Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.