Though considered to be undervalued in America, Peter Kane Dufault found enthusiastic support for his poetry in Ireland and England.
I discovered his work many years ago in The New Yorker  and had the good luck to meet him in the home of a niece in Hillsdale, New York.  His comprehensive view; the world, nature, political questions not excluded, the music and humor in  his superbly crafted verse  deserve the attention of anyone for whom poetry is indispensable.  In this period of forced isolation his poems offer a release.    In the last stanza of four in his poem "Things at a distance,"   he asks:
                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                            "Why is it we leave always
                                                                                              what we love the most?" The thought
                                                                                               so far from the sick heart
                                                                                               of the case, can become art;
                                                                                               God knows, the good byes were not.
                                                                                                In distance.  Distance.  Grace.

                                                                                                Copyright 1993  by Peter Kane Dufault  
                                                                                                  New Things Come Into the World
                                                                                                  Lindisfarne Press

Poetry's quality of sustaining its readers and writers is of interest in the life of the free jazz bassist Henry Grimes, who died recently at 84 of complications related to the coronavirus. After playing no music for 30 years, he returned to a successful musical career in 2003, according to his obituary in The Washington Post.   In his thirty years' absence from music,​ he read and wrote poetry, reciting his poems, and publishing a volume of poems.