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"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)

Famous Poets: Spotlight on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917 - 2000) #Americanpoet #biography #books #poetry #poetlaureate #PulitzerPrize 💙📚 #booksky #quotes cmoneyspinner.blogspot.com/2015/02/spot...
Famous Poets: Spotlight on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917 - 2000)
A biography snapshot of African-American poet, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (Jun 7, 1917 - Dec 3, 2000).
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February 19, 2026 at 6:46 AM
gentlemanoutsider.bsky.social
There's an old saying:

" If you don't like what I have to say, if you don't like honesty or truth, if you don't like what I stand up for or represent? "

" Tough Shit"

I'm An American Poet.

~ R.M. Engelhardt
© 2026
#rmengelhardt #gentlemanoutsider #americanpoet #poetrycommunity
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

#AmericanLiterature #Poetry #biographies
Holding the book "Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" in front of an old cross gravestone in the snow at a cemetery
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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The screen door slams Marys dress sways…
#TheBoss
#AmericanPoet
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
lunazuna.bsky.social
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 March 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
1887 photograph by George C. Cox
#BornOnThisDay #AmericanPoet #WaltWhitman
May 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
aempoet.bsky.social
My favorite Whitman photo [by George Collins Cox], posted for his birthday.
#americanpoet #waltwhitman #heroes
May 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
smartishpace.bsky.social
Here's part of Christopher Childers poem "Miasma" that appeared in Smartish Pace having won our Erskine J. Poetry Prize. The poem was later selected for the current volume of The Best American Poetry.

#poetry #SmartishPace #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #AmericanPoet
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
fredericward.bsky.social
Nature
is not
a place
to visit.
It is
home.
-Gary Snyder

Happy 95th birthday Mr Snyder...

* Photo - Phillip A. Harrington, Yuba River, 1969

#garysnyder #americanpoet #environmentalactivist #thebeatgeneration #zenbuddhism #poetlaureateofdeepecology #poethero
May 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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N. Scott Momaday
1934-2024
Two Figures, 1976
Published. Shared.
#poetry #americanpoet #literature #transience #rhymeandreason
May 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
monicadrake33.bsky.social
#EmilyDickinson #AmericanPoet #DOGE’D
April 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
giveitback.bsky.social
They took her work from the naval academy library but they can't take her poetry from us. #MayaAngelou #poetry #americanpoet #NationalPoetryMonth #censorship
April 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ledbytheunknown.bsky.social
#jimmorrison #americanpoet
April 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Reginald Dwayne Betts
1980-
Poetry, dogs, and grief
#poetry #americanpoet #doggerel #michelmartin #dogcompanion #grief #sorrow
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
prudence.social
Jean Toomer
1894-1967
#poetry #americanpoet #poem #brutality
March 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
chantalringuet.bsky.social
On parle de Plonger dans l’épave d’Adrienne Rich dans Libération!

@liberationfr
@editionsdunoroit
#adriennerich #poésie #traduction #traductionlittéraire #rich #poésieaméricaine #poesiefeministe #americanpoet #womanpoet
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.” -Nikki Giovanni

#wisdom #wordsofwisdom #portraitmonument #capitol #capitolrotunda #suffragette #americanpoet
February 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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New poetry from Caroline Chavatel in Smartish Pace!

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#poetry #SmartishPace #carolinechavatel #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #AmericanPoet #stephenreichertart #englishpoetry #creativewriting #verse #literature #StephenReichert #ContemporaryPoetry #AWP25
New poetry from Caroline Chavatel in Smartish Pace! ⚪️ #poetry #SmartishPace #carolinechavatel #SmartishPacePoet #Poets #poems #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #AmericanPoet #stephenreichertart #englishpoetry #creativewriting #verse #literature #StephenReichert #ContemporaryPoetry #ContemporaryPoet #AmericanPoet #AWP25 #PoetryMagazine #PoetryReview #PoetryJournal
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Snake Eyes" by #AmericanPoet Charles Wright, @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winner & former US Poet Laureate, is a 2004 collection of #poetry incl. East-Asian & Appalachian themes (& more besides)

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature
The book "Snake Eyes" by Charles Wright stands in front of a red background, above it is pictured a drawing of a yellow snake
January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Inspiring words of wisdom from Amanda Gorman.
Seek the light.
Be a light.
Don’t ever loose hope friends. 💙🦋🕊️
#Bluesky #AmandaGorman #AmericanPoet #ChangeMaker #SocialJustice #Equality #HumanRights #Advocacy #Unity #PowerofthePeople #BeALight #LightOverDarkness #Hope #Peace
Amanda Gorman quote from her poem The “The Hill We Climb.”
January 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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The very first episode of 2025 features the poetry of Louise Gluck. It looks at her poem snowdrops, an elegant study of the tenacity required to begin again, and how sometimes continuation is the best rebirth.

#PoetryPodcast #louiseglück #snowdrop #americanpoet
#poetryquotes #poetrycommunity
January 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM