3Q3

I like to read Walt Whitman occasionally, but more of Byron and Tennyson.  Shakespeare is alright, I like his sonnets more than I like his plays.  Ezra Pound and a poem by James Joyce stand out to me though.  Joyce's poem in his novel A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is one of my favorites.  It is a villanelle, which is my favorite style of poetry.  As for poets that I try to stay away from, I do not really like have much knowledge of them from basically 1950-present.  That does not mean that if I found a poet that I liked from the present era I would not read it, I just have not found one yet.  I won't write off the present stuff yet though.