American Poets

• A. D. Winans
• A. E. Stallings
• A. F. Moritz
• A. M. Juster
• A. R. Ammons
• A.C. Zenner
• Aaron Goldstein
• Aaron McCollough
• Aaron Shurin
• Abel Beach
• Abel Meeropol
• Abram Joseph Ryan
• Ada Limon
• Adelaide Crapsey
• Adrian Arancibia
• Adrian C. Louis
• Adrien Stoutenburg
• Adrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich (born May 16, 1929) is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century.
• Ahmos Zu-Bolton
• Ai
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Akiane Kramarik
• Akua Lezli Hope
• Al Young
• Alan Ansen
• Alan Bernheimer
• Alan Davies
• Alan Dugan
• Alan Seeger
• Alan Soldofsky
• Alan Sondheim
• Albert Goldbarth
• Albert Huffstickler
• Alberto Ríos
• Alen Pol Kobryn
• Alex Caldiero
• Alex Lemon
• Alexa Shelby
• Alexander Beaufort Meek
• Alexander Russo
• Alexander Theroux
• Alfred Billings Street
• Alfred Kreymborg
• Alfred Marmaduke Hobby
• Alice Brown
• Alice Corbin Henderson
• Alice Duer Miller
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Alice Fulton
• Alice Goodman
• Alice Notley
• Alice Walker
• Alicia Gaspar de Alba
• Alicia Ostriker
• Aline Murray Kilmer
• Alix Olson
• Allan Johnston
• Allen Cohen
• Allen GinsbergGinsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher. Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg (who was affected by epileptic seizures and mental illnesses such as paranoia) was an active member of the Communist Party and often took Ginsberg and his brother Eugene to party meetings. As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues such as World War II and workers' rights.
• Allen Grossman
• Allen Norton
• Allen Tate
• Allison Hedge Coke
• Alonzo Lewis
• Aloysius Michael Sullivan
• Alyssa Murray
• Amanda Auchter
• Amber Cecile Brodie
• Amber Tamblyn
• Ambrose Bierce
• Amelia Josephine Burr
• Amiri Baraka
• Ammiel Alcalay
• Amon Liner
• Amy Clampitt
• Amy E. Johnsen
• Amy Gerstler
• Amy King
• Amy LowellAmy Lowell was born in 1874 on her family’s estate, Sevenels, in Brookline, Massachusetts. The youngest of five children, she developed an affection for books and a love of reading and writing at an early age. Lowell and her mother, Katherine, composed and published a book of stories and poetry called Dream Drops; or, Stories from Fairyland in 1887. While she seemed diligent in her studies of literature, Lowell’s schoolteachers reported her as undisciplined and a troublemaker, teasing her classmates and disrespecting those in authority.
• Amy Uyematsu
• Amélie Louise Rives
• Ana Elsner
• Anatoly Liberman
• Ander Monson
• Andree Connors
• Andrei Codrescu
• Andrew Demcak
• Andrew HudginsAndrew Hudgins best poems and poetry
• Andrew Joron
• Andrew Lundwall
• Andrew Zawacki
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Angélico Chavez
• Ann Cottrell Free
• Ann Eliza Bleecker
• Ann Fisher-Wirth
• Ann Gottesman
• Ann Lauterbach
• Anne Bradstreet
• Anne Lynch Botta
• Anne Rouse
• Anne Sexton
• Anne Spencer
• Anne Stevenson
• Anne Waldman
• Anne Winters
• Annie FinchAnnie Finch best poems and poetry
• Annie Reiner
• Anselm Berrigan
• Anthony Bleecker
• Anthony Hecht
• Anthony Piccione
• Anthony Walton
• Antler
• Antonio Bonillas
• April Ritchey
• Aram Saroyan
• Archibald MacLeish
• Archibald Rutledge
• Ariel Tomioka
• Arlo Bates
• Armand Schwerner
• Arthur Chapman
• Arthur Crew Inman
• Arthur Guiterman
• Arthur Kayzakian
