1. Daniel Aaron (1912)

American Writer And Academic

Writer and scholar who helped to establish the Library of America, a non-profit publisher of American classic novels. He also published The Americanist, an autobiography, in 2007.

2. Robert Hayden (1913)

American Writer And Academic

First African-American Poet Laureate of the United States whose works include Those Winter Sundays and The Whipping. He is also famous for a sequence of poems on the subject of...

3. Neil Postman (1931)

American Writer And Academic

A renowned media theorist and critic, he published his popular, television-themed work, Amusing Ourselves to Death, in 1985. His other works include The Disappearance of Childhood (1982), Technopoly (1992), and...

4. Nikki Giovanni (1943)

American Writer And Academic

African-American poet, author, and professor known for Bicycles: Love Poems; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Black Judgement. She also wrote several children's books, including Spin a Soft Black...

5. Jeanne Marie Laskas (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor. From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine where her Significant Others essays appeared...

6. Stanley Plumly (1939)

American Writer And Academic

Stanley Plumly is an American poet who is professor of English and director of University of Maryland College Park's creative writing program. This poet hymns unlikely things finding beauty and...

7. Alicia Nitecki (1942)

American Writer And Academic

Alicia Nitecki /ni'tetski/ is an American author and professor of English Literature at Bentley University Waltham Massachusetts

8. Eric Chester (1943)

American Writer And Academic

Eric Thomas Chester is an American author socialist political activist and former economics professor. Born in New York City he is the son of Harry and Alice Chester. Both parents...

9. Michael Collier (poet) (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Michael Robert Collier is an American poet teacher creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry a translation of Euripedes' Medea a book of...

10. Pamela Gemin (1954)

American Writer And Academic

Pamela Gemin is an author and editor. She is also an Associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.

11. Robert Polito (1951)

American Writer And Academic

Robert Polito is an American academic critic and poet. He has been Director of the Writing Program at The New School since 1992. He received the National Book Critics Circle...

12. Nuala Archer (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Nuala Archer is an American poet of Irish descent author of five books most recently Inch Aeons. Her first book Whale on the Line won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award...

13. Sesshu Foster (1957)

American Writer And Academic

Sesshu Foster is an American poet. He has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985 and has also taught at the University of Iowa the California Institute of...

14. Mary Fell (1947)

American Writer And Academic

Mary Fell is an American poet and academic.

15. Mary Biddinger (1974)

American Writer And Academic

Mary Biddinger is an American poet editor and academic. Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collection Prairie Fever. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines including Copper...

16. Geri Doran (1966)

American Writer And Academic

Geri Doran was born in Kalispell Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College the University of Cambridge the University of Florida and Stanford University where she held a Wallace...

17. Leonard Nathan (1924)

American Writer And Academic

Dr. Leonard E. Nathan was an American poet critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley where he retired in 1991. Born in El Monte California...

18. Hermann Hagedorn (1882)

American Writer And Academic

Hermann Hagedorn was an American author poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize...

19. Joanna Fuhrman (1972)

American Writer And Academic

Joanna Furhman is an American poet and professor. She is the author of four collections of poems including her forthcoming collection Pageant. Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines...

20. Robert Mezey (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Robert Mezey is an American poet critic and academic. He is also a noted translator in particular from Spanish having translated with Richard Barnes the collected poems of Borges. He...

21. Willis Barnstone (1927)

American Writer And Academic

s Barnstone is an American poet memoirist translator Hispanist and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. He is also...

22. Lionel Basney (1946)

American Writer And Academic

Lionel Basney was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan. Prior to his time at Calvin Basney taught at Houghton College where his father...

23. Robin D. Gill (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Robin Dallas Gill born in 1951 at Miami Beach Florida USA and brought up on the island of Key Biscayne in the Florida Keys is a bilingual author in Japanese...

24. Jan Heller Levi (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Jan Heller Levi is a poet who teaches at CUNY Hunter College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

25. James Wm. Chichetto (1941)

American Writer And Academic

James Wm. Chichetto is a poet artist Professor of Communications and a Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross an international religious community that founded and sponsors the University...

26. Joel Brouwer (1968)

American Writer And Academic

Joel Brouwer is an American poet professor and critic.

27. B. H. Fairchild (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

B. H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is Usher and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The...

28. Roland Flint (1934)

American Writer And Academic

Roland Henry Flint was an American poet and professor of English at Georgetown University.

29. Dudley Fitts (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Dudley Fitts was an American teacher critic poet and translator. He was born in Boston Massachusetts and attended Harvard University where he edited the Harvard Advocate. He taught at The...

30. Joseph M. Bachelor (1889)

American Writer And Academic

Joseph Morris Bachelor also known as Joseph Morris was an American author poet editor and educator. Bachelor was educated at Miami University and Harvard University. As an undergraduate at Miami...

31. Paul Mariani (Unknow)

American Writer And Academic

Paul Mariani is an American poet and a professor at Boston College.

32. Ross Gay (1974)

American Writer And Academic

Ross Gay is an American poet and professor.