American post-1945 poetry

A list of postwar American poets whose profiles we have covered in the LE.

Articles Year
A. R. Ammons 1946 - 2001
David Antin 1955 - 2016
John Ashbery 1953 - 2016
Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1975
Amiri Baraka 1957 - 2013
Charles Bernstein 1975 -
John Berryman 1942 - 1968
Frank Bidart 1973 -
Paul Blackburn 1946 - 1971
Robin Blaser 1955 - 2009
Robert Bly 1947 - 2020
Fred Chappell 1963 - 2024
Lucille Clifton 1969 - 2008
Confessional and Post-confessional Poetry 1950
Peter Cooley 1975 -
Robert Creeley 1945 - 2005
Michael Donaghy 1975 - 2004
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) 1906 - 1960
Ariel Dorfman 1968 -
Ed Dorn 1956 - 1999
Rita Dove 1972 -
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1952 - 2021
Carolyn Forché 1976 -
Allen Ginsberg 1944 - 1997
Thom Gunn 1949 - 2004
Marilyn Hacker 1967 -
Joy Harjo 1973 -
Robert Hass 1973 -
Lyn Hejinian 1972 - 2024
Linda Hogan 1978 -
Garrett Hongo 1982 -
Richard Howard 1962 -
Andrew Hudgins 1985 -
Mark Jarman 1978 -
Bob Kaufman 1955 - 1986
Burt Kimmelman 1973 -
Kenneth Koch 1945 - 2002
Yusef Komunyakaa 1973 -
Ursula Krechel 1972 -
Denise Levertov 1940 - 1997
Robert Lowell 1937 - 1977
William Matthews 1985 - 1997
Bernadette Mayer 1964 - 2022
James Merrill 1951 - 1995
W. S. Merwin 1952 - 2019
Janice Mirikitani 1971 -
Janice Mirikitani 1971 - 2021
Frank O'Hara 1946 - 1966
Sharon Olds 1962 -
Mary Oliver 1963 - 2019
Charles Olson 1947 - 1960
Robert Pinsky 1965 -
Sylvia Plath 1952 - 1963
Ezra Pound 1908 - 1969
Adrienne Rich 1950 - 2010
Ed Sanders 1963 -
Leslie Scalapino 1975 - 2008
Anne Sexton 1960 - 1974
Charles Simic 1958 - 2023
W. D. Snodgrass 1959 - 2009
Gary Snyder 1950 -
William Stafford 1934 - 1993
Stevens, Wallace. Harmonium 1923
Stevens, Wallace. Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird 1923
Mark Strand 1964 - 2014
Luci Tapahonso 1981 -
James Tate 1967 -
David Wagoner 1953 - 2021
James Welch 1970 - 2003
William Carlos Williams 1909 - 1963
Charles Wright 1970 -
James Wright 1947 - 1980
Article Groups
African American Poetry
Black Mountain poets
Confessional Poetry
LANGUAGE Poetry
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