• Arthur Nersesian
• Arthur Upson
• Asa Benveniste
• Audre Lorde
• Audrey Niffenegger
• August Kleinzahler
• Augusta Emma Stetson
• Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
• Aya de Leon
• B. H. Fairchild
• BJ Ward
• Babette Deutsch
• Barbara Garson
• Barbara Guest
• Barbara Hamby
• Barbara Jane Reyes
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Barbara Moraff
• Barbara Tran
• Barrett Watten
• Barry Gifford
• Bart Baxter
• Barton Sutter
• Baxter Black
• Bayard Taylor
• Beah Richards
• Beau Sia
• Bellamy Bach
• Ben Belitt
• Ben Howard
• Ben Lerner
• Benjamin C. Krause
• Benjamin Paul Blood
• Benjamin Vogt
• Bennie Herron
• Bernadette Mayer
• Bernard Jonientz
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch
• Beth Brant
• Betsy Colquitt
• Big Poppa E
• Bill Berkson
• Bill Holm
• Bill Keith
• Bill Knott
• Bill Madden
• Billy Collins
• Billy Corgan
• Billy Edd Wheeler
• Billy Greenhorn
• Billy Merrell
• Billy Tripp
• Blanche Oelrichs
• Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
• Bloodgood Cutter
• Bob Cherry
• Bob Dylan
• Bob Flanagan
• Bob Hicok
• Bob Holman
• Bob Kaufman
• Bob Lewis
• Bob Perelman
• Bomani Armah
• Brad Leithauser
• Brad McDuffie
• Bradford Morrow
• Bradley Mason Hamlin
• Bret Harte
• Brewster Ghiselin
• Brewster Higley VI
• Brian Clifton
• Brian Henry
• Brian Kim Stefans
• Brian Turner
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly
• Brooks Haxton
• Bruce Alan Humphrey
• Bruce Andrews
• Bruce Bawer
• Bruce Boston
• Bruce Ducker
• Bruce Lader
• Bruce Weigl
• Bryan Jackson
• Bryan Penberthy
• Bryant H. McGill
• Buckminster Fuller
• Buddy Wakefield
• Bunny McBride
• Burton Hatlen
• Burton Raffel
• C. D. Wright
• C. Dale Young
• C. J. Stevens
• C. K. Williams
• Cale Young Rice
• Calvin C. Hernton
• Calvin Seerveld
• Calvin Ziegler
• Campbell McGrath
• Candy Barr
• Carl Dennis
• Carl Hancock Rux
• Carl Phillips
• Carl Rakosi
• Carl Sandburg
• Carla Harryman
• Carlos Wilcox
• Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
• Carol Lee Sanchez
• Carol Miller
• Carol Muske-Dukes
• Carol Potter
• Caroline Howard Gilman
• Caroline Maun
• Carolyn Devonshire
• Carolyn Forché
• Carolyn Joyce Carty
• Carolyn Kizer
• Carolyn Wells
• Carson Cistulli
• Carson McCullersCarson McCullers best poems
• Carter Revard
• Catherine AndersonCatherine Anderson best poems and poetry
• Catherine Anne Warfield
• Catherine Barnett
• Catherynne M. Valente
• Cathy Song
• Cecilia WolochCecilia Woloch best poems and poetry
• Celeste Newbrough
• Celia Dropkin
• Celia Thaxter
• Charles Alexander
• Charles Baxter
• Charles Bernstein
• Charles Bukowski
• Charles Dawson ShanlyCharles Dawson Shanly was a journalist born in Dublin, Ireland in 9 March 1811 and died in Arlington, Florida, on 15 August, 1875. He emigrated to New York City from Ireland via Canada and was working as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Public Works in 1857. His writings consisted of essays and descriptive articles, poems and ballads some of which were imaginative and pathetic while others were satirical or humorous. They were contributed to the "New York Leader", "Weekly Review", "Albion", and " Atlantic Monthly", and other literary papers while on the daily journals he was a regular writer on social events and passing trifles. He was an expert draughtsman of comic sketches and passionately fond of painting.
