Need some recommendations.

Luke flees the scene · Apr 5, 2007

I'm looking for some good poetry to read. Any recommendations of good poets to look for? Besides, of course, all the good ones on Absolute Write. =)

mjlpsu · Apr 6, 2007

Some of my favorites: Sam Hamill, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Du Fu

Aprylwriter · Apr 10, 2007

Here are some of my favorites: Wang Wei Du Fu (whoo!), Sylvia Plath, Billy Collins, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, etc.

There are also oodles of online poetry magazines/web zines. Some of them are pretty good.

Apryl

Norman D Gutter · Apr 11, 2007

Pick up a copy of Garrison Keilor's "Good Poems".

Look at any poetry anthology. Someone has judged those poems to be good.

My favorite is Robert Frost.

NDG

giftedrhonda · Apr 11, 2007

What kind of poems do you like? Do you like any old school classics? Do you like romantic, abstract, rhyming, free verse?

tony1 · Apr 16, 2007

Good Reads

Right now, I'm in the middle of Ted Koosers,"The Poetry Home Repair Manual," it's not a collection, but it has really turned me onto Kooser himself, So I recomend him, Billy Collins, and Charles Bukowski ( he's pretty raw & rough as far as the lifestyle he led, I don't know what your into. ) There's also a great book of contemporary poets called, 180 More: extrodinary poems for everyday reading by: Billy Collins. I hope this helps.

ddgryphon · Apr 16, 2007

http://www.poets.org

Has selections from nearly every well known poet there is--even some reading their works. Great site for getting to know a variety of styles and poets.

Great to browse on a slow day at work.

Godfather · Apr 17, 2007

i think, tattered, that you might like allen ginsberg. pick up howl and other poems. it's powerful. a supermarket in california and america are two poems that are astoundingly real, yet beautiful. you would do well to pick up that book.

plath i think you might like too, you both share dark, almost morbid themes.

dylan thomas is one of my favourite poets. astounding metaphores.

also, one poem i'd like to recommend (the poet i'm not entirely fond of), but this poem is wonderful. eavan boland - this moment

Kate Thornton · Apr 17, 2007

I like Stephen Spender.

LimeyDawg · Apr 17, 2007

Pablo Neruda and A.E. Housman

Need some recommendations.

Luke flees the scene

philosopher.

mjlpsu

unidentifiable food tester

Aprylwriter

i am dragon. roar.

Norman D Gutter

Engineer Sonneteer

giftedrhonda

Gifted Goofball

tony1

ddgryphon

King of Sloth Town

Godfather

back door man

Kate Thornton

Still Happy to be Here. Or Anywhere

LimeyDawg

Scars are poems too