American poetry
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American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional uni
Emily Dickinson
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678
Phillis Wheatley, a slave, wrote poetry during the colonial period.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1873.
San Francisco Renaissance
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The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde
American poet Allen Ginsberg and Indian spiritual teacher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in San Francisco (1967)