• Charles F. Thielman
• Charles Farrell Thielman
• Charles Fenno Hoffman
• Charles Follen Adams
• Charles Fort
• Charles Ghigna
• Charles Leonard Moore
• Charles Lillard
• Charles Martin
• Charles Munoz
• Charles North
• Charles Olson
• Charles Plymell
• Charles Potts
• Charles Reznikoff
• Charles Simic
• Charles Sprague
• Charles Timothy Brooks
• Charles Warren Stoddard
• Charles WebbCharles Webb best poems and poetry
• Charles Willeford
• Charles Wright
• Charlotte Champe Stearns
• Charlotte Forten Grimké
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Charlotte Wilder
• Charlotte Zolotow
• Chase Twichell
• Cherice Richere Wiggins
• Chester Anderson
• Chester Kallman
• Christian Conte
• Christine E. Laine
• Christopher D. Stackhouse
• Christopher Howell
• Christopher Knowles
• Christopher MorleyChristopher Morley was an American poet and novelist and also a journalist and essayist. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. Morley began writing while still in college. In Oxford a volume of his poems 'The Eighth Sin' was published. After graduating from Oxford, Morley began his literary career at Doubleday, working as publicist and publisher's reader. Author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, Morley is probably best known for his 1939 novel Kitty Foyle, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. Another well-known work is Thunder on the Left .
• Christopher Pearse Cranch
• Cid Corman
• Clara Jessup Moore
• Clarence Day
• Clarissa Pinkola Estès
• Clark Ashton Smith
• Clark Coolidge
• Claudia Emerson
• Claudia Rankine
• Clayton Eshleman
• Cleopatra Mathis
• Clifford J. Laube
• Cole Swensen
• Coleman Barks
• Collin Kelley
• Condé Benoist Pallen
• Connie May Fowler
• Connie WanekConnie Wanek best poems and poetry
• Conrad AikenConrad Aiken was an American poet and novelist whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography. Aiken's earliest poetry was written partly under the influence of a beloved teacher, the philosopher George Santayana. This relation shaped Aiken as a poet who was deeply musical in his approach and, at the same time, philosophical in seeking answers to his own problems and the problems of the modern world.
• Conrad Hilberry
• Cor Van Den Heuvel
• Corinne Lee
• Cornelius EadyCornelius Eady is an American poet focusing largely on matters of race and society, particularly the trials of the African-American race in the United States. His poetry often centers around jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class. His poems and poetry is often praised for its simple and approachable language.
• Corrina Wycoff
• Craig Arnold
• Craig Snyder
• Crispin Glover
• Cynthia Huntington
• Cyntiamilli Santillan
• Cyrus Cassells
• D. A. Blyler
• D. A. Levy
• D. A. Powell
• D. Kildare
• Dale Davis
• Dale Harcombe
• Dale Smith
• Damian Ramsey
• Dan Schneider
• Dana Gioia
• Dana Levin
• Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
• Daniel B. Lucas
• Daniel Hoffman
• Daniel Ladinsky
• Daniel Mark Epstein
• Daniel Moore
• Daniel Stedman
• Daniela Gioseffi
• Daniela Sea
• Danske Dandridge
• Daphne Gottlieb
• Dara Wier
• David A. Halperin
• David Allan Evans
• David Antin
• David B. Axelrod
• David Bates
• David Berman
• David Biespiel
• David Bottoms
• David Dodd Lee
• David E. Cowen
• David Edelstadt
• David Graham
• David Greenberg
• David Huddle
• David Ignatow
• David Kirby
• David Kowalczyk
• David LehmanDavid Lehman best poems and poetry
• David Lerner
• David Mason
• David Melnick
• David Meltzer
• David O'Neil
• David Park Barnitz
• David R. Bunch
• David R. Cravens
• David Radavich
• David Ray
• David Roderick
• David Shapiro
• David Trinidad
• David Unger
• David WagonerDavid Wagoner best poems and poetry
• David Wojahn
• David Yezzi
• Deacon Lunchbox
• Dean Young
• Debora Greger
• Deborah A. Miranda
• Deborah Ager
• Deborah DeNicola
• Delmore Schwartz
• Denis Johnson
• Denise Duhamel
• Denise Levertov
• Dennis Cooper
• Dennis Holt
• Derrick C. Brown
• Diana O'Hehir
• Diane Ackerman
• Diane Di PrimaDiane Di Prima best poems and poetry
• Diane Middlebrook
• Diane Wakoski
• Diane Wald
• Dick Allen
• Dick Higgins
• Dick McBride
• Djelloul MarbrookDjelloul Marbrook’s book of poems, Far From Algiers, is the 2007 winner of Kent State University’s Stan and Tom Wick First Book Prize in poetry. It was selected by Prof. Toi Derricotte of the University of Pittsburgh and was released in August 2008, His short story, Artists Hill, won the Literal Latté K. Margaret Grossman Fiction Award in the spring of 2008. His poems appeared in Solstice (UK) and Beyond Baroque (California) in 1969. While continuing a lifelong study of poetry, he stopped writing poems until Sept. 11, 2001, when he began walking in Manhattan and writing in an effort to come to terms with the nihilism of the terrorist attacks. Recent poems have been published by The American Poetry Review, Oberon and The Ledge (New York), Perpetuum Mobile and Attic (Maryland), The Country and Abroad (New York) and Arabesques Literary and Cultural Review (Algeria), in which the title poem of his book, Far From Algiers, was first published, and Istanbul Literary Review.
