Does poetry still matter?

[Petrushka]

9. As someone once told me years ago---here, on DU---"Google is your friend." :-)

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If you "...didn't know there was a classification of poetry as 'formalist.'", it isn't likely you've heard of the new formalism. So, here are two links to get you started:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch05.htm
https://www.bing.com/search?q=new+formalist+poetry&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR

Having done my good deed for the day, please forgive me for my abrupt departure. I don't have time (at my age!) to provide links to "the works of any of those guys" when it would be more advantageous, in my opinion, for you to do your own searches and discover their poetry for yourself.

All best!

Edited to add:
You might find it interesting to eavesdrop at the following link where poets workshop formal poems:
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/
For what it's worth: Wilbur has been known to accept invitations to stop by and give his opinion on the poems workshopped at Eratosphere.