Read Bill Knott
He is consistently original in language and thought, and he is posting his poems on his blog . I read The Unsubscriber , and poem after poem blew me away. Here's the beginning of the first, and titular, poem of that book: Like all children, you were a de facto Member of the Flat Earth Society, Believing nothing but what you could see Or touch or whatever sense led act to... The four lines are the first quatrain of a very contemporary sonnet. His non-reverent use of traditional forms is also an exciting aspect of the book.