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Jim Barnes (born 1933) Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942) Catherine Barnett (born 1960) Laird Barron (born 1970) Bertha Hirsch Baruch. Todd Bash (born 1965) Ellen Bass (born 1947) Arlo Bates (1850–1918) David Bates (1809–1870)
Robert Bly. Michelle Boisseau. Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno. Michael McKeown Bondhus. Vanna Bonta. (previous page) (next page) Categories: 21st-century poets by nationality. 21st-century American writers.
Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate. Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author. Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter.
United States Poet Laureate. The 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 the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
John M. Berry (brother) Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).