Who are your favorite PROFESSIONAL poets?

As I was creating my list, I noticed it was exactly the same as debbylyn's. How ironic is that?

2Pac

LOL I don't have a favorite professional poet but if I had to choose one then it would be my best friend Cole because in my eyes he is a professional

Seamus Heany

^ We study some of his poems for GCSE's.
I have to say his work is excellent. I have to be the only one in my class who has acctually read more poems by him then weve acctually studyed.

William Shakespeare

I will have to say "Lord Byran" his poems though sometimes long, leave his readers, sobbing in either happiness, though mostly sadness.

Allen Ginsberg
[[Seriously, he's awesome... like exponentially awesome... I strongly recommend reading his work]]

ee cummings
[[I don't even need an explaination for this one]]

Langston Hughes
[[As above^^]]

Barbara D. Hollander
[[Found her while aimlessly searching the web... she's got some really intriguing things.]]

Nikki Giovanni
[["Quilting the Black Eyed Pea(We're Going to Mars)"... point taken.]]

Shakespeare all the way haha :)

Poets:
Robert Browning
TS Eliot
Emily Dickinson

Musicians:
Marilyn Manson
Mikael Akerfeldt
Maynard James Keenan
Dani Filth

They're all lyrical/poetic geniuses.

ROBERT FROST

Edgar Allen Poe... probably

To Kana, above me,

"...Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells..."

I love that poem...
=D

Ii DONT READ MUCH...BUT HERE ARE SOME OF
MY FAVORiiTES

EDGAR ALLEN POE
SHAKESPEARE
THOREAU
ROBERT FROST
ROBERT BROWNiiNG
WALT WHiiTMAN
EMiiLY DiiCKENSON
LANGSTON HUGHES

My favs would have to be

Edgar allen poe
shakespeare

but music wise i really like
2pac and B.I.G.

Shakespeare

Robert Frost

William Wadsworth Longfellow (My great great great great uncle)

Pablo Neruda

Shakespeare

Poe

Edgar Alan Poe

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Robert Browning
Sylvia Plath
Theodore Rothke
John Keats
Pablo Neruda

William Blake
Shakespeare

Rosalie Huber.
She was my great-aunt, but she published a few poetry books.

Bob Dylan
Gibran
Rumi
Thomas Merton
John Milton

Dickinson
Barret Browning
Silverstien
E.E. Cummings

Edgar allen poe
henrey wadsworth longfellow
silverstien
robert frost
tolkin

Louis MacNeice
Edward Thomas

Poe
Maya Angelou
Leonard Cohen
Charles Baudelaire
Jim Morrison
Charles Bukowski
Lord Byron
Robert frost
Helen Hunt Jackson
Rumi
William Wordsworth
Robert Hayden
Shel Silverstein

Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Blake
Robert Frost

Frost and poe

I don't believe there is such thing as professional poets!!! Being prominent is completely different from being professional! Almost all poets are good in their own way!!! They have different styles of writing in expressing their selves!

Well, in spite of this point of view, I also admire well written piece, from prominent poets such as;

"Annabelle Lee" by edgar allan poe
"Invictus" by william henley
"who has seen the wind" by christina georgina rosetti
"alone" by maya angelou

Gary - Jim Carroll, great choice. So shocked to hear about his death. I've been waiting about nine years for THe Petting Zoo. Maybe they'll eventually publish the notes or whatever, but ain't the same. Such a shame.

THERE ARE SO MANY,
MY TOP TEN ARE, SHAKESPEARE
LONGFELLOW
SHELLEY
THE BROWNINGS
ROBERT & ELIZABETH
BYRON
DUNN
KIPLING
THE MERSEY POETS,
McGOUGH
PATTEN
& HENRI
MAYA
FROST
FRIED

WE HAVE MANY EXCEPTIONAL POETS ON OUR OWN SITE i COULD EASILY LIST FIFTEEN OF THEM.