Poetry in a hi-tech world, is where we gather to hear stories about the plight of the earth, needing to live differently and possibly redeeming the past? Is that what poets are for in these dark times?

Can poetics counter the technological domination of the earth with an ethos of care?

It is an enticing possibility. Poetry can help us to counter the assumption that the rest of nature exists solely for human benefit and help us render our technologies and practices more compatible with life.

However, concern that our life support systems are increasingly under stress has never really figured all that much in literary criticism or cultural studies. They have forgotten about the earth. They have been concerned with culture at the expense of nature. Cultural studies has insistently reminded us that culture is the prism through which we view nature, to the point wher it has forgotten that it is not culture (language) that has a hole in the ozone.

Can we re-read the European romantics and their poetics of place from this perspective?

I presume that is what Heidegger did.