acknowledged after

If history holds, there will be some lesser known poets more known a generation or two hence.

ignored or eclipsed

Maybe it’s not that certain poets get neglected; perhaps it’s a matter of a few poets garnering too much attention and praise.

sing it, speak it

From a documentary on Fairport Convention, a musician quoted Martin Carthy as saying, “The worst thing you could do to a folk song is not to sing it.”

The worst thing you could do to a poem is not to speak it.

clearly sealed

A book of poems found in its original shrink wrap.

poet's lot

His therapist assured him that being an unknown poet was not something to be ashamed of.

as if thief

The poet is the thief of neglected and undervalued things.

safe for now

In my notebook, I established a ‘rescue pound’ for abused and neglected words.

r.i.p.

His ideal reader died.

emerging writer

The term ‘emerging writer’ always makes me think there should be a term for those writers who are fading away or slipping into oblivion. But ‘vanishing writers’ or ‘disappearing writers’ sounds too ominous for that state of benign neglect or collective forgetfulness where they must find themselves.