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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.
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]
Ron Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetry; Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writer; Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist; Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-US poet; US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008; Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
"The Song of the Vermonters, 1779" Also known as "The Green Mountaineer" is a poem by the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) about the U.S. state of Vermont during its years of independence (1777–1791), sometimes called the Vermont Republic.
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet, seventh United States Poet Laureate; Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991), Bulgarian poet known as a mother of Bulgarian literature; Grace Shattuck Bail (1898–1996), American poet and composer; Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist lesbian writer; Ameena Begum (1892–1949), Indian/French poet
Latin American women have been a force of innovation in poetry in Spanish since the sonnets and romances by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the 17th century. [25] [26] Sor Juana's poems spanned a range of forms and themes of the Spanish Golden Age, and her writings display inventiveness, wit, and a vast range of secular and theological knowledge ...
In 1936, his next collection Twenty-five Poems, published by J. M. Dent, also received much critical praise. [16] Two years later, in 1938, Thomas won the Oscar Blumenthal Prize for Poetry; it was also the year in which New Directions offered to be his publisher in the United States. In all, he wrote half his poems while living at Cwmdonkin ...