• Djuna Barnes
• Dobby Gibson
• Don Blanding
• Don Marquis
• Don Share
• Don West
• Donald Allen
• Donald Davidson
• Donald Evans
• Donald Hall
• Donald Justice
• Donald McCaig
• Donald Revell
• Donari Braxton
• Donna M. Marbach
• Dorianne Laux
• Dorothy Allison
• Dorothy Parker
• Douglas Blazek
• Douglas Crase
• Douglas Kent Hall
• Dr. Seuss
• Duane Ackerson
• Dunstan Thompson
• E. B. White
• E. Donald Two-Rivers
• E. E. Cummings
• E. g. bailey
• Earl F Spangler
• Eben E. Rexford
• Ebenezer Cooke
• Ed Dorn
• Ed Madden
• Ed Ochester
• Ed Roberts
• Eddie Woods
• Eddy Joe Cotton
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Bowers
• Edgar Fawcett
• Edgar Guest
• Edgar Lee Masters
• Edith Matilda Thomas
• Edith WhartonEdith Wharton best poems and poetry
• Edmund Clarence Stedman
• Edmund Wilson
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Edouard Roditi
• Edsel Ford
• Edward Coote Pinkney
• Edward DornEdward Dorn best poems and poetry
• Edward Field
• Edward Hirsch
• Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
• Edward Lucas White
• Edward Rowland Sill
• Edward Shenton
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Edwin Denby
• Edwin E. Smith
• Edwin Markham
• Edwin Milton Abbott
• Effie Waller Smith
• Eileen Albrizio
• Eileen Myles
• Elaine Equi
• Eleanor LermanEleanor Lerman was raised in the Bronx and Far Rockaway, and has lived in New York City all her life. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love (Wesleyan University Press), was published in 1973 when she was twenty-one and was nominated for a National Book Award.
• Eleanor Percy Lee
• Eleanor WilnerEleanor Wilner best poems and poetry
• Eli Siegel
• Elinor Wylie
• Elio Schneeman
• Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
• Elise Cowen
• Elise Paschen
• Eliza R. Snow
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Elizabeth Chase Allen
• Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
• Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
• Elizabeth F. Ellet
• Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
• Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith
• Elizabeth Prentiss
• Elizabeth Willis
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Ellen Bryant Voigt
• Ellen Hinsey
• Elliot R. Wolfson
• Ellis Parker ButlerEllis Parker Butler was born in December 5, 1869 in iowa, USA and died in September 13, 1937. He was an American author, humorist and . Author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, Ellis Parker Butler is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs" in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs that soon start proliferating geometrically. His work appeared along side that of his contemporaries including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite the enormous volume of his work Ellis Parker Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Author's League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene.
• Ellyn Maybe
• Eloise Klein Healy
• Emanuel Xavier
• Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson was an American poet. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred best poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote. Many of her poems deal with themes of love, death and immortality.
• Emma Catherine Embury
• Emma Lazarus
• Enid Dame
• Epes Sargent Epes Sargent was born in Massachusetts and lived most of his life in and around Boston, briefly attending Harvard. He was an american author, editor, poet, playwright and psychical investigator. His works include the plays The Bride of Genoa; Velasco; and The Priestess ; the fictional works Wealth and Worth and What's To Be Done?; and the poetic volume Songs of the Sea and Other Poems.
• Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
• Eric Jerome Dickey
• Eric Ormsby
• Erica Jong
• Erin Murphy
• Ernest Hilbert
• Ernest Lawrence ThayerErnest Lawrence Thayer best poems and poetry
• Ernest Thayer
• Essex Hemphill
• Ethel Lynn Beers
• Etheridge KnightEtheridge Knight was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for robbery in 1960. A prose version was published in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere, and in English as Black Voices from Prison (1970), which includes other prisoners' writings. He is considered one of the major famous poets of the Black Arts Movement, which flourished from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s.
