Poetry advice from "Kate"

Over on the Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, some advice on how to read a poem:

It is embarrassing to admit I've spent most of my adult life reading, writing, and publishing poetry. Poets are overly emotional, silly, melodramatic. They are either junk addicts who write about crashing cars, or starry-eyed idealists who spend the day staring at a tree. Ferdinand the Bull was probably a poet. Some male poets I know work hard to make their poetry masculine. They do slam poetry, or they write about guns, whiskey and fist-fights. And poetry has no practical use. It doesn't show you how to use your Tevo, doesn't give life lessons like O Magazine, won't even offer one big universal truth like many classic novels. And poetry certainly won't make you any money. Even a Pulitzer Prize winning poet lives modestly.