have never been popular among the majority of society in the U.S., they have found a way to push through and reach people in the era of technology.

Sophomore Alex Herrmann of Brielle enjoys reading poetry especially on the internet and follows twitter accounts such as “Poem Heaven” and “Life Poems”, both of which have over 300,000 followers.

“I also love seeing poems that people have retweeted on my feed,” Herrmann said. “It gives you a deeper meaning into how their day is going.”

Poet and novelist Philip Schultz wrote in a New York Times article that people are recently crazed over poetry because poems require heartache, worry and grief poured into a message someone can relate to.

But CHS alumna and author of the poetry book “graduate” Darcy Darbin of Middletown thinks poetry is a potent way to get a meaning across.

“Poetry is a faster way to tell a story, which forces the mind to think harder and in a different way,” Darbin said.