• Eugene Field
• Eugene Jones III
• Eunice Tietjens
• Evan S. Connell
• Eve Merriam
• Ezra PoundEzra Pound was an American expatriate famous poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best known and famous poems include Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and his unfinished 120-section epic.
• F. A. Nettelbeck
• Faith Elibeth Brigham
• Faith Elizabeth Brigham
• Faith Elizbeth Brigham
• Fanny Crosby
• Fanny Howe
• Farrah Sarafa
• Felipe Alfau
• Felipe Luciano
• Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Forest David York
• Forrest Gander
• Forrest Hamer
• Fran Landesman
• Frances Dana Barker Gage
• Frances Harper
• Frances Mayes
• Francis Fisher Browne
• Francis Saltus Saltus
• Francis Scott Key
• Frank Bidart
• Frank Ebersole
• Frank Jacobs
• Frank Judge
• Frank Messina
• Frank Moore
• Frank O'Hara
• Frank Richard Maloney
• Frank Stanford
• Frank X. Gaspar
• Franklin Rosemont
• Franz Douskey
• Franz Wright
• Fred Chappell
• Frederic Prokosch
• Frederick Feirstein
• Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
• Frederick Peterson
• Frederick Seidel
• Frederick Von Guerin
• Frederick Wadsworth Loring
• G. S. Sharat Chandra
• G. V. Steele
• Gabor G Gyukics
• Galway KinnellGalway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best loved and most anthologized and famous poems are "St. Francis and the Sow", "The Bear", "Wait" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps.
• Gamel Woolsey
• Garrett Hongo
• Gary Gach
• Gary Mex Glazner
• Gary Sange
• Gary Snyder
• Gary Soto
• Gary Whitehead
• Gary William Crawford
• Gayl Jones
• Gelett BurgessGelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a poet of nonsense verse and poems. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he invented the blurb.
• Gene Derwood
• Gene Frumkin
• Genevieve Taggard
• Genya Turovskaya
• Geoff Soechting
• Geoffrey Brock
• Geoffrey G. O'Brien
• George Arnold
• George Beck
• George Bilgere
• George Cabot Lodge
• George Dickerson
• George Dillon
• George Edward Woodberry
• George Frederick Morgan
• George Garrett
• George Moses Horton
• George Oppen
• George Parsons Lathrop
• George Quasha
• George Starbuck
• George Sterling
• George Sylvester Viereck
• George Washington Cutter
• George William Curtis
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Gerald Costanzo
• Gerald Stern
• Gerald Vizenor
• Geri Doran
• Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor
• Gertrude Stein
• Gibbons Ruark
• Gilbert Byron
• Gilbert Sorrentino
• Gillian Conoley
• Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
• Gjekè Marinaj
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg
• Gladys Campbell
• Glen Martin Fitch
• Gloria Frym
• Goodale Sisters
• Grace Andreacchi
• Grace Bauer
• Grace Denio Litchfield
• Grace Paley
• Greendream 9966
• Greg Miller
• Gregory A. Kompes
• Gregory Corso
• Gregory Snyder
• Gustaf Sobin
• Gustav BenJava
• Gustav Davidson
• Guy Davenport
• Guy Wetmore Carryl
• Gwen Davis
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• H. L. Hix
• H. T. Kirby-Smith
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• Hal Sirowitz
• Haniel Long
• Hannah Weiner
• Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
• Harry Crosby
• Harry Mathews
• Harry Thurston Peck
• Harryette Mullen
• Hart Crane
• Hattie Gossett
• Haven Kimmel
• Hawo Ali
• Hayden Carruth
• Heather McHugh
• Hedwig Gorski
• Helen Adam
• Helen Bevington
• Helen Curtin Moskey
• Helen Hoyt
• Helen Hunt JacksonHelen Hunt Jackson best poems and poetry
• Helen Steiner Rice
• Helene Johnson
• Henri Cole
• Henri Coulette
• Henry Abbey
• Henry Ames Blood
• Henry Cuyler Bunner
• Henry David Thoreau
• Henry Dumas
• Henry Gould
• Henry Howard Brownell
• Henry Livingston, Jr.Henry Livingston, Jr. may have written the poem known as "A Visit from St. Nicholas", although more popularly (after its first line) as "The Night Before Christmas", which is generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. This famous Christmas poem first appeared in the Troy Sentinel. Livingston was occupied with poetry and drawings for his friends and family, some of which ended up in the pages of New York Magazine and the Poughkeepsie Journal. Although he signed his drawings, his poetry was usually anonymous or signed simply, "R".
