Well, Rachel, how about after the 70's?

Now, let's take a moment and ponder my influences who have received poetry awards post-2000:

Winner of The Salt Hill Poetry Award and The Barrow Street Poetry Prize (2000):
Rachel Zucker

Winners of The Walt Whitman Award:
(2006) Anne Pierson Wiese- Floating City
 (2007) Sally Van Doren- Sex and Noon Taxes 
 
 Winners of The Wallace Stevens Award:
 (2005) Gerald Stern

Winners of The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
(2006) Eleanor Lerman- Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds
 

Since this is a poetry kind of semester...

Here is a short moment listing my poetic influences pre- 1970:

1) Walt Whitman, of course- Leavse of Grass
2) Allen Ginsberg- Kaddish and Other Poems (1958-1960)
3) Marianne Moore- Collected Poems (1967)
4) Adrienne Rich- The Fact of a Doorframe (Poems 1950-1984), Leaflets (1965-68)
5) Elizabeth Bishop- The Complete Poems (1927-1979)
6) Gary Snyder- Back Country (1968), Regarding Wave (1869)

Fin.