Jonathan Aaron
Jonathan Aaron is the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006).
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928.Read more about >
Ada Limón
Read more about >Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Amanda Gorman
Read more about >The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
Alan Dugan
Born in 1923, poet Alan Dugan's collection Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry won the National Book AwardRead more about >
Photo credit: JoAnn Verburg Jim Moore
Read more about >Jim Moore was born on June 22, 1943, in Decatur, Illinois. He began writing in the mid-1960s and received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota and his master’s degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poetry collections include Prognosis (Graywolf Press, 2021), Underground: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2014), Invisible Strings (Graywolf Press, 2011), and Lightning at Dinner (Graywolf Press, 2005).
Caroline Crumpacker
Caroline Crumpacker holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from BrownRead more about >