Off the top of my head, this list for "poetry month" of twenty poets I knew personally who are now gone but inspired me early in my life as a poet:
Diane di Prima
Bob Kaufman
Joel Oppenheimer
Allen Ginsberg
Joanne Kyger
Robert Creeley
Etheridge Knight
Audre Lorde
James Schuyler
John Ashbury
Kenneth Koch
Barbara Guest
Ted Berrigan
Anselm Hollo
Ralph Dickey
Michael S. Harper
Ed Cox
Lorenzo Thomas
Joe Brainard
Lee Lally
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