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  1. Neruda, Pablo   Americas. Born: 1904, Died: 1973 (modern), 117 poems.
    Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets.
  2. Marti, Jose   Americas. Born: 1853, Died: 1895, 120 poems.
    Cuban poet, essayist and journalist, who became the symbol of Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain and who promoted better understanding among American nations
  3. Drummond de Andrade, Carlos   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1987 (modern), 43 poems.
  4. Hemingway, Ernest   Americas. Born: 1899, Died: 1961 (modern), 26 poems.
    The nobel prize-winning novelist of works such as The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway also published 88 poems.
  5. Kerouac, Jack   Americas. Born: 1922, Died: 1969 (modern), 16 poems.
    The voice of the Beat Generation, born in Lowell Massachusetts, the youngest of three children.  Probably best known for his novel On the Road
  6. cummings, e e   Americas. Born: 1894, Died: 1962 (modern), 191 poems.
    e.e. cummings
  7. Poe, Edgar Allan   Americas. Born: 1809, Died: 1849, 65 poems.
    was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide.
  8. Shakur, Tupac   Americas. Born: 1971, Died: 1996 (modern), 13 poems.
  9. Sexton, Anne   Americas. Born: 1928, Died: 1974 (modern), 189 poems.
    Sexton offers the reader an intimate view of the emotional anguish that characterized her life. She made the experience of being a woman a central issue in her poetry
  10. Hughes, Langston   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1967 (modern), 89 poems.
    Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty one years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing.
  11. Pinero, Miguel   Americas. Born: 1946, Died: 1988 (modern), 17 poems.
  12. Guest, Edgar Albert   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1959 (modern), 380 poems.
    They called him "The Poet of the People" "Poet Laureate of the American Home" and "America's Best Loved Poet of the Newspaper Age." In March, he earned another title, with his selection for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
  13. Frost, Robert   Americas. Born: 1874, Died: 1963 (modern), 136 poems.
    Early 1890’s Frost attempted to submit several of his work to various magazines, which were rejected.  It was in about 1894, when the first of his poetry began to appear. His elegy ‘My Butterfly, an Elegy” being published in the Independent (a nation
  14. Cullen, Countee   Americas. Born: 1903, Died: 1946, 28 poems.
    An imaginative lyric poet, he wrote in the tradition of Keats and Shelley and was resistant to the new poetic techniques of the Modernists
  15. Roethke, Theodore   Americas. Born: 1908, Died: 1963 (modern), 32 poems.
    Roethke exposure to nature and own reflections of family life give him an emotional basis for writings which helped break the mold previously set by T.S. Elliot.
  16. Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la   Americas. Born: 1651, Died: 1695, 9 poems.
    Her poetry, meanwhile, states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion.
  17. Ransom, John Crowe   Americas. Born: 1888, Died: 1974 (modern), 55 poems.
  18. Benet, Stephen Vincent   Americas. Born: 1898, Died: 1943, 43 poems.
    American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best-known for John Brown'S Body, a long epic poem on the Civil War, which Benét wrote in France. Benét received two Pulitzer prizes for his poetry.
  19. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth   Americas. Born: 1807, Died: 1882, 463 poems.
    Considered by many to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century, a storyteller, whose works are still cited - or parodied.
  20. Van Dyke, Henry   Americas. Born: 1852, Died: 1933, 122 poems.
    This dual belief in nature and religion colored his literary criticism as well as his other writing throughout his life.
  21. Williams, William Carlos   Americas. Born: 1883, Died: 1963 (modern), 112 poems.
    Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. His influence as a poet spread slowly during the twenties and thirties
  22. Dario, Ruben   Americas. Born: 1867, Died: 1916, 26 poems.
    Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat and the most well known of the modernismos
  23. Swenson, May   Americas. Born: 1913, Died: 1989 (modern), 21 poems.
    May Swenson became one of America's most inventive and incisive poets. English was actually her second language since Swedish was spoken in her childhood home.
  24. Storni, Alfonsina   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1938, 13 poems.
    She spoke on the behalf of many women by suggesting that relationships between men and women be intellectual and more balanced. She urged the government to grant women the vote and wrote articles and essays on women's rights.
  25. Bukowski, Charles   Americas. Born: 1920, Died: 1994 (modern), 163 poems.
    called America's greatest poet by French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Genet and has over 40 books to his credit of poetical works
  26. Pound, Ezra   Americas. Born: 1885, Died: 1972 (modern), 253 poems.
    Declared James Joyce the most influentila poet of the twentieth century.
