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Encyclopedia > List of American poets

The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. Poet is a term applied to a person who composes poetry, including extended forms such as dramatic verse. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

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William (Bill) Allegrezza lives in Chicago. ... Ammiel Alcalay is poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist. ... Bruce Andrews (born 1948) is an American poet who was one of the key figures in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement. ... Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (April 4, 1928). ... John Ashbery (born July 8, 1927) is an American poet. ... Jesse Ball is an American poet. ... Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. ... David Baratier was born in 1970, in an interview at chicagopostmodern. ... Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. ... Steven Jesse Bernstein (died October 11, 1991) was a performance artist who was recorded reading his poetry for Sub Pop Records by Steve Fisk. ... Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American, novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, cultural critic and farmer. ... John Berryman (originally John Smith) (October 25, 1914 - January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. ... Frank Bidart (b. ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English. ... Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919) was an American philosopher and poet. ... Anne Bradstreet (ca. ... Trout Fishing in America, 1974 paperback edition. ... Ken Brewer, a celebrated poet of the American West and longtime scholar who resides in Utah, where he serves as Poet Laureate, was born Kenneth Wayne Brewer in Indianapolis in December, 1941. ... American poet, born 17 February 1918, died 22 February 1999. ... Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an award-winning African American woman poet. ... Maria Gowen Brooks (1794 - 1845) was an American poet. ... William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American Romantic poet and journalist. ... Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist. ... William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer. ... It has been suggested that Ray Buttigieg/Cykx be merged into this article or section. ... Guy Wetmore Carryl (March 4, 1873 – 1904) was an American humorist and poet. ... Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. ... Guāngfùhuì (光復會 Revive the Light Society), or the Restoration Society, was an anti-Qing Empire organization established by Cai Yuanpei in 1904. ... Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945) in Santa Monica, California is a poet and man of letters. ... Lucille Clifton (born June 27, 1936) is an American poet from New York. ... Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the eleventh Poet Laureate of the United States. ... Betsy Colquitt (born 1927) is a distinguished and much-published poet who is praised for her themes and poetic structures that reflect a modernist sensibility. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Cid Corman (1924 - March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. ... Gregory Corso (illustration) Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs). ... Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio, United States – April 27, 1932 at sea) was a U.S. poet. ... Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American writer. ... Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet, author of more than sixty books, and usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that schools. ... Harry Crosby (1898-1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, minor poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature. ... Countee Cullen, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 - January 9, 1946) was an American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance. ... E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), typically abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. ... Jeffrey Daniels, real name: Jeffrey Sean Daniels is a chicago-raised African American poet, artist, and professor. ... Michael Davidson, an American poet and critic, has written eight books of poetry as well as numerous historical, cultural and critical works. ... Poet, author. ... James Dickey (February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997) was a popular United States poet and novelist. ... A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846-1847, for a long time the only known photograph of her. ... Ray DiPalma (born 1943), an American poet and visual artist, is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry and visual work. ... Diane Di Prima (born August 6, 1934) is an American poet who was one of the most active of women poets associated with the Beats. ... Stephen Dobyns is an American poet and novelist. ... Edward Dorn (1929-1999) was a United States poet who was associated with the Black Mountain poets. ... Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is a United States poet and author. ... Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820) was an early American poet. ... W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, writer, editor, poet, freemason, and scholar. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was a seminal African-American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century. ... Robert Duncan may refer to: Robert Duncan (1919-1988), U.S. poet Robert Duncan, U.S. physicist Robert Duncan, British TV comedy actor Robert Duncan McNeill, U.S. actor, director and producer Robert Duncan, Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are comparable, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams performing almost every genre of music. ...

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Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was a prolific American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of Americas most influential thinkers and writers. ... Theodore Vernon Enslin (born March 25, 1925) is an American poet associated with Cid Cormans Origin magazine and press. ... Clayton Eshleman (born June 1, 1935) is an American poet. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... Sam Walter Foss Sam Walter Foss, June 19, 1858 - February 26, 1911, was a full time librarian and poet whose most famous works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. ... Philip Morin Freneau ( January 2, 1752 – December 18, 1832 ) was a United States poet and one of the most important writers/poets of The Age of Reason. He focused on writing nonpolitical poetry. ... Alice Fulton Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. ... Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... Forrest Gander, American poet, (b. ... Dr. Seuss is the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991). ... Strickland Gillilan (1869-1954) was an American poet and humorist. ... Allen Ginsberg in later life Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. ... Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. ... Barbara Guest (born 1920) is an American poet and critic who is frequently associated with the New York School. ... Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. ... Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. ... Kimiko Hahn is non-existent. ... Carla Harryman (born 1952) is a United States poet and playwright associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ... Alamgir Hashmi [Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi] (born November 15, 1951) is a major English poet of the latter half of the 20th century. ... Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – September 27, 1961, Zürich), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... Anthony Ivan Hecht, (January 16, 1923-October 20, 2004), was an American poet. ... Lyn Hejinian (born 1941) is a United States poet, essayist, translator and publisher. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ... Fanny Howe (born 1940) is an United States poet and writer of fiction. ... Susan Howe (born 1937) is an Irish-born American poet and critic who is closely associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ... Langston Hughes, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) was a United States author, writer and poet. ... John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. ... James Weldon Johnson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938) was a leading African American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. ... Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. ... Amy King (born 1971) is an American poet with interests in pop culture and politics. ... August Kleinzahler (born 1949) is a United States poet. ... Etheridge Knight (b. ... Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) is an eminent American poet. ... Joanne Kyger (born 1934) is an American poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beats. ... For other people named James or Jim Morrison, see James Morrison James Douglas Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – 3 July 1971) was a singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. ...

