American poetry

E410023

national literature poetry tradition

American poetry is the diverse body of poetic works produced in the United States and by American writers, reflecting the nation’s evolving history, cultures, and literary movements from colonial times to the present.

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Label	Occurrences
American poetry canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	national literature ⓘ poetry tradition ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasAward	Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ⓘ National Book Award for Poetry ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ⓘ Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ⓘ
hasForm	blank verse ⓘ elegy ⓘ epic poem ⓘ free verse ⓘ haiku ⓘ ode ⓘ prose poem ⓘ sonnet ⓘ villanelle ⓘ
hasInstitution	Academy of American Poets ⓘ Library of Congress Poetry Office ⓘ Poetry Foundation ⓘ Poets House ⓘ
hasLanguage	African American Vernacular English ⓘ Arabic ⓘ Chinese ⓘ Creole languages ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Indigenous languages of North America ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ
hasMovement	American modernism ⓘ surface form: American Modernism American Romanticism ⓘ Beat Generation ⓘ Black Arts Movement ⓘ Confessional poetry ⓘ Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Imagism ⓘ Language poets ⓘ surface form: Language poetry Native American Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Native American literary renaissance New York School ⓘ Objectivist poetry ⓘ Transcendentalism ⓘ slam poetry ⓘ spoken word poetry ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Adrienne Rich ⓘ Allen Ginsberg ⓘ Amiri Baraka ⓘ Anne Bradstreet ⓘ Claude McKay ⓘ Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ Elizabeth Bishop ⓘ Emily Dickinson ⓘ Ezra Pound ⓘ Frank O’Hara ⓘ Gwendolyn Brooks ⓘ Henry David Thoreau ⓘ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ Jack Kerouac ⓘ John Ashbery ⓘ Joy Harjo ⓘ Langston Hughes ⓘ Louise Glück ⓘ Maya Angelou ⓘ Natasha Trethewey ⓘ Ocean Vuong ⓘ Phillis Wheatley ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Robert Frost ⓘ Robert Lowell ⓘ Sylvia Plath ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ Terrance Hayes ⓘ Tracy K. Smith ⓘ Wallace Stevens ⓘ Walt Whitman ⓘ William Carlos Williams ⓘ
hasPeriod	19th-century American poetry ⓘ American Civil War–era poetry ⓘ American Modernist poetry ⓘ American Romantic poetry ⓘ American Transcendentalist poetry ⓘ Beat Generation poetry ⓘ Black Arts Movement ⓘ surface form: Black Arts Movement poetry Confessional poetry ⓘ Gilded Age poetry ⓘ Harlem Renaissance poetry ⓘ Language poets ⓘ surface form: Language poetry New York School ⓘ surface form: New York School poetry colonial American poetry ⓘ contemporary American poetry ⓘ early national period poetry ⓘ
hasRole	influences global poetry ⓘ reflects American cultural diversity ⓘ reflects American history ⓘ
hasTheme	capitalism and labor ⓘ civil rights ⓘ democracy ⓘ frontier and wilderness ⓘ gender and sexuality ⓘ immigration ⓘ individualism ⓘ race ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ slavery ⓘ urban life ⓘ war ⓘ
timeSpan	from 17th century to present ⓘ

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