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Newest Poets Added to Poets.org |
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John Milton
John Milton's enduring epic poem Paradise Lost has inspired countless writers and artists, while eliciting controversy for its rhymeless blank verse, theological themes, and a sympathetic depiction of the fallen angel Satan.
Jason Shinder
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1955, Shinder was the founder and director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, as well as the director of Sundance Institute's Writing Program.
May Swenson
Born in 1913, May Swenson wrote several collections of work, each admired for its adventurous word play and erotic exuberance.
George Gordon Byron
Born in 1788 in Scotland, Byron's works include the long poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and his masterpiece, the epic-satire Don Juan.
Alexander Pope
"the great moral poet of all times, of all climes, of all feelings, and all stages of existence," wrote Byron about Pope.
Mary Jo Bang
The author of five books of poems, most recently Elegy and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Bang has been chosen three times for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series.
Simon Armitage
One Britain's most beloved poets, Armitage is a great observer of modern life, writing in an original language that mixes slang and driving rhythms.
Carol Ann Duffy
Duffy's work is exemplified by dramatic characters and narratives, and more recently, the tangled themes of love.
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New poems, photos, links, and more have been added to the extended pages of Marvin Bell, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jorie Graham, Ron Padgett, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jane Cooper,
Les Murray, Adonis, James Tate,Tomas Tranströmer, W. S. Merwin, Li-Young Lee, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. |
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Most Popular Historical Poets |
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Summer 2008
1. Langston Hughes
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Walt Whitman
4. Robert Frost
5. E. E. Cummings
6. Edgar Allan Poe
7. William Carlos Williams
8. Sylvia Plath
9. W. H. Auden
10. Pablo Neruda
11. Dylan Thomas
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. William Blake
14. T. S. Eliot
15. William Shakespeare
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