Eight great twenty-first-century poems from the United States alone

Poetry did not "die 100 years ago", when T. S. Eliot supposedly "killed" it with "The Waste Land". On tbe contrary, contemporary Anglophone poetry is thriving, from North America to Australia and New Zealand, from the Caribbean to Africa to South Asia. If you like poetry but think that contemporary poetry is dead, here are eight great twenty-first-century poems from the United States alone: Natalie Diaz, "Waist and Sway"; Martín Espada, "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"; Ilya Kaminsky, "We Lived Happily During the War"; Danez Smith, "Dinosaurs in the Hood"; Maggie Smith, "Good Bones"; Tracy K. Smith, "Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?"; A. E. Stallings, "Sestina: Like"; C. Dale Young, "Torn". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 29 December 2022)