Poetry

Brian Patten is an English poet and author. He came to prominence in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool […]

Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards

Rita Dove is an American poet who writes primarily in free verse, in both first- and third-person. She was the

Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of

Walter Dean Myers was a writer of children’s books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg,

Sharon Olds is an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984