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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.
Ivan Argüelles (January 24, 1939 – April 28, 2024) was an American poet whose work moved from early Beat- and surrealist-influenced forms to later epic-length poems.He received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award in 1989 as well as the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 2010.
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) [1] is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. [2] In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow [3] and she won the Pulitzer Prize. [4]
The Hopwood Poets Revisited: Eighteen Major Award Winners. Library Partners Press. ISBN 978-1-61846-069-1., features an original essay about Robert Hayden by his fellow-poet and faculty colleague Laurence Goldstein, recalling the impact and aftermath of Hayden's Hopwood "Major Poetry" Award at the University of Michigan. "Hayden, Robert, 1913 ...
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.
Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...