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The League of American Writers was an association of American novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935.
The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943. A small and elite organization, the League included professional novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics.
The Fireside Poets (also known as the "Schoolroom" or "Household Poets") were a group of American poets from New England. The group is usually described as comprising Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , John Greenleaf Whittier , James Russell Lowell , and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Academy of American Poets was created in 1934 in New York City by 23-year-old Marie Bullock [8] with a mission to "support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." In 1936, the Academy of American Poets was officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Marie Bullock was the ...
A. ACES: The Society for Editing; American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Independent Writers; American Medical Writers Association; American Screenwriters Association
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust.
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.
Evans was vice-president of the New York chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. [16] She was a longtime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Buffalo, and the Saturday Club of Rockport. [17] In 1931, she won a spelling bee conducted by the Buffalo Evening News and the Poetry Society of Buffalo. [18]