Kahlil Gibran, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Jane Kenyon, Boris Pasternak. Robert Frost. I have pilgrimaged to Jon Berryman’s Grave and had poetry read there.
Bob Dylan by far, followed by WH Auden, overall I love imagist poetry and objectivist poetry, Ezra pound did a lot for poetry, I love frank o haras my heart. What a poem.
Wow. Hard to choose. I guess I will pick Edgar Allen Poe, but there are so many others I like: Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walt Whitman…
Hollie McNish
Sylvia plath..John cooper clark..Kate Tempest..
Babits Mihály
Robert Frost and Walt Whitman
Rimbaud
Dr. Seuss
Rupi Kaur and @Carlina
Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Judith Wright, John Keats.
Wallace Stevens? Elizabeth Bishop? Anne Sexton? Frank O’Hara? A E Housman? John Berryman?
Anna Akhmatova
Kahlil Gibran, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Jane Kenyon, Boris Pasternak. Robert Frost. I have pilgrimaged to Jon Berryman’s Grave and had poetry read there.
let me not forget Reynolds Price and Jim Harrison.
let me say this about the poetry readings I have gone to lately. “self Indulgent pap…”
I too like kahlil gibran’s poetry though havent read others enough..
@Syeda he is a league of his own.
Ronnie Krishna It’s a certain style though too. It will depend if one likes this kind of poetry or not.
Robert Frost
I like The Road Not Taken
Bob Dylan by far, followed by WH Auden, overall I love imagist poetry and objectivist poetry, Ezra pound did a lot for poetry, I love frank o haras my heart. What a poem.
Sharon Olds
Wow. Hard to choose. I guess I will pick Edgar Allen Poe, but there are so many others I like: Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walt Whitman…
Robert Frost
Newer Rupi Kaur or rh sihn (sp?)
Classic? Edgar allen poe
Robert Frost…..
Sara Teasdale
Poe
Langston Hughes
Plath
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Yeats or Eliot
both great poets,
Ted Hughes
William Butler Yeats
If someone was new to poetry, what would be a good starter?
Neruda or Langston Hughes
Rabindranath Tagore
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski is my fave but also, Pablo Naruda, Langston Hughes, Joy Harjo.
I have many favorites but if I had to choose one I think it would be Robert Frost.
Lemmy Kilmister
Lang leav.
Tagore
Ever.. Poe. In this time, Merritt Malloy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ans Robert Frost
I love Rumi, too! What beautiful wisdom.
Rumi, Tagore, Frost
Poe
Basho
Nice … haikus ❤️
e.e. cummings
SWINBURNE
Pablo Neruda, Octavio paz, Maya Angelou and Edna st Vincent Millay
Claude Mckay
Following this ??
Lauryn hill
Currently falling in love with Hardy’s poetry
I love his prose better still, my favorite writer ❤️
@Kristen recently read Tess of the d’Urbervilles, his prose is lovely ?
Kristina Weber he discussed poetry with Ezra Pound I recently learned and I love the images in his poetry a lot
Frost and Service
Yeats.
Rumi i loved in my teens when I was romantic still ❤️ he is great though
Rumi is Iranian?
@Chirag he is from greater Khorasan, a historical
region, so persian is the term I use
Poe, Frost, Tennyson, and a dear friend is a poet- Shefali Choksi.
Khaled hossieni <3 <3
Robert Frost
Don’t like poetry
William Blake
Walt Whitman. Sylvia Plath. T.S.Eliot. John Donne.
For reference, the term poet applies to both the masculine and the feminine, so using poetess is not necessary.
Ok thanku i didnot knew it before:)
@Syeda No worries, just trying to be helpful :}
Rumi
Robert Frost
Robert frost
George orwell
Edgar Allan Poe.
Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire.
rumi of course
rumi ~ I also love Kahlil Gibran ~
Wordsworth …i am not really interested in poetry but I loved Wordsworth
Walt Whitman