  27. Twain, Mark   Americas. Born: 1835, Died: 1910, 7 poems.
    Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the major authors of American fiction. Twain is also considered the greatest humorist in American literature.
  28. Ginsberg, Allen   Americas. Born: 1926, Died: 1997 (modern), 49 poems.
    was an American poet and leading apostle of the beat generation.
  29. Crane, Stephen Maria   Americas. Born: 1871, Died: 1900, 104 poems.
    The secret of Crane's success as war correspondent, journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and poet lay in his achieving tensions between irony and pity, illusion and reality, or the double mood of hope contradicted by despair.
  30. Bradstreet, Anne   Americas. Born: 1612, Died: 1672, 61 poems.
    Her poems were published in 1650 as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, which is generally considered the first book of original poetry written in colonial America.
  31. Millay, Edna St. Vincent   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1950, 165 poems.
    It was during this time that she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Harp-Weaver and other Poems
  32. Vallejo, Cesar   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1938, 17 poems.
    César Vallejo was born in 1892 in the town of Santiago de Chuco, Perú, where he was brought up along with his eleven older brothers and sisters.

    Vallejo began writing poetry in 1913.
  33. Johnson, James Weldon   Americas. Born: 1871, Died: 1938, 67 poems.
    James Weldon Johnson came from an extremely talented family that weighed heavily on the prolific artist he came to be.  "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is his most famous work, it is now called, "The Negro National Anthem"
  34. Sandburg, Carl   Americas. Born: 1878, Died: 1967 (modern), 235 poems.
    He was ahead of most of his fellow poets in his interest in American folksong and lore. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1940) for the last of his six-volume biography of Lincoln (1926--39).
  35. Dunbar, Paul Laurence   Americas. Born: 1872, Died: 1906, 433 poems.
    Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of ex-slaves and classmate to Orville Wright of aviation fame.   
  36. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler   Americas. Born: 1850, Died: 1919, 464 poems.
    The questions and longings of those summer evenings when I stood in the dying glory of a Wisconsin sunset on the south hill back of the lonely little home, have all been answered.
  37. Nowlan, Alden   Americas. Born: 1933, Died: 1983 (modern), 5 poems.
    He is widely recognized as one of the most important poets to appear in Canada in the last thirty years.
  38. Grimke, Angelina Weld   Americas. Born: 1880, Died: 1958 (modern), 9 poems.
  39. Bryant, William Cullen   Americas. Born: 1794, Died: 1878, 139 poems.
  40. McKay, Claude   Americas. Born: 1889, Died: 1948, 81 poems.
    McKay's viewpoints and poetic achievements in the earlier part of the twentieth century set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance.
  41. Angelou, Dr. Maya   Americas. Born: 1928, 24 poems.
    Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature.  As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights  activist, producer and director, she
  42. Tabb, Father John Bannister   Americas. Born: 1845, Died: 1909, 906 poems.
    John Bannister Tabb was a poet and educater, born near Richmond, Virginia in 1845. Tabb descended from one of the oldest and wealthiest Virginian familes. He was privately tutored as a child. At the age of fourteen his sight was failing and he had to
  43. Towne, Charles Hanson   Americas. Born: 1877, Died: 1949, 108 poems.
  44. Brown, Sterling   Americas. Born: 1901, Died: 1989 (modern), 10 poems.
    Brown is known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of black people and their experiences...
  45. Brautigan, Richard   Americas. Born: 1935, Died: 1982 (modern), 57 poems.
    In the late 1960's, Brautigan began to gain popularity and during this time, published several of his most popular works
  46. Nash, Ogden   Americas. Born: 1902, Died: 1971 (modern), 121 poems.
    Created many childrens poems, musical comedies (collaborations), various poetry.
  47. Francis, Robert   Americas. Born: 1901, Died: 1987 (modern), 20 poems.
    Francis' poems are widely varied in form and subject, though a kind tone permeates much of his work. A world traveler, he often journeyed to Europe, at one time teaching at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
  48. Crane, Harold Hart   Americas. Born: 1899, Died: 1932, 33 poems.
    Crane strove to balance moments of ecstatic consciousness when spiritual transcendence seems within reach against the boundaries of human and material limitations.
  49. Eguren, Jose Maria   Americas. Born: 1882, Died: 1942, 27 poems.
    A Peruvian poet born in 1882. He was originally devoted to the modernismo movement.
  50. Stevens, Wallace   Americas. Born: 1879, Died: 1955, 50 poems.
    Critically regarded as one of the most significant American poets of the 20th century. Stevens largely ignored the literary world and he did not receive widespread recognition until the publication of his Collected Poems (1954).
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