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Name Dropping #48: U.S. Poets
Each hint is the beginning of the name of a renowned U.S. poet. Your goal is to match it to their surname using the hint provided. The hint contains the poet’s birth and (if appropriate) death years, the title of a notable work (either an individual poem or a collection), and a list of awards and honors, which in some cases is abridged.
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Source for list: ranker.com
Source for poet-specific details: various Wikipedia articles
The list excludes poets who renounced their U.S. citizenship.
The list may include poets who expatriated but retained their citizenship.
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Last updated: May 11, 2026
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George
1908–1984. Of Being Numerous. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1969).
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).
Countee
1903–1946. “Yet Do I Marvel”. Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame (2013).
Kenneth
1925–2002. The Art of Love: Poems. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1948); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1994); Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award (2000).
Jim
1943–1971. An American Prayer. No poetry prizes, but was songwriter, lyricist and frontman for The Doors (1965–1971).
Henry Wadsworth
1807–1882. “Paul Revere’s Ride”.
Frank
1939–. Metaphysical Dog. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2003, 2018); Bollingen Prize for Poetry (2007); many others.
Wallace
1879–1955. Harmonium. Robert Frost Medal (1951).
Ralph Waldo
1803–1882. “Threnody”.
William Dean
1837–1920. “If”.
Emily
1830–1886. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”.
Terrance
1971–. Muscular Music. National Book Award for Poetry (2010); MacArthur Fellowship (2014); many others.
William Carlos
1883–1963. “This Is Just to Say”.
Robert
1874–1963. “The Road Not Taken”. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943); Congressional Gold Medal (1960).
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).
Jim
1937–2016. Songs of Unreason.
Walt
1819–1892. Leaves of Grass.
Jim
1949–2009. Organic Trains. Also known for prose writing and punk/new wave performances with the band Amsterdam and another, eponymous band.
E. E.
1894–1962. “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”.
Edgar Allen
1809–1849. “The Raven”.
Ezra
1885–1972. “In a Station of the Metro”. Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1948).
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).
Carl
1878–1967. Chicago Poems. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1919, 1940, 1951); Robert Frost Medal (1952); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964).
Hart
1899–1932. The Bridge.
Louise
1897–1970. “To Be Sung On The Water”.
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.
Nikki
1943–2024. “Knoxville, Tennessee”. Poet-in-Residence, California Institute of Technology (1966–1967).
Richard
1935–1984. “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”.
Langston
1902–1967. “Harlem”.
Donald
1893–1968. Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems.
Sylvia
1932–1963. The Bell Jar. Fulbright Scholarship Glascock Prize (1955); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982, posthumously).
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Bidart
Bishop
Bogan
Brautigan
Carroll
Crane
Cullen
Cummings
Davidson
Dickinson
Emerson
Frost
Giovanni
Gorman
Harrison
Hayes
Howells
Hughes
Koch
Longfellow
Morrison
Oppen
Plath
Poe
Pound
Sandburg
Smith
Stevens
Whitman
Williams
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