The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. Henry Abbey (1842–1911)...

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March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated...

Meg Johnson is an American poet and lecturer. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Midwestern Gothic, Slipstream Magazine...

American Poet is an album of an early solo concert by American rock musician Lou Reed, recorded live at the Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, New York...

John Sinclair (October 2, 1941 – April 2, 2024) was an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is...

Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition...

Maggie Smith (born 1977) is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Her 2016 poem "Good Bones" went viral and her 2023...

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internationally notable poets. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet Aarudhra (1925–1998)...

century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Crimean War and other wars. War poets may be combatants or noncombatants...

and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted...

usually selected from the audience. Sometimes the poets are judged by audience response. American poet Marc Smith was credited with starting the poetry...

American poet Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), American poet Lobat Vala (born 1930), Iranian poet and campaigner Jean Valentine (1934–2020), American poet;...

notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist...

(1850) explored the dark side of American history, as did Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). Major American poets of the nineteenth century include...

Mazziotti Gillan (born 1940), American poet Maria McAuley (1847–1919), American missioner Maria McBane (born 1946), Spanish-American model and actress Maria...

"Let America Be America Again" is a poem written in 1935 by American poet Langston Hughes. It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire...

Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism...

Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier are also considered as poètes maudits, as is the American 20th-century poet Hart Crane. The term came into wider usage since...

1603), English poet Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Hyland (1927–2012), American author Elizabeth Hadaway, American poet Elizabeth Ham, English poet and writer Elizabeth...

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of...

Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978) is an American poet, novelist, photographer and visual artist, who is the author of five published collections of poems...

(1848–1930), American writer Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), American poet, author, editor Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist and...

1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently...

author and poet Mary B. Boren, American politician Mary B. Edelen (born 1944), American politician Mary B. Goodhue (1921–2004), American lawyer and politician...

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration...

Cleo Wade (born September 13, 1989) is an American artist, poet, activist, and author. Wade grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, to...

Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the...

Sparrow (born Michael Gorelick, October 2, 1953) is an American poet, activist, and musician. As a member of the New York-based literary group The Unbearables...