One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After that...
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.