Elizabeth Bishop

"In the Waiting Room" - something I can relate to again, with just a long succession of unsettling imagery: a dentist office, the dead man in the National Geographic ("long pig" being a euphemism for a cannibal's treat), pain, war, and the painful recognition of the conflict of your individuality with womanhood or even general humanity.  We are not just ourselves, but we are everyone else as well - for good or bad. 
A dentist office is just the worst setting I can imagine for a poem, putting anyone's "teeth on edge."  The familiarity and adventure in National Geographic are made eerie with the dead man - and then the yelp creates a confusion of Self with Other.  It was very unsettling ... but in a good way!

Langston Hughes

Oh, what pleasure! Simple and comprehensible! Moving because there is something deeply emotional to say. Six line verse blues poems. Music from the heart's blood. Thank you, thank you, Langston Hughes. Where do I start? I loved all of them. Some are funny (Morning After) and some are brutal (Song for a Dark Girl), but they're good and they're plain-spoken and meaningful.