Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: US Poet Laureate

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Randall Jarrell, American Poet
(1914-1965)

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Name: Randall Jarrell
Birth: May 6, 1914, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Death: October 14, 1965, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist remembered for The Woman at the Washington Zoo, The Lost World, Pictures from an Institution, and other poems. US Poet Laureate (1956-1958).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Natasha Trethewey, American Poet
(1966 - )

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Name: Natasha Trethewey
Birth: April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American poet; Domestic Work; Native Guard; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006); Poet Laureate of the US (2012–2014)

Louise Glück, American Poet
(1943-2023)

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Name: Louise Glück
Birth: April 22, 1943, New York City, New York, USA
Death: October 13, 2023, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American poet; Firstborn; Triumph of Achilles; The Wild Iris; Meadowlands; Averno; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1993); US Poet Laureate (2003–2004)

Billy Collins, American Poet
(1941 - )

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Name: Billy Collins
Birth: March 22, 1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American poet; The Art of Drowning; Picnic, Lightning; Poet Laureate of the USA (2001-2003)

Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American Poet and Essayist
(1940-1996)

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Name: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Known as: Joseph Brodsky
Birth: May 24, 1940, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: January 28, 1996, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Russian; English
Who he was: Russian-American poet and essayist; Gorbunov and Gorchakov; Less Than One: Selected Essays; Nobel Prize in Literature (1987); Poet Laureate of the USA (1991)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Ted Kooser, American Poet
(1939 - )

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Name: Ted Kooser
Birth: April 25, 1939, Ames, Iowa, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American poet; Delights and Shadows; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2005); Poet Laureate of the USA (2004-2006)

Charles Simic, Serbian-American Poet
(1938-2023)

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Name: Charles Simic
Birth: May 9, 1938, Belgrade, Serbia
Death: January 9, 2023, Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Languages: Serbian; English
Who he is: Serbian-American poet; The World Doesn't End; Selected Poems; Unending Blues; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1990); Poet Laureate of the USA (2007-2008)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Philip Levine, American Poet
(1928-2015)

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Name: Philip Levine
Birth: January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Death: February 14, 2015, Fresno, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet; The Simple Truth; What Work Is; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1994); Poet Laureate of the USA (2011-2012)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

James Dickey, American Poet and Novelist
(1923-1997)

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Name: James Dickey
Birth: February 2, 1923, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Death: January 19, 1997, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet and novelist; Buckdancer's Choice: Poems; Deliverance; Poet Laureate of the USA (1966)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Howard Nemerov, American Poet
(1920-1991)

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Name: Howard Nemerov
Birth: February 29, 1920, New York City, New York, USA
Death: July 5, 1991, University City, Missouri, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet; The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov; twice Poet Laureate of the USA (1963-1964 and 1988-1990); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1978)

Richard Wilbur, American Poet
(1921 - )

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Name: Richard Wilbur
Birth: March 1, 1921, New York City, New York, USA
Death: October 14, 2017, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet; Things of This World; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1957, 1989); Poet Laureate of the USA (1996)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Stanley Kunitz, American Poet
(1905-2015)

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Name: Stanley Kunitz
Birth: July 29, 1905, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 14, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet; Selected Poems: 1928-1958; Passing Through: The Later Poems; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1959); Poet Laureate of the USA (1974 and 2000)

Juan Felipe Herrera, American Poet
(1948 - )

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Name: Juan Felipe Herrera
Birth: December 27, 1948, Fowler, California, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American poet; Calling the Doves / Canto a Las Palomas; CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse; Grandma & Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros; Super Cilantro Girl / La Superniña del Cilantro; Poet Laureate of the USA (2015 - )

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet
(1917-2000)

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Name: Gwendolyn Brooks
Birth: June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kansas, USA
Death: December 3, 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American poet; A Street in Bronzeville; Annie Allen; Winnie; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950); Poet Laureate of the USA (1985-1986)

Mona Van Duyn, American Poet
(1921-2004)

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Name: Mona Van Duyn
Birth: May 9, 1921, Waterloo, Iowa, USA
Death: December 2, 2004, University City, Missouri, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American poet; To See, To Take: Poems; Near Changes; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1991); Poet Laureate of the USA (1992)

Robert Frost, American Poet
(1874-1963)

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Name: Robert Frost
Birth: March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, USA
Death: January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet; "Mending Wall"; "The Road Not Taken"; "Fire and Ice"; "Nothing Gold Can Stay"; "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"; four Pulitzer Prizes (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943); Poet Laureate of the USA (1958-1959)
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom

Mark Strand, Canadian-born American Poet
(1934-2014)

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Name: Mark Strand
Birth: April 11, 1934, Summerside, Canada
Death: November 29, 2014, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: Canadian-born American poet and essayist; Blizzard of One; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1999); Poet Laureate of the United States(1990)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Robert Pinsky, Poet and Essayist
(1940 - )

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Name: Robert Pinsky
Birth: October 20, 1940, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American poet and essayist who wrote Selected Poems; Poet Laureate of the USA (1997-2000); Pulitzer Finalist for Poetry (1997)

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W. S. Merwin, American Poet
(1927-2019)

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Name: William Stanley Merwin
Known as: W. S. Merwin
Birth: September 30, 1927, New York City, New York, USA
Death: March 15, 2019, Haiku, Hawaii, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American poet who has written over fifty books of poetry; Poet Laureate of the United States (2010), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1971, 2009)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Kay Ryan, American Poet
(1945 - )

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Name: Kay Ryan
Birth: September 21, 1945, San Jose, CA, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American poet known for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems; Poet Laureate of the United States (2008-2010); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2011)

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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