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i'm fairly new to poetry.. i thought i hated it, and now all of a sudden i'm writing again..

i don't have much of a basis, though. i wouldn't know who to read that is good. i think the more you read and write poetry the more you can improve...

so, who are your favorite poets?

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nikki giovanni. i discovered her when i was 12 and first starting to write. she has influenced me in everything i've written since then. her prose is great, too.

i'm from jersey, and i'm also a fan of local poets, like bj ward. his "seventeen love poems with no despair" is a great collection.
i will definetly be checking out her stuff, its so nice to find people who like peotry not many people are into it anymore
T.S. Eliot
Dean Young
Tony Hoagland
David Berman

(these are all contemporary--save for Eliot)

And by no means is this an exhaustive list.
I also recommend checking out the McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets.
Sara Teasdale! though im sure there are still many great poets for me to find! but she is my favourite i have a few peices of her work on my blog: http://retrovintageromance.blogspot.com/

I think because i know her story i find her more fascinating adn teh fact that she comitted suicide sort of gives ehr this tortued poet edge, if you havnt read her work you should!
ignore me mispellings! i have cat in the way of my keyboard!
Yeats
Poe
T.S.Eliot
Dobby Gibson. Check his stuff out now.
TS Eliot,
Pablo Neruda,
Sylvia Plath,
Baudelaire,
Rimbaud,
Wordsworth,
Yeats,
Robert Frost,
EE Cummings,
Dylan Thomas,
Patrick Jones,
Billy Collins,
Gillian Clarke,
RS Thomas,
and Philip Larkin

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I love physics poetry..
Poe and also Danish mathematician and physicist Piet Hein.

I love mystical poems as well...
My favourite is "In and out of time" by Maya Angelou

http://lion-essence.blogspot.com/2009/07/revenge.html
my latest poem
kesed, black ice, mayda del valle, carven lissaint
rabindranath tagore


william wordsworth

ts elliot

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