Caroline Knox

One great modern poet is Caroline Knox, for her poem "Year after Year" for example. It's up at SuperstitionReview, issue 5. Her poetry has a baroque feel often, a type of Neal Stephenson feel to it with a very earthy, dark grounding. There is yet a feeling of lightness and magical realism, almost like Uruguay's great poet Marosa di Giorgio.

Here's an excerpt:

The mower releases a scent
of autumnal flat creeping thyme.
Not only thyme but salt, magical seasonings.
Among those present,
the fox's bark, the sound of owl's wings

Hence this set piece [...]