Favorite Poets

1. William Haskins (not kidding. That's the truth)
2. William Shakespeare
3. Walt Whitman

1. none
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Milton

1. Dana Gioia
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Sylvia Plath

Argh! So hard to choose just 3

good taste in poets, morrighan
#2 in particular / a college prof got me interested in Emily
they were somewhat obsessed with her / rightly so !
may have to check out Plath / read belljar of course

Sylvia was amazing. I almost picked her.

you've got me interested
will post back in a week or so with a possibly updated list ...

Naomi Shihab Nye

Lucille Clifton

Jane Hirshfield

1. This one is difficult, because ...
2. Edgar Allen Poe
3. William Butler Yeats/Thomas Hardy

I'm open to recommendations on current ones.

I don't read as much poetry as I should, but...

1. What Sarah said
2. Maya Angelou - still getting used to the idea that she's now in this category.
3. Robert Frost

I don't really see things in "favorites" - if you're a Java programmer, you could say I don't usually implement the Serializable interface.

And I really don't like making these lists, as almost immediately, I think of others who really ought to be included. So this is only what the sunlight looks like through these clouds, right now.

But there are poems and poets I feel drawn to return to. Some of them, but not all, are these, for vastly different (or even conflicting) reasons:

Richard Brautigan
T.S. Eliot
Melvin B. Tolson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Andrew Marvell
Philip Larkin

And, from AW, among others: edited. Recusing myself from naming locals. There are better ways to show my admiration.

1. I'm catching up on living poets.
2. Russell Edson. I once wrote him a fan letter and he wrote me back!
3. Kenneth Fearing. I do enjoy my proletariat poetry!

Keats was always favorite because his works got me interesting in poetry and what it could do. And it totally blew my mind when I found performances of his works on youtube from the BBC radio.

1. Simon Armitage
2. T.S. Eliot
3. Kei Miller

My best poets are

According to the conditions that you set. I would honestly select.
1. Dana Gioia
2. Allama Mohammad Iqbal/William Shakespeare
3. Thomas Hardy
These are my all time favorite poets

kdaniel171 said:

3. Thomas Hardy

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One of my favorite authors. Never read any of his poetry. Really should.