What are some of your favorite poets/poetry books?

[Milya254]

Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou

[books_andpoetri]

Lang Leav and Rupi Kaur are my favorite contemporary poets.

[timur777]

The Rose That Grew out of Concrete by 2Pac Shakur.

[Tavaiel26]

I really enjoy Iain S. Thomas and Trista Mateer. They both share a lot of their work on social media, it makes it easier to get an idea or whether you will like their style.

[Reina275]

Chamaelon Aura by Billy Chapata. He is so pure and brings a sense of peace while reading, it has helped me a lot during bad times.

[incendiotorus]

My favorite poets are Andrea Gibson, Yesika Salgado, and Rupi Kaur. I also really enjoy watching the Button Poetry YouTube channel for spoken word and/or exploring new poets and poems. I'm not sure if I have a favorite poem, but the one that hits me right in the feels every time is "Orlando" by Andrea Gibson.

[Naomi Joel]

One of my favorite poetry books is Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur. I also love olden-day poets such as Thomas Hardy and Edgar Allan Poe.

[PetraWelch]

e.h. Erin Hanson, also known as The Poetic Underground, writes the most beautiful poems often comparing human existence to nature and the universe.

Another amazing poet is Nikita Gill, she retells the stories of the Greek Gods from another point of view and just has the most eloquent way of describing women as fierce, powerful forces of nature.

[Samwisekoop]

I REALLY love the classics, especially Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in your soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me."

I LOVE this one!

[Joshuaomollo]

The If poem and Desiderata for me. Great poems with great life lessons.

[Zoe Luh]

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing is one of the most beautiful poetry books I've read! I highly recommend it

[Josep22]

I'm actually compiling a book of my own favorite poems and I think it's my best poetry book right now.

[Barbie_sidhu]

Maya Angelou is my favorite poet.

[brown_gal]

e.h. Erin Hanson and Lang Leav

[Bigwig1973]

There are a lot of very excellent poets and poems, yet, I almost always feel as if I am missing something with poetry. I think it's easier to determine the writer's intention with prose. I recall that I did not care for T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Lewis Caroll's "The Jabberwocky" scared me. I liked William Blake's "Tyger, Tyger" and wrote a paper on this poem because I compared the "official" poem to other versions he had written and it was interesting to see the word changes. I think it was him who also wrote about the chimney sweeps in England. I did not care so much for Edgar Allen Poe's poetry which really surprised me because I love his short stories. Robert Frost I always liked. I have several, or more than several of his poems memorized so then I would have something to do while I was out jogging. The only other poem I have memorized is by William Butler Yeats. I'm working on memorizing "Tyger, Tyger". I took a short author course on a Jewish poet (who survived the concentration camps) named Paul Celan while in college. His writing is extraordinarily interesting. I'm glad the professor picked that author for his course. I'm not sure whether Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey qualify as poetry, or Dante's The Inferno. I did really like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but the heavy metal song version is hard to understand.