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Born April 24, 1905 • Kentucky
Died September 15, 1989 (aged 84) • Vermont
Title / Office poet laureate (1986)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1979) • Bollingen Prize (1967) • Pulitzer Prize (1958) • National Book Award (1958) • Pulitzer Prize (1947)
Notable Works “All the King’s Men” • “Brother to Dragons” • “Night Rider”
Movement / Style Fugitives • New Criticism

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Howard Nemerov
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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
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Rita Dove
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British poet
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American poet and translator
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Ashbery, John
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Alice Walker
American writer
John Updike
John Updike
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Philip Levine
American poet
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Mary Oliver
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Mona Van Duyn
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