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If you are a poet,
you will see clearly
that there is a cloud floating
in this sheet of paper.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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Poets

Denise Liddell Lawson

Hayden Carruth

J. Allyn Rosser

Jack Kerouac

Katherine Larson

Ben Belitt

Heidy Steidlmayer

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Ama Codjoe

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Jenny Xie

Ruth Awad

Sarah Lindsay

Tina Chang

Joanna Klink

Jaswinder Bolina

Carol Frost

Ada Limón

Jane Hirshfield

Mary Oliver

Diana Der Hovanessian

Emily Dickinson

Thich Nhat Hanh

Chögyam Trungpa

W.S. Merwin

Shel Silverstein

Connie Wanek

David Ignatow

Denise Levertov

Jane Kenyon

Dana Gioia

Naomi Shihab Nye

Nick Flynn

William Stafford

Elizabeth Spires

Richard Wilbur

Louise Glück

Robert Hass

Kay Ryan

May Swenson

May Sarton

Joyce Sutphen

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Miller Williams

Josephine Jacobsen

Kobayashi Issa

Matsuo Basho

Maxine Kumin

Wendell Berry

Edgar Allan Poe

ee cummings

Tracy K. Smith

Langston Hughes

Bob Hicok

Wallace Stevens

Linda Pastan

Charles Simic

W.H. Auden

C.K. Williams

Barbara Crooker

Robert Morgan

Audre Lorde

T.S. Eliot

Rae Armantrout

Robert Frost

Wislawa Szymborska

Anne Sexton

Stephen Dunn

W.D. Snodgrass

Grace Schulman

Elizabeth Bishop

Marianne Moore

Jane Yolen

Ellen Bass

William Carlos Williams

Margaret Atwood

David Wagoner

Joyce Carol Oates

Gwendolyn Brooks

Maya Angelou

Robert Hayden

Rita Dove

Carolyn Forche

Philip Levine

Robert Bly

William Wordsworth

John Ashbery

Kathleen Raine

Linda Gregg

Jorge Luis Borges

Czeslaw Milosz

Marge Piercy

Diane Wakoski

Tess Gallagher

Walt Whitman

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Alissa Leigh

Jack Collom

Lee Herrick

Diane Ackerman

Sara Teasdale

Li-Young Lee

Alice B. Fogel

Craig Arnold

Stephen Dobyns

Kim Addonizio

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mark Strand

Adrienne Rich

Gary Snyder

Jack Gilbert

Robert Creeley

Douglas Florian

Karen Maezen Miller

Heather McHugh

Lisa Russ Spaar

Kahlil Gibran

Thomas Lux

Mark Levine

Bei Dao

Rebecca Hazelton

Eamon Grennan

Denis Johnson

Natalie Diaz

Philip Schultz

Cathy Linh Che

Tennessee Williams

Barbara Ras

Susan Firer

Ted Hughes

Katha Pollitt

Andrew Hudgins

Francine Sterle

Kathryn Starbuck

Eleanor Ross Taylor

Paisley Rekdal

Leslie Harrison

John Fuller

E. Ethelbert Miller

Don Paterson

Emily Brontë

Yusef Komunyakaa

Claudia Rankine

Alicia Ostriker

Katrina Roberts

Richard Brautigan

Ben Lerner

Gary Fincke

Theodore Roethke

Dorianne Laux

Sharon Olds

Lisel Mueller

Faith Shearin

Chase Twichell

Maggie Smith

Mary Karr

Sophie Jewett

Sylvia Plath

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Erika L. Sánchez

Natasha Trethewey

Joyce Peseroff

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Billy Collins

Ted Kooser

Pattiann Rogers

Anne Waldman

Richard Wright

C.S. Merrill

Rupi Kaur

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