16 Modern Poets You Need to Know About
Molly Griffin
Molly Griffin
Molly is a writer and editor from Boston who loves traveling, eating and occasionally being a little too candid. She lived in Dublin, Ireland for the last four years but recently moved to San Francisco to escape the rain. Now, she’s on the lookout for a good proper pub.

Chances are the last time you discovered a new favorite poet, you were sitting in fourth period English waiting for the lunch bell to ring. Even if you went on to study literature in college, those “contemporary" poets were probably born around the mid-twentieth century. While we love classic poets, today we're celebrating contemporaries who've been putting the pen to paper (or keyboard to screen, in many cases) and carving out careers for themselves as modern poets. Scroll on to discover your new favorite wordsmith.
Morgan Parker
Amber Tamblyn
Tracy K. Smith
Richard Blanco
Patricia Lockwood
Sherman Alexie
Tina Chang
Meghan O’Rourke
Gregory Pardlo
Ernestine Johnson
Steve Roggenbuck
Alex Dimitrov
Lexa Hillyer
EJ Koh
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Leigh Stein
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Molly Griffin
Molly is a writer and editor from Boston who loves traveling, eating and occasionally being a little too candid. She lived in Dublin, Ireland for the last four years but recently moved to San Francisco to escape the rain. Now, she’s on the lookout for a good proper pub.