Alexie, Sherman (Spokane)
The author of 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'
Famous Poets from United States
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Baraka, Amiri (Newark)
Author of the 1964 play Dutchman -
Bishop, Elizabeth (Worcester)
Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50 -
Bly, Robert (Lac qui Parle County)
The poet who wrote the man book Iron John -
Brautigan, Richard (Tacoma)
Author of Trout Fishing in America -
Brooks, Gwendolyn (Topeka)
The first African American to win a Pulitzer for poetry -
Crane, Hart (Garrettsville)
Suicidal poet of The Bridge -
Cummings, E. E. (Cambridge)
The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals -
Dickinson, Emily (Amherst)
The poet called "The Belle of Amherst" -
Dove, Rita (Akron)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95 -
Eliot, T.S. (St. Louis)
Author of The Waste Land -
Espada, Martín (Brooklyn)
The Latino poet who wrote "Alabanza" and "Floaters" -
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (New York City)
Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books -
Frost, Robert (San Francisco)
The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken" -
Ginsberg, Allen (Newark)
The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl -
Giovanni, Nikki (Knoxville)
The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping" -
Glück, Louise (New York City)
The Nobel Prize winning poet who wrote “Mock Orange” -
Gorman, Amanda (Los Angeles)
The National Youth Poet Laureate who read at Joe Biden's inauguration -
Hall, Donald (Hamden)
The New England poet who wrote Ox-Cart Man -
Howe, Julia Ward (New York City)
The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic -
Hughes, Langston (Joplin)
Author of The Weary Blues (1926) -
Key, Francis Scott (Terra Rubra (near Frederick))
The attorney who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" -
Kunitz, Stanley (Worcester)
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01 -
Lazarus, Emma (New York City)
Author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty -
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Portland)
The American poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" -
Lowell, Robert (Boston)
The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies -
Merwin, W. S. (New York City)
The author of the collection The Carrier of Ladders -
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
The poet of the 1920s who wrote "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" -
Moore, Marianne (Kirkwood)
Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet -
Nash, Ogden (Rye)
Author of the funny poem "The Lama" -
Oliver, Mary (Maple Heights)
The poet who wrote 'American Primitive' -
Parker, Dorothy (West End)
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table -
Plath, Sylvia (Jamaica Plain)
Poet and author of The Bell Jar -
Pound, Ezra (Hailey)
The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos -
Rich, Adrienne (Baltimore)
The feminist-lesbian poet who wrote Diving Into the Wreck -
Roethke, Theodore (Saginaw)
The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane" -
Ryan, Kay (San Jose)
The 16th Poet Laureate consultant to the Library of Congress -
Sandburg, Carl (Galesburg)
Author of the poem Chicago -
Sexton, Anne (Newton)
Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s -
Silverstein, Shel (Chicago)
Author of Where the Sidewalk Ends -
Smith, Patti (Chicago)
The poet-rocker who wrote the memoir 'Just Kids' -
Smith, Tracy K. (Falmouth)
U.S. Poet Laureate named in 2017 -
Snyder, Gary (San Francisco)
Pulitzer-winning Beat poet who wrote Turtle Island -
Stafford, William (Hutchinson)
The poet who wrote "Traveling Through the Dark" -
Stevens, Wallace (Reading)
The poet and insurance man who wrote "The Emperor of Ice Cream" -
Tanning, Dorothea (Galesburg)
The surrealist artist who did Birthday and was married to Max Ernst -
Trethewey, Natasha (Gulfport)
The Pulitzer-winning poet who wrote Native Guard -
Whitman, Walt (Long Island)
The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass -
Williams, William Carlos
Author of the poetic epic Paterson -
Wright, Charles (Pickwick Dam)
The U.S. Poet Laureate, 2014-2015