• Henry Meyer
• Henry Rago
• Henry Rollins
• Henry S. Taylor
• Henry Throop Stanton
• Henry Timrod
• Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets. Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas.
• Henry van DykeHenry van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors. He chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship of 1906. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, The Other Wise Man and The First Christmas Tree.
• Herbert Kaufman
• Herman MelvilleHerman Melville is a poet best known for his novel Moby-Dick. Melville is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until later in life. After the Civil War, he published Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, which did not sell well; of the Harper & Bros. printing of 1200 copies, only 525 had been sold ten years later. Again tending to outrun the tastes of his readers, Melville's epic length verse-narrative Clarel, about a student's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, was also quite obscure, even in his own time. Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. His poetry is not as highly critically esteemed as his fiction, although some critics place him as the first modernist poet in the United States.
• Hermann Hagedorn
• Hilda Conkling
• Hilda DoolittleHilda Doolittle was an American poet. A charismatic figure, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building and furthering her career. From 1916–17, she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal, while her poems appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review. She had a deep interest in Ancient Greek literature, and her poems often borrowed from Greek mythology and classical poets. Her best poetry is noted for its incorporation of natural scenes and objects, which are often used to emote a particular feeling or mood.
• Hilda Morley
• Hildegarde Flanner
• Hoa Nguyen
• Horace Gregory
• Hosanna Johnson
• Howard Baker
• Howard Moss
• Howard Nemerov
• Howard W. Robertson
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
• Hugh Henry BrackenridgeHugh Henry Brackenridge best poems and poetry
• Hugh McCulloch
• Ida G. Athens
• Ilya Kaminsky
• Ina Coolbrith
• Indran Amirthanayagam
• Ira Cohen
• Ira Sadoff
• Irving Feldman
• Ishmael Reed
• Ivy Page
• J. Allyn Rosser
• J. D. McClatchy
• J. J. Jameson
• J. Patrick Lewis
• Jack Ageeros
• Jack Anderson
• Jack Foley
• Jack G. Bowman
• Jack Gilbert
• Jack Hirschman
• Jack Kerouac
• Jack Marshall
• Jack McCarthy
• Jack Micheline
• Jack Prelutsky
• Jack Spicer
• Jackson Mac Low
• Jacqueline S. Moore
• Jaime de Angulo
• Jake Copass
• James A. Emanuel
• James Agee
• James Baker Hall
• James Baldwin
• James Boyd
• James Brock
• James Cummins
• James Dickey
• James Dillet Freeman
• James Edwin Campbell
• James Gates Percival
• James Hearst
• James J. Montague
• James L. Avery, Sr.
• James Larkin Pearson
• James Laughlin
• James Lavilla-Havelin
• James Longenbach
• James McMichael
• James Merrill
• James Oppenheim
• James Piehl
• James Russell Lowell
• James Ryder Randall
• James Schuyler
• James Still
• James Tate
• James Thomas Fields
• James Thomas Stevens
• James Welch
• James Whitcomb Riley
• James Wright
• Jamie DeWolf
• Jamison A. Oughton
• Jan Beatty
• Jane Flanders
• Jane Hirshfield
• Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
• Jane Kenyon
• Janet Kauffman
• Janet Kuypers
• Janet McAdams
• Janice Gould
• Janine Pommy Vega
• Jared Carter
• Jascha Kessler
• Jason Dywane Wilkins
• Jay Hopler
• Jay Parini
• Jay Wright
• Jayne Cortez
• Jean Boese
• Jean Day
• Jean Garrigue
• Jean ToomerJean Toomer was an American poet. His first book Cane is considered by many as his most significant. Many scholars considered Cane to be his best work. A series of poems and short stories about the black experience in America, Cane was hailed by critics and is seen as an important work of both the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation. Toomer resisted racial classification and did not want the book marketed as a black work.
