1 AMANDA GORMAN is an “American poet and activist,” according to Wikipedia.
2 CATE MARVIN “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS EVIL. Straight up evil. It’s just beyond.” –Facebook
3 LOUISE GLUCK 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
4 JOY HARJO In her third term as Poet Laureate.
5 DON MEE CHOI DMZ Colony, Wave Books, wins 2020 National Book Award.
6 JERICHO BROWN The Tradition, Copper Canyon Press, wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize
7 NOOR HINDI Poem “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” in Dec 2020 Poetry.
8 NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Her poem “kindness” read online by Emma Thompson has 2.3 million Instagram views
9 WAYNE MILLER “When Talking About Poetry Online Goes Very Wrong” 2/8/21 essay in Lithub.
10 WILLIAM LOGAN “she speaks in the voice of a documentary narrator, approaching scenes in a hazmat suit.”
11 VICTORIA CHANG Obit Copper Canyon Press, longlist for 2020 National Book Award; also, in BAP.
12 ALAN CORDLE founder of Foetry, “most despised..most feared man in American poetry” —LA Times 2005
13 RUPI KAUR Has sold 3 million books
14 DON SHARE Resigned as Poetry editor August of 2020.
15 MARY RUEFLE Dunce, Wave Books, finalist for 2020 Pulitzer Prize
16 ANTHONY CODY Borderland Apocrypha, longlist for 2020 National Book Award
17 LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM Travesty Generator, longlist for 2020 National Book Award
18 EDUARDO C. CORRAL Guillotine, longlist for 2020 National Book Award
19 PAISLEY REKDAL Poet Laureate of Utah, Guest editor for the 2020 Best American Poetry
20 DORIANNE LAUX Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems, Norton, finalist for 2020 Pulitzer Prize
21 DANEZ SMITH Latest book of poems, Homie, published in 2020.
22 ILYA KAMINSKY LA Times Book Prize in 2020 for Deaf Republic.
23 RON SILLIMAN in Jan. 2021 Poetry “It merely needs to brush against the hem of your gown.”
24 FORREST GANDER Be With, New Directions, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize
25 RITA DOVE Her Penguin Twentieth-Century of American Poetry Anthology is 10 years old. Collected Poems, 2016.
26 NATALIE DIAZ Postcolonial Love Poem, longlist for 2020 National Book Award
27 TERRANCE HAYES “I love how your blackness leaves them in the dark.”
28 TIMOTHY DONNELLY The Problem of the Many, Wave Books, 2019
29 REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS In 2020 BAP
30 FRANK BIDART Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (FSG) winner, 2018 Pulitzer
31 OCEAN VUONG “this is how we loved: a knife on the tongue turning into a tongue”
32 MATTHEW ZAPRUDER Disputed Ocean Vuong’s Instagram reflections on metaphor.
33 SHARON OLDS Stag’s Leap won 2013 Pulitzer; she’s in 2020 BAP
34 HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS The Age of Phillis, longlist for 2020 National Book Award.
35 CLAUDIA RANKINE Citizen came out in 2014.
36 HENRI COLE Blizzard, FSG, is his tenth book of poems.
37 TRACY K. SMITH In the New Yorker 10/5
38 DIANE SEUSS In the New Yorker 9/14
