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top 5 or so poets

thebettermanthebetterman Posts: 657
edited October 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
hello my friends,

i'm trying to get a bit more serious about poetry, as it is something i truly love. I want to become better. So i'm asking you who your favorite poets are, so i can get into some of them as well, and learn through reading. If there is anything that you have encountered that helped you out in fact, other poets or not, let me know, i'm open to anything. Thanks a lot you guys.
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,265
    Pablo Neruda
    Mary Oliver
    Michael Ondaatje
    Lucille Clifton
    Chiyo-Ni (A haiku master/nun from a few hundred years ago)
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Homer (as translated by Richmond Lattimore)
    Shakespeare
    Chaucer
    Milton
    Dante
  • *given*to*fly**given*to*fly* Posts: 325
    jim morrison
    yeats
    dream like your living forever
    live like your dying today
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    Gregory Corso
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • alicefellalicefell Posts: 30
    definitely pablo neruda.
    bukowski.
    wordsworth.
    whitman.
    yeats.
    there is no other way.
    and there never was.
  • depopulationINCdepopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    WOW, that is a tough question. I had to think about it for a while.
    Depends on how you want to look at it.

    historically:
    Dante Alighieri
    Chaucer
    Homer (not Simpson, though he is pretty good I guess...lol)
    Pablo
    Christopher Marlowe
    Edmund Spencer

    A bit more recent:
    yeats
    Emily Dickinson
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Lord Byron

    Contemporary:
    Brown
    Heaney
    Stallworthy
    Robert Frost

    Modern:
    Ira Sadoff
    Gail Carson
    jim morrison
    Kurt Cobain
    Mick Jager
    Eddy V

    of course there are many great writings out there, unfortunately, I have never really taken classes, and do not personaly know anybody who reads poetry (unfortunately), so I am only aware of what I stumble across.
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
  • twin2twin2 Posts: 894
    The only one that ever stuck in my brain, as far as poets go, is Edgar Allen Poe. I always liked his work. As far as others, I don't get to read much poetry. I love to listen to music and lyrics. Pearl Jam has been my number one influence. I like variety so it doesn't really matter what style, if I hear meaningful lyrics that get to me, they inspire me. That's one reason I like coming on here. I love to read the poetry and the variety.
  • EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    William Mathews (my personal favorite) Would suggest "After All: Last Poems"
    Stephen Dobyns
    A.R. Ammons
    Samuel Hazo

    and...probably Milton and Lord Byron
  • charlotte28charlotte28 Posts: 56
    My favourites are Yeats and Poe.
    walk the bridges before you burn them down...
  • twin1twin1 Posts: 902
    Thanks for bumping this ETF, I am familiar with Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe although I haven't read them in awhile. Too much real life drama. You have inspired me to put down my guitar and pick up a book, (besides "The Foot Book" by Dr. Seuss or my bible). Thanks again!
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  • Righteous JammerRighteous Jammer Posts: 509
    Emily Dickinson
    Charles Bukowski
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,265
    EvilToasterElf wrote:
    William Mathews (my personal favorite) Would suggest "After All: Last Poems"
    Stephen Dobyns
    A.R. Ammons
    Samuel Hazo

    and...probably Milton and Lord Byron
    Could you post one of your favorite works by A.R. Ammons? I briefly read a book, but I wasn't able to linger or digest it.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Philip Larkin
    John Updike
    E.E. Cummings
    Denise Levertov
    William Carlos Williams


    Ginsberg really got me started...but I can't stand him now. :)
    .........................................................................
  • EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    Bibliobella wrote:
    Could you post one of your favorite works by A.R. Ammons? I briefly read a book, but I wasn't able to linger or digest it.

    "Garbage"

    It's a poem, and a book.

    The entire poem was written on adding machine paper, so the lines are very small. Incredible work though.
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