Sunday 4 February 2018
Justin
I came up with this list of poets to become acquainted or reacquainted with, a few classic, several moderns, and many contemporaries. A good way to do this is fine “Selected Poems” volume for a poet, and see what’s there.
I’ve got a long way to go on these, but that’s OK!
Mark
Akhmatova
Amichai
Antler
Apollinaire
Arenas
Auden
Aygi, Gennady
Bayati
Blake
Basho
Baudelaire
Bei Dao
Berrigan
Berry
Bishop
Bialik
Bolano
Brathwaite
Brecht
Breton
Bukowski
Byron
Cardenal
Cafavy
Celan
Cendrars
Char
Crane
Creeley
Cummings
Dalton
Dante
Darwish
Di Prima
Du Fu
Dickinson
Duncan
Eluard
Eliot, TS
Enzensberger
Everson
Ferlinghetti
Forche
Garcia Lorca
Ginsberg
Glathsteyn
Goethe
Goldberg
Greenberg
H.D.
Han-shan
Heine
Herbert
Hikmet
Ho Chi Minh
Holderin
Howe
Hughes, Langston
Huidobro
Issa
Jabes
Jacob
Jordan
Juana, Sor
Katz
Keats
Kerouac
Kim Chi Ha
Ko Un
Lam Thi My Da
Lawrence
Leivick
Levertov
Li Ch’ing-chao
Li Po
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Robert
MacDiarmid
Machado
Mandelstam
Mao
Masters
Mayakovsky
Mayer
Merton
Merwin
Mikhail
Millay
Miyazawa
Montale
Moore, Daniel
Moore, Marianne
Myung Mi Kim
Neruda
Nhat Hanh, Thich
Niedecker
Oliver
Olson
Oppen
Parra
Pasternak
Patchen
Paz
Pessoa
Pound
Prevert
Ravikovitch
Reverdy
Rexroth
Reznikoff
Rilke
Rimbaud
Robinson, E.A.
Rosetti
Rothenberg
Ryokan
Rukeyser
Sachs
Saint John-Perse
Seferis
Seitz
Senghor
Shabtai
Shakespeare
Shelley
Smart
Snyder
Soen Roshi
Soupault
Spender
Su Tung-P’o
Szymborska
Takamura Kotaro
Tennyson
Traherne
Trankl
Tsvaeteva
Tzara
Vallejo
Valery
Vaughn
Verlaine
Szymborska
Waldman
Walker
Wang Wei
Welch
Whitman
Williams
Yeats
Yosano Akiko
Zamora
Zukovsky