39 SUSHMITA GUPTA “She missed her room, her pillow, her side of the bed, her tiny bedside lamp.”
40 ANNE CARSON has translated Sappho and Euripides.
41 AL FILREIS Leads “Poem Talk” with guests on Poetry’s website
42 MARY ANGELA DOUGLAS “the larks cry out and not with music”
43 STEPHEN COLE “…the everlasting living and the longtime dead feast on the same severed, talking head.”
44 MARILYN CHIN Her New and Selected was published in 2018 (Norton).
45 KEVIN GALLAGHER Editor, poet, economist, historian has re-discovered the poet John Boyle O’Reilly.
46 DAVID LEHMAN Series Editor for Best American Poetry—founded in 1988.
47 JIM BEHRLE A thorn in the side of BAP.
48 ROBIN RICHARDSON The Canadian poet wrote recently, “I have removed myself completely from Canadian literature.”
49 PAOLA FERRANTE New editor of Minola Reivew.
50 A.E. STALLINGS Like, FSG, finalist for 2019 Pulitzer
51 TAYLOR JOHNSON Poetry Blog: “felt presence of the black crowd as we study our amongness together.”
52 PATRICA SMITH Incendiary Art, TriQuarterly/Northwestern U, finalist for 2018 Pulitzer
53 TYLER MILLS in Jan. 2021 Poetry “Gatsby is not drinking a gin rickey. Dracula not puncturing a vein.”
54 SEUNGJA CHOI in Jan. 2021 Poetry “Dog autumn attacks. Syphilis autumn.”
55 ATTICUS “It was her chaos that made her beautiful.”
56 JAMES LONGENBACH Essay in Jan. 2021 Poetry, wonders: would Galileo have been jailed were his claims in verse?
57 DAN SOCIU Hit 3 home runs for the Paris Goths in Scarriet’s 2020 World Baseball League.
58 PHILIP NIKOLAYEV Editor of Fulcrum and “14 International Younger Poets” issue from Art and Letters.
59 SUSMIT PANDA “Time walked barefoot; the clock gave it heels.”
60 BRIAN RIHLMANN Poet of working-class honesty.
61 TYREE DAYE in the New Yorker 1/18/21
62 JANE WONG in Dec. 2020 Poetry “My grandmother said it was going to be long—“
63 ALAN SHAPIRO Reel to Reel, University of Chicago Press, finalist for 2015 Pulitzer
64 PIPPA LITTLE in Dec. 2020 Poetry “I knew the names of stones at the river mouth”
65 PATRICK STEWART Read Shakespeare’s Sonnets online to millions of views.
66 STEVEN CRAMER sixth book of poems, Listen, published in 2020.
67 HIEU MINH NGUYEN In 2020 BAP
68 BEN MAZER New book on Harry Crosby. New book of poems. Unearthing poems by Delmore Schwartz for FSG.
69 KEVIN YOUNG Poetry editor of the New Yorker
70 BILLY COLLINS Poet Laureate of the U.S. 2001 to 2003
71 ARIANA REINES In 2020 BAP
72 VALERIE MACON fired as North Carolina poet laureate—when it was found she lacked publishing credentials.
73 ANDERS CARLSON-WEE Nation magazine published, then apologized, for his poem, “How-To,” in 2018.
74 DANA GIOIA 99 Poems: New and Selected published in 2016. His famous Can Poetry Matter? came out in 1992.
75 YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA In 2020 BAP
76 MARJORIE PERLOFF published Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire in 2016.
77 HELEN VENDLER her The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry came out in 2015.
78 MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE A Treatise On Stars, longlist for 2020 National Book Award—her 13th book.
