The HyperTexts
Our Most Popular Poets and Pages for 2010-2022
with comments by Michael R. Burch, editor of The HyperTexts
We began using Google Analytics in 2010, in order to learn which of our
poets and pages are the most
popular with readers. This is what we've discovered ...
THT has received approximately 16.2 million page views since 2010. Most of these page
views come from people accessing THT via Google and other search engines. Readers are coming to us from around
the globe: primarily from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, Australia, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, France, Russia
and South Africa ... but also from more exotic locales like Guernsey, Morocco, Jordan, Ghana, New Zealand, Iceland
and the Palestinian Territories.
Our top 50 contemporary poets and translators for 2022 were:
(#1) Yala Korwin
Bronislawa Wajs aka "Papusza" translation by Yala Korwin
Tom Merrill's poetry page and his intro to the antinatalist poems of
Al-Ma'arri
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Fadwa Tuqan
Nadia Anjuman
Miklos Radnoti
Sappho translations by Michael R. Burch
Jared Carter
(#10)
Kevin N. Roberts
Primo Levi
Bertolt Brecht
Ann Drysdale
Wladyslaw Szlengel translations by Yala Korwin and Michael R. Burch
Annie Diamond
Richard Moore
Jesse Anger
Sunil Sharma
Catherine Chandler
(20)
Luis Omar Salinas
Leslie Mellichamp
Jack Butler
Gordon Ramel
Sophie Hannah Jones
Marion Shore
Michael McClintock
F.F. Teague aka Felicity Teague
David B. Gosselin
Mitali Chakravarty
(30)
Mahmoud Darwish translations by Michael R. Burch
Edmund Conti
Norman R. Shapiro
Martin Elster
Gail White
John Whitworth
Joseph S. Salemi
R. S. Gwynn aka Sam Gwynn
A. E. Stallings aka Alicia Stallings
Robert Mezey
(#40)
Rhina P. Espaillat
Line Gauthier
Jim McLean
Iqbal Tamimi
Richard Craven
Reta Lorraine Bowen Taylor
Peggy Landsman
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori
Robert Lavett Smith
Julie Kane
Enheduanna translations by Michael R. Burch
(#50) Mary Rae
Our top 50 contemporary poets and translators for 2021 were:
(#1) Yala Korwin
Nadia Anjuman
Bronislawa Wajs aka "Papusza" translation by Yala Korwin
Sappho translations by Michael R. Burch
Fadwa Tuqan
Miklos Radnoti
Jared Carter
Tom Merrill's poetry page and his intro to the antinatalist poems of
Al-Ma'arri
Dahlia Ravikovitch
(#10)
Kevin N. Roberts
Bertolt Brecht
Primo Levi
Mahmoud Darwish translations by Michael R. Burch
Ann Drysdale
Richard Moore
Wladyslaw Szlengel translations by Yala Korwin and Michael R. Burch
Luis Omar Salinas
F.F. Teague aka Felicity Teague
Michael McClintock
(#20)
Gordon Ramel
Sunil Sharma
Leslie Mellichamp
Mitali Chakravarty
David B. Gosselin
John Whitworth
Dan Almagor
Sophie Hannah Jones
Catherine Chandler
Jack Butler
(#30)
A. E. Stallings aka Alicia Stallings
Marion Shore
Richard Craven
Annie Diamond
Rhina P. Espaillat
R. S. Gwynn aka Sam Gwynn
Gail White
Peggy Landsman
Robert Mezey
Norman R. Shapiro
(#40)
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori
Robert Lavett Smith
Martin Elster
Joseph S. Salemi
Greg Brownderville
Julie Kane
Edmund Conti
Iqbal Tamimi
Midge Goldberg
Richard Wakefield
Anais Vionet
Peter Austin
Theo Horesh
Line Gauthier
(#50) Enheduanna translations by Michael R. Burch
There were several ties in the 2021 results, so we included all the ties, giving
us 55 poets in all.
