Poetry Pet Peeves

1. People who write “e. e. cummings”
2. People who like Edgar Allen Poe
3. People who don’t like Robert Frost
4. People who think poetry rhymes
5. People who think poetry should never rhyme
6. Billy Collins
7. People who have only read Dante’s Inferno and not the rest of the Commedia
8. People who think I’m pretentious for calling it the Commedia
9. Any translation of the Iliad or the Odyssey that isn’t Fagles
10. People who only read the sexy Neruda