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Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the...
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and...
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Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic...
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Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko ɣarˈθia ˈlorka]) (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of...
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (English pronunciation: /ræmˈboʊ/ or /ˈræmboʊ/, French pronunciation: [aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo]; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville, Ardennes. As part of the decadent movement, his influence on...
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (July 13, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the...
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal...
Philip Levine
Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for...
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by...
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John Berryman
John Allyn Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.) (October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the...
Hart Crane
Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often archaic in language, and which...
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (pronounced /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" (1956), in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the...
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]), was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born...
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛruːæk, ˈkɛrəwæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation, and a literary iconoclast....
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965) was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. His first notable publication, The Love Song of J....
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Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (French pronunciation: [tʁistɑ̃ d͡zaˈʁa]; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 16 [O.S. April 4] 1896–December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active...
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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was a novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book...
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most...
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), also known as WCW, was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a...
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.
He was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, son of...
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 14, 1984) was a 20th century American writer. His novels and stories often have to do with black comedy, parody, satire, and Zen Buddhism. He is probably best known for his 1967 novel, Trout...
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Ebenezer Howard
Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850–May 1 1928) is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), the description of a utopian city in which man lives harmoniously together with the rest of nature. The publication led to the founding...
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John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist.
Dos Passos was born in Chicago, Illinois, the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos Jr. (1844-1917). The elder Dos Passos was a lawyer of...
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires,...
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Michael McClure
Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the...
Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet who is associated with the "deep image" poets, and to a lesser degree, the "confessional" and Beat poets of the 1960s.
Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of...
Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short...
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
Banks lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is presently also Artist-in-Residence at the University of...
James Broughton
James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) was an American poet, and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries.
A selected collection of his work, All: A James Broughton...
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet.
Oliver was born to Edward William and Helen M. V. Oliver on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland. She briefly attended both Ohio State University and...
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Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali (born 28 March 1965) is an American slam poet, teacher and voiceover artist.
A 10th-generation native of New York City, Taylor Mali graduated from the Collegiate School, a private school for boys, in 1983. He received a B.A. in English...
Charles Plymell
Charles Plymell (also known as Charlie Plymell) is originally from Belle Plain Kansas. He is often overlooked for his involvement as a Beat writer and poet.
In 1935, Charley Plymell's father took his family to Holcomb, Kansas, where Charley was born...
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Larry Heinemann
This article is about the American novelist, not the composer/musician known for his collaborations with Blue Man Group.
Larry Heinemann (born 1944) is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago. His body of work--three novels and a memoir--is...
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Oton Župančič
Oton Župančič (January 23, 1878 – June 11, 1949) was a Slovene poet, translator and playwright.
Župančič is regarded, alongside Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, as the beginner of modernism in Slovenian literature. In the period following...
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Frank Stanford
Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine, highly lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation. In addition, Stanford...
John Most
For the German anarchist, see Johann Most.
John Most (born April 11, 1977) is an American poet.
John Most, poet, was born Jonathan Eccard in Covington, Virginia, a small mill town in the Alleghany Mountains, the son of Emmitt and Sandra Eccard. His...
Walter Lowenfels
Walter Lowenfels (May 10, 1897 – July 8, 1976) was an American poet, journalist, and member of the Communist Party USA. He also edited the communist newspaper the Daily Worker.
Lowenfels was born in New York City to a successful butter manufacturer....
John Green
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American author of young adult fiction and a YouTube vlogger.
Green attended Indian Springs School, a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from...
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Felice Picano
Felice Picano is a gay American writer.
Felice Picano was born in New York City in 1944. He was graduated cum laude from Queens College in 1964 with English department honors. He founded SeaHorse Press in 1977, and The Gay Presses of New York in...
David Biespiel
David Biespiel (born February 18, 1964) is an American poet who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raised in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, University of Maryland, and Boston University. He is the founder of The Attic Writers'...
Richard McCann
Richard McCann is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a long-time professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University
A gay writer, He is the author of Mother of Sorrows, a...
Robert Peters
Robert Louis Peters is a poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924. He holds a Ph.D in Victorian literature. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died...
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William Michaelian
William Michaelian, (born May 20, 1956) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Born in Dinuba, California, a small town southeast of Fresno, Michaelian grew up on his family's farm. He has lived in Salem, Oregon, since 1987. His...
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Billy Childish
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work — he has detailed his love life and childhood...
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Mary Hood
Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat....
Fernando Cabrera
Fernando Cabrera (born 30 May 1964) is a National Poetry and Essay Prize winning Dominican writer.
Cabrera (full name Fernando de Jesús Reynoso Cabrera) was born in El Ensanche Libertad, a neiborhood of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic...
Michael Pendragon
Michael Pendragon (born October 23, 1963) is an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher. He was born Michelangelo Scarlotti in southern New Jersey (birthplace generally cited as simply "the Pine Barrens").
(Much of the biographical information...
Harry Northup
Harry Northup (born September 2, 1940, Amarillo, Texas) is an American actor and poet.
Harry Northup lived in seventeen places by the time he was seventeen, but mostly lived in Sidney, Nebraska, where he graduated from high-school in 1958. From 1958...
Vincent Louis Carrella
Vincent Louis Carrella (born June 26, 1965) is a pioneering interactive story-teller and game developer and an American fiction novelist and short story writer. His debut novel Serpent Box, was published on February 26, 2008, based on an initial...
Michael C. Ford
Michael C. Ford is a poet, playwright, editor and recording artist.
Ford [born December 13 1939) in Chicago, Illinois and moved with his parents to Pasadena, California toward the end of World War II. Between 1974 and 1977 he co-edited a prose...
