Poet
63 famous people found
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Patti SMITH
American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist
1946 -
Maya ANGELOU
American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
1928 - 2014 -
Susan WALLACE
American author and poet
1830 - 1907 -
Julia WARD HOWE
American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1819 - 1910 -
Emily DICKINSON
American poet
1830 - 1886 -
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic
1885 - 1972 -
Sidney Lanier
American musician, poet and author
1842 - 1881 -
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran
1842 -
Stephen Vincent Benét
American poet, short story writer, and novelist
1897 - 1943 -
Archibald MacLeish
American poet and writer
1892 - 1982 -
Hart Crane
American poet
1899 - 1932 -
Robert Lowell
American poet
1917 - 1977 -
Ina COOLBRITH
American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community
1841 - 1928 -
Luis J. RODRIGUEZ
American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist
1954 -
Angelina Weld GRIMKÉ
American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet
1880 - 1958 -
E. E. CUMMINGS
American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
1894 - 1962 -
Henry David THOREAU
American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
1817 - 1862 -
Edna ST. VINCENT MILLAY
American lyrical poet and playwright, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923
1892 - 1950 -
John Greenleaf WHITTIER
Influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States
1807 - 1892 -
Deforest KELLEY
American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer
1920 - 1999