Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.