R E A D   A N Y   G O O D   P O E T S  

L A T E L Y ?
       ~A PARTIAL READING LIST~
                            -Dan Masterson

 

A-B
Ai, Ann Akhmatova, Dick Allen, John Allman, A. R. Ammons, Alvin Aubert, W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, David Baker, Charles Baudelaire, Michael Benedikt, John Berryman, Marvin Bell, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Robert Bly, Philip Booth, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Bukowski.

 

C-D
Hayden Carruth, Paul Celan,  Rene Char, John Ciardi, Amy Clampitt, Suzanne Cleary, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Jane Cooper, Gregory Corso, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, E. E. Cummings, Carl Dennis, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Rita Dove, Alan Dugan,  Stephen Dunn.

 

E-F
Richard Eberhart, Russell Edson, T. S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Irving Feldman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Field, Donald Finkel, Carolyn Forche, Siv Cedering Fox, Carol Frost, Richard Frost, Robert Frost.

 

G-H
Steve Gehrke, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Patricia Goedicke, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Graves, Eamon Grennan, Thom Gunn, Ramon Guthrie, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Michael Harper, Thomas Hardy, Robert Hass, Charles Hartman, Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Zbigniew Herbert, Michael Heffernan, William Heyen, Edward Hirsch, Edward Hoagland, G. M. Hopkins, John Hoppenthaler, Richard Howard, David Huddle, Andrew Hudgins,  Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Richard Hugo, T. R. Hummer.

 

I-J
David Ignatow, Colette Inez, Reamy Jansen, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, Peter Johnson, June Jordan, Donald Justice

 

K-L
Patrick Kavanagh, John Keats, Dave Kelly, X. J. Kennedy, Jane Kenyon, Milt Kessler, Galway Kinnell, Etheridge Knight, Carolyn Kizer, Bill Knott, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin. Stanley Kunitz, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, John Logan., Federico Garcia Lorca, Robert Lowell.

 

M-N
Osip Mandelstam, Jack Marshall, Dan Masterson, William Matthews,  Vladimir Mayakovsky, J. D. McClatchy, Michael McClure, Thomas McGrath, Heather McHugh, Sandra McPherson, Jay Meek, William Meredith, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Judith Moffett, Eugenie Montale, Marriane Moore, Howard Nemerov, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shiab Nye. 

 

O-P
Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds, Carol Oles, Mary Oliver, Charles Olsen, George Oppen, Gregory Orr, Alicia Ostriker, Greg Pape, Linda Pastan, Boris Pasternak, Kenneth Patchen, Don Patterson, Octavio Paz,  Wilfred Owen, Carl Phillips, Robert Phillips, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Sylvia Plath, Stanley Plumly, Katha Pollitt, Ezra Pound.

Q-R
Ranier Maria Rilke, Bin Ramke, Arthur Rimbaud, Gibbons Ruark, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke.

 

S-T
Delmore Schwartz, Hugh Seidman, Anne Sexton, Karl Shapiro, Jon Silkin, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, Floyd Skloot, Dave Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, Gary Snyder, Gary Soto, Jack Spicer, Elizabeth Spires, William Stafford, George Starbuck, Gerald Stern, Wallace Stevens, David St. John, John Stone, Terry Stokes, Mark Strand, Ruth Stone, Wislawa Szymborska, James Tate, Dylan Thomas, Marina Tsvetayeva, Lewis Turco.

 

U-V
Jean Valentine, H. L. Van Brunt, Mona Van Duyn, Paul Verlaine.

 

W-XYZ
David Wagoner, Derek Walcott, Michael Waters,Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur,  C. K. Williams, Miller Williams, William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, Harold Witt, David Wojahn, C. D. Wright, Charles Wright,  Franz Wright, James Wright, W. B. Yeats, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Al Young, Paul Zimmer.