Yes, it spills out that way. Some non-poet common readers, however few they may be, do read the mainstream. But the readership of the avant-garde poetry, however that may be categorized, is primarily other poets, and most being poets from the so-called mainstream.
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And yet the avant-garde poets pour scorn on the mainstream poets for not being avant-garde!
Is it also true that mainstream poets get read by some non-poets?
Yes, it spills out that way. Some non-poet common readers, however few they may be, do read the mainstream. But the readership of the avant-garde poetry, however that may be categorized, is primarily other poets, and most being poets from the so-called mainstream.
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