How to Write a Poem That Works

The next time you feel inspired to write a poem, take a deep breath and think about the people who helped make you a better writer.
Here are a few people who’ve made a big difference in your life.1.
James Joyce (1783-1845) (James Joyce was born in Ireland to Irish parents, and his first work was an unfinished novel called Ulysses.
Joyce died in Dublin in 1845.)1.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1842-1933) (Born in Kentucky, he moved to New York in the 1920s.)2.
Samuel Johnson (1832-1902) (Born in Wales, Johnson’s father was a doctor.)3.
William Morris (1818-1898) 3.
J.K. Rowling (1921- )4.
Paul Erdos (1883-1953) 5.
James Baldwin (1894-1973) 6.
George Orwell (1903- )7.
John Steinbeck (1902-1984) 8.
Robert W. Chambers (1918- )9.
Ernest Hemingway (1912-1946) 10.
Charles Dickens (1870-1940) 11.
Ray Bradbury (1913-1948) 12.
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Ewing (1911-1994) 13.
John Grisham (1924- )14.
Elisha Cuthbert (1893-1972) 15.
Arthur Miller (1932- )16.
David Foster Wallace (1939- )17.
David Sedaris (1899-2007) 18.
Philip Roth (1942- )19.
Flannery O’Connor (1937- )20.
Anne Rice (1886-1951) 21.
John Updike (1930- )22.
David Bowie (1975- )23.
Jane Austen (1849-1865) 24.
John Lewis (1911)25.
Charles Bukowski (1940- )26.
Robert Redford (1887-1959) 27.
Margaret Mitchell (1957- )28.
Anne Sexton (1917-1962) 29.
David Lynch (1996-2000) 30.
Michael Kors (1934-1984)(also, designer) 31.
Jack Kerouac (1931-1974) 32.
Robert Cialdini (1946- )33.
Jane Campion (1948-1959)(also: writer) 34.
John Waters (1964- )35.
Paul Verhoeven (1972-2000)(also filmmaker) 36.
James Franco (1997- )37.
Robert Pattinson (1990-2005) 38.
Paul F. Tompkins (1961-2001) 39.
William Goldman (1941- )40.
Woody Allen (1993-2003) 41.
Richard Nixon (1972-) 42.
Jane Fonda (1963- )43.
David Fincher (2005-) 44.
George Carlin (1995-2008) 45.
Robert De Niro (2002-) 46.
Neil Patrick Harris (1995-) 47.
Paul McCartney (1984-) 48.
Michael Bolton (1975-) 49.
Billy Joel (1990-) 50.
Joss Whedon (2007-) 51.
Stephen Colbert (2008-) 52.
Billy Bob Thornton (1973-) 53.
John Legend (1993-) 54.
Jim Carrey (1996-) 55.
John Malkovich (1994-) 56.
Billy Strayhorn (1992-) 57.
Amy Schumer (2014-) 58.
James Corden (2015-) 59.
Will Ferrell (2014- )60.
Stephen Baldwin (2015- )61.
Tom Hanks (2015) 62.
Justin Bieber (2013-) 63.
John Stamos (2016-) 64.
David Tennant (2013) 65.
Tim Robbins (2014) 66.
Jodie Foster (2008)