Which of these poets are you familiar with?

Question

I will be doing extensive research on a poet. I would like to do research on a poet with interesting poems, with meaning and easy to understand.
All opinions about any of these authors are very much appreciated.

Sara Teasdale
Margaret Walker
Linda Pastan
Edna St Vincent Millay
Eugenia Collier
Nikki Giovanni
Gabriela Mistral
Amy Lowell
Julia Alvarez
Cathy Song
Rita Dove
Elizabeth Bishop
Judith Wright
William Butler Yeats
Anna Akhmatova
Gwendolyn Brooks
Stephen Crane
Adrienne Rich
Denise Levertov
Octavio Paz
Sandra Cisneros
May Swenson
Donald Justice
Eve Merriam
Simon Ortiz
Theodore Roethke
WH Auden
William Blake
Pat Mora
Richard Wilbur
Anne Sexton
Ted Hughes
Dylan Thomas
Gerard Manley Hopkins
AE Houseman
Edgar Lee Masters
John Updike
William Stafford
Edward Arlington Bishop
Rumi
Wislawa Szymborska

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Nikki Giovanni and Gwendolyn Brooks are good, but are these your only choices? If not, look at Sterling Allen Brown, too.

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Asker's Comment:

Thanks everyone. I checked out every author you suggested, read some poems, and went with Gwendolyn Brooks.

Answer 2

try Nikki Giovanni, her poems are deep

Answer 3

Nikki Giovanni
William Stafford
Eve Merriam
Simon Ortiz
Adrienne Rich
Denise Levertov

all good authors! Check them out!

Answer 4

ROBERT HARRISON
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