Our top 50 contemporary poets and translators for 2020 were:
(#1) Yala Korwin
Bronislawa Wajs aka "Papusza" translation by Yala Korwin
Miklos Radnoti translations by Michael R. Burch
Fadwa Tuqan translations by Michael R. Burch
Bertolt Brecht translations by Michael R. Burch
Kevin N. Roberts
Tom Merrill
Nadia Anjuman
Ann Drysdale
(#10)
Jared Carter
Richard Moore
Gordon Ramel
Leonard Nimoy
Anais Vionet
Primo Levi translations by Michael R. Burch
Sunil Sharma
Mahmoud Darwish translations by Michael R. Burch
Peter Austin
Luis Omar Salinas
(#20) Rabindranath Tagore translations by Michael R. Burch
Joseph S. Salemi
Wladyslaw Szlengel translations by Yala Korwin and Michael R. Burch
Norman R. Shapiro
John Whitworth
Conrad Aiken
Michael McClintock
Robert Mezey
Jack Butler
Reta Lorraine Bowen Taylor
(#30)
Sophie Hannah Jones
Claire Brew
Julie Kane
Gail White
A. E. Stallings
Greg Brownderville
R. S. Gwynn aka Sam Gwynn
Richard Wakefield
Rhina P. Espaillat
Mandakini Bhattacherya
(#40) Marion Shore
Tina Sequeira
Peggy Landsman
Robert Lavett Smith
Iqbal Tamimi
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori
David B. Gosselin
Rose Kelleher
Edmund Conti
(#50) Ranald Barnicot
Our top 30 contemporary poets for 2019 were:
(#1) Yala Korwin
Miklos Radnoti translations by Michael R. Burch
Fadwa Tuqan translations by Michael R. Burch
Bronislawa Wajs aka "Papusza" translation by Yala Korwin
Ann Drysdale
Tom Merrill
Nadia Anjuman
Sunil Sharma
Richard Moore
(10) Gordon Ramel
Wladyslaw Szlengel translations by Yala Korwin and Michael R. Burch
Dahlia Ravikovitch
John Whitworth
Luis Omar Salinas
Norman R. Shapiro
A. E. Stallings
Kevin N. Roberts
Rhina P. Espaillat
R. S. Gwynn
(20)
Sophie Hannah Jones
Primo Levi translations by Michael R. Burch
Sophie Hannah Jones
Joseph S. Salemi
Julie Kane
David Berman
Jared Carter
Robert Mezey
Gail White
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori
(30) Michael McClintock
Our top 50 contemporary poets for 2018 were:
(#1) Yala Korwin (Yala has consistently been our most-read contemporary poet)
Miklos Radnoti translations by Michael R. Burch
Fadwa Tuqan translations by Michael R. Burch
Tom Merrill
Nadia Anjuman
Richard Moore
Sunil Sharma
Luis Omar Salinas
Norman R. Shapiro
(#10) Ann Drysdale
Wladyslaw Szlengel translations by Yala Korwin and Michael R. Burch
Mahmoud Darwish translations by Michael R. Burch
Bronislawa Wajs aka "Papusza" translation by Yala Korwin
A. E. Stallings
Julie Kane
Sophie Hannah Jones
Primo Levi translations by Michael R. Burch
R. S. Gwynn
Rhina P. Espaillat
(#20) Robert Mezey
Edmund Conti
Joseph S. Salemi
Annie Diamond
Gail White
Peter Austin
Jack Butler
Jared Carter
Michael McClintock
John Whitworth
(#30) Tawfik Zayyad translation by Adib S. Kawar
Hanan Ashrawi
Catherine Chandler
Gordon Ramel
Joe M. Ruggier
Quincy R. Lehr
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Rose Kelleher
Jennifer Reeser
Janet Kenny
(#40) Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori
Peggy Landsman
Iqbal Tamimi
Kevin N. Roberts
Richard Wakefield
Chaim Nachman Bialik translations by Michael R. Burch
Leslie Mellichamp
Greg Alan Brownderville
Agnes Wathall
(#50) T. S. Kerrigan
Our top 25 poetry pages for 2018 were:
Erotic Poems (over 56,000 page views)
Sad/Dark Poems (over 54,000 page views)
Limericks (over 53,000 page views)
Beautiful Poems (over 52,000 page views)
Holocaust Poems (over 47,000 page views)
Long Poems (over 33,000 page views)
Love Poems (over 26,000 page views)
