Bishop, Elizabeth (Worcester)
Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50
Famous Poets from Massachusetts
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Cummings, E. E. (Cambridge)
The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals -
Dickinson, Emily (Amherst)
The poet called "The Belle of Amherst" -
Kunitz, Stanley (Worcester)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01 -
Lowell, Robert (Boston)
The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies -
Plath, Sylvia (Jamaica Plain)
Poet and author of The Bell Jar -
Sexton, Anne (Newton)
Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s -
Smith, Tracy K. (Falmouth)
U.S. Poet Laureate named in 2017