I don't write poetry that often, but sometimes, I'll get an idea that can ONLY be fit into poem form (hopefully that makes sense; I'm running on two hours of sleep, haha). Mostly, I'm into prose, so I prefer reading poetry that's prose-y. Nothing gets on my nerves like too much rhyming in a poem...or poetry that looks like it was ripped from an angsty preteen's diary.

I just wrote a humongous paper on Sylvia Plath (analysis, YUCK) for one of my college lit. courses, but surprisingly, it didn't destroy my love for her poetry. She's the only poet I can really think of that I love-love-love, other than maybe Charles Bukowski (who is awesome--you must read him!)