Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

male, deceased (1962)
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), abbreviated E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright....
Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara

male, deceased (1966)
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...
Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

male, 78 years old
Jerome Rothenberg received his BA in English from the City College of New York and his MA in English Language and Literature from the University of...
Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly

male
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...
Theodore Enslin

Theodore Enslin

male, 84 years old
Theodore Vernon Enslin (born March 25, 1925) is an American poet associated with Cid Corman's "Origin" magazine and press. He is widely regarded as...
Billy Collins

Billy Collins

male, 68 years old
William J. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22, 1941) is a poet who served two terms as the 11th Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2001 to...
Al Alvarez

Al Alvarez

male, 80 years old
Al Alvarez (born London, August 5 1929) is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Born Alfred...
Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard

male, 63 years old
Tom Pickard (born 1946, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the...
Charles Potts

Charles Potts

male, 66 years old
Charles Potts (born August 281943) from Walla Walla, Washington is an American, projectivist poet, and was once mentored by Edward Dorn.