List of poets from North America
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This is a list of poets from North America.
Barbados
- 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
- John McCrae, known for "In Flanders Fields" (a poem about war); d. 1918
- Leonard Cohen, known as a songwriter and for writing poetry books such as The Spice-Box of Earth, and Flowers for Hitler; d. 2016
- Pages appear in Category:Canadian poets
Cuba
- Carilda Oliver Labra, won the National Poetry Prize (1950);[3][4] d. 2018
- Pages appear in Category:Cuban poets
Dominican Republic
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
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, got a Nobel Prize in Literature; d. 1974
Jamaica
- 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
- José Emilio Pacheco, known for the novella Battles in the Desert; d. 2014
- Pages appear in Category:Mexican poets
Saint Lucia
- Derek Walcott, got a Nobel Prize in Literature, died 2017
United States
- 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 (d. 2024), nominated for a Grammy award for her poetry album The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
- 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
John Lyons, born in Trinidad (1933), grew up in Trinidad and Tobago
Other countries in North America, has famous poets.
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