American poets

Nayyirah Waheed is an African-American poet who has published two books of incandescent poetry, entitled Salt and Nejma. by elewarne

A.R. Ammons, Eyesight 💞🌍🌎🌏💞Reference: The Selected Poems, W.W. Norton, 1975.

11 iconic poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, celebrated American Poet #GwendolynBrooks #Poetry

Anne Sexton, American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Live or Die. Other collections include To Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Transformations, and The Awful Rowing Toward God. Learn more about Sexton’s life and work.

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Erase your stereotypes and assumptions about Native American poets and dive into these rich works with themes on oppression, identity, and love.

Robert Lee Frost was an American Poet. He is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 31 times. #poem #poetry #life #robert #frost #motivation #theroadnottaken

In this generous anthology, Joel Conarroe has assembled the work of eightpoets who have shaped--and to some extent defined--American verse since 1940:Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, TheodoreRoethke, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell. The 164 selections inEight American Poets include widely anthologized works like Roethke's "MyPapa's Waltz," several of Berryman's "Dream Songs," and Anne Sexton's "Ringingthe Bells," as well as poems that are less…

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars,Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fledAnd paced upon the mountains overheadAnd hid his face amid a…