Yeah I wasn’t being my usual facetious self and counting rappers this time but:
Archy Marshall (King Krule, in written form - he did a fantastic book)
Caleb Femi (his 2020 book titled POOR was huge for me)
Kae Tempest
He isn’t working NOW but Langston Hughes is recent enough to me.
Kaveh Akbar, Roger Robinson, etc etc.

Many rappers too, but I do read (sometimes), haha.

Frank Stanford’s book The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You is genuinely one of my three or four most major inspirations in spite of the fact that i have read only 3 or 4 of its 600+ pages. It is a huge sprawling 600 page poem with no stanzas or breaks anywhere, a massive bleak documentation of American lifestyle under poverty. I’m a little afraid of it! I finally got my hands on a copy on December. Just the backstory to it and the completely confident experimental style inspire me infinitely. The words are ironically a bonus.

King Krule is the best! He merges all of my favourite musical styles - bedroom pop, jazz, rock, soul, indie and hiphop all merged together and filtered through his grimy London voice and experiences. His album A New Place 2 Drown has been playing a lot lately with me. Always moving!