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A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Also Known As Mark Apter Strand
Born April 11, 1934 • Summerside • Canada
Died November 29, 2014 (aged 80) • New York City • New York
Title / Office poet laureate (1990-1991)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1993)
Notable Works “Blizzard of One” • “Dark Harbor” • “Darker” • “Reasons for Moving”
Anthony Hecht
American poet
Maxine Kumin
American author
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Robert Hass
American poet and translator
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
James Tate
American poet
Gary Snyder
American poet
Louise Glück
Louise Glück
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
May Swenson
American poet
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet

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Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)
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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
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