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Cummings 50ad (17) 苏轼, Tagore, Gibran 6nianji-ZHC (38) Richard Brautigan A real phony (27) Lord Byron A.J. (27) J.N.A. Rimbaud and Haiku. AROG Keats, Stevens, Whitman AR (20) An area yet to be explored in great depth. AS (32) W.B. Yeats, Anne Sexton A (19) Dickinson, Frost, Shakespearean Sonnetts Aaron (32) John Donne, Gerald Manly Hopkins Abs E E Cummings, Auden, Blake Adam Hyde (26) Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and e.e. cummings Adam (22) I don't know Adam (25) The poets from Manyoshu. Admiral Love (33) Cavafey Adrian Martyn (34) Lewis Carroll Adriana (16) Lewis Carroll Adriana (16) Carol ann Duffy, Keats and Simon Armatige Ady (22) Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Ezra Pound, Fernando Pessoa Aggie White walt whitman and t.s. eliot Agreen (29) Bukowski, Baudelaire, T.S. Elliot Agustina (27) Conchitina Cruz, Sylvia Plath Ai (21) Langston Hughes Aisha Milburn (32) Not a fan of poetry. Ajay (17) none Ajm9511 (21) Virgil, Leonard Cohen, and Greg Luce Al (28) Keats Alan (58) Rilke, Poe, Longfellow, Shakespeare Aldonza77 (47) Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alecksi Edgar Allan Poe, Giosuè Carducci (not the latter period), Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Pian (30) i like poetry but I don't really have a favourite poet...so I refuse to write one JUST for the sake of the question Alex C. Too many... But let's say Georg Heim and Paul Eluard. Alex Baudelaire Alex (22) Robert Frost Alex (17) simon and garfunkel, my mother Alexandra Bryhter (24) Shakespeare Alexandra (27) Again, I read not to memorize the authors and poets of classics and prose. I read to devour their meaning. Alexandra (19) T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ernst Hemingway, William Shakespeare Alexandra (24) Milton, Stephen Gomez AlexandriaHMerlin (40) those with rhyme and those without Alexis Johnson (19) Rubén Darío, Shakespeare. Ali (37) Robert Frost Alicein1derland (27) Swinburne, Wilde Alin (23) Baudelaire, Chaucer, Dante, Byron Allison Jean Hazen (34) John Keats and Sylvia Plath Allison Jean (21) Gwendolyn Brooks Allison (33) Poe Allison (20) Whitman Amanda Tennyson Amara None Ame (37) Dr. Suse Amelia (13) Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost Amy (33) wordsworth, cummings. Ana (21) pablo neruda, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, fernando pessoa Ana (30) Rilke, keats, and Baudelaire Andrea (16) Emily Dickinson and H.D. Andreas (19) I do not know. Andrew (22) Rudyard Kipling Andrew (25) W.H. Audin, Bertolt Brecht Andrew (20) None Ângela (24) Carol Ann Duffy Anjel (28) may i say edgar again ? i believe he will always be my favorite. Ankassandra (15) Erwin Mortier Anke! (17) Billy Collins Ann Delaney (44) Tadeusz Rozewicz @TM (at the moment) Anna Kalimar (18) Świetlicki, Barańczak, Różewicz, Wojaczek, Bursa, Poświatowska, Celan etc. Anna O. T.S. Eliot Anne Louise Sheldon (34) E.E Cummings Annelise (40) Edna St. Vincent Millay Anniel (62) Nonee really AnonAzure (19) Larkin, George Herbert. Anthony D C (20) Dante Anthony (24) None Antoinette (21) Fernando Pessoa Antonio Lemos (18) all of them and my love Jenya Kosarev Anya (22) Never really thought about it Anzi (27) Gerald Manley-Hopkins, Seamus Heaney Aoife Walsh Edith Sitwell, Borges, George Herbert Apollo (58) Edgar Allan Poe and Giorgos Seferis Apos Frost and Blake April (20) Florbela Espanca, Fernando Pessoa Aranneaa (19) Shel Silverstein and Dante Alighieri Artie Mondello (18) Shel Silverstein, William Shakespeare Artie (17) Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, Dorothy Parker. Ash (23) Anyone who can rhyme something with "female orgasm" Ashley Brazil (17) Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Bishop, Jeanette Armstrong Ashley Meller (26) Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear Ashwin Murali (21) Shakespeare, John Dunne, Shel Silverstein Astrid Baudelaire Atuona (38) Fernando Pessoa, Al Berto. Audrey Mahone (29) Plath, Eliot, Cummings, Shakespeare Aya NONE BIPS (46) Goeth BM (20) romantic Baby (32) I like the poetry of people I've never heard of and don't require that I have. Bailey (19) Emily Dickinson, William Blake Barbarita (21) Robert Frost Baron Von Nazzenpoppel (46) Edgar Allen Poe Batgirl (23) Wordsworth, Shakespeare Beatrice Moore (30) Manuel Alegre Beatriz (13) Poe Becca (16) One whose words speak to my soul Becca (17) Auden BeckBeck (26) Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Li Po. Ben Emily Dickinson, Gabriele D'Annunzio, C.S. Lewis Benjamin Urrutia (61) I consider musicians poets, and i have lots of favourite musicians Beth Ellis (15) those who write about real things Beth (20) e e cummings, Coleridge, Keats, and Chistina Rossetti Bethany (23) Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and Pablo Neruda Betty Usabiaga (37) Hafiz, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai Bhakti Brophy (41) Dionisios Solomos and... nature Bianca (18) Byron, Blake, Emerson, Thoreau, and other transcendentalists and romantics BillyBobABC123zzz Lorca, Pope, Kooser Blademan (60) Christian Morgenstern, Robert Louis Stevenson Blaine (21) W.H. Auden, myself (though I can't find them ANYWHERE), and whoever wrote that Irish Blessing on the back on my Nanny's locket. BlondShamrock (16) None Blood (15) Shakespeare Bluebird (27) Percy Shelly and William Wordsworth Bluto (29) That guy. The guy with the.... uh.... Bob (22) shel silverstein, dr. suess Bobia (25) i dont have one Bonnie (15) Osamu Dazai Boris (16) Keats, Shelley, Shakespeare Brad (17) Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg Bree Ogden Shel Silverstein Brendan (24) Edgar Allen Poe Brian A. Henegar (26) Robert Frost, John Donne, Edgar Allen Poe, Dylan Thomas Brian (22) Sharon Olds, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot, Glaway Kinnell Britta Bandit (30) Du Fu...if i can even remember any Brutus (20) Browning Brynn (39) rudyard kippling and myself. Bryon Springer (25) know too few to answer Buddy (34) Dylan Thomas. Shakespear. Bob Dylan. C face. (22) ...... CAVCAV (26) Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Cohen C Du Fu C (14) Seamus Heaney and me Caidy (54) Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes. Candice (23) Baudelaire, Whitman, Poe. Candy Percey Bysshe Shelley Carlie (24) Princess Marasigan. Carlo (26) Fernando Pessoa Carlos A. (24) I really don't like poetry. In my opinion, it's like a reading a diary that's been poorly translated. Carly (19) Alexander Pope, John Keats Carly (21) Mary Oliver, Billy Collins Carol Lacoss (62) Rainer Maria Rilke, Lao Tzu Caroline (38) Ezra Pound Caroline (25) Rilke, Rumi, Hafiz and Billy Collins Caroline (33) Richard Siken. Carolyn (18) Walt Whitman And Charles Baudelaire. Cassie (16) Rilke Cat (36) Goethe Cat (24) Pedro Salinas Catalina Jiménez Correa (27) too many Catalina (44) Oscar Wilde, Shel Sylverstein, Maya Angelou Cate (23) Homer. Catherine Jean Myself Cattie Chong (26) Rossetti, Browning, Keats Cee Cee (17) none Cestmoi Bukowski Cfreedman (38) Not much into poerty again no favorites. Channon (45) Shakespeare, Coleridge Chari (21) Unfortunately I do not read much poetry =/. Charlene (17) Robert Frost, Homer, Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe. Charles L Davis Jr (51) Pianists who can make poetry with their music alone Charlotte (18) EE Cummings, Charles Bukowski, Anne Sexton Charly Mariaan (49) definitely e.e.cummings and an anonymous one with a livejournal username, scarredheart Chary Silva (22) Ghalib Cheemargh (36) Bukowski and Whitman Chelsea (21) Maya Angelou Cherish Robinson (21) Mother Earth-the sounds of wind, and animal are poetic Cherub (30) Akiwah Adler Belendez Chinita (34) No. Chiu Jing Hua (17) Robert Frost/ Poe Chonda Boris Pasternak Chris S. William Shakespear tops them all. Chris (16) Edgar Allan Poe Chris frost Christian Soldier (33) Sarah Kirsch, Jossif Brodskij, Bertolt Brecht Christian (44) Silvia Plath, Frost, Poe and Shakespeare. Christina Kronberg (23) T.S. Eliot, Bukowski, Robert Penn Warren, Auden, W.B. Yeats Christobel in College (18) TS Eliot, Charles Bukowski, W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, William Butler Yeats Christobel (17) Joyce Kilmer. Christopher Blaum (37) Poetry is lies. Christopher Boone Reinhold Niebuhr and Stephen Crane Christopher James Stagg (16) Bob Dylan, Ian Curtis, Jim Morrison my actual ownership of poetry is very very small at the moment. Christopher Mitchell (17) Hart Crane Christopher (24) I don't read enough poetry to have a favorite. Ciera (16) Don't know. Cindy Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Jim Morrison Cissa Fireheart (32) Ion Minulescu, Mihai Eminescu Ciucan (18) Walt Whitman, because he was always unafraid. Claire Bartholomew (16) Poetry escapes me, but I love "In Flander's Fields" ClaireW (65) Whitman Claire My mother Clancy baudelaire and hugo Clara (20) Billy Collins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elliot Schain, Alex Finn Clarissa (18) Kipling, Robert Service Clark Langridge (32) goethe Claudia (36) Clay Douglass: Thich Nhat Hahn Clay Douglass (34) Denisse Lopez Clelia Beatriz Valdez (22) Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Sappho, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cody Gould (17) I don't have a favourite Colin (39) don't have any Cookie Edgar Allen Poe Core (25) Again I don't like the idea of having heroes/heroines or favorites so thus I don't have any. Though I am interested in reading Homer and I don't mean Homer Simpson! Craig Suga Biles (22) Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Poe. Crystal (17) Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marina Tsvetayeva, Anna Akhmatova, Sappho, Kostas Kariotakis, C.P Cavafy, Seferis, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Ranier M. Rilke, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Renée Vivien , etc! Crystal (32) i'm figuring out Crystal (22) John Masefield, Vicente Nuñez, John Drinkwater. D.S.de.P.Ramos At the moment, William Wordsworth D.X (22) Norville Taylor, Nikki Giovanni, & Langston Hughes Dachary (23) Shakespeare Damien TC (36) John Milton and Dante Dan (29) Dr. Suess, Seamus Heany Dan joe budden Dan (20) Dr. Seuss Dan (39) Sylvia Plath, Tennyson, Wadsworth Danae (17) None Danger (16) Billy Collins, Sandra Cisneros, E.A. Poe, Chaucer, and Maya Angelou. Dani (31) Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen Dani (19) Edgar Allen Poe Daniel (16) Poe. and myself. Daniella (27) Dr. Suess Danny (25) Shakespeare, Elizabeth Browning Darcy (20) W.B. Yeats, John Masefield, Wilfred Owen. Dave Cresswell (46) John Dunne, Seamas Heany, Patrick Kavanagh, Willy Shakespeare DaveyD (24) Keats, Walcott Davey (18) Pablo Neruda David K (46) Goethe David Timme (19) Keats, Shelley, Lord Byron, Brown(both of them, husband and wife) David (19) Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein David (10) Paul Grigsby and Lem Taylor DeAndre Beck (20) Shakespeare, yeats, Langston Hughes Deb (37) Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson Debby Creech-West (43) Dante Deborah S. Wilson (56) Alfred Lord Tennyson Dee (24) Goethe Dee (19) Alexander Pope Densio (25) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Carlos Williams Derek (27) Charles Bukowski Dev Tucker (17) [see above...] Devon (18) shakespeare but i dont know many Devu (22) Miya Angelou Diana Thomas - English Thursday 6pm (38) my daughter Diana (52) those who write about love, unadulterated and unedited Diana (20) No one...I don't like reading poetry Diana (15) Joaquín Sabina. Diego Miguel Danura Puyó (30) Ronald Baytan, William Shakespeare, Erika Prado Dindin (20) Cavafy, for sure Dolores Nabokov (26) Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg Dominick Miller (19) Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsburg, Percy Shelly and John Milton Dominick Miller (20) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Milton, Whitman. Dominick Miller (21) Kahlil Dori (23) Wordsworth and Roald Dahl Doug Lambert (65) Coleridge, Heaney, Dante and Marlow Doug (30) Dickinson, Keats, and Poe. Dragontongue (22) Poe, Bukowski, Baudelaire DreamBrother (27) Brodsky, Betjemen, Simic, Plath, Sharon Olds, Lou Reed Drella (26) All the Russians. Dru (24) Plath, Keats, Byron Dylan (17) So many; I have written more earlier E.A. Latham (25) Langston Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, likely more E.Jay (21) I'm not much of a reader. EAR (19) bukowski, sappho EJ (29) Madame de Stael Ed (30) Bukowsky Edmond Dantes (26) Shakespeare, Yeats, Old Dirty Bastard. Edouard (41) lorca Eduardo (19) I haven't read any poets. Eiichi (16) I don't read much poetry but I like Frost and Dickinson at the moment Elena Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, John Keats. Eleni Constantinou (20) Shakespeare, W.H. Auden, Charles Bukowsky, Shel Silverstein Eliaz McMillan (33) I have no favorites. Elizabeth William Shakespeare Elizabeth (25) Dickenson Ellen W.B.Yeats, Shakespeare, and all those whose random fragments of poems come to me but I do not know their names. Ellie_Estrella (19) Simon and Garfunkel. Elliot Oscar Wilde, Edgar Alan Poe, Baurelaire Elyse (20) Whitman Ema (18) Emily Dickinson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson Emilie (23) Byron, Pushkin, Boris A. Novak, Sappho Emillia (16) Buddhist poetry does the trick Emily Harford Barrett Shakespeare, Tennyson. Emily (19) e e cummings, ferlinghetti, bukkowski and emily dickenson. Emily (24) Shakespeare Emma (20) Frank O'Hara, T.S. Eliot, Nikki Giovanni Emme (21) Bonnefoy, Lorka Endimion Shakespeare and Blake Enis T.S. Elliot, Baudler or Lorka Eno A. Agolli (15) Rilke. Enrique (21) See above. Eric C. Wolfe (28) T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. Eric (15) Whitman Erica Johnson (21) ? Erica Edgar Allan Poe Erich (20) Oscar Wilde and Allen Ginsberg Erik Isaac (19) Homer Erik Price (18) My mother. Erin (27) Wordsworth Erin (53) Erich Kästner Escapism (19) Nikki Giovanni. Confucius (it was poetic!) Et Cetera (22) n/a Et (32) my oncle in second degree Euzinha_ds (20) Don't like poetry, it's so boring to me. Eva (23) Gwen Hardwood, Keats Evie (22) Walt Whitman Ferroever (43) Robert Frost, Shelley, Keats FeydRautha (46) robert graves, charles algernon swinburne, erica jong Feysweetie (43) Bill Bissett - he taught me to swim Finokio (38) Shakespeare, Poe, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Frost, T. S. Eliot. FlameHorse (28) shakespeare, edgar allen poe Flo none FlyinMonki (27) Fernando Pessoa (Ricardo Reis) Francisca Bastos (17) Randall Jarrell FrankieSmash (49) emily dickinson GP (39) neruda, becker Gab (19) Edgar Allan Poe. Gabriel Gonzalez (26) Robert Frost Gail Flaherty Byron, Kerouac Galareh (23) I would say Poe, simply because he is the only poet who has ever been able to hold my attention. Garrett (19) Poe Gator Krazy Dave whitman Gene (51) Homer. Genevieve (22) Robert Frost Genevieve (15) Dylan Thomas, WH Auden and John Betjeman George Owers (21) William Shakespeare George I have not read enough poems, but I like Konstantinos Kavafis' style of poetry Georgia (14) King David Georgia (53) Mallarme and Emily Dickinson Gia (21) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles Baudelaire Giannico (40) WB Yeats Gillian Martin (40) e.e. cummings, some Rilke, Billy Collins, Plath, "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens Gina (19) ST Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Basho, PB Shelley, Tom Waits, Blind Willie Johnson, Bo Carter, Miles Davis, Anrseny and Andrei Tarkovsky, Terrence Malick, Bela Tarr Girl You Too Rude pablo neruda. Giselle (18) David Gloria Heatley (58) Torquato Tasso and John Milton Godfrey (19) none Golden Boy (20) Jorge Luis Borges. Gonzalo Charles Bukowski Greg Lytle (26) myself Greg (19) John Keats, Ezra Pound, Khalil Gibran Greg (24) Lewis Carroll Greg (17) Baudelaire, Rimbaud e Fernando Pessoa Gustavo (21) Pushkin, Shakespeare, Baudelaire Guy Van Driessche (44) W.H. Auden H. McMillan (33) No he leido mucha poesia. H.Nakashima (21) T.S. Eliot HCE (15) Shakespeare HHP (41) Yevgeny Yuvteshenko and Ezra POUnd Hakusha Senbon (24) Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Walter de la Mare. Hal (18) Oscar Wilde Haley (19) Edgar Allan Poe,Baudalaire,William Blake,T.S. Eliot HandeG. (13) Anne Sexton Hari (21) Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot Harold E. Leighton (37) Shakespeare Hassan (21) There is no good poetry. At all. No exceptions. Hayzeus (23) ee cummings, auden, roethke, billy collins, anne sexton, yehuda amichai - so many. Heidi R. Emily Dickenson, Shakespeare, Robert Frost Helen Mattison Wyatt (20) Beaudelaire, Apollinaire Helen (32) poe, Hetal (22) My namesake, Friedrich Hölderlin, Karoline von Günderode, a number of others from whom I just like individual poems Hoelder1in (51) shakespeare I Beg (54) T.S. Eliot Ian (23) Sylvia Plath Illinibeatle (44) There are so many - I don't want to read only one! Inkie (60) neruda Iris (18) Baudelaire and Whitman. Isaac (16) t. s. eliot and walter whitman Isaac (29) Eluard,Mallarmé,Berk Isabelle (26) Guillaume Apollinaire Isadora Duncan (32) none Iva Pasztor (20) Japanese haiku poets. Iva Shakesphere and Shel Silverstein Ivy (10) Nikki Giovanni, Countee Cullen J.A. Lawrence Lewis Carrol... and Matsuo Bashou J.L. Odom (16) Robert Frost JChris (40) Socrates and anyone that wrote Satires in the Ancient World JD (21) Maya Angelou JJ (20) William Blake JLo (34) None to name JM (28) I hate poetry JW (27) Poe, Serj Tankian, Kurt Cobain Jack Goodman (18) Jane Austen Jackie Cavalcante (40) Thoreau, musicians Jackie Vega (27) Lord Byron, James Merrill, Walt Whitman, Edward Gorey Jackie Rostand. Jackson8471 (23) The poets named anonymous JaclynM (19) I'm afraid I'm not much of a poetry person Jaclyn (22) Philip Larkin, William Blake, e.e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg. Jacob Richardson (18) Emiliy Dickinson, Alice Walker, Marianne Moore Jacqueline Garrett (38) Byron. Jacqueline (34) e.e. cummings, nikki giovanni and all others who dare to speak from the heart Jadelynn (24) Pablo Neruda, Shakespeare Jafari (33) Baudelaire Jaime (18) dante James Green (29) William Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman James La Salandra (31) Edith Sitwell, EE Cummings James (64) Robert Frost Jamie (25) Edgar Allan Poe and Paul McCartney. Jamie (22) Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen Jan Robert Louis Stephenson, Byron, Wordsworth Jan (54) Robert Louis Stephenson, Robert Burns, Shelly, Wordsworth Jan (55) i dont read poems Janae (17) Sylvia Plath, Kahil Gibran Jared Oswald (19) Walt Whitman, Maya Angelou, Malik Yusef Jay West (27) e. e. cummings Jay (26) Have so many...but Elliot is good Jenn (35) Jimmy Stewart Jenni Webb Reynolds (29) Walt Whitman Jennifer Lewis (26) Hemingway JennyLynn (23) Sharon Olds, Allen Ginsberg, Li-Young Lee, Terrance Hayes, Anne Sexton to name a few! Jenny (23) Anyone but Shakespeare Jenny (28) Poe Jeremy (30) Cummings, Yeats, Komunyakaa, myself Jeremy (17) Charles Bukowski. Sylvia Plath. Jess the Mess (21) Shel Silverstein Jessica (18) T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Shakespeare Jeux Poe, he's all I know really. Jim (20) Bill Richardson Jo-Anne ee cummings Jo (41) Shakespeare Jo (16) Emily Dickinson, T.S Elliot, Edgar Lee Masters Jo (21) Calaferte Jo Frost, Eliot, and Goethe Jo (20) Chaucer and Jeffers Joe (60) Phillip Larkin JoeyO (34) Cattulus, Neruda, Borges John Porter none John (28) William Wordsworth, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda Johnathan Durand (19) haven't read (good) poetry in a while Johnny (21) Nichita Stanescu, Rives Jollie (21) Robert Frost Jonas (We) Poetry is dead. Jordan (19) none im not into poetry Jorelle (18) 林夕 Joseph Cheng (28) William Shakespeare Josephine A (19) shakespeare Josh (23) Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe. Joshua Levi (21) Baudelaire, Aragan Wordsworth, Dickinson, Yeats... so many Ju (28) Pablo Neruda Juan Jose Campos (34) Leonard Cohen, Shakespeare Juanita Joann Harty Buck (49) Rumi, Hafez, Lorca Jubin (21) Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Erica Jong, William Shakespeare's sonnets Jules (19) James Baldwin Jules (26) Jack Kerouac, Alice Notley Jules (23) Edgar Allan Poe Julian (16) So many, but it'd have to be e dickinson. June (23) myself Justin Rasile (23) Unsure. K Yeo (19) Poe and KBHS (29) Ted Hughes. KG (38) Auden, and more poems than I can list KKC (26) Willam Henry Davies KK (32) Robert Frost KLVS (22) shapespeare K (21) Rabindranath Tagore Kait (23) emily dickinson Kaleena (23) June Jordan, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Carolyn Marie Rodgers, Paul Laurence Dunbar... Kameke Oscar Wilde, William Blake Kamila (18) emily dickenson Kandi (26) Edgar Alan Poe Karen (22) Sabines, Fernando Pessoa, many others Karina Marcano (26) Robert Frost Kasper (19) It's not fair to pick a favorite poet. Kate McJ (31) Robert Frost Kate (23) I am not a fan of poetry. Kate (21) it so depends on my mood . . . Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath . . . the usual tragic people Kate Allen Ginsberg and Pablo Neruda. Katerina (22) Rainer Maria Rielke Katharina (32) Blake. Katherine (18) Edgar Allen Poe Kati (15) Dante (I don't know an especial lot about poetry) Katie (20) Shakespere and Marlow Katrina Thiessen-Beasse (28) Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tennyson (i can't spell...) Kayla Marie (17) TS Eliot. Good rock music is some of the best poetry around. Kechiro (33) tenneyson, browning, sandberg Kelli (47) I don't have a favorite. Kendyl (20) Rilke / Emily Dickenson Kenn (47) Stevenson, Frost, Yeats Kevbo Dylan Thomas Kevlar I honestly haven't read enough of one poet to determine. Except Shakespeare, cool guy. Kiara M. (15) Longfellow, Poe, Kipling Kid Jasper Edward Thomas Kieran (22) Maya Angelu Kika Keats and Tennyson and Dunn Kiki (27) Billy Collins Kim Randall Cox (43) frost Kim (37) ACB, Rives Kim (17) Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Amy Lowell, John Keats, Lord Byron Kimberly (23) william wordsworth, ogden nash Kinmin (24) Nizar Qabbani, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Corneille Kitty (21) I read poetry only rarely Koinekid (28) Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and Shakespeare Kreuzz Shakespeare Kris (41) Homer, Euripides, Sappho. Kristi (35) ginsberg, rimbaud Kristie (22) Shakespeare and Jacques Prévert Krum Kirov (16) At present my mind draws blank Krysstofer Pierre (23) Shakespeare Krystal (24) Robert Burns, Sylvia Plath, Baudelaire and Chaucer Kt (15) Gulzaar, Joy Goswami, Sylvia Plath Kunal Sen (27) Bukowski, Philip Levine, and occasionally Sylvia Plath. L. Kadey (18) Philip Levine, Richard Brautigan, Shakespeare, Qoheleth L. Kadey (19) Robert Frost, Lord Byron, and Oscar Wilde. L.E.Murphy (17) Shakespeare, Keats LAND (22) ee cummings and Rumi LB Perkins (42) n/a LVG - Lacharria (18) Langston Hughes, Frost, Dickenson, Mary Oliver Lainey (38) Shakespeare Laura (20) The same. Laura (24) don't know Lauren (28) Rimbaud, Neruda, Baudelaire, Marie de France, Plath Laurie (58) Mihai Eminescu, George Bacovia Layla (22) Kerourac, and Bukowski. Leah (16) Goethe, Samuel Taylor-Coleridge Leeham Lord Byron and Edgar Allen Poe. Leena (16) Saul Williams Legacy Lee (31) Pablo Neruda. Leigh Lagamayo (27) tennyson, dunne, bronte, browning, wordsworth, dickinson, yeats- always yeats - there are so many in passing Lem (24) William Shakespeare Lena (21) WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins LeonidasStokely Blaise Cendrars LiamP (25) Baczynski, Whitman, Neruda, Rumi, Keats, etc. Liliana Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot Lily (16) Mariah Williams - Ode to my shoes Linda C (41) Eliot Linda (23) Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling. Lindsey B. (17) Oscar Wilde and Jack Kerouac Lint (17) John Donne, Shakespeare, Lisa haven't found him/her yet LittleT (24) Edgar Allen Poe; William Shakespeare. Liz (28) Don't have Lizzie Pickle (27) Plath Log The Romantics Logan (23) Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare Lolita Hazed (18) The only poet I have ever loved is Shel Silverstein Lori (37) I don't know any poets Louf (39) Shel Silverstein Loui Edgington (12) Baudelaire again Louis (19) Shelf Silverstein Louisalokyee (15) Yeats and Baudelaire Louise (17) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, WH Auden Loz (17) Emily Dickinson Luc (27) Jorge Luis Borges, Walt Whitman. Lucho (32) Baudelaire Lucija (25) the people who wrote Psalm Lucy (34) Fernando Pessoa Luísa (21) Fernando Pessoa and Goethe. Luísa (22) Fernando Pessoa, Charles Bukowski Luisa (18) Emily Dickinson, Denise Ligterink, Sofie Bédard, and, I confess, myself Luke Anthony (19) Faulkner Lydia (50) Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams. Lyndsey (19) Maya Angelou and of course Edgar Allan Poe MJ (22) Mary Oliver MJ (23) e.e. cummings, Muriel Rukeyser MM (34) My favorite musicians. MP3 (22) Neruda, my friends, and Bukowski MPaylor (21) I have none Mach (44) No poetry for me. Machiavelli_Mx (38) Rabindranath Tagore Madhusudhan (63) i dont read poetry - ill rather let my mind drift away Mads Husted (21) Joni Mitchell Maggie (24) Wilfred Owens, Alan Ginsberg, TS Eliot Mahalo (/) Cummings, Chaucer Malibu (31) elinor hoyt wylie Mallory (21) Baudelaire, Keats, Aeschylus, Percy Shelley... Maltet T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath Mandar (27) None. Manu (22) Poe, Suess, Silverstein MaraMichelle Kahlil Gibran Mara (58) don't have one Marc_Meyer Bukowski and Nas Margot Spanish poets Mari (30) Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath Maria Patenaude (29) Shel Silverstein Maria Dante, Blake, Milton Maria (45) bukowski, homer, ee cummings, wilde Mariana (16) If. Mark Angus Wilson (28) Billy Collins, David Berman, Shakespeare, and Donne Mark D Anderson (23) David Draiman or Daniel Johns Mark (16) Shakespeare, Hugo Marty (18) Marina Tsvetaeva Martyshka (31) Tony Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Alexander Pope, Keats. Maruku (18) same as above Mary Ann (62) Shakespeare Mary Ellen Collins-Davis (59) Shakespeare Mary Ellen Collins-Davis (59) Weinfield, Blake, Keats, Dickinson MaryFred (24) Eliot Mary (22) Pushkin, Akhmatova Masha Shannon (26) Robert Frost Mat (15) Cohen, Kornaros and Homer Mathew Gallant (22) Richard Siken, Edgar Allan Poe, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, e.e cummings, Emily Dickens, William Butler Yeats, Fernando Pessoa, Anne Sexton, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, W.H Auden, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, John Keats. Matisse (15) Rimbaud Matt Ari Dylan Thomas. Matt DeCostanza (17) Frost, Spencer Matt (30) Edgar Allen Poe Matt (20) rimbaud Matthieu (21) Robert Frost Meaghan do not have one. Meebo Oscar Wilde of course Meg (16) I prefer math to peotry Megan (25) Shakespear Megan (20) all of them Meghan (16) larkin Megil (51) I don't much like poetry. I can stand ee cummings and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Mel Sundquist (20) Lord Byron, at the moment. Mel (16) Pablo Neruda Mel (20) Richard Brautigan and Patti Smith. Melinda (18) Shell Silverstein Melissa Farr (25) Percy Shelley, ee cummings Melissa (23) kingsly amis and shakespeare Melly Poe Menjou (21) Baudlelaire and Edgar Allen Poe Meredith Pablo Neruda, Puskin, Jacques Prevert, Khalil Gibran Mersiha (20) My education in poetry has been lacking thus far, but Shelley's Ozymandias has always been a poignant & compelling piece of poetry for me. Metztli (23) Plath, John Donne, Poe, Cummings, Neruda Michael (40) Ted Hughes, Homer, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney Michael (46) Rimbaud, Homer Michael William Blake. Michaela Tee (15) Sylvia Plath Michelle Jeong (20) I have to admit I can't think of a name. Mick (28) Byron, Pope and Shakespeare, sometimes Mignonne (53) Homer, T.S. Elliot, Gary Snyder Mike G. (25) Carl Sandberg Mike Sadler (53) Shakespeare Mike (33) Rimbaud, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg Mike (14) - Mike (32) Alfred Noyes and William Wordswoth Mike (53) Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman Milfred (35) Branko Miljkovic, Robert Frost. Milly (23) Baudelaire Mimi (24) Pushkin, Shel Silverstein, ee cummings Mimi (53) Don't have one but I should Mimi (31) GM Hopkins, Keats, Yeats, Louise Gluck, W.D. Snodgrass Minerva Black (30) Dante, Rimbaud, Sexton Misha (24) Not sure. Mitela (22) The ones who embody what I am feeling at that very moment. Mkeekee (30) Edgar Allen Poe MlleJacqueline Tennyson Mnemonic Aberration Homer, Shakespeare Molly (19) Poe Molly (18) Voltaire Mooke (16) Thomas Chatterton, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy Morgan Toft Don't have any, don't want any Mouse (42) baudelaire/rembaud/verlaine Mr. Mandarin (41) William Shakespeare. Ms. L (22) Percy Byshee Shelley; Christopher Marlowe; William Shakespeare Ms. Martin (46) Poe Muffin (25) Yeats, Mangan, Heaney, Larkin, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Campbell, Coleridge, Blake, Traherne, Shakespeare, Lorca, Bertrand, Mallarme, Mayakovsky, Pound, Eliot, Sassoon, Bukowski Murphy (21) Sylvia Plath My Dear Materialista (27) Hopkins. Mychel Shannon (18) Same as above. Myron (26) i have no idea Mystery Mind Over Matter (19) Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Kristian Matsson, John Darnielle N (20) Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats Nancy (78) Plath, Ginsberg, Hughes, Keats, TS Eliot. Natalie MJ (31) John Keats, Philip Larkin Natalie (18) omar bin abi rabeee3a, abo firas alhamadani Nathalie (20) Allen Ginsberg and W.B. Yeats Nathan Myself Nathan (28) Dan Moore Nathaniel (24) none Neller (35) Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Blake. Nels (31) Elizabeth Bishop Nessie (18) Stephen Crane and Stephen Crane Newlin (25) Robert Frost and Pablo Neruda. Nia Robinson (19) All of them. Poetry is written to express the true face of the soul. I do not pretend I am a worthy judge of souls Nia (15) Shakespeares, T.S Eliot, Ivo Andic Nicholas Kovacev (12) e.e. Cummings, William Wordsworth, John Keats Nicholas (18) Frost, Cummings Nick Schiff (16) jack kerouac Nik (30) Margaret Atwood & Dennis Lee Nikki (35) Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology Nikon Shooter Greek poets, mainly Cavafy and Karyotakis but above all, Homer Nikos (29) Don't traffic often in poetry -- but John Donne makes me laugh. Nina (21) Me, me, me NoGurus (20) Don't know Nomers (19) Yeats Not (26) Samuel Coleridge, Ezra Pound Nuance (26) Whitman, Dante, Hopkins, Keats, Eliot, Crane, Bishop, Dickinson, and C.K. Williams. ORK (22) Norah Jones & Jack White Oliver I'm not educated enough to say just yet. Oliviaa. John Tranter Olly (37) Auden, Baudelaire, Byron, Poe Omar (17) God ,i can admire everyday the splendors of Nature PUNK PAINTER (37) I´m not into poetry Pamcake (28) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare Panic (18) Louis Denair and e.e. cummings and other people idremember Parker (18) La Fontaine, Prevert Passepartout (27) Lord Byron, Robert Frost, Yeats Pat Garrett (26) Robert Frost and Bob Dylan Pat (39) Lennon/McCartney Patti (20) Whitman and Baudelaire Patty Cake (29) e.e.cummings Paula (54) I don't really have one. My friends dad is a poet so him!! Paulie (23) T.S. Eliot Paulshrug (44) Carlos Drummond de Andrade Pedro Albernaz (20) To many to name, in English: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Blake. Dickinson Pedro Luis Munoz (24) Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, TS Eliot, Pablo Neruda, and populations worth more. I read new poets every single day and I'm astonshed at how much great stuff is still churning out there. Pedro Tejada (20) Morrissey :) Pekusia (22) Keats, Yeats Penney (48) Dante Alighieri Peregrine Baudelaire and Tennyson Pessoa non Grata Emily Dickenson Peter Heron (57) None Peter Joseph Tamber Maxima Gaffney Whitman Petree (22) sassoon, owen, marvel, edward lear Phil (44) Whoever wrote eeny meeny miny mo Pingbluto Shakespeare, Dickenson, Keats, Yeats Pistol Pete Dorothy Parker. Pleiadian7 (59) n/a Plusein (25) John Donne and Emily Dickinson Poobah (65) T.S. Elliot, Henley Pope (31) Swinburne Prismatic (74) Shel Silverstein Quasimodo (30) Many. Quinn (23) Edgar Allan Poe, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare R. W. (26) Dickingson, Plath RD Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams Rachel (21) Edna St. Vincent Millay Rachel (21) A.A.Milne Rachelmate (39) Edgar Allan Poe Rain (16) Edgar Allan Poe Rain Maya Angelou, Rainer Maria Rilke, Langston Hughes Raquelle (17) Donne Raven (30) Carrol, because of his appreciation of truth and nonsense. Ray of Mars (36) none Rebekah (29) Edgar Allan Poe Redbeard (24) 50 Cent and Eminem Ree (21) Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allen Poe Reed Braden (19) In high school, Emily Dickenson, but now I'm not so sure. Remi (28) don't read Renath Thomas Elliot and Lorka Renos (24) I don't know enough poets to say Rethinker (26) William Blake, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson Ric H (41) Emerson Riley (26) jessica dawson. Rini I haven't read enough poetry in my life to answer that question. Rinilia (17) Radiohead Riss (37) William Bronk, Anne Sexton RiverSong (32) Pablo Neruda - and all those who keep it intense Rizwan (21) The greatest poet I can see, well that I guess would have to be, The one whose name ends with an 'e', That person, surely must be ME! Robert Tatler (18) I don't read alot of poetry because to me a peom is never long enough to express every feeling that could have otherwise been expressed Robyn (15) Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Dottie Parker, Henry Miller. Rochelle (40) Whitman, Yeats, Dylan Thomas Rodrigo (24) I don't read poetry- But I love the muses of Poetry like, Calliope, Erato, Thalia, Euterpe, Terpsichore,Clio. Roma (14) Shakespeare, W.H. Arden, every Lennon/McCartney song Romina (16) Mark Twain Ronald (40) Birds, Mountain Valleys, Seas, Rivers, Winds, Fires Rorshavhanswer (18) T S Elliot, Keats, Dorothy Hewitt Rosalee Firth Eminescu Rox (17) Shakespeare sonnets Ruska (33) I dont read poetry. Ruskin Clay (17) me Ruskin Clay (17) I do not know. Ryan B (23) Bukowski, Sandburg, Yeats, Blake. Ryan Brun (23) William Blake Ryan (18) Whitman and Thoreau Ryno (26) Emily Dickinson, William Yates Ryssan (22) John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, and Christina Rosetti. S.P. (20) W H Auden SJ (44) Don't have any SL (22) Maya Angelous, CS Lewis, Bennett, Browning, I love so much! STUPID IDIOT (0) The Greatest Rappers S (20) juan ramon jimenez Sabri (19) Shakespeare Sacha (30) William Blake and Robert Burns Sam Gordon (18) Pushkin SamSam (33) pablo neruda Sam (24) shakespeare, Plath Samantha (17) Robert Lewis Stevenson Sandy none Sandy (32) blah Sara C aka Snacks aka Sarbs (26) Rumi, Neruda and Walcott Sara Ortiz (27) Sara Teasdale, E.E. Cummings, Sappho, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, E.A. Poe, a lot of Japanese poets as well. Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) E.E. Cummings, Frank O'hara, Sappho, oh Sara Teasdale of course. Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) Rilke, Lucan, Ovid, Rumi Sarah (23) Shakespeare Sarah (23) siegfred sassoon Sarah (38) John Milton, Forugh Farrokhzad, Gerard Manley Hopkins Sarah (33) Langston Hughes, Phyllis Wheatley, T. S. Eliot Sasha Sutton (22) William Blake, T.S Elliot Scooter190 (21) Yeats, Auden, Kavanagh Scooter (29) Byron, Blake, Emerson, Thoreau, and other transcendentalists and romantics Scott777 John Agard, Charles Baudelaire, John Lennon, Henry Rollins Screaming Bastard Child of the Apocalyps (23) Cohen and Lehrer. Sean D. Thompson (22) Frank O'Hara, Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, James Schuyler, AE Housman. Sebastian (18) t.s. eliot, probably-- "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" Sedona (16) Donne, Shakespeare, Neruda SeraphimeRising (31) Pablo Neruda, Byron. Serena (26) Emily Dickinson, Jacques Prévert. Sexismandthecity (28) Rimbaud, Keats Shane (19) No, thank you. Shanna (19) Nick Cave. Conner Oberst Shari (21) Thomas Hardy. Sharice (22) I dont have any. SharonBillings to many to think or Shawna (21) Dr. Seuss, e e cummings Sheila D (55) nikki giovanni Shelly (17) Sylvia Plath, Shamus Heaney. Shinydan (34) leonard cohen ShiversB (19) dickinson, ghalib Shubhda (24) Stuart Murdoch? Siena (21) shakespeare, duffy Simon (20) William Shakespear Simona (16) Rimbaud, Rilke Smaranda (33) Anyone but Bruce Fucking Dawe Smeghead Lord Byron Sofi (24) Pablo Neruda Sofia Picasso (14) Shakespeare Sofyzitahh (23) None Solomon (24) T.S. Eliot Sonia (25) Valery, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Yeats, Hopkins, Cummings, Milton, Fet, Tyutchev, Nabokov, Pushkin, Esenin, Pasternak, too many to name Sonya Dahl (21) Charles Bukowski and Dylan Thomas Sophie (17) Fernando Pessoa, Luís de Camões Sorrow (23) Baudelaire and Donald McIsaac SoundofWater (35) Jim Morrison, William Blake, Matsuo Basho. Spike Spiegel Edgar Allen Poe Star (11) kavafis Stella (28) Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, William Shakespeare Stephanie (23) none Stephanie (21) Frank O'Hara Stephen (56) William Blake and Emily Dickinson Steve Shives (29) Charles Dodgson, Edgar Allen Poe and Dr. Seuss. Steve (20) ee cummings Sue (49) Subramania Bharathi, Kambar, Kanna dasan, Pattukottai, Sundararajan (sundarappaarvai) Sundaraa (32) Shakespeare SuperflyTNT Robert Frost Susie (20) fernando pessoa camoes Suzy (19) T. S. Eliot. Sydchez Baudelaire, Kipling? T. Christopher Cox (43) не люблю поэзию TAHbKA AURELIUS(MEDITATIONS) BYRON,TWAIN, FROST, WHITMAN,ANGELOU,YORK II. TERRY YORK II seamus heaney, taha muhammad ali, sharon olds, mary oliver T (19) Keats, Shakespeare, EE Cummings, Poe, Frost, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde, Fernado Pessoa, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron. Taylore Dawn (18) n/a Ted (26) None really Tee (40) I do not have a true appreciation of poetry. Teresa (43) Poetry is not of my interest Terra (22) Baudelaire, Auden, Stevens, Dickenson Terry (41) have not read enough yet to make an informed opinion, so... My uncle Billy Graham TerryG (49) Maya Angelou, Emily Dickensen Terrylynn0609 (39) Sylvia Plath Tess Calopedos (17) Shakespeare Tess Fiennes (40) Dorothy Parker Thambi (24) T.S. Eliot, Bukowski, and Robert Penn Warren That New Chris Sloce (18) Jay-Z The Essential Man (26) T.S. Eliot, Richard Brautigan The Imprecise Duke Of Phonology (77) ee cummings The Josh Rollins (21) Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, William Blake The Mouse Avenger (20) Boethius, Whitman The Roomba Mifi (28) Frost. Dickinson. Shakespeare. Whitman TheDoctor76 (35) Sylvia Plath, Goethe Theresa (22) Gottfried Benn, Stefan George, Charles Baudelaire Thomas12081983 Dr Suess and Robert Frost Thomzagod (39) Edgar Allan Poe. Thrakish (18) Wordsworth, Neruda Tianna L. Cohen TiffanyTee (26) Charles Bukowski and William Blake. Tim Proser (17) Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and John Hegley Tim Sandle my father Tinkoo (24) Longfellow, Whitman and Shakespeare Tivia Stewart (40) Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Todd Shakespeare, Bukowski Tofu (19) Ted Hughes and Charles Bennett Tom G (19) Keats, Robinson Jeffers Tom (21) Percy Shelly and William Wordsworth Tommy (19) Charles D'Orleans Tony (30) Blake, Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Ginsburg Toria (37) Jeffrey McDaniel, e.e. cummings Trisha (17) Poe, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas Trisha (29) Ted Hughes. Turtle Heart Yeats, Bukowski, Poe Tyler (24) Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke Valentina (17) Keats, Plath, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney, Yeats, Mary Oliver, Mary Karr, Coleridge, Donne Valeria Ryrak (21) Pablo Neruda and Pablo Neruda Varna (25) Edna St. Vincent Millay Veronica (20) Shakespeare. Walt Whitman. Victoria Song (22) Dr. Maya Angelou Victoria (37) I do not remember the names of poets, but I know that I enjoy Frost, and Yeats. The Americans I tend to be drawn to more, as well. Vijay Pierce (23) Shelley, Wilfred Owen, Slyvia Plath Vikram Krishnan (24) Bukowski, Kipling, Yeats, Betjeman, Shel Silverstein Viktor Corzich (35) Dr. Suess Village Of Brooklin (45) Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke Vincent (19) poe VinnyGreenock72 Wilfred Owen, and whoever wrote 'The Final Inspection.' Virginia (20) Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. there are other ones as well... Viv (14) The British school of romantics Vivianne Liliaceae Aspho Vilth Nijhoff (Dutch poet). Walter (19) Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Robinson Jeffers Wanda (26) Lovelace Wendy (34) Don't have one. Whitney (19) john keats, william shakespeare, bp nicol William (43) Shakespear Willow Skylor Dead or alive? Windalfr (23) - Wormsie (24) Edgar Allen Poe. Wyteria (20) Edna St. Vincent Millay XYZ (17) Countee Cullen. Paul Dunbar. Claude McKay. Xan Etienne Tagore, Gu Chen, Li Bai, Du Fu,Li Qing Zhao, Su Shi Xialing Gan (27) Alí Chumacero, Jaime Sabines and so others Yuki (20) Ginsberg Z (31) at the moment, none. Zee (21) Eliot, Plath, Shakespeare, cummings Zozobra (17) Edgar Allen Poe a young boy (91) paul allen a.g. (23) Dylan Thomas. I don't read a lot of poetry. aaaaaaa (18) Brent Pallas, e.e. cummings aag (22) plath and bukowsky aallisonr (30) Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke aetilson (41) undecided agony (25) edgar allan poe, e.e. cummings and t.s. elliot aiko (20) Emily Dickinson aimee.dawson (21) Hans Magnus Enzensberger al-g (24) neruda alessa (21) John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke alexa (28) Halina Poświatowska, Pablo Neruda. alexandrine (15) edgar allan poe, one poem by e.e. cummings, and Lewis Carroll alison wonderland ? alli (49) Neruda, cummings, Cohen. almavidrio (35) Gałczyński. ameliowata (20) robert frost ames (21) Samuel Taylor Coleridge amz (16) maya angelou, issa ana (16) walt whitman anasonic (29) felinghetti ancientrobot (31) edgar allen poe andraya (23) Liam Rector, Dylan Thomas, and Jim Morrison. andy rayford (28) I like different poems and poets ang (99) as well angie (29) octavio paz anjali edgar allen poe anon moose (19) Shakespear. anonim (18) shel silverstein antoinette (24) Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Walt Whitman. ascetic monk (51) Lora D. Reiter asherville (55) ones with heart and reality ashley baus (24) robert browning and dunne ashleytheresa (20) Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins asmitchel (67) kelsey autumn (17) Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Keats ayda (25) don't have one aym (30) emily dickinson ayumi (20) tennyson baggal21 (28) I do not care for poetry barbara (50) Strindberg belita (39) have not yet decided, as i do not know enough on the subject bella (16) dylan, service, ralph bhl dunno big guy (16) lewis carroll billy boy watson (3) the only poet i really know is poe but i'm not a big fan or anything bismuth Byron blip52 (27) Rustum Kozain blodot johnny (41) Hah. I can only think of 3 or 4 whose work I actually know. I don't think that qualifies me to answer. bob (38) whitman, frost, christina rossetti, emily dickinson bobblins Wittmann boku_wa_kami (25) edgar allan poe brad w (35) niki giovani walt whitman frost broad (45) Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare bubby (43) none buckyballs (35) Walt Whitman, WIlliam Blake bunny bukowski c (21) none cacharel (37) Alejandra Pizarnik, Pablo Neruda, poe, wilde, hemingway, goethe carolina (23) I`m afraid I`m not a big fan of poetry cartike Byron and Pushkin ccchnl Ovid, Baudelaire, Federico Garcia Lorca cdl (35) ginsberg. Not enough knowledge to answer fully but he showed me a tiny bit about the space in poetry and that this space and rhythm extends to the visual appearance me the lines as well as the sound charlotte (29) Edgar Allen Poe codered (18) none, i find indulgence in specific poems, and no poet seems to be able to re-create the effect more than 2 or 3 times comnomnomor (15) Federico Garcia Lorca constanceeee (19) none cookie (51) seikou the misfit corinne Allen Ginsberg cr Federico García Lorca cuchi (40) Poe, Shelley, Coleridge, St.O.Iosif, Bacovia cucu (26) Sylvia Plath, Rimbaud, EE Cummings, John Keats dA member: sonicbutterfly (17) shakespeare daniiii (18) RS Thomas, Whitman dbrown (24) none dcsnowbunny (25) Pablo neruda devanand Ern Malley dlew919 (40) I'm a sucker for the simple solitude of Robert Frost--as cliche as it is. And Emily Dickinson for being a trailblazer and a romantic dmca (38) Frost, Virgil donkeys4eva (20) shakespere robert frost dorothy6@aol.com (50) Rilke and Baudelaire, also Bukowski drift Nazım Hikmet ehk2 (30) Dorothea Lasky, Mike Young, Gabe Durham, Daniel Bailey ejb (22) Blues musicians el3vat0r Alfonsina Storni, Oliverio Girondo elSigno (37) E.E. Cummings and Ryunosuke Akutagawa elay (21) Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Matsuo Basho, E.E. Cummings elay (23) rimbaud,Corneille, Baudelaire, verlaine, shakespeare,oscar wilde eldar (25) σεφερης ελενη (33) did james joyce ever write a poem? if so him eliciabg (23) no, no. emma (18) Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont encolpio8 (22) John Keats endor ee cummings, Shel Silverstien, Lord Byron, Dr. Seuss esayer (35) Bukowski, Rollins esteban (29) david berman evan ass hatch (18) Baudelaire, Cesar Vallejo evilwonders (28) Iqbal and rudyard kipling fallen (24) hugo, Jubran K J and Nazik el Malaeka farfalla (30) Walt Whitman, some others. fatgaynig (20) Whitman, Poe, Wilde, Auden, Blake feanix (20) josé mourinho filinia (22) Goethe fk2005 (34) Auden, Brecht frank (57) AE Housman, Simon Armitage,, John Agard fred (16) N/A fumble (19) stephen dunn, marie ponsot, marilyn hacker, adrienne rich. furies (27) Elizabeth Barrett Browning gatetam (38) Byron, Ginsberg, ghazaleh (27) Christina Rossetti, Tennyson goblin64 (45) larkin goose (20) Robert frost goukrish (19) Unknown greatlove (32) pablo neruda, ruben dario, federico garcia lorca gruchi (63) the ones who appreciate infintessimal feelings. guiller van mistoffellees (17) wilfred owen hellgirl (19) christine her (26) Frost herbertofwestlake (43) Basho hodouk (22) Edgar Allan Poe hoffsta bukowski, parker holden (27) Sylvia Plath. holly (17) 白居易 holyjkms (29) none howard (34) I do not have any favorite poets. howard (34) charles bukowski, gregory corso huggybear (29) carver i.p. so far, Hart Crane. inez (21) Billy Collins, Denise Levertoff j2a18m (43) lil wayne jabbar (23) none jackie (40) Keats, Shakespeare, Shelley, Yeats, and Auden jameson_welsh (22) emily diskens jane (41) Sri Guru Ramdas ji, all Sikh Gurus, bhagat namdayv ji jasleen John Lennon jasonstafford (53) unknown jemimah (32) alfred lord tennyson jezza (18) kalil gibran and mirza ghalib jg (36) Sharon Olds, Robert Browning jj (43) beatniks jonathan (31) charles bukowski and edgar allen poe jordan rutter (18) Walt Whitman, Gibran, Omar Khayam joseph (31) not sure female poets plath dickinson and australians josie (25) baudelaire joyce (20) TS Eliot and Louis MacNeice. I am largely ignorant of poetry; this is a fault I need to address. joyseternal (22) myself when I was young jrggzmn (20) stephen crane and myself at 10 jrggzmn (20) 李白 jude (25) Shakespeare jujubee (35) poe julie (79) random people who write well jupiter jones baudelaire, tim burton, wesley eisnoid justine hope (20) my sister k-92 (17) T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound kai (15) a. e. houseman karaeileen (24) none kari bobins (33) none kathy (52) killllll me katie (23) sylvia plath kay (22) Maya Angelou kc Edgar Allen Poe; Walt Whitman ken (58) Artaud, Bukowski, kfkfkfk (17) Elizabeth Barrett Browning khaye (26) Lermontov killy Pablo Neruda kimberly (21) Rimbaud and Pam Ayres kimbo (34) unknown king (43) Leonard Cohen kit kat (22) Philip Larkin knapsackstraps (21) Auden and Whitman. kokocakemix (24) Shelley, Poe, Coleridge ks (33) Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Pushkin, Li-Young Lee, Lorca, Sappho, Emily Dickinson forever and always and unapologetically kunderakitsch Well the only poets I know in this generation are song writers. kuro usagi (18) shakespeare laura Ytzia Montoya Capristo keats; macneice librowicz (28) Baudelaire and Rimbaud linou70 ? lituci (30) don't know enough lmao pizarnik lo (19) emily dickinson, E.A.P., shel silverstein lollipoppingsu (24) don't have one luadepapel (25) None; dislike poetry lukemarco (18) chalind lydia mario benedetti lynac (31) mary oliver, william yeats macskawoman (44) Jan Skácel, Wisława Szymborska and John Donne mahtiel (21) pablo neruda maitresseb (43) Now Auden, sometimes maksimuchka (38) Dickinson, neruda margo (22) Maurice Scève, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé. markeff (38) just myself matt (17) robert frost mauserman (42) shakespeare, musset, apollinaire maxie (20) Paul Valery, Baudelaire mcfm0626 (26) Rudyard Kipling mcseadogs (34) apathy meg (22) I don't read poetry mel (32) Edgar Allen Poe melissa (17) rumi melissa (44) wordsworth menon (33) Shaggy, Bambi & Tequila metok rubling (17) t.s. eliot michael ee cummings and Pablo Neruda. michou (19) Lucian Blaga, Keats mihaela (26) Baudelaire mihaelaian (42) Rumi mike_freedom9531 (30) the guy who writes the funny poems in the men's room mikemc1156 k.p.kavafis mirabilis (48) W.B.Yeats. mischa (22) Poetry is for girls miso none mister buzz (49) cass mccombs moeder (32) Poe, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Blanding momcat (60) i despise poetry monson (28) edgar allan poe montie williams (16) none morgwei (28) Pablo Neruda, e e cummings, Dylan Thomas, T. 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