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Poets & Writers I Read


     When I visit people's homes, I like to snoop, cruise the bookshelves, see what they read. Like listening to someone's playlist on their iPod, you can learn a lot about someone from the titles, the genres, the range of books they keep close at hand. Here is a short, eclectic, and incomplete list of the poets and writers I read, always growing.

     Some of the writers' names are highlighted, and by clicking on them you will be linked to their home page or web sites that feature them. As time permits, I'll be adding more information about the genre and style of these writers. 

     I hope you enjoy getting to know some of the writers who I appreciate, those who have influenced and inspired me.

Leroy Aarons
Anya Achtenberg
Jonis Agee
Elizabeth Alexander
Sherman Alexie
Joseph Amato
​Edie Barrett
​Martha Beck

Brian Bedard
Wendell Berry
George Bilgere
Elizabeth Bishop
Candace Black

Kimberly Blaeser
Elizabeth Blair

Richard Blanco
Carol Bly
Robert Bly
Eavan Boland
Todd Boss

Ray Bradbury
Emily Brisse
David Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks
Lauren Carlson
Julia Cameron

Julia Child
Billy Collins
Maryann Corbett

Hugh Curtler
Austin Dacey
Florence Chard Dacey
Philip Dacey

Leo Dangel
Rebecca Fjelland Davis
Dorothy Day
Kate DiCamillo
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Annie Dillard

Alixa Doom
Carol Ann Duffy
Denise Duhamel
Stephen Dunn

Heid Erdich
Louise Erdrich
David Allan Evans
Beth Ann Fennelly

Jason Freeman
Larry Gavin
Sonia Gernes

Elizabeth Gilbert
Louise Gluck
Natalie Goldberg
Mary Gordon
Paul Gruchow
Thich Nhat Hanh

Phebe Hanson
Jim Harrison
Gwen Hart
Roger Hart

Jon Hassler
Seamus Heaney
Nicole Helget
Nancy Henry

Patrick Hicks
Bill Holm
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Langston Hughes
Barbara Hurd

Jane Kenyon
Athena Kildegaard
Barbara Kingsolver

Maxine Hong Kingston
Carolyn Kizer
Anne Lamott
Ted Kooser
Dorianne Laux

Nate Leboutillier
Ed Bok Lee
Li‐Young Lee

Sister Jean Lenz, OSF
Denise Levertov
C.S. Lewis
Adrian C. Louis

Kelly Madigan
Frank McCourt
Laura McCullough
Susan McLean
Anna George Meek

Thomas Merton
Edward Micus
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Howard Mohr

Alice Munro
Caroline Myss
Kathleen Norris

Barack Obama
Flannery O'Connor
Thomas O'Grady

Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver

Lon Otto
Nancy Paddock
Ann Patchett
Walker Percy
Lucia Perillo
David Pichaske

Marge Piercy
Wang Ping
Sylvia Plath
Michael Pollan
Anna Quindlen
​Saara Myrene Raappana
Jim Reese

John Rezmerski
Adrienne Rich
James Whitcomb Riley
Rainer Maria Rilke
Richard Robbins

Mark Anthony Rolo
Lee Ann Roripaugh

J.K. Rowling
Rumi

Marjorie Saiser
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Heather Sellers

Anne Sexton
Jim Shepard
Naomi Shihab Nye

Charles Simic
Anthony Neil Smith

Christine Stark
Christine Stewart‐Nunez

Faith Sullivan
Joyce Sutphen
Barton Sutter

Kerry Temple
Richard Terrill

Tomas Transtromer
William Turgeon

James Van Amber
Connie Wanek

Rayme Waters
Allison Benis White
Walt Whitman
David Whyte

Elie Wiesel
Judy Wilson

Jeff Worley
Dana Yost
​James A. Zarzana

Kevin Zepper
Paul Zimmer


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