For my honors English class, our latest assignment is to choose a poet from the American Poet Laureate list, pick a poem of theirs(analyze it), and do a very short presentation on their life and work!. I have a fat load of homework, so I don't have time to research every single poet from the following list!. Could some of you poetry savvy people recommend a poet from this list that wrote decent poems and has/had an interesting life!? I have until Monday, the 25th to choose a poet!. List: * 2008–2009 Kay Ryan
* 2007–2008 Charles Simic
* 2006–2007 Donald Hall
* 2004–2006 Ted Kooser
* 2003–2004 Louise Glück
* 2001–2003 Billy Collins
* 2000–2001 Stanley Kunitz
* 1999–2000 Special Bicentennial Consultants: Rita Dove, Louise Glück and W!.S!. Merwin
* 1997–2000 Robert Pinsky
* 1995–1997 Robert Hass
* 1993–1995 Rita Dove
* 1992–1993 Mona Van Duyn
* 1991–1992 Joseph Brodsky
* 1990–1991 Mark Strand
* 1988–1990 Howard Nemerov
* 1987–1988 Richard Wilbur
* 1986–1987 Robert Penn Warren
* 1985–1986 Gwendolyn Brooks
* 1984–1985 Reed Whittemore (Interim Consultant in Poetry)
* 1984–1985 Robert Fitzgerald (Appointed and served in a health-limited capacity, but did not come to LC)
* 1982–1984 Anthony Hecht
* 1981–1982 Maxine Kumin
* 1978–1980 William Meredith
* 1976–1978 Robert Hayden
* 1974–1976 Stanley Kunitz
* 1973–1974 Daniel Hoffman
* 1971–1973 Josephine Jacobsen
* 1970–1971 William Stafford
* 1968–1970 William Jay Smith
* 1966–1968 James Dickey
* 1965–1966 Stephen Spender
* 1964–1965 Reed Whittemore
* 1963–1964 Howard Nemerov
* 1961–1963 Louis Untermeyer
* 1959–1961 Richard Eberhart
* 1958–1959 Robert Frost
* 1956–1958 Randall Jarrell
* 1952 William Carlos Williams (appointed but did not serve)
* 1950–1952 Conrad Aiken (First to serve two terms)
* 1949–1950 Elizabeth Bishop
* 1948–1949 Leonie Adams
* 1947–1948 Robert Lowell
* 1946–1947 Karl Shapiro
* 1945–1946 Louise Bogan
* 1944–1945 Robert Penn Warren
* 1943–1944 Allen Tate
* 1937–1941 Joseph Auslander
Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com