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In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry Society of America in her autobiography My House of Life writing "It was not, however, to be an organization in the formal sense ...
The New Formalism is a movement originating ca. 1977 in American poetry that promotes a return to metrical and rhymed verse. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Rather than looking to the Confessionalists, they look to Robert Frost , Richard Wilbur , James Merrill , Anthony Hecht , and Donald Justice for poetic influence.
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895 ... Guide to the Darrell Kerr Correspondence with American Poets and Publishers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine ...
The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [32] [33] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [34] No other poet has been so honored.
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. [1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
Enid Shomer is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of five poetry collections, two short story collections and a novel. [1] Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Paris Review, The New Criterion, Parnassus, Kenyon Review, Tikkun, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry.
He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1934, Academy of American Poets fellowship in 1957, Huntington Hartford Foundation Award in 1960, and Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in 1967. [15] Aiken was the first Georgia-born author to win a Pulitzer Prize, and was named Georgia's Poet Laureate in 1973. [ 16 ]
Title page of the 1855 edition of The Poets and Poetry of America. The Poets and Poetry of America was a popular anthology of American poetry collected by American literary critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold. It was first published in 1842 and went into several editions throughout the 19th century.