This list is long overdue... mainly because I keep changing my mind. But I've decided just to edit or add to it down the road. Of course there are more. And of course not everyone will agree. But these are poets who have "gotten me" over the years... poets whose poems have had that "Mmmm Thing" I've talked about. Maybe not every poem? But they're worth the chance...
Stephen Dunn
Tony Hoagland
Billy Collins
Matthew Dickman (especially the book All-American Poem)
Ben Myers (especially the book Lapse Americana)
William Stafford
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Adam Zagajewski
Ted Kooser
Naomi Shihab Nye
Wisława Szymborska (New and Collected Poems)
George Bilgere
Wendell Berry
Charles Bukowski (for the angry and outcast)
MartÃn Espada
Bob Hicok (earlier works)
Robert Pinsky
Spencer Reece
Kay Ryan