List of poets from the United States - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of poets from the United States, or American poets, that have written important poetry or famous poetry.
Poets that are alive, are at the bottom of the list.
- Phillis Wheatley (d. 1784)
- Jupiter Hammon (d. c. 1806)
- Francis Scott Key (d.1843), a poem of his became the national anthem of the United States
- Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1849)
- John Pierpont (d. 1866)
- Nathaniel Parker Willis (d. 1867)
- Phoebe Cary (d. 1871)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (d. 1882)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (d. 1882)
- Emily Dickinson (d. 1886)
- Emma Lazarus (d.1887)
- William Clark Falkner (d. 1889)
- Herman Melville (d. 1890)
- James Russell Lowell (d. 1891)
- Walt Whitman (d. 1892)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (d. 1892)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (d. 1894)
- Stephen Crane (d. 1900)
- Julia Ward Howe (d. 1910)
- Richard Howard (d. 1922)
- Elinor Wylie (d. 1928)
- Hart Crane (d. 1932)
- Sara Teasdale (d. 1933)
- James Weldon Johnson (d. 1938)
- Gertrude Stein (d. 1946)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (d. 1950)
- Julia de Burgos (d. 1953)
- Wallace Stevens (d. 1955)
- Richard Wright (d. 1960)
- Jessie Redmon Fauset (d. 1961)
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (d. 1961)
- E. E. Cummings (d. 1962)
- Robinson Jeffers (d. 1962)
- Robert Frost (d. 1963)
- Sylvia Plath (d. 1963)
- Theodore Roethke (d. 1963)
- William Carlos Williams (d. 1963)
- T. S. Eliot (d. 1965); The Waste Land is [one of] his most important poems.[1]
- Jack Spicer (d. 1965)
- Frank O'Hara (d. 1966)
- Langston Hughes (d. 1967)
- Dorothy Parker (d. 1967)
- Carl Sandburg (d. 1967)
- Mercedes de Acosta (d. 1968)
- Thomas Merton (d. 1968)
- Lorine Niedecker (d. 1970)
- Charles Olson (d. 1970)
- Jim Morrison (d. 1971)
- Ogden Nash (d. 1971)
- John Berryman (d. 1972)
- Marianne Moore (d. 1972)
- Ezra Pound (d. 1972)
- John Crowe Ransom (d. 1974)
- Anne Sexton (d. 1974)
- Charles Reznikoff (d. 1976)
- Robert Lowell (d. 1977)
- Louis Zukofsky (d. 1978)
- Elizabeth Bishop (d. 1979)
- Allen Tate (d. 1979)
- Muriel Rukeyser (d. 1980)
- Richard Hugo (d. 1982)
- Archibald MacLeish (d. 1982)
- Kenneth Rexroth (d. 1982)
- Ted Berrigan (d. 1983)
- Raymond Roseliep (d. 1983)
- George Oppen (d. 1984)
- Raymond Carver (d. 1988)
- Robert Penn Warren (d. 1989)
- Etheridge Knight (d. 1991)
- James Schuyler (d. 1991)
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (d. 1991)
- Audre Lorde (d. 1992)
- Charles Bukowski (d. 1994)
- James Merrill (d. 1995)
- Joseph Brodsky (d. 1996)
- James Dickey (d. 1997)
- Allen Ginsberg (d. 1997)
- Denise Levertov (d. 1997)
- Shel Silverstein (d. 1999)
- Besmilr Brigham (d. 2000)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (d. 2000)
- Beah Richards (d. 2000)
- Karl Shapiro (d. 2000)
- Jack Buck (d. 2002)
- Kenneth Koch (d. 2002)
- Philip Whalen (d. 2002)
- Cid Corman (d. 2004)
- Anthony Hecht (d. 2004)
- Donald Justice (d. 2004)
- Mona Van Duyn (d. 2004)
- Robert Creeley (d. 2005)
- Nipsey Russell (d. 2005)
- Barbara Guest (d. 2006)
- Stanley Kunitz (d. 2006)
- Diane Middlebrook (d. 2007)
- Hayden Carruth (d. 2008)
- John Updike (d. 2009)
- W. D. Snodgrass (d. 2009)
- Roberts Blossom (d. 2011)
- Galway Kinnell (d. 2014)
- Carolyn Kizer (d. 2014)
- Adrienne Rich (d. 2012)
- Lou Reed (d. 2013)
- Maya Angelou (d. 2014)
- Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) (d. 2014)
- Claudia Emerson (d. 2014)
- Mark Strand (d. 2014), Canadian-American
- Philip Levine (poet) (d. 2015)
- Rod McKuen (d. 2015)
- William Jay Smith (d. 2015)
- James Tate (writer) (d. 2015)
- C. K. Williams (d. 2015)
- Bill Berkson (d. 2016)
- John Ashbery (d. 2017)
- Kathryn Stripling Byer (d. 2017)
- Jim Harrison (d. 2017)
- Denis Johnson (d. 2017)
- Joanne Kyger (d. 2017)
- Harry Mathews (d. 2017)
- Richard Wilbur (d. 2017)
- Donald Hall (d. 2018)
- Ntozake Shange (d. 2018)
- David Berman (musician) (d. 2019)
- Steve Dalachinsky (d. 2019)
- W. S. Merwin (d. 2019)
- Mary Oliver (d. 2019)
- Kim Bridgford (d. 2020)
- Lewis MacAdams (d. 2020)
- Michael McClure (d. 2020)
- Lisel Mueller (d. 2020)
- Anne Stevenson (d. 2020), American-British
- Robert Bly (d. 2021)
- Stephen Dunn (d. 2021)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (d. 2021)
- Jack Hirschman (d. 2021)
- Bernadette Mayer (d. 2022)
- Gerald Stern (d. 2022)
- Louise Glück (d. 2023)
- Charles Simic (d. 2023)
- Amy Uyematsu (d. 2023), Japanese American
- Gary Snyder (born 1930)
- Wendell Berry (born 1934)
- Charles Wright (poet) (born 1935)
- Roald Hoffmann (born 1937)
- Frank Bidart (born 1939)
- Billy Collins (born 1941)
- Rolland Smith (born 1941)
- Ron Padgett (born 1942)
- Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)
- Rita Mae Brown (born 1944)
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Alice Notley (born 1945)
- Anne Waldman (born 1945)
- Patti Smith; Poetry collections from her, were published as early as 1972 and as late as 2005: Seventh Heaven and Auguries of Innocence; born 1946
- Rae Armantrout (born 1947)
- Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951)
- Rita Dove (born 1952)
- Giannina Braschi (born 1953)
- Ana Castillo (born 1953)
- Sandra Cisneros (born 1954)
- Viggo Mortensen (born 1958)
- Henry Rollins (born 1961)
- Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
- Natasha Trethewey (born 1966)
- Seth Abramson (born 1976)
- Carson Cistulli (born 1979)
- Amber Tamblyn (born 1983)
- Masiela Lusha (born 1985)
- Amanda Gorman (born 1998), first to become National Youth Poet Laureate
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[change | change source]- ↑ https://snl.no/T._S._Eliot. Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 2023-12-01