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Born April 16, 1972 (age 54) • Falmouth • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors poet laureate (2018) • poet laureate (2017) • Pulitzer Prize (2012)
Notable Works “Life on Mars” • “Ordinary Light” • “Such Color” • “The Slowdown” • “Wade in the Water”

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Louise GlĂźck
American poet
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
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American poet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey
American poet and teacher
Robert Frost, 1954
Robert Frost
American poet
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Charles Wright
Charles Wright
American poet
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
American poet
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
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Maxine Kumin
American author
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator

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