Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