• Jean Valentine
• Jeanette Marie Sayers
• Jeanne Robert Foster
• Jeannine Hall Gailey
• Jeanpaul Ferro
• Jeff Hardy
• Jeff Harrison
• Jeff M. Giordano
• Jeff Vande Zande
• Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
• Jeffrey Daniels
• Jeffrey Skinner
• Jeffrey T. Bender
• Jennifer Grotz
• Jennifer K Dick
• Jennifer Knox
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Jennifer Moxley
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• Jenny Boully
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• John AshberyJohn Ashbery was born in July 28, 1927 in Rochester, New York and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were children. Ashbery was educated at Deerfield Academy. At Deerfield, Ashbery read such poets as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Wallace Stevens, and began writing poetry; one of his poems was actually published in Poetry Magazine, though under the name of a classmate who had submitted it without Ashbery's knowledge or permission. His first ambition was to be a painter. From the age of eleven until fifteen he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester
• John Balaban
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• John MontagueJohn Montague is an Irish poet. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He is one of the best known Irish contemporary poets. In 1998 he became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry. Montague's poems chart boyhood, schooldays, love and relationships. Family and personal history and Ireland's history are also prominent themes in his poetry. Montague is noted for his vowel harmonies, his use of assonance and echo, and his handling of the line and line break. Montague believes that a poem appears with its own rhythm and that rhythm and line lengths should be based on living speech.
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• Keith WaldropKeith waldrop is a poet and translator. His first book of poetry 'A Windmill Near Calvary' was nominated for a National Book Award. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Several Gravities, a collection of collages; Transcendental Studies, a trilogy of collage poems which won the National Book Award for Poetry; and a translation of Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. His other work includes The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon: With Sample Poems. He has translated several contemporary French poets. In 2006, he completed a translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.
• Kelle GroomKelle Groom is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of three poetry collections. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among others, and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize 2010 and Best American Non-Required Reading 2007 anthologies. She is the recipient of many awards. She has taught writing at the University of Central Florida and is a contributing editor for The Florida Review.
• Kelly Le Fave
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• Louise BoganLouise Bogan was an American poet who felt that “lyric poetry if it is at all authentic…is based on some emotion—on some occasion, on some real confrontation". She published her first book of poetry “Body of This Death: Poems” in 1923. In that same year, she met the poet and novelist Raymond Holden and they were married by 1925. Four years later, she published her second book of poetry, “Dark Summer: Poems”, and shortly after was hired as a poetry editor for The New Yorker.
• Louise Chandler Moulton
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• Louise MathiasLouise Mathias is the author of Lark Apprentice, which was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the New Issues Poetry Prize and was published by New Issues Press in 2004. Her chapbook, Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest, won the Burnside Review Chapbook contest and is just out from Burnside Review Press. Her second full length collection, The Traps, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. Recent poems appear in journals such as Barrow Street, Ninth Letter, Triquarterly, and Third Coast. She splits her time between a dusty outpost in the Mojave desert (Joshua Tree, California) and a cottage on the banks of Baugo Bay (Northern Indiana).
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• Marianne MooreMarianne Moore was a Modernist American poet. Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. From 1925 until 1929, Moore served as editor of the literary and cultural journal The Dial. This continued her role, similar to that of Pound, as a patron of poetry, encouraging promising young poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, and James Merrill, and publishing, as well as refining poetic technique, early work. In 1933, Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize from Poetry. Her Collected Poems of 1951 is perhaps her most rewarded work; it earned the poet the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.
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• Martina Reisz NewberryMartina Reisz Newberry best poems. Martina Reisz Newberry’s most recent book is "What we can forgive". She is also the author of "Late Night Radio, Perhaps you could breathe for me, Hunger, After the Earthquake: Poems 1996-2006, Not Untrue & Not Unkind and Running like a Woman with her Hair on Fire: Collected Poems, published.
• Marti­n Espada
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• Maya AngelouMaya Angelou born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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• Robert FrostRobert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
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• Robert Hinckley MessingerRobert Hinckley Messinger was an American poet born in 1811 and died in 1874.
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• Sam HamillSam Hamill is an american poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson.He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement(2003) Hamill has been awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
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• T. S. EliotThomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915 - is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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