Shout-out especially to the living poets whose poetry I’ve very much enjoyed reading over the years: Will Alexander, Andrew Joron, Lisa Russ Spaar, Tony Trigilio, Margo Berdeshevsky, Joe Milazzo, Martin Ott, Chen Chen, Joanna C. Valente, John Reed, Daniel Borzutzsky, Fanny Howe, Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Elizabeth Cohen, Linda Russo, Rosmarie Waldrop, Keith Waldrop, Cole Swensen, John Yau, Tracy K. Smith, Julie Kalendek, Lisa Jarnot, Ashley Toliver, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Jennifer Firestone, Eleni Sikelianos, Sarah Bartlett, Marjorie Welish, Tyehimba Jess, Barbara Guest, Joanna Rawson, Heather C. Akerberg, Sawako Nakayasu, Catherine Imbriglio, Milli Graffi, Jessie Janeshek, Laura Chester, Susan Gevirtz, Erica Carpenter, Suzanne Doppelt, Isabelle Baladine Howald, Thylias Moss, Terese Svoboda, Rigoberto González, P. Inman, Christian Bök, Patricia Smith, Solmaz Sharif, Lia Purpura, Ishion Hutchinson, Candace Williams, Vanessa Roveto, Rae Armantrout, Camille Rankine, Cornelius Eady, Melissa Range, Michael Palmer, Terrance Hayes, David Rivard, Susan Howe, Claudia Rankine, Robin Beth Shaer, William Lessard, Will Schutt, Brendan Lorber, Stephanie Burt, Chris Santiago, Brenda Shaughnessy, Sylvia Legris, Michael J. Wilson, Tommy Pico, Joyelle McSweeney, Michael Leong, Johannes Göransson, Noelle Kocot, Anne Waldman, Airea D. Matthews, Tomas Q. Morin, Fred Moten, Kevin Young, Danez Smith, Carolyn Forché, Jorie Graham, Rosamond S. King, Alice Oswald, Forest Gander, Anne Carson, Chris Campanioni, Saadi Youssef, Yi Lu, Dunya Mikhail, Sorab Sepehri, Kazim Ali, Mai Der Vang, Craig Morgan Teicher, Nathaniel Mackey, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Joe Pan, Kristina Marie Darling, Kate Angus, Layli Long Soldier, Victoria Chang, Lia Purpura, Victor Hernández Cruz, Ruth Danon, Joy Harjo, William Lessard, Maxine Chernoff, David Henderson, Morgan Parker, Saeed Jones, Justin Phillip Reed, Timothy Donnelly, Gillian Cummings, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sam Sax, Kaveh Akbar, and Edwin Torres.
