Charlie Vazquez: 5 Poets Who Changed My Life Charlie Vázquez 5 Poets April 15, 2010 1 min readI’ll admit that I’m a bit of a classicist when it comes to poetry (and the fine arts in general),...
Benjamin Grossberg: Five Poets Who Changed My Life Benjamin Grossberg 5 Poets April 14, 2010 4 min read1. Whitman I first read “Song of Myself” in 1993. I was twenty-two, living on my own for the first...
Rachel M. Simon: Five Poets Who Changed My Life Rachel M. Simon 5 Poets April 13, 2010 1 min readTim Seibles When I was in high school in the cultural wasteland of suburban Dallas, Tim Seibles was giving readings...
Ana Božičević: 5 Poets Who Changed My Life [Video] Ana Božičević 5 Poets April 12, 2010 1 min readLammy-nominated poet, Ana Božičević, (Stars of the Night Commute) talks with Lambda Literary about 5 Poets Who’ve Changed Her Life....
Marilyn Hacker: Five Poets Marilyn Hacker 5 Poets April 8, 2010 4 min readIt is hard to restrict myself to only five poets who changed my way of looking at the world, and...
Ron Drummond: 5 Poets Ron Drummond 5 Poets April 8, 2010 2 min readSandburg, Stevenson, Ginsberg, Brutus, Herbert and company. My father was Carl Sandburg. My mother was Robert Louis Stevenson. I too...
Eleanor Lerman: Five poets who changed my life Eleanor Lerman 5 Poets April 5, 2010 14 min readLeonard Cohen Forty-plus years ago, when I was a teenager, I went into a drugstore in Far Rockaway, where I...
Rigoberto González: 5 Poets Who Changed My Life Rigoberto Gonzalez 5 Poets April 2, 2010 3 min readAny poet will say that it takes a community of poets to shape a single life, so it is with...
Rick Barot: 5 Poets Who Changed My Life Rick Barot 5 Poets March 31, 2010 3 min readInstead of five poets, five poems. Though ultimately it’s just as appropriate to say that the five poets who wrote...