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Good link, good poetry - and it rhymes too! Not much celebrated contemporary poetry employs meter or rhyme these days - as I'm sure Leanne would be happy to point out.

Here's a poet who does - Gjertrud Schnackenberg. A friend of mine lent me her compilation "Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992" a few years ago and it contained some of the most intricate, nuanced, and beautiful poetry I've ever read, tackling themes as large as history and as personal as grief. Incredible stuff. Check it out here:

http://search.barnesandnoble.c...74527549/?itm=9

by Derma Kaput on Mar. 18 2008