List of poets from North America
This is a list of poets from North America.
Barbados[change | change source]
- George Lamming, poet, got a a Guggenheim Fellowship and became a professional writer.[1] He died in 2022.
- Kamau Brathwaite, won a Griffin Poetry Prize (International Winner), for Born to Slow Horses (poetry book);[2] d. 2020
Canada[change | change source]
- John McCrae, known for "In Flanders Fields" (a poem about war); d. 1918
- Pages appear in Category:Canadian poets
Cuba[change | change source]
- Carilda Oliver Labra, won the National Poetry Prize (1950);[3][4] d. 2018
- Pages appear in Category:Cuban poets
Dominican Republic[change | change source]
Norberto James Rawlings, wrote one of the most iconic Dominican poems of the twentieth century, "The Immigrants";[5][6] born in the Dominican Republic; d. 2021
Guatemala[change | change source]
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, got a Nobel Prize in Literature; d. 1974
Jamaica[change | change source]
- Jean "Binta" Breeze, a dub poet that wrote Riddym Ravings (poetry book); The title poem is also known as "The Mad Woman's Poem";[7] d. 2021
- Pages appear in Category:Jamaican poets
Mexico[change | change source]
- José Emilio Pacheco, known for the novella Battles in the Desert; d. 2014
- Pages appear in Category:Mexican poets
Saint Lucia[change | change source]
- Derek Walcott, got a Nobel Prize in Literature, died 2017
United States[change | change source]
- Francis Scott Key (d.1843), a poem of his became the national anthem of the United States
- T. S. Eliot (d. 1965); The Waste Land is [one of] his most important poems.[8]
- Gwendolyn Brooks (d. 2000), got a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Annie Allen,[9] making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.[10][11]
- Nikki Giovanni, nominated for a Grammy award for her poetry album The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection; born 1943
- Richard Blanco (born 1968), recited (or read) his poem "One Today" at the second inauguration (swearing-in ceremony) of a United States president; the first Latino inaugural poet[12]
- Amanda Gorman (born 1998), first to become National Youth Poet Laureate (see laureate)
The Nobel Prize in Literature, has been won by poets Toni Morrison, Louise_Glück. Another winner of that award, Sinclair Lewis, had his first works (printed or) published in Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine; Those works were romantic poetry and short sketches.
- Pages appear in Category:American poets
Trinidad and Tobago[change | change source]
John Lyons, born in Trinidad (1933), grew up in Trinidad and Tobago
Other countries in North America, has famous poets.
Related pages[change | change source]
Sources[change | change source]
- ↑ Hughes, Michael, "Lamming, George", in A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, p. 69.
- ↑ Staff (2006). "Kamau Brathwaite.", The Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006.
- ↑ Luis Sexto. "Carlida Oliver Labra: Poetry and Total Love". CubaNow. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
- ↑ Urbano Martínez Carmenate (2004). Carilda Oliver Labra: La Poesía Como Destino. Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas. p. 485.
- ↑ «"James J. Davis: Entrevista con el dominicano Norberto James Rawlings" Consultado el 2 de diciembre de 2016.
- ↑ «"Miguel D. Mena: "La urdimbre del silencio de Norberto James Rawlings"" Consultado el 2 de diciembre de 2016.
- ↑ Taukolonga, Sara (13 August 2011). "Making Poetry Seem Like A Breeze". The Voice. Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via Repeating Islands.
- ↑ https://snl.no/T._S._Eliot. Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 2023-12-01
- ↑ Banks, Margot Harper (2012). Religious allusion in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. McFarland & Co. p. 3. ISBN 978-0786449392.
- ↑ Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000). "Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
Gwendolyn Brooks, who illuminated the black experience in America in poems that spanned most of the 20th century, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, died yesterday at her home in Chicago. She was 83.
- ↑ "Frost? Williams? No, Gwendolyn Brooks". www.pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ↑ "'One Today': Full Text of Richard Blanco Inaugural Poem". ABC News.
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