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)...

The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated...

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

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

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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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...

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...

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)...

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

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature...

laureate (d. 1934) 1872 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (d. 1945) 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956) 1876 – Charlie Townsend...

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...

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

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American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975) 1889 – Alton Adams, American composer and bandleader (d. 1987) 1890 – Klabund, German author and poet...

1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary...

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and...