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World Class Poetry
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While we could just send you to this already existing poetry hall of fame, we decided to create our own list. Quite frankly, we think those other guys are poetically groovy, but we wanted to put a different flavor in the milk of poetic love. So here's our license of poetic love.
To get into this world class society for dead - and somewhat living - poets, a nominee must have made some contribution to the body of worldwide poetry. Any poet that is dead and published beyond the likes of such credits as the International Library of Poetry is an automatic entry, but the criteria is a bit more harsh for living poets. Poet laureates of any nation, living or dead, are automatic hall of famers as well. From there it gets a bit sticky.
Simply having a few poems published in contemporary journals doesn't cut it. Nor is it quite enough to have a book or two on the library shelf. However, any living poet that has made some substantial contributions to the body of living poetry available may be nominated for the World Class Hall of Fame. Induction is at the sole discretion of the World Class Poetry publisher and webmaster.
If you would like to nominate a poet for induction, you may do so by contacting us using the form below. Include the name of the poet and a paragraph or two about the substantial contributions you believe that poet has made to the worldwide poetry community. All serious nominations will be considered.
Below is a list of current members. Let us take this time now to say that once a member has been inducted it is totally irreversible. Mortal sins, gambling on poetry, crimes against humanity, religious hypocrisy, low IQ, nor any other blasphemy against the name of poetry will ever - NEVER - disqualify a World Class Poetry Hall of Famer from his or her position in the most distinguished group of poets who has ever lived.
Now that we've got the disclaimer out of the way, let's list our World Class Poetry Hall of Fame inductees:
Dante Alighieri
Alexander Pope
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Dr. Seuss
Langston Hughes
Edgar Allan Poe
Ted Kooser
Billy Collins
Robert Pinsky
Maya Angelou
Robert Penn Warren
Amiri Baraka
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Hayden
Pablo Neruda
Cecil Day Lewis
Robert Burns
Robert Frost
Robert Browning
More to Come
