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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), American poet and physician of Rutherford, New Jersey; author of "The Red Wheelbarrow" and Paterson; dictum "no ideas but in things"; Pulitzer-winning modernist.
William Chapman (poet)
William Chapman, born George William Alphred, was a French-Canadian poet and journalist (1850–1917) who published five collections and was a laureate of the Académie française.
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet and newspaper editor, known for the nature poem "Thanatopsis" and for editing the New-York Evening Post for nearly fifty years.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa, born 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is an American poet whose Vietnam War poems and jazz rhythms won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.