What bothers me about the traditional formats of poetry (on the page or read/spoken) is that neither medium encompasses or allows both the words and the sounds automatically. I feel like a lot of people are turned off from seeking out and enjoying books of poetry because they have not had the opportunity or have not taken the time to learn how to read poetry for themselves.

I think in part, it's because a lot of people aren't so great at reading. I don't mean that they are lacking in the skill of receiving texts, but through teaching I've noticed that most people, when tasked to read out loud are more focused on producing words or sentences rather than producing them in the way that they would be spoken by a person. To put it another way, when most people read out loud, they do not read with expression, inflection and emphasis in the way that people naturally speak.

I recognize that a lot of writing is constructed in a way that is very different from the way that people speak naturally, but even so, it doesn't seem to me to be too much of a stretch most of the time. I have often wondered what the results would be if poems were given dynamic markings and other trappings of musical notation, but I feel like without prior experience and exposure to that, it would only alienate people more.