Saturday, January 16, 2021

POETRY CONTINUES TO SAVE MY LIFE [especially in troubled times, which are pretty much any times]

Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head list of some favorite living poets [just went through the alphabet in my mind and typed the names that sprang up, sorry for the many more that didn't spring to mind in this one moment but will as soon as I post this]:

SHERMAN ALEXIE

BRUCE ANDREWS

ANGELA LOCKHART ARONOFF

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

GRACE CAVALIERI

LONELY CRHISTOPHER

DOUGLAS CRASE

THOMAS DEVANEY

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY

MAGGIE DUBRIS

ELAIN EQUI

JOANNA FUHRMAN

JOHN GODFREY

SUSAN HAYDEN

ROBERT HERSHON

MELLO-RE HOUSTON

PATRICIA SPEARS JONES

ANNABEL LEE

PHOEBE MACADAMS

CHRIS MASON

GREG MASTERS

BERNADETTE MAYER

BOBBY MILLER

EILEEN MYLES 

ELINOR NAUEN

HARRY E. NORTHUP

HILTON OBENZINGER

NATHAN P.

TRACE PETERSON

SIMON PETTET

JEROME SALA

MARK TERRILL

PAM WARD

TERENCE WINCH

GEOFFREY YOUNG

[I'm missing so many others, can you help me remember?]

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