Poetry People - Conversation on Poets

I definitely agree that poetry, and all art, should be a part of the cultural consciousness.  And I'm also certain I'm advocating the complete opposite of dumbing poetry down.  I want to keep it brilliant!

Unfortunately, that creates a gaping hole in my thought process.   Keeping poetry subtle, in our culture, means that it might make itself inaccessible to the masses (intellectual elitism?) . . . and therefore wouldn't be bringing much consciousness to the culture. 

Perhaps if poetry was more widely accessed and read, there wouldn't be such a divergence between what I like (the sublte art), and what the culture needs (a big ol' kick in the ass).

I'm still unclear how any of this poetry reaches the audience it needs to though . . . it should . . . but it doesn't . . . or does it?   I remember as a kid, someone used to cover the ads at the local train station with poetry.  It was a pretty cool, subversive thing to do.  This kind of unsubtle writing might be perfect for that . . . viral poetry.  Awesome.