Making Poetry Popular

So frame it how you will, but the audience for poetry has been continuing to shrink and isolate itself.

You call a call to make poetry more accessible to a wider audience elitist -- which makes no sense to me.

I suppose if a person isn't really writing poetry for anyone but themselves then it's irrelevant. However, I see no reason to write except to communicate the ideas in my head to those people who happen, for better or worse, to be outside my head. (which, as some of you might not be aware includes everyone with the exception of me)

If no one is going to read whe I've written -- then i would not bother to write it. 

• stephan