im new to poetry

[upbeat field]

You know there's quite a good amount of types, but free verse is insanely large but kind of hard to break apart stylistically at times (you could do it by thematics easier though or maybe like some of the stuff they use like surrealism, imagery, blahblah - but anyways).

This might be a nice place to poke around, and if you find something you like check into what type of poet they are, and maybe you can find even more! I like a lot of types myself but... I'm pretty terrible with names here and there (especially for contemporary stuff).

The sauce:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems

Some of my personal favorites lately are John Ashberry and Joanna Fuhrman, the latter of which has been called an 'infrasurrealist' poet which is kind of interesting (which I'm guessing means she looks surrealist but writes from a more materialistic perspective? I dunno though).

But honestly Edgar Allen Poe and just... tons more are fantastic. I recently found a really wild collection that was translated that's amazing from I think maybe an Italian poet?

And if you want to just read around the form instead? That's valid too. I actually love reading amateur work in particular.

If you REALLY want to know the types this looks decentish... well you could find a list of a dozen or two dozen types but really... it might look something more like this if we're splitting hairs:

http://www.poetry.org/termsin.htm

And yes Vogon poetry was a listen category LMAO

(And even looking at that last list, it doesn't really feel comprehensive.)

TL:DR check into assonance, consonance, partial rhymes, anddd imagery. Any combination of those can make something a poem (and usually how it's arrayed on a page, or its form is a large part of expression too, although sometimes subtle).

This is also an interesting answer about what is poetry from poetry.org: http://www.poetry.org/whatis.htm

Though the answer truly changes in many ways depending who you ask! Academic and not.