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Newest Poets Added to Poets.org |
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Reginald Shepherd
Born in 1963, Shepherd is the author of five poetry collections, including Otherhood, a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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.
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New & Improved |
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New poems, photos, links, and more have been added to the extended pages of Rosanna Warren, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Louise Glück, James Tate, Mahmoud Darwish, Marvin Bell, Derek Walcott, Carol Ann Duffy, Alice Walker, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jorie Graham, Ron Padgett, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jane Cooper,
Les Murray, Adonis & Tomas Tranströmer. |
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Most Popular Historical Poets |
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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. William Blake
10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11. Pablo Neruda
12. W. H. Auden
13. William Shakespeare
14. T. S. Eliot
15. Dylan Thomas
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