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  Harriet Monroe
  
  Poet, editor, scholar, critic, and patron of the arts Harriet Monroe founded the literary journal Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. She became instrumental in the “poetry renaissance” of the early...
  
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  June Jordan
  
  One of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed Jamaican American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan was known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political...
  
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  J. Ivy
  
  Ivy is a performance poet, a spoken word artist, and a songwriter. He won a Grammy Award in 2023 with his sixth album, THE POET WHO SAT BY THE DOOR,...
  
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Schools and Movements

The Harlem Renaissance

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The New York School of Poets

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The Black Arts Movement

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British Romanticism

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Modernism

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Featured Poem Samplers

- Wanda Coleman: Selections
  
  By Benjamin Voigt
  
  An American innovator and the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles.
  
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- Ed Roberson 101
  
  By Benjamin Voigt
  
  A poet examines the self and the world.
  
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- Robert Frost: Selections
  
  By Benjamin Voigt
  
  An introduction to one of America’s most popular poets
  
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- Langston Hughes 101
  
  By Benjamin Voigt
  
  Understanding a poet of the people, for the people.
  
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- Emily Dickinson 101
  
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  Demystifying one of our greatest poets.
  
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- William Butler Yeats 101
  
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  The different sides of Ireland's most famous poet.
  
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