In no particular order these are
the poets I read and their poetry
influenced mine for better or worse.
Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost,
Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes,
T. S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski,
Stephen Dunn, Anne Sexton, Kenneth Rexroth,
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Billy Collins,
W. B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams,
e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden,
Theodore Roethke, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath,
Leonard Cohen, Ogden Nash and Fr. Paschael O.F.M.