@Chris: Thank you for those links, the last two sound very appropriate.
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Originally Posted by Susan McLean
The other things that would be helpful in order to give you the best recommendations for reading, Tzemach, would be to know something about the kinds of subjects you enjoy reading about, or the poetic forms that please you most. Do you most enjoy sonnets, villanelles, blank verse, limericks, long poems, or short ones? Are you interested in history, philosophy, religion, art, nature, people, any particular subgroup? There are many different formalists, and they tend to have their favorite forms and subjects.
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As a writer, sonnets interest me the most, but as a reader my only preference would be for poems which are short enough to memorize. I like being able to hold a whole poem in my consciousness at once.
As far as subject matter, I have a small preference for non-confessional poetry, but that's about it.