79 GEORGE BILGERE Belongs to the Billy Collins school. Lives in Cleveland.
80 CAROLYN FORCHE 2020 saw the publication of her book In the Lateness of the World: Poems from Penguin.
81 BOB DYLAN “Shall I leave them by your gate? Or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?”
82 RICHARD HOWARD has translated Baudelaire, de Beauvoir, Breton, Foucault, Camus and Gide.
83 GLYN MAXWELL The playwright/poet’s mother acted in the original Under Milk Wood on Broadway in 1956.
84 KAVEH AKBAR published in Best New Poets
85 D.A. POWELL The poet has received a Paul Engle Fellowship.
86 JOHN YAU In 2020 BAP
87 DAIPAYAN NAIR “Hold me tight. Bones are my immortality…”
88 ANDREEA IULIA SCRIDON in 14 International Younger Poets from Art and Letters.
89 LORI GOMEZ Sassy and sensual internet poet—Romantic who uses F-bombs.
90 JORIE GRAHAM In 2020 BAP
91 SIMON ARMITAGE In the New Yorker 9/28
92 TOMMYE BLOUNT Fantasia for the Man in Blue, longlist for 2020 National Book Award.
93 TYLER KNOTT GREGSON on Twitter: “let us sign/our names/ in the/emptiness”
94 STEPHANIE BURT Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry published in 2009
95 WILLIE LEE KINARD III in Jan. 2021 Poetry “The lesbians that lived in the apartment to the left…”
96 MICHAEL DICKMAN His poem about his grandmother in 2020 July/August Poetry was controversial.
97 FATIMAH ASGHAR published in Best New Poets
98 RICK BAROT The Galleons, Milkweed Editions, on longlist for 2020 National Book Award and excerpted in BAP 2020
99 DERRICK MICHAEL HUDSON had his 15 minutes of fame in Best American Poetry 2015.
100 JEAN VALENTINE (d. 12/30/20) in New Yorker 1/18/21
Scarriet 
noochness said,
February 15, 2021 at 8:26 pm
7. Noor Hindi
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.
Cosmic said,
September 28, 2021 at 9:37 pm
wow, this poem sucks so much.
noochness said,
February 15, 2021 at 8:44 pm
87. DAIPAYAN NAIR
“Hold me tight. Bones are my immortality…”
Johnny Nash would agree!
noochinator said,
February 16, 2021 at 7:49 am
23. Ron Silliman
Shelter in Place
Putting the pox
in apocalypse
the pudding in the skull
has a lemony taste
just a little
until you push through
to the richer
almost bitter
sweetness at the center
Yum is a corporate brand
encompassing multiple
fast-food franchise chains
he marched his co-workers
out of the restaurant
& into the woods
where he shot them
The angel of death
ambles in
from the memory gardens
It merely needs
to brush against
the hem of your gown
Goya’s peasants
against the wall
don’t look away
When help burst in
all armored up
they found a naked woman
alone in the shower
but couldn’t make out
her mumbled song
When this you see
D E F
geometry rising
to the surface
of a hypothetical world
in a 13-dimensional space
circulating an absence
where some sun should be
What time is it
in Zaragoza
by the old Roman wall
Modernism lurks
looking as dated
as the gravel garden
at the Soviet block apartments
She waits at the corner
for the bus to the campus
when the mayor’s son
pulls up in his car
to offer her a ride
from which she is never seen again
The first to commit suicide
is the class valedictorian
They rain from the bridge
like a festival of ornaments
like the couple holding hands
out of the south tower
No one remembers Ishi
in the Berkeley hills
or LoneCat Fuller’s
musical contraption
Holy Hubert shouting
from a text in which
all of the words
have been erased
noochinator said,
February 16, 2021 at 8:04 am
96. Michael Dickman
Link goes to poem “Scholls Ferry Road”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F7TgAqtbYkOEwytx6mv44gHL6_VjsmMx/view
The controversy analyzed:
thomasbrady said,
February 16, 2021 at 5:08 pm
Here’s the full FB post of #2 above:
As if. Do you know how many times a day I RESTRAIN myself from saying anything about how much Republicans disgust me? It’s not a rhetorical question. MANY, MANY times, every single day. As if I could EVER respect anyone who identifies as Republican. *WHO DOES THAT?* THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS EVIL. Straight up evil. It’s just beyond.
Posted 2/12/21
The responses to it were generally “I feel exactly the same way”
Hot has many meanings.
Whether you agree, or not, is not the point.
The poetry zeitgeist would not be complete without such an entry.
