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Jorge Luis Borges
Tennyson
Edward Gorey
Chrétien de Troyes

John Milton for his "Paradise Lost".

Oh and Langston Hughes

bukowski
plath
sexton
&up and coming... roberto bolano.

jim morrison?

:)

Walt Whitman (I actually have some first editions of his, and I don't collect anything these days)
Steven Jesse Bernstein (who was a very nice man as well as brilliant writer)
Sylvia Plath
Alan Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
Gregory Corso
Gil Scott Heron
Amri Baraka
Anne Waldman
Edgar Allen Poe
T.S. Eliot
Walter de la Mare
Alfred Noyes

liar.

i know as a matter of fact that your favorite poem is 001011110010101111 by 1001010100

it starts like this:


00001111111111111001010111111111100000000000111010 101111111000

10000111111110100001010101101111010010111000000001 111000

etc

(nice rhyme there btw)

Besides the obvious that has been stated...
Alice Notley
Ted Berrigan
James Schuyler
Charles North
Adrienne Rich
Anne Waldman (primarily the stuff with Ginsberg)
Lyn Hejinian
...John Cooper Clarke

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I was bored and wanted to troll the poetry thread. :(

Kinda surprized nobody mentioned Sandburg. He and Bukowski are about the only poets I really care for, as I see most poetry as ego-centric bullcrap.

Not the say that my two choices aren't; they probably are even more so than a lot, but I like them. :)