Name Dropping #48: U.S. Poets - Statistics

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Hint	Extra Hint	Answer	% Correct
Edgar Allen	1809–1849. “The Raven”.	Poe	100%
Elizabeth	1911–1979. “The Man-Moth”. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1955); National Book Award for Poetry (1970); National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1976); Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1976).	Bishop	83%
Hart	1899–1932. The Bridge.	Crane	83%
E. E.	1894–1962. “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”.	Cummings	83%
Emily	1830–1886. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”.	Dickinson	83%
Ralph Waldo	1803–1882. “Threnody”.	Emerson	83%
Robert	1874–1963. “The Road Not Taken”. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943); Congressional Gold Medal (1960).	Frost	83%
William Dean	1837–1920. “If”.	Howells	83%
Langston	1902–1967. “Harlem”.	Hughes	83%
Henry Wadsworth	1807–1882. “Paul Revere’s Ride”.	Longfellow	83%
Jim	1943–1971. An American Prayer. No poetry prizes, but was songwriter, lyricist and frontman for The Doors (1965–1971).	Morrison	83%
Sylvia	1932–1963. The Bell Jar. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1955); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982, posthumously).	Plath	83%
Ezra	1885–1972. “In a Station of the Metro”. Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1948).	Pound	83%
Wallace	1879–1955. Harmonium. Robert Frost Medal (1951).	Stevens	83%
Walt	1819–1892. Leaves of Grass.	Whitman	83%
William Carlos	1883–1963. “This Is Just to Say”.	Williams	83%
Amiri (formerly known as LeRoi Jones)	1934–2014. “Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note”. Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002–2003); Langston Hughes Award (1989); induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001); others.	Baraka	67%
Nikki	1943–2024. “Knoxville, Tennessee”. Poet-in-Residence, California Institute of Technology (1966–1967).	Giovanni	67%
Amanda	1998–. “The Hill We Climb”. National Youth Poet Laureate (2017–2018); Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate (2014–2015); Read one of her poems at the Biden inauguration (2021).	Gorman	67%
Carl	1878–1967. Chicago Poems. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1919, 1940, 1951); Robert Frost Medal (1952); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964).	Sandburg	67%
Richard	1935–1984. “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”.	Brautigan	50%
Louise	1897–1970. “To Be Sung On The Water”.	Bogan	33%
Jim	1949–2009. Organic Trains. Also known for prose writing and punk/new wave performances with the band Amsterdam and another, eponymous band.	Carroll	33%
Countee	1903–1946. “Yet Do I Marvel”. Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame (2013).	Cullen	33%
Donald	1893–1968. Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems.	Davidson	33%
Jim	1937–2016. Songs of Unreason.	Harrison	33%
Kenneth	1925–2002. The Art of Love: Poems. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1948); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1994); Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award (2000).	Koch	33%
George	1908–1984. Of Being Numerous. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1969).	Oppen	33%
Tracy K.	1972–. Life on Mars. Cave Canem Prize (2002); Whiting Award (2005); James Laughlin Award (2006); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2012); United States Poet Laureate (2017–2019).	Smith	33%
Frank	1939–. Metaphysical Dog. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2003, 2018); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (2007); many others.	Bidart	17%
Terrance	1971–. Muscular Music. National Book Award for Poetry (2010); MacArthur Fellowship (2014); many others.	Hayes	17%

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