Haiku translations by Michael R. Burch (over 25,000 page views)
William Blake (over 21,000 page views)
Michael R. Burch (over 20,000 page views)
Sonnets (over 18,000 page views)
The Best Poems of All Time (over 17,000 page views)
Robert Burns translations by Michael R. Burch (over 16,000 page views)
Free Verse (over 15,000 page views)
Short Poems (over 13,000 page views)
The Best Poems of Modernism (over 12,000 page views)
Christmas Poems (over 16,000 page views)
Urdu Love Poetry translations by Michael R. Burch (over 11,000 page views)
Mary Elizabeth Frye (over 11,000 page views)
Nonsense Verse (over 10,000 page views)
"The Wife's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 6,300 page views)
"Whoso List to Hunt" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 5,200 page views)
"Deor's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 4,800 page views)
"Wulf and Eadwacer" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 4,500 page views)
"Caedmon's Hymn" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 4,500 page views)
The following statistics are cumulative through 2010, after which time we
unfortunately lost our ability to track cumulative page views (so the actual
figures are higher) ...
Our most popular contemporary poets are:
Yala Korwin (over 38,000 page views)
Michael R. Burch (over 33,000 page views)
Leonard Nimoy (over 19,000 page views)
Richard Moore (over 13,000 page
views)
Luis Omar Salinas (over 12,000 page views)
Nadia Anjuman (over 12,000 page views)
T. Merrill (over 10,000 page views)
A. E. Stallings (over 9,900 page views)
Richard Blanco (over 9,900 page views)
R. S. (Sam) Gwynn (over 8,800 page views)
X. J. Kennedy (over 8,700 page views)
The poets above are our top 10 in page views, and all had 8,000 or more page
views.
Fadwa Tuqan (over 6,600 page views)
Robert Mezey (over 5,400 page views)
Rhina Espaillat (over 5,100 page views)
Mahmoud Darwish (over 5,100 page views)
Sophie Hannah Jones (over 4,800 page views)
Janet Kenny (over 4,500 page views)
Iqbal Tamimi (over 4,300 page views)
John Whitworth (over 4,100 page views)
Julie Kane (over 3,800 page views)
Ann Drysdale (over 3,600 page views)
Quincy R. Lehr (over 3,200 page views)
Joseph S. Salemi (over 3,100 page views)
Richard Wakefield (over 3,000 page views)
J. Patrick Lewis (over 3,000 page views)
Norman Shapiro (over 3,000 page views)
The poets above are our top 25 in page views, and all had 3,000 or more page
views.
Bruce Weigl (over 2,900 page views)
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori (over 2,800 page views)
Greg Alan Brownderville (over 2,700 page views)
Jennifer Reeser (over 2,700 page views)
Hanan Ashwari (over 2,600 page views)
Annie Finch (over 2,500 page views)
Judy "Joy" Jones (over 2,500 page views)
Jared Carter (over 2,400 page views)
Alfred and Anita Dorn (over 2,200 page views)
Jim Barnes (over 2,200 page views)
Michael McClintock (over 2,200 page views)
Jack Butler (over 2,200 page views)
George Held (over 2,000 page views)
Gail White (over 2,000 page views)
The poets above all had 2,000 or more page
views.
A. M. "Mike" Juster
Zyskandar Jaimot
Kevin N. Roberts
Charles Martin
Gordon Ramel
Peter Austin
Catherine Chandler
Ellaraine Lockie
Adrie Kusserow
All the poets above had 1,500 or more page views.
Dan Almagor
Wendy Videlock
Robert Crawford
Christina Pacosz
Yakov Azriel
Deborah Warren
Charles Fishman
Edmund Conti
Ethna Carbery
All the poets above have had 1,000 or more page views.
