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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 ...
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At Texas Tech University, William L. Andrews was an assistant professor of English from 1973 to 1977. [1] In 1976, his article "William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chesnutt: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington" won the Norman Foerster Prize for best article of the year in American Literature.
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator.Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems.
James Applewhite (born 1935 in Stantonsburg, North Carolina [1]) is an American poet, and a retired Professor Emeritus in creative writing at Duke University. He graduated from Duke University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. His work appeared in Harper's. [2] His papers are held at Duke University. [3] He lives with his wife in Durham, North ...
James David Corrothers (July 2, 1869 – February 12, 1917) [1] was an African-American poet, journalist, and minister whom editor Timothy Thomas Fortune called "the coming poet of the race." When Corrothers died, W. E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to the race and to literature."
James Wright was born and spent his childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio.His father worked in a glass factory, and his mother in a laundry. Neither parent had received more than an eighth grade education.
Michael Joseph Alexander (21 May 1941 – 5 November 2023) was a British translator, poet, academic and broadcaster. He held the Berry Chair of English Literature at the University of St Andrews until his retirement in 2003.