American poets
Writers of verse from America
American poets refers to poets who are citizens of or strongly associated with the United States, distinguished from British, Canadian, or other English-language poets.
The term encompasses figures from colonial times through the present, including foundational voices like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, modernists like Robert Frost and Langston Hughes, and contemporary writers.
We studied American poets in our literature survey course.
- TranscendentalismIntuition-based American idealist movement
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- raceCompetition of speed
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
- open micUnscreened public performance slot
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