Been getting a lot of fat poets from readers after airing the topic in last month’s diary. I’ve been told of the following, though some strike me as portly, stout, tubby, abdominous, pudgy, paunchy, pyknic, zaftig, buxom, fleshy, or well-upholstered, rather than fat. Whatever:

W.H. Auden in later life, according to himself
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wallace Stevens
Dylan Thomas
Allen Ginsberg
Gertrude Stein
Ted Berrigan
John Berryman
Adrian Henri

My favorite is this guy from a Russian reader. Look at the name!