It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

In nature there are few sharp lines

What destruction have I been blessed by?

Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.