"Relevant" Modern Poets and Their Forms

It seems to me that there isn't a whole lot of relevant modern poetry. That is to say, no "pop" or universally appealing poets. As of right now the only modern poet I can think of is Saul Williams and even he has mixed the art with music. Maybe there is an underground scene of thriving poets that I'm just not aware of.

I think poetry is an art form that gets overlooked a lot because it's very easy to churn out overblown drivel. Post-modernism in general has been tough for the art. What is or is not poetry? There used to be a standard, however dogmatic it was.

Take the imagist movement for example, the originators believed in a standard of form and rejected sloppy subjective observations. It seems that in the modern era holding to an idea of what is "good" or "bad" poetry is looked down upon. Maybe this is because the majority of people don't know what constitutes "good" or "bad" poetry.

Contrast the form against music for example. When instruments are out of tune, you can hear it. The human ear has a natural inclination to certain intervals and when those preferences aren't respected what results is usually considered to be dissonant. Poetry on the other hand is less rigid. It's pretty easy to create something ambiguous that can't be torn down by critics.

Another problem with modern poetics (as I see it) is that it uses a skill that most modern people have. This makes it far less spectacular than say, painting or playing the guitar. I think it's this lack of visceral awe that makes it even more difficult to create a lasting piece of art in the form. Most anyone can pick up a pen and paper and start deploying the free verse method.

So who are the modern trailblazers and what poetic forms are they using?