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Middle School: Grade 7 Humanities

Poets!

Poet Choices

We’ve put together a diverse list of American poets for you. Each poet is marked with a difficulty level to help you decide:

  • 🖋️ Easy to Research – Historic poets with lots of resources.
  • 🖋️🖋️ Moderate – Well-known but with a bit less information available.
  • 🖋️🖋️🖋️ Challenging – Contemporary poets who may require more digging.
  • Poets with a ❤️have an Ohio connection!

 

When you click on your poet’s name, you should find a link to that poet’s poetry! Please explore and see what interests you.

Hanif Aburraquib

🖋️🖋️🖋️ ❤️

Rita Dove 🖋️🖋️  ❤️

Cathy Park Hong 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Dorothy Parker 🖋️🖋️

Maya Angelou 🖋️

Paul Laurence Dunbar 🖋️ ❤️

Sarah Kay 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Edgar Allan Poe 🖋️

Gloria Anzaldúa 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Robert Frost 🖋️

Emma Lazarus 🖋️

Gary Soto 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Gwendolyn Brooks 🖋️

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ada Limón 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Langston Hughes 🖋️ ❤️

Marilyn Chin 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Nikki Giovanni 🖋️🖋️  ❤️

Edna St. Vincent Millay 🖋️🖋️

Phillis Wheatley🖋️🖋️

E. E. Cummings 🖋️

Amanda Gorman 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Naomi Shihab Nye🖋️🖋️

Walt Whitman 🖋️

Emily Dickinson 🖋️

Joy Harjo 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Mary Oliver 🖋️❤️

Elizabeth Bishop 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Tracy K. Smith 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Leslie Marmon Silko 🖋️🖋️🖋️

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 🖋️

YOUR FAVORITE US POET HERE!

Talk to your teacher if there’s a favorite US poet you’d like to research!