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Below you will find links to websites and webpages that
feature the work of highly-rated poets, as recommended by writers and magazine
editors, in response to a survey carried out in 2006, in which I asked the
following questions: Which poet has
most influenced your outlook on life?
Who is your favourite living poet? Which poet do you believe deserves
more recognition than he or she has received?
If you scroll through the names below there will no doubt be many
poets whose work you are already familiar with, but there will also be many you
will not have heard of. Of the latter,
there is the potential for some interesting discoveries. Check out the links below and prepare to be
pleasantly surprised.
Anna
Akhmatova George Albon Dante
Alighieri Moniza
Alvi Yehuda Amichai Arlene
Ang Roger Aplon Guillaume Apollinaire
John Ashbery Margaret
Atwood
WH Auden Sri Aurobindo
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Jimmy Santiago Baca Amiri
Baraka Ellen Bass Charles
Baudelaire Paul Beatty Juan
Beauregaard-Montez Charles Bernstein Elizabeth
Bishop Max Blagg William
Blake Aleksandr Blok Laurel Ann Bogen Laure-Anne Bosselaar Emily Bronte Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Charles Bukowski Kathryn Stripling
Byer
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Lind Call Alberto O. Cappas Jim Carroll Lewis Carroll Hayden Carruth Blanca Castellón Lorna Dee
Cervantes Sri Chimnoy Marilyn Chin David Chorlton William Claire John
Clare Billy Collins Maxine Combs Brendan Constantine Hart Crane Robert Creeley e.e. cummings
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Mahmoud
Darweesh Kamala Das Robert Dassanowsky Gregory Djanikian
Emily Dickinson Stephen Dobyns John Dolan Bob
Dylan
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Forugh Farrokhzad Irving Feldman Lawrence Ferlinghetti Edward
Field Charles
Fishman Carolyn
Forche Ani di Franco Robert Frost Alice Fulton
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James Galvin Kahlil
Gibran Allen Ginsberg Daniela
Gioseffi Nikki Giovanni C.S. Giscombe Louise Gluck Sidney Goldfarb Roberta
Gould Robert Graves Robert Gregory R.S. Gwynn
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Robert Haas Marilyn Hacker Hafiz Therese
Halscheid Thorsteinn
fra Hamri
Nathalie Handal Joy
Harjo Marie Harris Alamgir Hashmi Seamus Heaney James
Hearst George Herbert William Heyen Bob Hicok Brenda Hillman Jane
Hirshfield John Hodgin Richard
Hoffman Friedrich Hölderlin Gerald Manley
Hopkins A.E.
Housman Fanny Howe Andrew Hudgins Richard Hugo
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J
Josephine Jacobsen Larry
Jaffe Randall
Jarrell Rod Jellema Denis
Johnson Margret
Loa Jonsdottir
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Bob Kaufman John
Keats Brigit Pegeen Kelly Robert Kelly Weldon Kees Chungmi Kim Galway
Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Ann Knox Ono no
Komachi Gini
Kondziolka Ted Kooser Stanley Kunitz
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Dorianne Laux Robert Lax Philip Levine Larry Levis D.A. Levy Lyn
Lifshin Duane Locke Federico Garcia Lorca Audre Lorde Adrian Louis Amy Lowell
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Elizabeth Macklin Manhae Marty McConnell Danielle Ackley McPhail D.
H. Melhem David Meltzer W.S. Merwin Peter
Michelson Edna St.
Vincent Millay Czeslaw Milosz Tony Moffeit Andrea Moorhead Daniel Thomas Moran Simone
Muench
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Rabbi
Nachman Pablo Neruda Alice Notley Naomi Shihab Nye
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Frank
O'Hara Bragi
Olafsson
Sharon Olds Mary Oliver
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William Packard Christina Pacosz Linda Pastan Molly
Peacock Louis Phillips Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Vasko Popa Dorothy Porter Ezra Pound Dan Powers Ron Price Diane
di Prima
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Stan Rice Adrienne Rich Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Carlos
Martinez Rivas Rayn Roberts Rumi Donald Ryburn
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Benjamin Alire
Sáenz Siegfried
Sassoon Iris N. Schwartz Anne Sexton William Shakespeare Reginald Shepherd Aaron Shurin Elizabeth
Simson Jan Skacel Patricia
Smith Stevie Smith W. D. Snodgrass Gary Snyder Alan
Spence Jack Spicer Bruce
Springsteen William Stafford Steinn Steinarr Gerald Stern Wallace Stevens Mark Strand Snorri
Sturluson John Sweet Todd
Swift Wislawa
Szymborska
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Torquato Tasso Alfred Tennyson Hilary Tham Dylan
Thomas R.S.
Thomas Dunstan Thompson
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V
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Chuck
Wachtel Alice Walker Klyd Watkins Debra Weinstein Philip Whalen Walt
Whitman Reed Whittemore Richard Wilbur Charles Williams William Carlos Williams Christian
Wiman Koon Woon C.D.
Wright James
Wright Thomas Wyatt
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