Famous Poets: Spotlight on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917 - 2000) A biography snapshot of African-American poet, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (Jun 7, 1917 - Dec 3, 2000).

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)

Famous Poets: Spotlight on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917 - 2000) #Americanpoet #biography #books #poetry #poetlaureate #PulitzerPrize 💙📚 #booksky #quotes cmoneyspinner.blogspot.com/2015/02/spot...

There's an old saying:

" If you don't like what I have to say, if you don't like honesty or truth, if you don't like what I stand up for or represent? "

" Tough Shit"

I'm An American Poet.

~ R.M. Engelhardt
© 2026
#rmengelhardt #gentlemanoutsider #americanpoet #poetrycommunity

Holding the book "Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" in front of an old cross gravestone in the snow at a cemetery

Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

#AmericanLiterature #Poetry #biographies

The screen door slams Marys dress sways…
#TheBoss
#AmericanPoet

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 March 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
1887 photograph by George C. Cox
#BornOnThisDay #AmericanPoet #WaltWhitman

My favorite Whitman photo [by George Collins Cox], posted for his birthday.
#americanpoet #waltwhitman #heroes

Here's part of Christopher Childers poem "Miasma" that appeared in Smartish Pace having won our Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The poem was later selected for the current volume of The Best American Poetry.

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Nature
is not
a place
to visit.
It is
home.
-Gary Snyder

Happy 95th birthday Mr Snyder...

* Photo - Phillip A. Harrington, Yuba River, 1969

#garysnyder #americanpoet #environmentalactivist #thebeatgeneration #zenbuddhism #poetlaureateofdeepecology #poethero

N. Scott Momaday
1934-2024
Two Figures, 1976
Published. Shared.
#poetry #americanpoet #literature #transience #rhymeandreason

#EmilyDickinson #AmericanPoet #DOGE’D

They took her work from the naval academy library but they can't take her poetry from us. #MayaAngelou #poetry #americanpoet #NationalPoetryMonth #censorship

#jimmorrison #americanpoet

Reginald Dwayne Betts
1980-
Poetry, dogs, and grief
#poetry #americanpoet #doggerel #michelmartin #dogcompanion #grief #sorrow

Jean Toomer
1894-1967
#poetry #americanpoet #poem #brutality

On parle de Plonger dans l’épave d’Adrienne Rich dans Libération!

@liberationfr
@editionsdunoroit
#adriennerich #poésie #traduction #traductionlittéraire #rich #poésieaméricaine #poesiefeministe #americanpoet #womanpoet

“Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.” -Nikki Giovanni

#wisdom #wordsofwisdom #portraitmonument #capitol #capitolrotunda #suffragette #americanpoet

New poetry from Caroline Chavatel in Smartish Pace! ⚪️ #poetry #SmartishPace #carolinechavatel #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #AmericanPoet #stephenreichertart #englishpoetry #creativewriting #verse #literature #StephenReichert #ContemporaryPoetry #ContemporaryPoet #AmericanPoet #AWP25 #PoetryMagazine #PoetryReview #PoetryJournal

New poetry from Caroline Chavatel in Smartish Pace!

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#poetry #SmartishPace #carolinechavatel #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #AmericanPoet #stephenreichertart #englishpoetry #creativewriting #verse #literature #StephenReichert #ContemporaryPoetry #AWP25

The book "Snake Eyes" by Charles Wright stands in front of a red background, above it is pictured a drawing of a yellow snake

"Snake Eyes" by #AmericanPoet Charles Wright, @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winner & former US Poet Laureate, is a 2004 collection of #poetry incl. East-Asian & Appalachian themes (& more besides)

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature

Amanda Gorman quote from her poem The “The Hill We Climb.”

Inspiring words of wisdom from Amanda Gorman.
Seek the light.
Be a light.
Don’t ever loose hope friends. 💙🦋🕊️
#Bluesky #AmandaGorman #AmericanPoet #ChangeMaker #SocialJustice #Equality #HumanRights #Advocacy #Unity #PowerofthePeople #BeALight #LightOverDarkness #Hope #Peace

The very first episode of 2025 features the poetry of Louise Gluck. It looks at her poem snowdrops, an elegant study of the tenacity required to begin again, and how sometimes continuation is the best rebirth.

#PoetryPodcast #louiseglück #snowdrop #americanpoet
#poetryquotes #poetrycommunity

Rest in Peace Nikki Giovanni. I always liked this poem best.

#nikkigiovanni
#poems
#poetry
#americanpoet