John W. May
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Ophthalmic Technician |
| Location | Aurora, Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | My longstanding interest in philosophy and theology- both sparked by my interest and belief in God- are what brought me to poetry, hence here. |
| Interests | God, my Daughter, Jesus, People, Peace, Poems, Poetics, Poetry, Poets, Writing Poetry, Poetry Writing, Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Psychology, Theology, Traditional Poetry, History, Mythology, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Braille, Optometry, Opthalmology, Pre-Raphaelite Art, Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedenborg, Transcendentalism, Semiotics, Symbolism, Writing, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Mysticism, All Religions, Language, Linguistics |
| Favorite Books | Poets I've read and studied include, Alexander Blok, Alexander Pope, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Tate, Amy Lowell, Andrés Bello, Andrew Marvell, Anne Sexton, Anne Waldman, Antun Gustav Matoš, Augustin Tin Ujević, Ben Jonson, Bei Dao, Bob Kaufman, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Denise Levertov, Derek Alton Walcott, Derek Mahon, Diane Di Prima, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allen Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edward Robeson Taylor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Siddal, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Ezra Pound, Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, George Meredith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gregory Corso, Gu Cheng, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Vaughan, Herman Melville, Hilda Doolittle, Homer, Ivan Goran Kovačić, James Agee, James Joyce, Joyce Kilmer, James Wright, John Donne, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Milton, Kenneth Patchen, Khalil Gibran, Langston Hughes, Leigh Hunt, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Hacker, Mary Barnard, Matthew Arnold, Muriel Rukeyser, Oliver Herford, Oscar Brown Jr., Ovid, Paul Antschel, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Paul Éluard, Pauline Johnson, Pedro Salinas, Phillis Wheatley, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Robert Frost, Robert Hayden, Robert Herrick, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sharon Old, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sully Prudhomme, Sylvia Plath, Taras Shevchenko, T.S. Eliot, Ted Berrigan, Theodore Roethke, Thomas Chatterton, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Warton, Virgil, Wallace McRae, Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, Wilfred Owen, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Ellery Channing, Willian Shakespeare, William Wordsworth |