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Sidney Lanier. ... Timothy Francis Leary, Ph. ... Denise Levertov (October 24, 1923 - December 20, 1997) was a British born American poet. ... Philip Levine, a Jewish American anarchist poet, was born in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride and Evangeline. ... Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - 1992) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. ... Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ... James Russell Lowell circa 1855. ... Robert Lowell Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. ... William Matthews (November 11, 1942 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and essayist. ... American poet, Bryant Harrison McGill was born in Mobile, Alabama on November 7th, 1969. ... Claude McKay. ... Seán Mac Falls is an Irish poet. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress. ... poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ... Stuart Merrill (1863-1915) was a American poet, born in Hampstead, New York, who wrote in the French language. ... Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk and author, born in Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales département of France. ... Biography Sarah Messer (born 1966) is an American poet and author. ... Edna St. ... Joaquin Miller was the penname of the hyperbolical American eccentric Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (September 8, 1837, or November 10, 1841 - February 17, 1913). ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... Small Press Editors and Publishers -- Stephen Morse Stephen Morse (1945 - ) Sometimes referred to as the last living Oakland Side Beat poet, edited and published The White Elephant, 5 editions 1970 -1973,and Juice 7 editions 1974 - 1982. ... Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ... Kenn Nesbitt is a childrens poet. ... Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate 1963-1964 and 1988-1990. ... Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970) was born on the Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. ... Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and songwriter born in 1952 to a Palestinian father and American mother. ... Sharon Olds (born 1942) is an American poet and author of seven volumes of poetry. ... Mary Oliver (1935 –) is an American poet. ... Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and such later avant garde groups as the Beats and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He... George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the founders of the Objectivist group of poets. ... Mary Oppen (b. ... Ron Padgett, born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a poet and member of the New York School. ... Michael Palmer, American poet(b. ... Dorothy Parker (also known as Dot or Dottie) was born Dorothy Rothschild in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893. ... The Poet Sam Pereira American poet Sam Pereira was born in Los Banos, California on April 17, 1949. ... Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. ... Robert Pinsky 15 May 2005 Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000). ... A self-portrait circa 1951. ... This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

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Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 24, 2004) was the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets. ... John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 - July 3, 1974) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator. ... Henry Reed (February 22, 1914 - December 8, 1986) was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist. ... Ishmael Scott Reed (b. ... Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. ... Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. ... Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. ... Lola Ridge (December 12, 1873- May 19, 1941) was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences. ... James J. Roberts James J. Roberts is an award winning American writer, journalist, radio and television news anchor, documentarian, and poet[1]. Born in [[Connecticut]] in 1947, his reporting is characterized by strongly delineated contrasting of political sloganeering to modern social and political realities. ... Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 - April 6, 1935) was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ... Theodore Roethke (RET-kee) (May 25, 1908 - August 1, 1963) was a United States poet, who published several volumes of poetry. ... Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States. ... Time magazine, December 4, 1939 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ... Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 - July 11, 1966) was an American poet from Brooklyn, New York, called the greatest of American writers, whose work has a place in the hearts and minds of the everyman, adrift in the anguish of modernity (J. Kredell: A Smudge on the American... Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928–October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913-May 14, 2000) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States poet, famous for his poetry written in the Pacific Theater while he served there during World War II. His collection V-Letter and Other Poems, written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was... Sheldon Alan Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1932 – May 10, 1999) was an American poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and writer of childrens books. ... Ron Silliman, American poet, (b. ... Hal Sirowitz Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet. ... Myra Sklarew (b. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation); and an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist who is frequently described as the laureate of Deep Ecology — roles reflecting his immersion in both Buddhist... Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005) was an American-born poet and author. ... James C. Spix (born June 10, 1974) is an author and designer. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. ... Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Jewish-American poet. ... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. ... Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada. ... May Swenson (May 28, 1913 - December 4, 1989) was a United States poet and playwright. ...

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John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. ... Edward Taylor (ca. ... Wikisource has original works written by or about: Ernest Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat. Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and raised in Worcester. ... Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden (available at wikisource), on simple living amongst nature, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (available at wikisource... Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898–August 29, 1966) was an American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician. ... Janine Pommy Vega (born February 5, 1942) is an American poet associated with the Beats. ... Renée Vivien, born as Pauline Tarn (1877-November 10, 1909) was an American poet who wrote in the French language. ... Diane Wakoski (born 1937) is an American poet who is associated with the deep image poets and the Beats. ... Alice Walker Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. ... Rod Walker, born June 13, 1966 is a Hoosier poet. ... Barrett Watten, American poet (b. ... Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist. ... Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley (1753 - December 5, 1784), was the second American woman and the second African American writer to be published in the United States. ... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... John Greenleaf Whittier, November 25, 1885. ... Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921, in New York City) is a United States poet. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. ... Oscar Williams (1900-1964) was an American anthologist and poet. ... Al Young was named poet laureate of California in May of 2005. ... The cover of the 1978 edition of Zukofskys long poem A. Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 - May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. ...

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