Hello, fellow fediverse poetry lovers! Like the title suggests, who are your favorite poets? I figured a post like this could be fun and could help us all discover new poets!

To start things off, I’ll list my top three at the moment:

  1. William Carlos Williams
  2. Pablo Neruda
  3. T.S. Elliot

Happy to elaborate on why I chose any of them or share my recommendations for poems by any of them. More importantly, though, I’d love to hear what you guys think!

  • pensivepangolin@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    As Scaldart said, I’m unfamiliar with Dickman, so thank you for linking an example! It’ll be a fun read this evening , along with some other new recommendations I’ve gotten here already!

    Regarding Shel Silverstein: I think he deserves a lot more credit than he seems to get (at least in my experience). He’s a great balance of accessible to young audiences without becoming too ridiculous or grating. Personally I think he had a great talent. As a fun side note, I learned during a recent Wikipedia rabbit hole descent that he wrote the lyrics to Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue!