Hi ER, if you use Poetry Foundation, where you can look up the best poets and read some of their better works for free, add Charles Bukowski, Frank Bidart, Galway Kinnel and Jane Kenyon to your search for good story tellers. The best I have read in the last few years was Donald Hall, his poetry book, Without, which you can read straight through as a book. A sad story but well told and brilliant work. Keep reading. T