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Her first book of poems, Vesper Sparrows, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize for Poetry. In 1997 Digges was awarded the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the largest prize for a single work of poetry, for her book Rough Music. [2] She was also the winner of two Pushcart Prizes. [3] Digges translated the poems of the Cuban poet María Elena Cruz ...
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."
In Montreal, he published some of his early poems in the political magazine, New Frontiers. [7] In 1956 he self-published a mimeographed chapbook, In Love and Anger, his first collection of poems. [8] In the 1950s some of his poetry was published in the magazine Canadian Forum. [9] He was for a short time married to poet Gwendolyn MacEwen. [10 ...
James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk; W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer; Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
Caridad de la Luz (born 1977) Philip F. Deaver (born 1946) Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015) Alice S. Deletombe (1854–1929) Edwin Denby (1903–1983) Richard Denner (born 1941) Reuel Denney (1913–1995) Carl Dennis (born 1939) Tory Dent (1958–2005) Babette Deutsch (1895–1982) Jamie DeWolf (born 1977 as Jamie Kennedy) Diane Di Prima (1934 ...
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen (Knopf, 1971), the first of several posthumous collections, shared the 1972 National Book Award for Poetry. Brad Gooch's City Poet is the first substantial biography on O'Hara.
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Poetry portal; These poets have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American writer, or one of the 1918 and 1919 special awards that the organization now considers the first Poetry Pulitzers.