Our most popular poets of the past are:
Robert Burns (our most popular poet with over 128,000 page views)
William Blake (a close second with over 100,000 page views)
Urdu Love Poets with translations by Michael R. Burch (over 50,000 page views)
Mary Elizabeth Frye (over 38,000 page views)
"Wife's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 31,000 page views)
Ronald Reagan (over 26,000 page views; Reagan was an unexpectedly good poet, and from a young age to boot)
Thomas Wyatt "Whoso List to Hunt" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 21,000
page views)
Abraham Lincoln (over 18,000 page views; Lincoln was an accomplished poet who wrote a poem that was "more popular
than the Bible" in Illinois, about a gay marriage!)
Oscar Wilde (over 18,000 page views)
Sappho with translations by Michael R. Burch and other poets (over 18,000 page
views)
"Wulf and Eadwacer" translations by Michael R. Burch (over 15,000 page views)
"Caedmon's Hymn" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 11,000 page views)
A. E. Housman (over 9,000 page views)
William Dunbar translations by Michael R. Burch (over 9,000 page views)
Haiku Masters with translations by Michael R. Burch (over 9,000 page views)
Wallace Stevens (over 7,000 page views)
The
Archpoet (over 7,000 page views)
John Dowland (over 7,000 page views)
Ezra Pound (over 6,000 page views)
Robert Frost (over 6,000 page views)
Thomas Wyatt (over 6,000 page views)
Mark Twain (over 6,000 page views)
Ahmad Faraz translations by Michael R. Burch (over 6,000 page views)
"Bede's Death Song" translation by Michael R. Burch (over 6,000 page views)
Conrad Aiken (over 5,000 page views)
Robert Bridges (over 5,000 page views)
Dorothy Parker (over 4,000 page views)
Hart Crane (over 4,000 page views)
W. H. Davies (over 4,000 page views)
Rainer Maria Rilke translations by Michael R. Burch (over 4,000 page views)
Paul Celan translations by Michael R. Burch (over 4,000 page views)
Basho translations by Michael R. Burch (over 4,000 page views)
Louise Bogan (over 3,000 page views)
Thomas Campion (over 2,000 page views)
All the poets above have had 1,000 or more page views.
Our most popular Holocaust and Nakba poets are:
Yala Korwin* (our most-read Holocaust poet with over 35,000 page views)
Michael R. Burch* (over 26,000 page views)
Miklós Radnóti with translations by Michael R. Burch (over 25,000 page views; perhaps the greatest of all the Holocaust poets)
Nadia Anjuman* (over 11,000 page views)
Janusz Korczak (over 8,000 page views)
Ahmad Faraz (over 6,000 page views)
Bronislawa Wajs (a Romani gypsy poet with over 5,000 page views)
Bertolt Brecht with translations by Michael R. Burch (the great German Holocaust and anti-Nazi poet has over 5,000
page views)
Fadwa Tuqan* (perhaps the greatest of all the female Palestinian Naka poets has
over 6,000 page views)
Mahmoud Darwish (perhaps the greatest of all the Palestinian Naka poets has over
5,000 page views)
Iqbal Tamimi* (our Palestinian "editor in exile" has over 4,000 page
views)
Paul Celan with translations by Michael R. Burch (over 4,000 page views)
Dahlia Ravikovitch (over 3,000 page views)
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori* (a Hiroshima survivor with over 2,500 page
views)
Hanan Ashrawi (over 2,500 page views)
Jerzy Ficowski (over 2,500 page views)
Primo Levi with translations by Michael R. Burch (over 2,000 page views)
Charles Fishman (over 2,000 page views)
One measure of popularity, other than raw numbers of page views, is how often
readers actively seek out particular poets and themes by name. It's encouraging
to know that contemporary poets are being sought by name via search engines like
Google. In the listings below, an asterisk denotes a contemporary poet who is
not better known for things other than writing poetry.
Our most popular search terms are:
620K:
Poetry and related terms such as "formal," "romantic," "sonnets,"
"free verse," "haiku," etc.
