American Poet
| Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| Mark Strand |
April 11, 1934 |
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| Mark Van Doren |
June 13, 1894 |
December 10, 1972 |
| Mary Oliver |
September 10, 1935 |
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| Mattie Stepanek |
July 17, 1990 |
June 22, 2004 |
| Maxwell Bodenheim |
May 26, 1891 |
February 6, 1954 |
| May Sarton |
May 3, 1912 |
1995 |
| Maya Angelou |
April 4, 1928 |
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| Muriel Rukeyser |
December 15, 1913 |
February 12, 1980 |
| Nikki Giovanni |
June 7, 1943 |
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| Ogden Nash |
August 19, 1902 |
May 19, 1971 |
| Paul Engle |
1908 |
1991 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
June 27, 1872 |
February 9, 1906 |
| Philip Levine |
January 10, 1928 |
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| Phoebe Cary |
September 4, 1824 |
1871 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
May 25, 1803 |
April 27, 1882 |
| Randall Jarrell |
May 6, 1914 |
October 15, 1965 |
| Richard Armour |
1906 |
1989 |
| Richard Eberhart |
April 5, 1904 |
June 9, 2005 |
| Richard Howard |
October 13, 1929 |
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| Richard Wilbur |
March 1, 1921 |
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| Rita Dove |
August 28, 1952 |
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| Robert Bly |
December 23, 1926 |
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| Robert Creeley |
May 21, 1926 |
March 30, 2005 |
| Robert Frost |
March 26, 1874 |
January 29, 1963 |
| Robert Hass |
March 1, 1941 |
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| Robert Lowell |
March 1, 1917 |
September 12, 1977 |
| Robinson Jeffers |
January 10, 1887 |
January 20, 1962 |
| Rod McKuen |
April 29, 1933 |
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| Sam Walter Foss |
June 19, 1858 |
February 26, 1911 |
| Samuel Ullman |
1840 |
1924 |
| Sharon Olds |
November 19, 1942 |
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| Shel Silverstein |
September 25, 1930 |
May 10, 1999 |
| Sidney Lanier |
March 3, 1842 |
September 7, 1881 |
| Stanley Kunitz |
July 29, 1905 |
May 14, 2006 |
| Stephen Dunn |
1939 |
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| Stephen Vincent Benet |
July 22, 1898 |
March 13, 1943 |
| Sylvia Plath |
October 27, 1932 |
February 11, 1963 |
| T. S. Eliot |
September 26, 1888 |
January 4, 1965 |
| Theodore Roethke |
May 25, 1908 |
August 1, 1963 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
November 11, 1836 |
March 19, 1907 |
| Toi Derricotte |
April 12, 1941 |
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| Vachel Lindsay |
November 10, 1879 |
December 5, 1931 |
| W. S. Merwin |
September 30, 1927 |
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| Wallace Stevens |
October 2, 1879 |
August 2, 1955 |
| Walt Whitman |
May 31, 1819 |
March 26, 1892 |
| Wendell Berry |
August 5, 1934 |
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| William C. Bryant |
November 3, 1794 |
1878 |
| William F. DeVault |
August 16, 1955 |
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| William Stafford |
January 17, 1914 |
August 28, 1993 |