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The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1987, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award was established in his memory by Ted Plantos.It is presented annually to an outstanding "people's poet." The award was initially [18] $250 (since raised to $500) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Twentieth-century American poet Daniel Hoffman suggested that the poem's structure and meter is so formulaic that it is artificial, though its mesmeric quality overrides that. [ 27 ] Poe based the structure of "The Raven" on the complicated rhyme and rhythm of Elizabeth Barrett 's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship". [ 15 ]
Illustration by Edmund Dulac, 1912 "To Helen" in the March 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, Number 4, bound volume, page 238. "To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [1]
Khadijah Ibrahiim (fl. 2022), British poet [2] Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director and poet; Ibycus (fl. late 6th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet; Ikkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet; Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet; Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), Hungarian poet and novelist
The poet laureate presents an annual lecture and reading of their poetry and usually introduces poets at the Library's poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area and among the oldest in the United States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s.
Salinas is regarded as "one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America." [6] While a student at California State University Fresno Salinas published his first book, Crazy Gypsy, which sold well and earned him a reputation as both "a Chicano poet and as one of the leaders of the 'Fresno School' of poets, which included Gary Soto, Ernesto Trejo, Leonard Adame and others."