160K: Best poems and related terms such as "best sonnets," "best free verse,"
etc.
97K: Song and related terms such as "singer," "songwriter" and "music"
85K:
Epigram and related terms such as "quote" and "quotation"
75K:
Holocaust poetry and related terms such as "Shoah" (Hebrew for "Catastrophe")
45K: Hiroshima poetry
35K:
Palestinian poetry and related terms such as "Gaza" and "Nakba" (Arabic
for "Catastrophe")
30K: Love poetry and related terms
28K: Limerick and related terms
25K: Short poems and related terms
25K: Translations by Michael R. Burch
24K: Sonnet and related terms
23K: Free verse and related terms
21K: Romanticism and related terms
21K: Beautiful poems and related terms
21K: Nelson Mandela poetry
21K: "No hell in the Bible" and related terms
19K: William Blake
14K: Robert Burns translations by Michael R. Burch
14K: Albert Einstein poetry and/or epigrams
12K: Funny poems and related terms such as "humorous" and "light" verse
11K: Dark poetry and related terms
11K: Scary poetry and related terms like "Halloween" poetry
11K: Trump puns, limericks, jokes, etc.
10K: Formal poetry and related terms such as "traditional," "metrical,"
"classic" and "classical"
10K: Rock poetry and related terms
10K: Mysterious Ways and related searches
9K: Protest poems and songs
9K: Famous insults
9K: Haiku translations by Michael R. Burch
9K: Urdu love poetry translations by Michael R. Burch
9K: Stone of Scone and related terms
8K: Erotic poetry
8K: Haiti poetry
8K: Famous hustlers, pool sharks, etc.
7K: Abraham Lincoln poetry
7K: "What caused the Civil War?", slavery and related
searches
6K: Oscar Wilde
6K: Trail of Tears and Native American poetry
6K: "The Wife's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch
6K: Ronald Reagan poetry
6K: Pope John Paul II poetry and related searches
5K: Michael R. Burch*
5K: Darfur poetry
4K: Miklós Radnóti
4K: X. J. Kennedy*
4K: A. E. Stallings*
4K: Villanelle and related terms
4K: Sad poetry and related terms
3K: "Deor's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch
3K: Thomas Wyatt
3K: R. S. Gwynn*
3K: Mark Twain poetry and/or epigrams
3K: Luis Omar Salinas*
3K: A. E. Housman
3K: Robert Bridges
3K: Rhina P. Espaillat*
3K: Leonard Nimoy poetry
3K: Princess Diana poetry
2K: Richard Moore*
2K: Robert Mezey*
2K: Yala Korwin*
2K: Sophie Hannah Jones* and/or "Rubbish at
Adultery"
2K: Nadia Anjuman*
2K: Sappho translations by Michael R. Burch
2K: Wallace Stevens
2K: John Dowland
2K: Ogden Nash
1K: The Archpoet translation by Helen
Waddell
1K: T. Merrill*
1K: Basho translations by Michael R. Burch
1K: "Wulf and Eadwacer" translation by Michael R. Burch
1K: Mahmoud Darwish
1K: Jared Carter*
1K: Judy "Joy" Jones*
1K: John Whitworth*
1K: Joseph S. Salemi*
1K: Greg Alan Brownderville*
1K: Jennifer Reeser*
1K: Quincy R. Lehr*
1K: Jim Barnes*
1K: Julie Kane*
1K: Kevin N. Roberts*
1K: Mary Elizabeth Frye
1K: Omer Goldman
1K: Tweets best/worst/poetic
Captivatingness
More important than sheer numbers of hits is the "captivatingness" of
poetry and literary prose. So let's give a tip of the cap to the writers best at holding our readers' interest. These rankings were
developed using data provided to us by Google Analytics. Please note that some fine poets did not
make this list because they didn't have enough page views to qualify. And please
keep in mind that THT has published hundreds of accomplished
writers, so to appear anywhere in the rankings on this page is a notable achievement.
