“After every war someone has to tidy up.”
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
