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Thank you both! I am more familiar with poets of the Whitman/Frost type era, so I'm especially interested in finding poets from this century who still use that sort of traditional verse structure. If only to give the lie to the assumption implicit in the quote from my original post that it's an either/or kind of thing - either write in traditional form OR write contentful poetry. Certainly Urdu poets of the last century have had no trouble keeping the content of their poems current and relevant while using (often much stricter) traditional forms.
Happily, the small anthology I was reading did have some excellent poems of more traditional forms, and at least one of the very prose-like poems was a satisfying read as poetry. As for poetry as visual art, one poem I started had an "A" at the the top left of its first page and "B" at the the top right. It was only when I clicked to the next page I saw why - Not the sort of poem to be read on an e-reader, sadly
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