Comments on: poetry book club: poets i read because i wanted to

By: Holly Mac

Holly Mac — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:46:09 +0000

I got all crazy and wrote a blog about this complete with links. (Not mentioned are current appreciations for Gwendolyn Brooks, Sharon Olds, Pablo Neruda and Edna St. Vincent Millay.)

Here’s the blog link:

http://hollyannam.blogspot.com/2008/07/poetry-i-was-never-forced-to-read.html

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:58:04 +0000

Allen Ginsberg was the gateway poet when I was in high school. He also introduced me to a whole new Walt Whitman. My first year of college I loved Tzara, Rimbaud and Baudelaire (all in translation). Those were days of wild discovery.

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:55:00 +0000

His blog link:

http://jamesalockhart.blogspot.com/

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:54:32 +0000

I am posting a link about a book written by a Blooger poet. After reading the review, do check out his blog. His short verses touch the soul.

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/07/tangled-in-wisteria-by-j-andrew.html

By: twitches

twitches — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:28:39 +0000

Mary Oliver – I don’t even know how I found her, but as soon as I did she spoke to my soul.

Chase Twichell – the inspiration for my online persona

Sharon Olds – Someone told me to read her, and I do what I’m told (most of the time)

Joy Harjo/Lee Young Li – from Moyer’s book “Fooling With Words”

Neruda’s “The Captain’s Verses” – because of the Alan Rickman in “Truly Madly Deeply” (reciting “The Dead Woman”)

By: thordora

thordora — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:27:40 +0000

ooh…Lirone hit it with the Hopkins…. for me, William Carlos Williams and Robyn Sarah are huge hits, and always have been. Gary Geddes, Ogden Nash…Micheal Ondaatje…I have far too many, but I enjoyed poetry despite school.

By: Lirone

Lirone — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:48:09 +0000

Dylan Thomas and Gerald Manley Hopkins were two early favourites well before I left school.

A big moment after leaving school was buying Bloodaxe’s excellent anthology 60 Women poets – and discovering Carol Ann Duffy, Moniza Alvi and many, many more!