Some of my favorite poets
I have gone through many different phases in my reading of poetry, including dark versus light (if such a thing exists), different time periods, different styles, etc. I have probably spent the most time on the style of Deep Image of the sixties and seventies. This includes poets such as Robert Bly, James Wright, and Donald Hall (all of whom are included in this site). I have found this style to be more concise and often more expressive and versatile than the earlier twentieth century form of Imagism of Pound, Eliot, and others. However, I also have enjoyed more traditional styles ranging from Sara Teasdale to Tennyson to Ben Jonson to Shakespeare. I have spent some time on Haiku poetry, but found that the translation from the original Japanese of the classic Haiku poetry is impossible to be accurate and truly expressive of the original. I have, however, found elements of Haiku in other forms of verse, especially in Deep Image. All of the following pages include biographies, poems, essays, and interviews.
Robert Bly
Billy Collins
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Donald Hall
Ben Jonson
Charles Simic
William Stafford
Wallace Stevens
Sara Teasdale
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Walt Whitman
James Wright
