List of poets from North America

This is a list of poets from North America.

Barbados 
George Lamming, poet, got a a Guggenheim Fellowship and became a professional writer.Hughes, Michael, "Lamming, George", in A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, p. 69. He died in 2022.

Kamau Brathwaite, won a Griffin Poetry Prize (International Winner), for Born to Slow Horses (poetry book);Staff (2006). "Kamau Brathwaite.", The Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006. 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
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Cuba
Carilda Oliver Labra, won the National Poetry Prize (1950); d. 2018

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Dominican Republic

Norberto James Rawlings, wrote one of the most iconic Dominican poems of the twentieth century, "The Immigrants";«"James J. Davis: Entrevista con el dominicano Norberto James Rawlings" Consultado el 2 de diciembre de 2016.«"Miguel D. Mena: "La urdimbre del silencio de Norberto James Rawlings""  Consultado el 2 de diciembre de 2016. 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"; d. 2021

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Mexico
José Emilio Pacheco, known for the novella Battles in the Desert; d. 2014

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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.https://snl.no/T._S._Eliot. Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 2023-12-01

Gwendolyn Brooks (d. 2000), got a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

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 

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. 

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Trinidad and Tobago

John Lyons, born in Trinidad (1933), grew up in Trinidad and Tobago

Other countries in North America, has famous poets.

Related pages
Bob Dylan (born 1941), winner of Nobel Prize
List of poets from Oceania

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