Favorite Poets

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have always enjoyed poetry. Over the years, I've built up a long list of favorite poets. This is one of the few areas where I lean towards the classics. I'm not impressed by a lot of modern poetry, although there are some that meet my standards. Most of what I like isn't considered fashionable these days. I like both rhyme and meter, though I don't require either, and I love different forms. I also prefer for poetry to make sense, especially if it tells a story, although it can be subtle or wacky rather than obvious.

I like poets who have something in common with me. I also like poets who are very different. So my reading spans quite a variety of time periods, languages, ethnic groups, religions, and other categories.


Black Poets
Robert Hayden
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
Phillis Wheatley

Hispanic Poets
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Sandra Cisneros
Luis A. López
William Carlos Williams

Native American Poets
Paula Gunn Allen
Gloria Bird
Joy Harjo
Leslie Marmon Silko
Luci Tapahonso

Pagan Poets
Doreen Valiente
Enheduanna
Starhawk

Queer Poets
John Ashbery
Allen Ginsberg
Adrienne Rich
Sappho

Speculative Poets
Bruce Boston
Suzette Haden Elgin
David Kopaska-Merkel
Anne McCaffrey
Marge Simon
J.R.R. Tolkien

Women Poets
Margaret Atwood
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickenson

Miscellaneous Poets
Matsuo Basho
Lewis Carroll
e e cummings
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
Vachel Lindsey
Edgar Allen Poe
Jelaluddin Rumi
Dylan Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
William Butler Yeats


Who are some of your favorite poets?

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[jjhunter]

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[herlander_refugee]

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[jjhunter]

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