Jonathan Aaron
Jonathan Aaron is the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006).
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Courtesy of Ada Limón Ada Limón
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: Beowulf Sheehan Tina Chang
Born in 1969, Tina Chang was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop for her debut collection Half-Lit Houses. She is the poet laureate of Brooklyn.Read more about >
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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.
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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.