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The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poet; Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter; Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-US poet, songwriter and novelist; Robert Nye (1939–2016), English poet, novelist and children's writer; Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist and ...
Simon Perchik (December 24, 1923 – June 14, 2022) [1] was an American poet who has been described by Library Journal as, "the most widely published unknown poet in America." Perchik worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980.
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year James Laughlin Award – $5,000 to recognize and support a poet's second book Walt Whitman Award – first-book publication, $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center for an American who has not yet ...
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
In 1678, her self-revised Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning was posthumously published in America, and included one of her most famous poems, "To My Dear and Loving Husband". [19] This volume is owned by the Stevens Memorial Library of North Andover and resides in the Houghton Library vault at Harvard.
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).