American poetry

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American poetry is the diverse body of poetic works produced in the United States and by American writers, reflecting the nation’s evolving history, cultures, and literary movements from colonial times to the present.

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American poetry canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf national literature ⓘ
poetry tradition ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
hasAward Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ⓘ
National Book Award for Poetry ⓘ
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ⓘ
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ⓘ
hasForm blank verse ⓘ
elegy ⓘ
epic poem ⓘ
free verse ⓘ
haiku ⓘ
ode ⓘ
prose poem ⓘ
sonnet ⓘ
villanelle ⓘ
hasInstitution Academy of American Poets ⓘ
Library of Congress Poetry Office ⓘ
Poetry Foundation ⓘ
Poets House ⓘ
hasLanguage African American Vernacular English ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ
Creole languages ⓘ
English ⓘ
French ⓘ
German ⓘ
Indigenous languages of North America ⓘ
Italian ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ
Korean ⓘ
Polish ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ
hasMovement American Modernism ⓘ
linked to: American modernism

American Romanticism ⓘ
Beat Generation ⓘ
Black Arts Movement ⓘ
Confessional poetry ⓘ
Harlem Renaissance ⓘ
Imagism ⓘ
Language poetry ⓘ
linked to: Language poets

Native American literary renaissance ⓘ
New York School ⓘ
Objectivist poetry ⓘ
Transcendentalism ⓘ
slam poetry ⓘ
spoken word poetry ⓘ
hasNotableFigure Adrienne Rich ⓘ
Allen Ginsberg ⓘ
Amiri Baraka ⓘ
Anne Bradstreet ⓘ
Claude McKay ⓘ
Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ
Elizabeth Bishop ⓘ
Emily Dickinson ⓘ
Ezra Pound ⓘ
Frank O’Hara ⓘ
Gwendolyn Brooks ⓘ
Henry David Thoreau ⓘ
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ
Jack Kerouac ⓘ
John Ashbery ⓘ
Joy Harjo ⓘ
Langston Hughes ⓘ
Louise Glück ⓘ
Maya Angelou ⓘ
Natasha Trethewey ⓘ
Ocean Vuong ⓘ
Phillis Wheatley ⓘ
Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ
Robert Frost ⓘ
Robert Lowell ⓘ
Sylvia Plath ⓘ
T. S. Eliot ⓘ
Terrance Hayes ⓘ
Tracy K. Smith ⓘ
Wallace Stevens ⓘ
Walt Whitman ⓘ
William Carlos Williams ⓘ
hasPeriod 19th-century American poetry ⓘ
American Civil War–era poetry ⓘ
American Modernist poetry ⓘ
American Romantic poetry ⓘ
American Transcendentalist poetry ⓘ
Beat Generation poetry ⓘ
Black Arts Movement poetry ⓘ
linked to: Black Arts Movement

Confessional poetry ⓘ
Gilded Age poetry ⓘ
Harlem Renaissance poetry ⓘ
Language poetry ⓘ
linked to: Language poets

New York School poetry ⓘ
linked to: New York School

colonial American poetry ⓘ
contemporary American poetry ⓘ
early national period poetry ⓘ
hasRole influences global poetry ⓘ
reflects American cultural diversity ⓘ
reflects American history ⓘ
hasTheme capitalism and labor ⓘ
civil rights ⓘ
democracy ⓘ
frontier and wilderness ⓘ
gender and sexuality ⓘ
immigration ⓘ
individualism ⓘ
race ⓘ
religion and spirituality ⓘ
slavery ⓘ
urban life ⓘ
war ⓘ
timeSpan from 17th century to present ⓘ

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