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The Best Poets You've Never Heard Of
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Everyone's heard of Shakespeare, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot... but who's good in poetry right now? This is a list of the best poets of today that you've (probably) never heard of.
| | Kay Ryan. She's the current poet laureate of America, and her writing is crisp, concise and funny. |
| | Billy Collins. A favorite of Garrison Keillor's, Collins has been on A Prairie Home Companion and in Keillor's book "Good Poems." |
| | Galway Kinnell. His poems are dark, disturbing and electric. Go out and buy "The Book of Nightmares" or "Body Rags" - you won't regret it. |
| | Alice Fulton. A MacArthur Foundation Genius Award recipient, Fulton is a force to be reckoned with, and her poems often merge literature with the sciences. |
| | Dean Young. A surrealist poet with a great sense of humor, Young's books are full of pop culture references. |
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