The notion of an audience has, for a long time now, been immaterial to me. It’s likely that the more one works for oneself, the more people one reaches.
“One of the things that seems to impel me is it never made any sense to me to separate the genres so much. Ideally, I would move towards incorporating poetry into narrative. I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t even move in and out of poetry. A lot of poets stick a lot of prose in their poems now. What holds the separation in place is, I think, money.“
Ronald Sukenick