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Also Known As	Tess Bond
Born	July 21, 1943 (age 83) • Port Angeles • Washington
Notable Works	“Amplitude” • “Dear Ghosts” • “Instructions to the Double” • “Is, Is Not” • “Midnight Lantern” • “Moon Crossing Bridge” • “On Your Own” • “Portable Kisses” • “The Man from Kinvara” • “The Valentine Elegies” • “Under Stars”

Robert Coover

Robert Coover

American author

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

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Tillie Olsen

American author

James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.

James Baldwin

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes

American poet

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

American poet

Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.

Wendell Berry

American author

Edmund White

Edmund White

American author

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

American author

David Mamet wearing glasses and a gray jacket over a black shirt, shown from the shoulders up with a neutral expression.

David Mamet

American author

Claudia Rankine sits on a beige couch with her dog Sammy beside her, colorful pillows behind them, and abstract art photos arranged on the wall above.

Claudia Rankine

Jamaican-born poet and educator

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Thomas Merton, 1959

Thomas Merton

American writer

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American author and activist

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry