Poetry Heroes – Webbish6 https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Thu, 03 May 2007 18:53:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 44757611 https://webbish6.com/2170/ https://webbish6.com/2170/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 18:53:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2170/ 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!

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