American poets American poets Barbara Garson (born July 7, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American playwright best known for MacBird, a notorious 1966 counterculture drama which satirically depicts President Lyndon Johnson as Macbeth. She is also the author of the plays The Co-op ( 1972) and The Dinosaur Door ( 1976). She has written numerous magazine articles and the books All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work ( 1975), The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past ( 1988), and Money Makes the World Go Around ( 2001). ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Garson"
Barbara Guest (born 1920) is an American poet and critic who is frequently associated with the New York School. She is also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Guest"
Barbara Kingsolver is an US fiction writer. She has written several novels and poems, and established the Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change". ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Kingsolver"
Barbara Moraff is an American poet of the Beat generation. She is currently living in Vermont. She continues to write, but also creates as a potter and cook. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Moraff"
Baxter Black (born January 2, 1945) is an American cowboy, poet, and radio commentator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baxter Black"
Bernadette Mayer (born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a poet and prose writer. In 1967 she received a BA from New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci and the United Artists Press with her husband Lewis Warsh. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernadette Mayer"
Bertha Hirsch Baruch was an American (California) writer and suffragette. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bertha Hirsch Baruch"
Betsy Colquitt (born 1927) is a distinguished and much-published poet who is praised for her themes and poetic structures that reflect a modernist sensibility. Her poems, essays, and reviews have been widely published in major American literary journals for the past forty years. Colquitt, nee Betsy Ruth Feagan, was born and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas where she attended Paschal High School and graduated with honors with a degree in English from Texas Christian University in 1947. She attended Vanderbilt University and studied creative writing in a graduate program that included Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom who served as Colquitt's professors and mentors. James Dickey was a fellow classmate. Colquitt received her M.A. degree from Vanderbilt in 1948. She attended the University of Wisconsin to work on her Ph.D. but left the program in 1953 to return to Fort Worth because her mother had suffered a stroke. Colquitt joined the faculty of the English department at Texas Christian University in 1953 where she taught literature and creative writing until her retirement in 1995. A course she developed on the "Interrelation of the Arts" became a mainstay of the program and a much beloved and influential course among her students. At TCU, she also became the founding editor of the literary journal Descant, which she edited for twenty-five years. The major poetry award offered by Descant is named in her honor. While at TCU, she met and married Landon Colquitt, a mathematics professor to whom she was married until his death from a heart attack in 1991. The Colquitts had two daughters, Kate, a physician, and Clare, a professor at San Diego State University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betsy Colquitt"
Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the eleventh Poet Laureate of the United States. In his home state, he has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billy Collins"
William Patrick Corgan, Jr. (born March 17, 1967 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, U.S.A.), most commonly known as Billy Corgan is an American vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work in the now-disbanded alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. The Pumpkins were one of alternative rock's biggest acts, known for their complex, layered sound, Corgan's scathing guitar and distinctive vocal style, and making use of elaborate and evocative fantasy imagery. The Smashing Pumpkins produced five major albums, including the widely-acclaimed and commercially successful albums Siamese Dream ( 1993) and the follow-up double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ( 1995). ...more on Wikipedia about "Billy Corgan"
Blanche Oelrichs ( October 1, 1890 - November 5, 1950) was an American poet, playwright, and theatre actress known by the pseudonym, "Michael Strange." ...more on Wikipedia about "Blanche Oelrichs"
Bob Cherry is a fiction writer and poet. His works have received many awards and honors, including the 1999 Horizon Award for his first novel, Spirit of the Raven: An Alaskan Novel. This best-selling novel was also recognized by the Western Writers of America as one of three finalists in its 2000 Awards for Best First Novel and Best Novel of the West. His short fiction has been published nationally and was awarded honors by the UNT literary magazine, Avesta. His poetry was awarded First Place on two separate occasions in the University of Alaska/Anchorage Daily News annual competition and has been published in anthologies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Cherry"
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet. He is one of America's most highly regarded songwriters, whose enduring contributions to American music are comparable to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Dylan"
Bob Kaufman ( April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986), born Robert Garnell Kaufman in New Orleans, Louisiana, was an American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Kaufman" Evergreen shortopedia!!!
C. D. Wright (born 1949) is a U.S. poet. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. D. Wright"
C. K. Williams is a American poet. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1936. He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career as a poet in the early 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. K. Williams"
The California Poet Laureate is a state poet laureate for the U.S. state of California. Each Poet Laureate for the State of California is appointed by the Governor of California for a term of 2 years. The program is run by the California Arts Council. ...more on Wikipedia about "California Poet Laureate"
Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Pax Atomica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Campbell McGrath"
Candy Barr ( July 6, 1935 – December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque exotic dancer, actress in one pornographic movie and model in men's magazines, of the mid- 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candy Barr"
Carl Rakosi ( November 6, 1903 – June 24, 2004) was the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Rakosi"
Carl August Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents and died in Flat Rock, North Carolina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Sandburg" You've Got Questions. We've Got shortopedia. American_poets
Carla Harryman (born 1952) is a United States poet and playwright associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carla Harryman"
Carlos Wilcox ( October 22, 1794 - May 29, 1827) was a minor American poet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlos Wilcox"
Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, and human rights advocate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carolyn Forché"
Cecil Percival Taylor (born in New York City March 15, 1930) is an American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman). His first recording Jazz Advance was released in 1956, and is described by Cook & Morton in the Penguin Guide to Jazz: "While there are still many nods ...more on Wikipedia about "Cecil Taylor"
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