- William Carlos Williams
Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. - E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. During his lifetime, he published more than 900 poems, along with two novels, several plays and essays, as well as numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings. He is remembered as one of the preeminent voices of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular. - Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5,1946 in Pasco, Washington) is a contemporary American poet. He has written and edited 26 books to date. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. He has now begun writing a new poem entitled Universe, the first section of which appears to be called "Revelator". Silliman sees his poetry as being part of a single poem or lifework, … - Frank O'Hara
Francis Russell O'Hara was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. - Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets. - Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1966. During the 1960s, along with poets, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, Waldman became part of the East Coast poetry scene, giving frequent readings at the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project. She ran the project from 1966-1978. She has published more than forty books. - Susan Howe
Susan Howe (born 1937) is an American poet and critic who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others. Her sister is the poet Fanny Howe and her niece is the author Danzy Senna. - Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. - Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer (b.1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. Palmer is the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry - Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 - January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, an author, and an amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". - Ted Berrigan
Ted Berrigan (15 November, 1934 - 4 July, 1983) was an American poet. - Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September, 1920 – 15 February, 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities in 1943 at UC Berkeley. She spent years in New York City where she became involved with the New York School Poets. She was also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., … - Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams (born 1929) is an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer. He is known as the founder of "The Jargon Society", which has published poetry, experimental fiction, photography, and folk art for more than fifty years. Based in his native North Carolina, both he and his publishing venture have long been associated with the Black Mountain Poets. Among the press's offerings are works by Charles Olson, Paul Metcalf, Lorine Niedecker, … - Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island. Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--- including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac, and movies--- often finds correspondence in his work. Coolidge grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and has lived, among other places, in Manhattan, Cambridge (MA), San Francisco, Rome (Italy), and the Berkshire Hills. - Cid Corman
Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 - March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of "Origin", who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. - Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander (b. 1956) is an American poet and the author of various books of poetry, essays, and work in translation. - Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (born 13 April 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published nine books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Armantrout was a member of the original West Coast Language group. - Clayton Eshleman
Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor. Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960's. He is the recipient (with José Rubia Barcia) of the National Book Award in 1979 for his co-translation of César Vallejo's "Complete Posthumous Poetry". He has also translated books by Aimé Césaire (with Annette Smith), Pablo Neruda, Antonin Artaud, Vladimir Holan, Michel Deguy and Bernard Bador. - Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994) was an American poet and author. - Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Mackey is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He has been editor and publisher of "Hambone" since 1982. - Barrett Watten
Barrett Watten (born September 18, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets. Since 1994, Watten has taught modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Other areas of research include postmodern culture and American literature; poetics; literary and cultural theory; visual studies; the avant-garde and digital literature. He is married to the poet Carla Harryman. - John Yau
John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published more over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism. His most recent book is Paradiso Diaspora (2006). His collections of poetry include "Borrowed Love Poems" (Penguin, 2002), "Forbidden Entries" (1996), "Berlin Diptychon"(1995), … - Bob Perelman
Bob Perelman (born in 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. He is often associated with the Language School group of poets. Perelman is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. - Bill Berkson
Bill Berkson is an American poet. Born in New York City, he attended Brown University, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Currently (as of 2006) he lives in San Francisco where he teaches art history and literature at the San Francisco Art Institute. Bill Berkson is the author of sixteen books and pamphlets of poetry, including the collections "Serenade", "Fugue State", … - Rachel Blau Duplessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. DuPlessis teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University and is the author of "Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers" (1985), "H.D.: The Career of that Struggle" (1986), … - Lew Welch
Lewis Barrett Welch, Jr. is an American poet associated with the Beat generation of poets, artists, and iconoclasts. - Ed Dorn
Edward Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. - Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952. She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University. Recent works of criticism include "Poetry and the Fate of the Senses", (winner of the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003 from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2004), … - Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel Jason and Margaret Rose (Kane) Kelly. He did his undergraduate studies at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating in 1955. He then spent three years at Columbia University. He has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College, where he has worked since 1961. - David Graham
David Graham is an American writer married to the artist Lee Shippey. He has published six collections of poetry, as well as poetry and short stories in numerous literary magazines. Born and raised in Johnstown, New York, he has taught English at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin since 1987, where he became full professor in 2001. - Robin Blaser
Robin Francis Blaser (born 18 May, 1925) is a noted author and poet in both the United States and Canada. - Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism. - Howard Moss
Howard Moss was an American poet, dramatist, and critic who was poetry editor of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and the National Book Award in 1972 for "Selected Poems." Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton and Amy Clampitt. - Tom Clark
Tom Clark is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City, on March 22, 1968. Currently (as of 2006) residing in California, Tom Clark's recent books of poetry are "Light & Shade: New and Selected Poems" (Coffee House, 2006) and "THRENODY" (effing press, 2006) - Rod Smith
Rod Smith, who was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962, is an American poet, editor and publisher. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, DC in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University. - Kristin Prevallet
Kristin Prevallet (born in 1966 in Denver) is an American poet and essayist who currently lives and works in New York City. Prevallet studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and has described herself as working in the tradition of Williams, Olson and the ongoing stream of American high modernists. In recent years, she has appeared regularly at the Bowery Poetry Club, the venue which defined the New York downtown poetry scene in the late 90s and early 00s. - Lorenzo Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas (August 31, 1944 - July 4, 2005) is an American poet and critic. He was born in the Republic of Panama and grew up in New York City, where his family immigrated in 1948. Thomas was a graduate of Queens College in New York. During his years there, he joined the Umbra Workshop, which drew young writers to the Lower East Side of New York City in search of their artistic voices. It served as a crucible for emerging black poets, among them Ishmael Reed, … - Brian Turner
Brian Turner is an American poet and the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for poetry. From Fresno, California, Turner has seen his poems published in "Poetry Daily", "Atlanta Review", "Crab Orchard Review", "Georgia Review", "Rattle", and "ZYZZYVA". His poems have also appeared in the "Voices in Wartime" anthology. He received the Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, "Here, Bullet", … - Michael Heller
Michael Heller (b.1937), is an American poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are "Exigent Futures", "In The Builded Place", "Wordflow" and "Living Root: A Memoir". He wrote the libretto for the opera, "Benjamin", based on the life of Walter Benjamin. He is recipient of awards including the NEH Poet/Scholar grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (NYFA), National Endowment for the Humanities award, … - Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson, born December 18, 1944 in Oakland, CA, is an American poet.
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