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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild, 1893–1967), American poet, critic, and screenwriter of the Algonquin Round Table and The New Yorker's founding editorial board; author of Enough Rope (1926) and Oscar-nominated co-writer of A Star Is Born.
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894–1962), American modernist poet and painter from Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for experimental typography, syntax, and punctuation; author of The Enormous Room, Tulips and Chimneys, and Eimi; Bollingen Prize and National Book Award winner.
E. Pauline Johnson
E. Pauline Johnson, known by her Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Mohawk and English-Canadian poet and stage performer who toured North America and England reciting her own work from 1892.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American poet, critic, and short-story writer; inventor of detective fiction through the Dupin tales and author of "The Raven"; born Boston, died Baltimore.
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) was an American poet and Chicago lawyer, partner of Clarence Darrow, whose Spoon River Anthology (1915) became the best-selling book of American poetry to that date.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay, known to her family as Vincent, was an American poet and playwright who won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet from Gardiner, Maine, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and is known for the ironic portraits "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was an American poet known for precise, descriptive verse and sparing publication, winning the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, 1970 National Book Award, and 1976 Neustadt Prize.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet of Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote nearly 1,800 poems, eleven published in her lifetime; the 1890 Higginson-Todd edition and 1955 Johnson edition made her a major American poet.
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), American Jewish poet and activist, author of "The New Colossus" engraved on the Statue of Liberty pedestal in 1903, champion of Russian Jewish refugees, and author of Songs of a Semite (1882).
Evelyn Ryan
Evelyn Lehman Ryan, Defiance, Ohio contest writer and popular poet; subject of Terry Ryan's 2001 memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio and the 2005 Julianne Moore film; won hundreds of 25-words-or-fewer ad contests over 24 years.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) was an American poet, critic, and translator who lived mostly in Europe, led Imagism, wrote The Cantos, and made fascist radio broadcasts from Rome, confined 1945–1958.
F. D. Reeve
F. D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve, 1928-2013), American poet, novelist, and Russian translator, father of Christopher Reeve; Frost's 1962 USSR interpreter, author of Robert Frost in Russia and 31 books.
Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets, also called the Schoolroom or Household Poets, were five 19th-century New England poets, including Longfellow, Whittier, and Bryant, read aloud in homes.
Frances Harper
Frances Harper, known in her lifetime as the Bronze Muse, was an African American poet, novelist, and reformer born free in Baltimore who wrote and lectured against slavery and racism.
Frances Sargent Osgood
Frances Sargent Osgood (Fanny; née Locke, 1811–1850), American poet, essayist, and children's author, popular for floral and sentimental verse, known for her romantic poem exchange with Edgar Allan Poe and pseudonyms Florence, Kate Carol, Violet Vane.
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), Maryland lawyer and amateur poet, wrote "Defence of Fort M'Henry" after witnessing the 1814 bombardment of Fort McHenry; set to "To Anacreon in Heaven," it became "The Star-Spangled Banner," the U.S. national anthem since 1931.
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is an American poet known for dramatic monologues, who won the 2017 National Book Award and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his collected poems.
Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), American poet and MoMA curator, leading New York School figure; wrote Lunch Poems on lunch breaks, won posthumous 1972 National Book Award.
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) was an American poet whose free-verse work connects daily life to spiritual and natural forces, winning the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983.
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco) is an American Beat-era poet, Zen Buddhist, and environmentalist; Turtle Island won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and his work fuses deep ecology, bioregionalism, and Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions.
George Bowering
George Bowering is a Canadian poet, novelist, and critic from Penticton, British Columbia, who became Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2002 and won Governor General's Awards for poetry and fiction.
George Oppen
George Oppen (1908–1984) was an American Objectivist poet who published Discrete Series in 1934, abandoned poetry for 25 years, and won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Of Being Numerous.
George Sterling
George Sterling (1869-1926), American lyric poet called the King of Bohemia, founded the Carmel-by-the-Sea artist colony, wrote A Wine of Wizardry, mentored by Ambrose Bierce, friend of Jack London, died by cyanide in 1926.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet of Chicago's South Side and author of A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and We Real Cool; first Black Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry (1950), Illinois poet laureate 1968–2000.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane (Harold Hart Crane, 1899–1932) was an American modernist poet whose collections White Buildings and The Bridge made him one of the major poets of his generation before his death by suicide at thirty-two.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet and Harvard professor, the most popular poet of 19th-century America, known for Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha.
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991) was an American poet who served as US poet laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his Collected Poems.
Irving Layton
Irving Layton (1912–2006), born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, was a Romanian-born Canadian poet and teacher who published more than fifty collections and won the Governor General's Award.
J. I. Segal
J. I. Segal, born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar (1896–1954), was a Canadian Yiddish poet and journalist based in Montreal, one of Canada's first Yiddish writers and its most renowned Yiddish poet.