Poets and writers who especially captivated and held our readers' interest:
The Masters
John Dowland (our readers spent more time on his page than any other poet's)
Eunice de Chazeau
Rainer Maria Rilke translations by Michael R. Burch
A. E. Housman
Ben Franklin, Poet
Robert Burns with "modernizations" by Michael R. Burch
William Blake
William Dunbar translations by Michael R. Burch
The Archpoet
Sappho translations by Michael R. Burch and other poets
Oscar Wilde
Dorothy Parker
Hart Crane
Wallace Stevens
Mary Elizabeth Frye
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
Harold Monro
W. H. Davies
Conrad Aiken
Louise Bogan
"Deor's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch
Ernest Dowson
Thomas Campion
Nelson Mandela poetry and essays
Albert Einstein poetry and essays
Abraham Lincoln poetry
Leonard Nimoy poetry and photographs
Holocaust/Nakba/Hiroshima
Miklós Radnóti (translations by Michael R. Burch)
Nadia Anjuman*
Fadwa Tuqan*
Mahmoud Darwish*
Iqbal Tamimi*
Yala Korwin*
Janusz Korczak (translation by Michael R. Burch)
Wladyslaw Szlengel
Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
Elie Wiesel
Tawfik Zayyad*
Takashi "Thomas" Tanemori*
Charles Fishman*
Jerzy Ficowski
Contemporary Poets
Robert Mezey*
Luis Omar Salinas*
A. E. Stallings*
R. S. (Sam) Gwynn*
X. J. Kennedy*
T. Merrill*
Michael R. Burch*
Rhina P. Espaillat*
Julie Kane*
Richard Moore*
Ann Drysdale*
Norman R. Shapiro*
Kevin N. Roberts*
Richard Blanco*
Ellaraine Lockie*
Edmund Conti*
Ethna Carbery
Michael McClintock*
Jack Butler*
Deborah Warren*
Michael Pendragon*
Charles Martin*
Mary E. Moore*
John Whitworth*
Jim Barnes*
Adrie Kusserow*
Joseph S. Salemi*
Sophie Hannah Jones*
Wendy Videlock*
Quincy R. Lehr
Hatem M. Titi*
John Marcus Powell*
Zyskandar Jaimot*
Marryann Corbett*
David Rosenthal*
George Held*
Olfa Drid*
Leslie Mellichamp*
Mike Snider*
Rob Griffith*
Charles Fishman*
Jim Dunlap*
Timothy Murphy*
Alfred Nichol*
R. Nemo Hill*
Robert W. Crawford*
Richard Wakefield*
Gail White*
Nick Marco*
John Beaton*
Anita Dorn*
Alfred Dorn*
Mike Alexander*
Mary Malone*
Jill Williams*
Henry George Fischer*
Andrey Kneller*
Joe M. Ruggier*
Tom Riley*
David Landrum*
Sieglinde Wood*
Tara A. Eliot*
Michelle Cohen Corsanti*
Our Most Captivating Pages, Regardless of Category
Gideon Levy articles about the Nakba and the plight of the Palestinians
John Dowland
Rainer Maria Rilke (translations by Michael R. Burch)
"The Embarrassing Intolerance of God" by Michael R. Burch
Mother's Day Poems
American Poetry
Weird Baseball Facts and Trivia
"Is God a Homophobic Intolerant Bigot?" by Michael R. Burch*
Arthurian Poems
New Year Poetry
William Blake Pages (all seem to be popular with our readers)
"Hatred of God in Haiti" by Michael R. Burch*
"Drats, Rejected Again: the Bias against Formal Poetry" by Michael R. Burch*
Romanticism essay by Michael R. Burch*
Chinese Poets
Beat Poets
Villanelles
The Best Female Poets
Elegies, Dirges and Laments
Spiritual Poetry
Contemporary Poetry
"Whoso List to Hunt" translation by Michael R. Burch
Sonnets
"No Hell in the Bible" by Michael R. Burch*
Dark Poems
AFTER by Sharron Rose*
Limericks
Love Poems
Free Verse
Urdu Love Poems
The Masters of English Poetry
Other Captivating Pages
The Most Beautiful Poems in the English Language
Robert Burns poetry with translations by Michael R. Burch*
John F. Kennedy poetry page
"William Blake's Jesus Christ" by Michael R. Burch*
Voltaire Essay by Clarence Darrow with an intro by T. Merrill*
Richard Moore* interview with Michael R. Burch*
Abraham Lincoln poetry page
Martial Epigrams with translations by Joseph S. Salemi*
Didactic Poems
Warren Buffett on Trickle Down Economics
"Bible Sexism and Republican Chauvinism" essay by Michael R. Burch*
"Yeats the Balancer" essay by Richard Moore*
"Notorious Artists" by Michael R. Burch*
Janet Kenny* interview with Michael R. Burch*
