There's no accounting for editorial taste. I admire a few personally, and I admire one or more poems by a long, long list of them, too long to register. Anyone looking back will see that ours was a rich age for poetry. I teach for the Writers' Workshop, a community of young writers masquerading as graduate students at The University of Iowa. The students are awfully talented.
Teacher has to do the assignment too.
And working with such interesting students stirs me to rethink my aesthetic. The Iowa Writer's Workshop is an old and well known programme. But I've seen it described as a writers factory, turning out standard, production-line writers. Chaos is our mode and self-motivation the requirement. Members are admitted solely on the basis of their writing, and we have room for but one in ten who apply.