Googling about, I found this site advertising a
Conference on Poetry and Philosophy from just last year. So we are not alone.
The reason why most modern philosophy is useless for poets is that it is remorselessly rationalist and nominalist. And any other mode of consciousness is sneered at as "primitive" or "magical" or something worse. The Imagination has never had a good press in the West. And the imaginal mode is still considered regressive, dangerous or childish.