—Scarriet editors
Cosmic said,
September 28, 2021 at 9:39 pm
why #2 though?
thomasbrady said,
September 30, 2021 at 8:04 pm
I think this sentiment is an important part of the zeitgeist when it comes to literature, whether we approve of it, or not.
noochinator said,
February 16, 2021 at 5:28 pm
61. Tyree Daye
What the Angels Eat
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/18/what-the-angels-eat
noochinator said,
February 19, 2021 at 7:24 am
Scarriet’s mission reminds me of “The Engineer’s Creed”:
Little by little, we subtract
Faith and fallacy from fact,
The illusory from the true,
And starve upon the residue.
thomasbrady said,
February 19, 2021 at 5:57 pm
We have a mission??
maryangeladouglas said,
February 20, 2021 at 8:24 pm
They can all keep past doomsday their clanking over credentialed Marley like chains;Valerie Macon soared over the flock of them. In her own decision to resign to avoid having her wings clipped by a bunch of squabbling nitpickers, envious because they weren’t consulted by the Governor about this appointment, oh horrors.
I love Valerie’s poetry and her integrity and sweetness as a human being. Maybe they can uncredential the dead poets society poets who thankfully didnt have to consult any of them to write poetry. Or as to what place in line they should be assigned among the poetry glitterati. Sad chapter in North Carolina Poetry history and a national embarassment all of that. In my opinion. Strangely resembling in some ways the trial of Joseph Brodsky in the former USSR when mocked for HIS credentials. He replied: I thought that was something decided by God…(the calling to be a poet)..
A recent poem…
THE SONG WITH RUBIES SET
find thee a boat with a silver oar
the emerald light on the morning floor
swift passage through a secret door
find thee a boat
find thee a ribband rose wrapped round
all the towers of the town
deep in the sky yet near at hand
find thee a ring with an azure band
find thee a rose
find thee the close to the book this time
written in rose gold faery rhyme
find thee a way to catch the sun
far from the den of winter, come
shine in the boat and learn to sing
departing earth with a ruby sheen
find thee the key to everything
far from the shadow of all lost dreams
find thee the castle then the King
who can absolve from everything
the heart that fluttered and drew lost breath
and then soared over the rim of death.
mary angela douglas 17 february 2021
thomasbrady said,
February 24, 2021 at 6:34 pm
“find thee a boat with a silver oar
the emerald light on the morning floor”
Wow. Beautiful poem.
maryangeladouglas said,
February 25, 2021 at 5:32 am
Thank you so much, Thomas Graves. You are very kind.
noochinator said,
February 24, 2021 at 8:16 am
11. Victoria Chang
Review of her Obit :
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/obit-j08.html
and this from the review’s comments section:
as seems to the case these many decades, the review is far, far more ‘saisissant’, engaging and perceptive than the bloodless – boo-hoo poetry — i consider the author’s critique to be prose/poetry and very well-done — many thanks !
noochness said,
February 27, 2021 at 12:12 pm
100. Jean Valentine
The Cricket
In this little borrowed
wooden house in January,
down on the field-colored rug
I came across a cricket
close to death, or sleeping.
Not breathing, that I could see.
Out walking, I saw a skull of snow,
and a snow-frog listening.
………………………………Back in the house,
my cricket, your heart has stopped.
Would you like snow over you?
Or be in here together, by the hearth.
But now your body is fallen in pieces around you.
Help me find a leaf for you to lie on, another
to cover you.
—Jean Valentine (1934-2020)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/18/the-cricket
noochness said,
March 4, 2021 at 7:13 pm
31. Ocean Vuong
Home Wrecker
And this is how we danced: our mothers’
white dresses spilling from our feet, late August
turning our hands dark red. And this is how we loved:
a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in the attic, your fingers
sweeping through my hair—my hair a wildfire.
We covered our ears and your father’s tantrum turned
to heartbeats. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart
there are two headless people building a burning house.
There was always the shotgun above
the fireplace. Always another hour to kill—only
to beg some god to return the seconds. If not the attic,
the car. If not the car, the dream. If not the boy, his clothes.
If not alive, put down the phone. Because the year
is a distance we’ve traveled in circles. Which is to say:
this is how we danced: alone in sleeping bodies.
Which is to say: this is how we loved: a knife on the tongue
turning into a tongue.
First published in Linebreak, August 2012
https://poetshouse.org/profile/ocean-vuong/
Pop Leibel said,
March 6, 2021 at 4:39 am
Love this poem. Who is this guy?