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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.
Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet; Jaki Shelton Green, American poet, ninth North Carolina Poet Laureate. Robert Greene (1558–1592), English author and poet; Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet; Linda Gregg (1942–2019), US poet; Horace Gregory (1898–1982), US poet, translator and critic; Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
The poet laureate presents an annual lecture and reading of their poetry and usually introduces poets at the Library's poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area and among the oldest in the United States. This annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, and occasional dramatic performances began in the 1940s.
A. James Barton Adams; John Turvill Adams; Mary Mathews Adams; Jacob Adler (writer) Mary Hunt Affleck; Louisa May Alcott; Emily Gillmore Alden; Anne Reeve Aldrich
Jackson Poetry Prize - Honors an American poet of exceptional talent, sponsored by Poets & Writers; in 2022, carried an award of $80,000; Julie Suk Award – awarded for Best Poetry Book by a Literary Press, sponsored by Jacar Press; Kate Tufts Discovery Award – $10,000 awarded to a first time poet
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John Lawrence Ashbery [1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age."