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Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911) was an American poet and journalist.Her early poems appeared over the signature of "Florence Percy", and many of them were first published in the Portland Transcript.
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
Kenneth Flexner Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media.
Whitfield's poems often expressed the oppression affecting African Americans, and moral corruption in politics and religion. [9] One of Whitfield's most famous poems was America, published in 1853 in his poetry book. The poem embodies many of Whitfield's ideas about the hypocrisy of American freedom and democracy, and the difficult lives for ...
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (née Barstow; May 6, 1823 – August 1, 1902) was an American poet and novelist. Soon after her marriage to Richard Henry Stoddard, the author, she began to publish poems in all the leading magazines, and thereafter, she was a frequent contributor. Her verses were of a high order; she wrote for intellectual readers only.
The Poetry Foundation's annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships are awarded annually. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Following receipt of Lilly's gift of an estimated $10.7 million, which was announced in 2011, IUPUI's Center on Philanthropy (later renamed the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy ...
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.