Most Popular Poet in U.S.

The most popular poet in the U.S. is a Muslim? Apparently so, according to Time magazine.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501021007-356133,00.html

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a book of verse, and Thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness -
And wilderness is Paradise now.

Suffering ennobles a man,
Enduring the oyster-shell's prison makes a pearl of a water drop;
Though worldly goods perish,
Let your head remain like a cup -
When the cup is empty it may be filled again!

by Jalaluddin Rumi, better known as Rumi.