Formalism essay by Michael R. Burch* with an intro by T. Merrill*
The Best Children's Poems
The Best Poems of Modernism
John Whitworth* interview with Michael R. Burch*
The Best Erotic Poems
Zionist Quotes
The Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative by Michael R. Burch*
Tom Merrill* interview with Michael R. Burch*
"What Caused the Civil War" by Michael R. Burch*
Haiku
Free Verse Poems
"The Great Heretics" by Michael R. Burch*
"Deor's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch*
Famous Holocaust Poems
Famous Insults
"The Wife's Lament" translation by Michael R. Burch*
Epigrams in Literature and Poetry
"Famous Pool Sharks" by Michael R. Burch*
Marilyn Monroe Poetry
The statistics below are not completely current, and will be updated
some time after the end of 2016.
The names of our top poets in terms of page views (1,000 or more) have been bolded
to make them stand out. The names of writers like Abraham Lincoln, Pope John Paul II and
Ronald Reagan have been bolded because they wrote seriously
good poetry. An asterisk denotes a contemporary poet. Please note that there is
some "duplication" or "crossover" because a page may appear in a cumulative
ranking, such as "Best Poetry Pages" and also in an individual ranking, such as
"The Best Sonnets of All Time."
Best Poetry Pages: Sonnets, Villanelles, Limericks, Formal Verse, Free Verse,
etc.
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 1,800,000 or more times)
Holocaust Poetry and Prose
Hiroshima Poetry and Prose
Nakba Poetry and Prose: the Holocaust of the Palestinians
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 1,000,000 or more times)
Contemporary Poet Pages
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 500,000 or more times)
Translations of Sappho, Basho, Dunbar, Burns and other Poets
Best Poems Ever
The Most Beautiful Poems
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 350,000 or more times)
Epigrams
The Best Sonnets
The Best Limericks
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 250,000 or more times)
Mysterious Ways
The Best Love Poems
The Best Sad/Dark Poetry
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 200,000 or more times)
Robert Burns with Translations by Michael R. Burch
The Best Sad Songs
The Best Erotic Poems
The Best Free Verse Poems
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 125,000 or more times)
William Blake
Main Indexes & Issue Pages
Epigrams in Literature and Poetry
"No Hell in the Bible" by Michael R. Burch
(The pages above were viewed cumulatively 100,000 or more times)
Famous Insults, Comebacks and Rejoinders
Halloween Poetry
Songs and Poems that Changed the World
(The pages above were viewed 75,000 or more times)
"Parables of Zion" by Michael R. Burch
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Quincy R. Lehr*
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Greg Alan Brownderville*
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Dear God (Children's Musings about God)
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Anna Evans*
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What have we learned so far? First, readers are looking for topical poems on
particular subjects: the Holocaust, the Nakba, epigrams, and so on. Also, it's
obvious that celebrities have an advantage: readers are looking for poems by or
about people like Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Ronald
Reagan. But there is still plenty of activity on the pages of poets we consider
among the best we've published, including Robert Mezey, X. J. Kennedy, Yala Korwin, T.
Merrill, Richard Moore, Luis Omar Salinas and A. E. Stallings. The biggest
surprise so far is our high rankings with Google for search terms like
"Best Poems," "Epigrams," "Holocaust," "Nakba," "Hiroshima," and "Darfur."
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