Some will oppose this because they have secured tenure based on mere aesthetics. If poetry were significant, paying positions would erode. Grants might be curtailed by pursestringholders who think of poetry as contest. Do not surrender to the status quo. To have no program is to accept the program of the paid killers.
Blissful irrelevance plays into their hands.
We write this letter in a spirit of healing, to reclaim a sense of family among our sister and brother poets. Difference makes us stronger. A myth for a planet in peril must reflect accurate knowledge of nature. We must work with precision and a sense of urgency. Human beings can live in the humility of the other species, or die with inherited hubris.