“The World Doesn’t End” by Charles Simic
“Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky
“Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude” by Ross Gay
“Words for Empty and Words for Full” by Bob Hicok
“Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith
Those are books that have personally influenced me deeply. Other poets I like but haven’t read deeply are Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, Wendel Berry, W.H. Auden.
A few of my favorite poets that come to mind:
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine
Ezra Pound
Gregory Corso
Sappho
Sylvia Plath
Li Bai
These are some of my favorites poems/poets:
“Having It Out with Melancholy” by Jane Kenyon
I like Kahlil Gibran
Recently been listening to Daniella Sinder and enjoying her works as well