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Alice James Books

Notable poets published by Alice James Books include Cynthia Cruz, Jane Kenyon, Donald Revell, Jean Valentine, David Kirby, Cole Swensen, Brian Turner, Robin Becker, Frank X. Gaspar, Mary Szybist, Forrest Hamer, Sarah Manguso, Kazim Ali, Ellen Doré Watson, Fanny Howe, B.H. Fairchild and Matthea Harvey.

Elyse Fenton

Elyse Fenton (born September 4, 1980 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American poet.

Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri (born 1932) is an award-winning American poet, playwright and radio host of "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress.

John Bensko

John Bensko is an award-winning American poet who teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, along with his wife, the fiction writer Cary Holladay.

Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen (b. 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions.

Mark Halliday

The poet David Graham has described Halliday as one of the "ablest practitioners" of the "ultra-talk poem," a term said to have been coined by Halliday himself to describe the work of a group of contemporary American poets, including David Kirby, Denise Duhamel, David Clewell, Albert Goldbarth, and Barbara Hamby, who frequently write in a wry, exuberant, garrulous, accessible style.

Mary Elizabeth Parker

Mary Elizabeth Parker (b. Schenectady, New York) is an American poet.

Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot is an American poet.

Zach Savich

Zach Savich (born December 1, 1982, in Lansing, Michigan) is an American poet.


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Abbie Huston Evans

Abbie Huston Evans (20 December 1881, Lee, New Hampshire - October 1983) was an American poet, and teacher.

Adisa

Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954), Jamaican-born American poet and academic

Ann Stanford

Ann Stanford (November 25, 1916, La Habra, California – July 12, 1987) was an American poet.

Brookhaven, Mississippi

Charles Henri Ford, American poet, novelist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist.

Celia Thaxter House

The house was built in 1856 and American poet and author Celia Thaxter lived in the house until it was sold in 1880 when she moved to Kittery Point, Maine.

Charlotte Wilder

Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.

Children of The Night

Children of The Night was the second volume of Poetry published by the American Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.

David Whiteman

David Bruce Whiteman, Canadian American poet, translator, and essayist

Deniability: Poems

Deniability: Poems is a book written by American poet, George Witte, published in 2009 by Orchises Press.

Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957 Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Douglas Malloch

Douglas Malloch (May 5, 1877 – July 2, 1938) was an American poet, short-story writer and Associate Editor of American Lumberman, a trade paper in Chicago.

El Factor

El Factor is a town in the María Trinidad Sánchez province of the Dominican Republic, hometown of Leopoldo Minaya, an acclaimed Latin American poet.

Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman (born 1935), American poet, translator, and editor

EXIT Theatre

Early plays at EXIT Theatre include Sadie’s Turn (the first full length play by noted Native American poet Mary TallMountain), Mystery of the Fourth Wall (the West Coast premiere in 1989 of Mary Zimmerman), and Like (the first full production of beat poet Diane di Prima’s 35-year-old sound play).

Fady

Fady Joudah (born 1971), Palestinian-American poet and physician

Garrett K. Hongo

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born 30 May 1951 Volcano, Hawaii) is an American poet and author.

Garrick Davis

Regular contributors to the review have included a number of distinguished American poet-critics including Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Adam Kirsch, Dillon Tracy, Bill Coyle, and Joan Houlihan.

Geoff Brock

:For the American poet and translator, see Geoffrey Brock.

Glória Pires

In 2013, she starred the movie Reaching for the Moon along with Miranda Otto, the film follows the real love story between the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer (born November 18, 1886 Manchester, Connecticut - 1948 Sarasota, Florida) was an American poet and magazine editor.

Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 11, 1982 in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.

Jesper Svenbro

His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat (poetry magazine) and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press.

John B. Tabb

Father John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English.

La Ferté-Macé

Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage" which in fact consisted of having expressed anti war opinions.

Le Thi Diem Thuy

Lê Thị Diễm Thúy (Phan Thiết 12 January 1972; pronounced lay tee yim twee) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and performer.

Leon Stokesbury

Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City) is an American poet.

Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre

The English version shown below was written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the 19th Century.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

Munfordville, Kentucky

African American poet and minister, Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901) was born into slavery at a farm outside of Munfordville.

Nirmala Rajasekar

With the famous American poet Robert Bly, Nirmala has recorded a cd of poetry and music called Poems of Mirabai.

Peter Kane Dufault

On June 4, 2010, the documentary film, What I Meant to Tell You: An American Poet’s State of the Union, had its world premiere at the Berkshire International Film Festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Richard Dana

Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American poet and author, son of Francis Dana and father of Richard Henry Dana Jr.,

Robert Frost: A Life

Robert Frost: A Life is a 2000 biography of the American poet Robert Frost written by Jay Parini.

Robert Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic

Roxbury Conglomerate

The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and referred to this special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

Roy Helton

Roy Helton (1886–1977) was an American poet.

Sanford Friedman

He was a friend to many noted artists like Lee Krasner and Fritz Bultman, and for several years Friedman was the companion of the noted American poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard.

Sange

Gary Sange, a contemporary American poet and professor of poetry at Virginia Commonwealth University

Susan Polis Schutz

Susan Polis Schutz (born Susan Polis; May 23, 1944) is an American poet and producer of greeting cards and the mother of U.S. Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado.

The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

"The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" is a song by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein.

The Dream Songs

Kevin Young, an African-American poet who edited a Selected Poems of Berryman for Library of America, commented on this issue: Berryman's use of "black dialect" is frustrating and even offensive at times, as many have noted, and deserves examination at length.

The Law of Ueki

Robert Haydn's name and personality is a reference to the African American poet Robert Hayden (1913–1980).

Tryfon Tolides

Tryfon Tolides (born Korifi Voiou, Greece) is a Greek-American poet, author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking (Penguin, 2005).

Western New Mexico University

Kenneth Wayne Brewer, American poet, longtime scholar, and former Poet Laureate of Utah.

Whittier, Alaska

The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915.

William Brandon Lacy Campos

William Brandon Lacy Campos (1977–2012) was an American poet, writer, blogger, columnist, LGBT and HIV/AIDS activist.

William Snodgrass

William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons

Zukovsky

Louis Zukovsky (1904–1978), an American poet whose surname has alternate spellings