124 poets born between 1920 and 2005 - American Poems

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124 poets born between 1920 and 2005 - American Poems


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124 poets born between 1920 and 2005 - American Poems
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Chronological listing of poets featured on American Poems
Photo Poet Lived Hayden Carruth (1921 - ) James A. Emanuel (1921 - ) Richard Wilbur (1921 - ) Grace Paley (1922 - ) John Williams (1922 - 1994) Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) Alan Dugan (1923 - 2003) Anthony Hecht (1923 - 2004) Richard Hugo (1923 - 1982) Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997) James Schuyler (1923 - 1991) Edward Field (1924 - ) Jack Gilbert (1925 - ) Donald Justice (1925 - ) Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002) Jack Spicer (1925 - 1965) Gerald Stern (1925 - ) Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) Mac Hammond (1926 - 1997) Frank O'Hara (1926 - 1966) David Wagoner (1926 - ) Lew Welch (1926 - 1971) Galway Kinnell (1927 - ) W.S. Merwin (1927 - ) Donald Hall (1928 - ) Philip Levine (1928 - ) Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974) Maya Angelou (1928 - ) John Montague (1929 - ) Adrienne Rich (1929 - ) Gregory Corso (1930 - 2001) Gary Snyder (1930 - ) Patricia Goedicke (1931 - ) Etheridge Knight (1931 - 1991) Linda Pastan (1932 - ) Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) Shel Silverstein (1932 - 1999) Wendell Berry (1934 - ) Jean Valentine (1934 - ) Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984) Russell Edson (1935 - ) Lucille Clifton (1936 - ) Nancy Willard (1936 - ) Marge Piercy (1936 - ) Marvin Bell (1937 - ) Eleanor Wilner (1937 - ) Diane Wakoski (1937 - ) Raymond Carver (1938 - 1988) Steve Kowit (1938 - ) Charles Simic (1938 - ) Frank Bidart (1939 - ) Stephen Dunn (1939 - ) Ted Kooser (1939 - ) Charles Webb (1939 - ) Martha Collins (1940 - ) Judy Grahn (1940 - ) Bill Knott (1940 - 1966) Ronald Koertge (1940 - ) Frances Mayes (1940 - ) Robert Pinsky (1940 - ) Jack Prelutsky (1940 - ) Billy Collins (1941 - ) Stephen Dobyns (1941 - ) D.C. Berry (1942 - ) Michael Lally (1942 - ) William Matthews (1942 - 1997) Sharon Olds (1942 - ) Ron Padgett (1942 - ) Louise Gluck (1943 - ) James Tate (1943 - ) Alice Walker (1944 - ) Annie Dillard (1945 - ) Norman Dubie (1945 - ) Larry Levis (1946 - 1996) Thomas Lux (1946 - ) Ai (1947 - ) Geraldine Connolly (1947 - ) Aaron Fogel (1947 - ) Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995) Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 - ) Maggie Anderson (1948 - ) David Lehman (1948 - ) Heather McHugh (1948 - ) Katha Pollitt (1949 - ) Joyce Sutphen (1949 - ) Jim Carroll (1950 - ) Carolyn Forché (1950 - ) Jorie Graham (1950 - ) Brooks Haxton (1950 - ) Edward Hirsch (1950 - ) Arthur Sze (1950 - ) Ralph Angel (1951 - ) Andrew Hudgins (1951 - ) Joseph Mayo Wristen (1951 - ) Naomi Shihab Nye (1952 - ) Gary Soto (1952 - ) Connie Wanek (1952 - ) Mark Doty (1953 - ) Tony Hoagland (1953 - ) Mark Irwin (1953 - ) Richard Jones (1953 - ) Catherine Anderson (1954 - ) Cornelius Eady (1954 - ) Mark Hillringhouse (1954 - ) Kimiko Hahn (1955 - ) April Bernard (1956 - ) Forrest Hamer (1956 - ) Li-Young Lee (1957 - ) Nick Flynn (1960 - ) Bob Hicok (1960 - ) Denise Duhamel (1961 - ) Maggie Estep (1962 - ) Ruth L. Schwartz (1962 - ) Nick Carbo (1964 - ) Luisa Villani (1964 - ) Erin Belieu (1965 - ) Natasha Trethewey (1966 - ) David Berman (1967 - ) Daisy Fried (1967 - ) Deborah Ager (1971 - ) Stanley Gemmell (1972 - ) Ben Doyle (1973 - )

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