William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet and physician, best known for shaping modern American poetry by insisting that poetry should use everyday language, local subjects, and fresh imagery rather than borrowed European stylesThis poem presents love as a brief escape from routine — a moment of renewal and intimacy that matters for its beauty in the present, even if it’s never remembered later.

Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote Maxine Kumin in the Women’s Review of Books. Oliver’s poetry won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement

You can read the poem here

http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.html

Wendy Cope was raised in Kent, England, where her parents often recited poetry to her. She earned a BA in history and trained as a teacher at Oxford University. Cope taught in primary schools for many years before publishing her first book of poetry, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986). The collection was an incredible success, selling tens of thousands of copies in the UK. It also announced Cope’s remarkable talents for parody, word play, dexterity with received forms, and the use of humor to address grave topics. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, critic and poet A.M. Juster declared, “one has to go back to Byron to find a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging, and technically outstanding as Cope.” You can read the poem here

https://www.best-poems.net/wendy-cope/being-boring.html