- At May 03, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Poetry Heroes
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Tagged! By Mary B! And there’s no way out!
Say someone asked, “I kind of like poetry, but I don’t know anything about contemporary poetry. Who should I read?”
No blog friends. No real-life friends. No real-life mentors. Alive as of this writing.
1. Louise Gluck
2. Margaret Atwood
3. Denise Duhamel
4. Dorianne Laux (yup, breaking a rule, I don’t care, she would have been there had I not worked with her, etc.)
5. Rita Dove
6. Lucille Clifton
7. Carol Ann Duffy
8. Dana Levin
9. Beth Ann Fennelly
10. Marie Howe
11. James Tate
12. Brigit Pegeen Kelly
13. Ilya Kaminsky (another slight rule break, but I had to fit another guy on my list!)
If you haven’t been tagged yet, go write up your list and be quick about it!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
David V
Interesting….. Have to think about this, but off the top of my head, our lists overlap in three places (Fennelly, Clifton, Tate). I know I’m not as well-studied in the art as you, but I don’t know if that has anything to do with our divergent lists. Gotta think on this one.
aka Leonardo Likes Gulls
You forgot– Erin Belieu
yes?
J. Newberry
I can’t believe how many people are doing this meme! I made up the exercise in about a minute, something to post on ye olde blog.
Thanks for your list.
–Jeff
ezb
nice list, lots of words to eat up.