Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

female, deceased (1950)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the...
Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa

male, 61 years old
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-) American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Gay Rights Club also Fellowship of...
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

male, 79 years old
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental...

Philip Levine

male, 81 years old
Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. He is the Distinguished Poet in Residence for the...
Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn

male, 70 years old
Stephen Dunn (b. 1939, New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for...
Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

female, deceased (1925)
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 - May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Franz Wright

Franz Wright

male, 56 years old
Franz Wright, born in Vienna, Austria in March 18, 1953, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book "Walking to Martha's Vineyard" (ISBN...
C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

male, 73 years old
C. K. Williams (b. November 4 1936, Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet. He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and...
Theodore Huebner Roethke

Theodore Huebner Roethke

male, deceased (1963) (Saginaw, Michigan)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963). Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Roethke was the son of a greenhouse owner; greenhouses figure prominently in the imagery...
James Tate

James Tate

male, 65 years old
James Vincent Tate (born December 8, 1943, Kansas City, Missouri) is a literary iconoclast, best known as a Pulitzer prize-winning and National...