If you are buying a collection of poetry for someone and you’re not sure what to get, these poets are usually a good bet. We’ve listed both contemporaries and modern poets we fell can’t miss. Usually most people who enjoy poetry will get some enjoyment out of these wonderful poets. If the person is a writer, you most certainly cannot go wrong looking into the these writers.

Contemporaries
Stephen Dunn
Billy Collins
Rita Dove
Gary Soto
Allen Ginsberg

From the past
TS Eliot
e.e. Cummings
Wallace Stevens
Carl Sandburg
Emily Dickinson