14 Poets for Thursday

Okay, so Justin and Steven added a rule to Jeff's idea: Say someone asked me, "I kind of like poetry, but I don't know anything about contemporary poetry. Who should I read?"

My previous list is here. But now I have to take out "personal friends, mentors, or blogroll buddies". And I have to take out the German and French poets, because they are all folks I have translated. And, following Justin's lead, I'm going to include not one (like him) but two songwriters (the people I quote the most!). So I end up with this:

Armitage, Simon
Brown, Greg
Carson, Ann
Duffy, Carol Ann
Dylan, Bob
Heaney, Seamus
Levine, Philip
Longley, Michael
Maxwell, Glyn
Murray, Les
Padel, Ruth
Paterson, Don
Wilbur, Richard
Young, C. Dale

Yes, I admit it: C. Dale is on my blog roll. But CDY was on my shortlist of favorite contemporary poets long before I began my blog, let alone discovered that he was a blogger himself. So I reserve the right to keep him there! :-)

14 Poets

Jeff Newberry posted a list of 13 poets as a proposed answer to this: Say someone asked me, "I kind of like poetry, but I don't know anything about contemporary poetry. Who should I read?"

I spontaneously came up with this list of 14 (which I have put in alphabetical order), throwing in some German and French poets:

Duden, Anne
Grünbein, Durs
Heaney, Seamus
Hicok, Bob
Levine, Philip
Longley, Michael
Maxwell, Glyn
Paterson, Don
Réda, Jacques
Stallings, A. E.
Wilbur, Richard
Young, C. Dale

Levine is the only one on Jeff's list and mine.

Tomorrow, of course, I would come up with a somewhat different list.