Question: Which American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright who wrote approximately 2,900 poems was published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce?
Context: Annis Boudinot Stockton (July 1, 1736 – February 6, 1801) was an American poet, one of the first women to be published in the Thirteen Colonies.  Living in Princeton, New Jersey, Stockton wrote and published her poems in leading newspapers and magazines of the day and was part of a Mid-Atlantic writing circle.  She was the author of more than 120 works, but it was not until 1985, when a manuscript copybook long held privately was given to the New Jersey Historical Society, that most of them became known.  Before that, she was known to have written 40 poems.  The copybook contained poems that tripled the amount of her known work.  A complete collection of her works was published in 1995. Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.  He wrote approximately 2,900 poems; two autobiographical novels; four plays and several essays.  He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English-language literature. Duell, Sloan and Pearce was a publishing company located in New York City.  It was founded in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce.  It initially published general fiction and non-fiction, but not westerns, light romances or children's books.  It published works by many prominent authors, including Archibald MacLeish, John O'Hara, Erskine Caldwell (including his American Folkways series) Anaïs Nin, Conrad Aiken, Wallace Stegner, E. E. Cummings, Howard Fast, Benjamin Spock and Joseph Jay Deiss.  In addition to their literary list, the firm published many works of military history with a focus on aviation in the war years. The Techniques of Democracy is a book written by Herbert Croly, founder of the magazine "The New Republic".  It was published in 1942 by New York City publishers Duell, Sloan and Pearce.  In this book, Croly argues against both dogmatic individualism and dogmatic socialism. The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955.  Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region.  The books were written by local experts, describing "their" region.  Many of the individual volumes have become regarded as classics in folklore, local history, and American writing, and a number of them have been issued in multiple editions or are still in print. Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist, translator and playwright.  His newest poetry collection, "Square Inch Hours" (W.W. Norton) was published in 2017.  His work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Paris Review", "The Nation", "Poetry", "The Royal Court Theatre", "Proscenium Theatre Journal, American Poetry Review", and "The New York Times Book Review".  His plays have been produced at the Algonquin Theatre in New York City, The Side Project in Chicago, the Brooklyn International Theatre Festival"," and the Flint Michigan Play Festival.  He wrote the settings for the Sappho poems in the CD "Magus Insipiens", composed by Paul Sanchez and sung by soprano Kayleen Sanchez. William Houghton Sprague Pearce also known as W.H.S. Pearce (August 5, 1864 - April 15, 1935), an American artist, was born in Boston to Mary Anna Sprague Pearce and Shadrach Houghton Pearce.  His father ran a successful Chinese importing business.  He was descended from many of Massachusetts's founding and historical figures.  His grandfather was Charles Sprague, an early American poet known as the "Banker Poet of Boston".  His great grandfather, Samuel Sprague, was a Patriot of the Revolutionary period and a participant in the Boston Tea Party who served under George Washington.  He also is descended from Richard Warren, a Mayflower passenger and signer of the Mayflower Compact and The Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham. Place Called Estherville is a novel written by Erskine Caldwell, most famous for his novels "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre".  The book was first published in 1949 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce and later published in paperback by Signet Books.  It would go on to sell more than 1.5 million copies.  The novel centers on a biracial brother and sister, Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore.  After their mother dies, they move to a segregated town called Estherville to help take care of their sick aunt.  They face abuse from the town that culminates in tragedy. Greg Kuzma (born July 14, 1944 in Rome, New York), is an American poet, essayist, poetry reviewer, and editor, who has written and published more than 30 books.  Mostly in the 1970s, more than 300 of his poems were published in the nation's most prestigious journals.  At that time, he founded the Best Cellar Press, under which he produced handset letterpress chapbooks giving other poets who have become some of America's best known poets an early audience, including U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Albert Goldbarth, Wendell Berry, Alfred Starr Hamilton and Richard Shelton.  The Best Cellar Press was the inspiration for the current Backwaters Press in Omaha.  In the 1970s, Kuzma also founded the pioneering and influential literary magazine, "Pebble."  As an author, he has been largely collected by libraries worldwide. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet and playwright.  He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.
Answer: E. E. Cummings