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Born August 25, 1935 (age 89) • Tennessee
Title / Office poet laureate (2014-2015)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1998) • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1993)
Notable Works “Black Zodiac” • “Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems” • “Caribou” • “Chickamauga” • “Country Music” • “Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright” • “Self Portrait” • “The Southern Cross” • “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Selected poems, 1980–1990” • “Zone Journals”

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Gary Snyder
American poet
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Kay Ryan.
Kay Ryan
American poet
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American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
Anthony Hecht
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Lisel Mueller
German-American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
American poet
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
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W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown
American poet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines