Poet

63 famous people found

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  Patti SMITH

  American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist

  1946
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  Maya ANGELOU

  American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist

  1928 - 2014
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  Susan WALLACE

  American author and poet

  1830 - 1907
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  Julia WARD HOWE

  American abolitionist, social activist, poet, and the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

  1819 - 1910
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  Emily DICKINSON

  American poet

  1830 - 1886
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  Ezra Pound

  American poet and critic

  1885 - 1972
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  Sidney Lanier

  American musician, poet and author

  1842 - 1881
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  Ambrose Bierce

  American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran

  1842
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  Stephen Vincent Benét

  American poet, short story writer, and novelist

  1897 - 1943
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  Archibald MacLeish

  American poet and writer

  1892 - 1982
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  Hart Crane

  American poet

  1899 - 1932
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  Robert Lowell

  American poet

  1917 - 1977
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  Ina COOLBRITH

  American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community

  1841 - 1928
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  Luis J. RODRIGUEZ

  American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist

  1954
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  Angelina Weld GRIMKÉ

  American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet

  1880 - 1958
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  E. E. CUMMINGS

  American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright

  1894 - 1962
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  Henry David THOREAU

  American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist

  1817 - 1862
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  Edna ST. VINCENT MILLAY

  American lyrical poet and playwright, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923

  1892 - 1950
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  Deforest KELLEY

  American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer

  1920 - 1999
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  John Greenleaf WHITTIER

  Influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States

  1807 - 1892