INSPIRE: an incomplete list of people who make me want to be a better writer:

As my blog is coming along, I have gotten around to adding links to  poets/writers who for many reasons inspire me. This list is a work in progress!  Have fun checking it out!

in·spire

v. in·spired, in·spir·ing, in·spires

v.tr.

1. To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.

2. To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion

3.

a. To stimulate to action; motivate.

b. To affect or touch

4. To draw forth; elicit or arouse

5. To be the cause or source of

6. To draw in (air) by inhaling.

7. Archaic

a. To breathe on.

b. To breathe life into.

1. To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence

2. To inhale.