10 Contemporary Southern and Midwestern Poets You Should Know

flavorwire.com:

Since there was a dearth of poets from the Midwest and South in our last poetry post, we’d like to like to call attention to ten emerging poets from this giant swath of land who are deserving of our attention — some of whom you mentioned in the previous comments section.

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Comments

[melchar]

03:09 PM on 04/28/2011

This is the 21st century. we live in a Global and international culture. I hardly believe the US is the only culture with poets worthy the attention of HP. What about Latin America, The Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Parochialism.