Jonathan Aaron
Jonathan Aaron is the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006).
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Read more about >Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928.Read more about >
Photo credit: Dan Carraco Wendell Berry
Read more about >Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry is the author of more than thirty books.
Photo credit: Dorothy Alexander Adrienne Rich
Read more about >The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich wrote poems examining such things as women's role in society, racism, politics, and war.
Photo credit: Julie Dermansky Edward Hirsch
Read more about >Born in Chicago on January 20, 1950, Edward Hirsch is a poet and literary advocate. His second collection, Wild Gratitude (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Photo credit: Dorothy Alexander Lucille Clifton
Read more about >Lucille Clifton, the author of Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 (BOA Editions, 2000), which won the National Book Award, was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999.