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List Of Poets From The United States
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q *George Quasha (born 1942) R S T U–V W X–Z See also *Academy of American Poets *American poetry *List of English-language poets * List of Jewish American poets *List of poets *List of years in poetry *Poetry Foundation *Poetry Society of America External linksGuide to the Darrell Kerr Correspondence with American Poets and Publishers.Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Poets From The United States United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ... poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Poetry
::::— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year ::::— Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London. American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet there. *June 2 - Poet Laureate Alfred Austin dies, succeeded by Robert Bridges. * September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poemSeptember 1913 is published in ''The Irish Times'' during the Dublin Lock-out. * Ezra Pound travels to London to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from that year until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet. * January and March – Three poems of Hilda Doolittle appear in the January issue of '' Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'', submitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Agee
James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for ''Time Magazine'', he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, ''A Death in the Family'' (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book ''Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'' and as the screenwriter of the film classics ''The African Queen'' and '' The Night of the Hunter''. Early life and education Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler, at Highland Avenue and 15th Street, which was renamed James Agee Street, in what is now the Fort Sanders neighborhood. When Agee was six, his father was killed in an automobile accident. From the age of seven, Agee and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in several boarding schools. The most prominent of these was located near his mother's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 25 – Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio. * February – W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman move to an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. * Spring – Robert Creeley founds and edits the ''Black Mountain Review''. * Publication of American literary theorist William K. Wimsatt's collected essays ''Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry'', including the influential critical essays “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley. * Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's ''A Buddhist Bible'', which will influence him greatly. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Daryl Hine, ''Five Poems''Gus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both. She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College. She has a daughter, actress Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California. Awards * two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships * 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship * 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize * 2000 National Book Award Finalist for ''Tell Me'' * 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens" * 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal Works Poetry * "What Do Women Want", ''poets.org'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The first annual ''The Best American Poetry'' volume is published this year. * During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you". In ''The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial'', published in 1986, Voznesensky had written poetry and prose about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea, and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens that was tolerated, he said, by officials because the victims were primarily Jews. Voznesensky reads the notes out loud and challenges the writers to identify themselves. None does. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Poetry
— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's '' White Man's Burden'', first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. * William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. * Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the ''Ramayana'' into English verse is first published, in London. * ''Shinshisha'' ("New Poetry Society") founded by Yosano Tekkan in Japan. Works published Australia * W. T. Goodge, ''Hits! Skits! and Jingles!'' Canada * Frances Jones Bannerman, ''Milestones.'' London.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. ''Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War.'' Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994. * William Wilfred Campbell, ''Beyond the Hills of Dream''. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonie Adams
Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948. Biography Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she was eighteen, and even then her father accompanied her. Her sister was the teacher and archaeologist Louise Holland and her brother-in-law the archaeologist Leicester Bodine Holland. She studied at Barnard College, where she was a contemporary and friend of roommate Margaret Mead. While still an undergraduate, she showed remarkable skill as a poet, and at this time her poems began to be published. In 1924, she became the editor of ''The Measure''. Her first volume of poetry, titled ''Those Not Elect'', was in 1925. In the spring of 1928, she had a brief affair with Edmund Wilson. Adams apologized to Wilson for having "moped and quarreled" on the day she left for F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1740 In Poetry
:''When Britain first, at Heaven's command'' :''Arose from out the azure main;'' :''This was the charter of the land,'' :''And guardian angels sang this strain:'' :''"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:'' :''"Britons never will be slaves."'' —first stanza of James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia", written for the masque ''Alfred'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain * Sarah Dixon, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', Canterbury: J. AbreeWeb page titled"The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections/Dixon, Sarah" McMaster University Library website, retrieved February 4, 2010 * John Dyer, ''The Ruins of Rome''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Richard Glover, ''An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber'' * Christopher Pitt, ''The Aeneid of Virgil'' (Books 1-4 first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1704 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). -- From William Shippen's, ''Faction Display'd'', the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson (''Bibliopolo'', or "book-seller") whose series of anthologies, known as ''Dryden's Miscellanies'' or ''Tonson's Miscellanies'' used the work of poets paid at low rates to create profitable income for Tonson and, sometimes, recognition and fame for the poets. Shippen incorporated three lines (in italics) written about Tonson by John Dryden, one of the most prominent of Tonson's low-paid poets. Mack, Maynard, ''Alexander Pope: A Life'', Chapter 6, p 123, 1985 (but copyright 1986), first New York edition (also published simultaneously in London): W. W. Norton & Company "in association with Yale University Press / New Haven - London" ; Mack cites ''Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1774'', ed., G. DeF. Lord ''et al.'', Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adams (poet)
John Adams (March 26, 1705 – January 22, 1740) was an American poet. Biography Adams was the only son of merchant Hon. John Adams and Hannah Checkley of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap's friends formed a new society, and Adams was dismissed in about two years. He was distinguished for his intellect and piety. As a preacher he was much esteemed. His uncle, Matthew Adams, described him as "master of nine languages," and claimed that he was conversant with the most famous Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish authors, as well as with the noblest English writers. He also speaks of his nephew's "great and undissembled piety, which ran, like a vein of gold, through all his life and performances." Adams published a sermon on his ordination, 1728, and a poem on the love of money. He publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. * March 31–April 3 — ''Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry'' held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of '' o•blék'' magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference. * December 8 — Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
