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

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)...

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...

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...

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...

the post of poet laureate to which a prominent poet residing in the respective state is appointed. The responsibilities of the state poets laureate are...

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...

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

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...

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...

BOA Editions Jackson Poetry Prize - Honors an American poet of exceptional talent, sponsored by Poets & Writers; in 2022, carried an award of $80,000...

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;...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Lush, hanging Art Acord (1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide...

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

poet, and critic (d. 1982) 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 1983) 1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor...

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...

between academic C. S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman (played by Debra Winger), her death from cancer, and how...

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

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

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...

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)...