Poetry and the Masses

[clemonz]

Who are some living poets that come as close to being interesting and good as all these dead people? Billy Collins isn't dead but he might as well be.

john ashbery is oft' considered among the best.
i've been recommended anne carlson by a few people.
seamus heaney is a good poet, but reading him at school put me off poetry for quite some time.

does anyone read the L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poets, that may be relevant contemporary verse, even if there's no great poets involved.

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