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Poetry for Students

Poetry for Students
Discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form, and construction.

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Secondary Sources: Poets & Playwrights

African American Poets African American Poets is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in African American Poets discuss such influential poets as Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Paul Beatty, and Alice Walker.
Asian Poets Asian Poets is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays fromCritical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Asian Poets discuss such influential poets as Marilyn Chin, Wang Wei, Matsuo Basho, and Kenji Miyazawa.
Native American Novelists Native American Novelists is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Native American Novelists discuss such influential writers as Sherman Alexie, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 U.S. Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. While these rough numbers give an impression that the Navajo language is widely spoken, scholars continually point out that it is a threatened language and that young Navajos are not learning the language at a rate that will ensure its continued use. Poetry, however, written and performed in both Navajo and English, continues to emerge as an important voice for Navajos, providing an outlet for recounting the past through storytelling and offering the Navajo perspective on a wide range of issues including what it means to be Navajo. Linguistic anthropologist Anthony Webster began over a year of dissertation research on contemporary Navajo poetry on the Navajo Reservation in the spring of 2000 and returned for additional fieldwork in the summers of 2007 and 2008. In this study he investigates the devices found in Navajo written and oral poetic traditions. He then explores aspects of language such as code-mixing, punning, and ideophony (sound symbolism), often considered marginal in linguistics literature, revealing how they are central to the study of ethnopoetics and a discourse-centered approach to language and culture.
American Feminist Playwrights: A Critical History Provides analysis of American playwrights whose works have a strong feminist message. Covers four eras, including feminist dramatists of colonial America, the suffrage plays of the early women's movement, the social protest dramas of the 1920s and 1930s, and the plays advocating equal rights from the late 1960s onward.

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Poetry Foundation
An independent literary organization offering links to essays; news; events; online poetry resources such as blogs, organizations, publications, and references and research. A glossary of literary terms and a learning lab that includes poem guides and essays on poetics.
LGBTQ+ Poetry (Poets.org)
Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. (from poets.org)

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Notable 20th Century Poets, Playwrights, and Novelists

20th Century - Present Day.

Poet

Writer/Playwright

Meena Alexander

Carlos Bulosan

Nick Carbo

Diana Chang

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Nissim Ezekiel

Garrett Hongo

Lawson Inada

Li-Young Lee

Chang-Rae Lee

Janice Mirikitani

Dwight Okita

Cathy Song

Eileen Tabios

Ocean Vuong

Aravind Adiga

Frank Chin

Julia Cho

Anita Desai

Kiran Desai

Mohsin Hamid

Kazuo Ishiguro

Gish Jen

Jhumpa Lahiri

Kyoko Mori

Bharati Mukherjee

Dwight Okita

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Salman Rushdie

Amy Tan

Charles Yu

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20th Century - Present Day.

Poet

Novelist/Playwright

Maya Angelou

Amiri Baraka

James Baldwin

Gwendolyn Brooks

Lucille Clifton

Rita Dove

Nikki Giovanni

Robert Hayden

June Jordan

Yusef Komunyakaa

Audre Lorde

Haki R. Madhubuti

Dudley Randall

Ntozake Shange

Natasha Trethewey

Alice Walker

Margaret Walker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ama Ata Aidoo

Maya Angelou

James Baldwin

Octavia Butler

Alice Childress

Edwidge Danticat

Rita Dove

Esi Edugyan

Ralph Ellison

Ernest J. Gaines

Lorraine Hansberry

Adrienne Kennedy

Earl Lovelace

Clarence Major

Toni Morrison

Lynn Nottage

Ishmael Reed

Ntozake Shange

Zadie Smith

Alice Walker

Jesmyn Ward

Colson Whitehead

August Wilson

Richard Wright

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20th Century - Present Day.

Poet	Writer/Playwright
Francisco X. Alarcón Julia Alvarez Alurista Gloria E. Anzaldúa Lorna Dee Cervantes Sandra Cisneros Judith Ortiz Cofer Martín Espada Cherríe Moraga Alberto (Alvaro) Ríos Tomás Rivera Luis J. Rodriguez Gary Soto Luis Alberto Urea	Julia Alvarez Rudolfo Anaya Sandra Cisneros Denise Chávez Angie Cruz Junot Díaz Oscar Hijuelos Cherríe Moraga Alejandro Morales Luis Alberto Urea Luis Valdez Helena María Viramontes

Poet

Writer/Playwright

Francisco X. Alarcón

Julia Alvarez

Alurista

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Sandra Cisneros

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Martín Espada

Cherríe Moraga

Alberto (Alvaro) Ríos

Tomás Rivera

Luis J. Rodriguez

Gary Soto

Luis Alberto Urea

Julia Alvarez

Rudolfo Anaya

Sandra Cisneros

Denise Chávez

Angie Cruz

Junot Díaz

Oscar Hijuelos

Cherríe Moraga

Alejandro Morales

Luis Alberto Urea

Luis Valdez

Helena María Viramontes

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20th Century - Present Day.

Poet	Writer/Playwright
Sherman Alexie Paula Gunn Allen Ray Young Bear Joseph Bruchac Louise Erdrich Joy Harjo Linda Hogan Adrian C. Louis N. Scott Momaday Simon J. Ortiz Wendy Rose Leslie Marmon Silko Gerald Vizenor James Welch	Sherman Alexie Vine Deloria Jr. Louise Erdrich María Irene Fornés Josefina Lopez Leslie Marmon Silko David Treuer James Welch

Poet

Writer/Playwright

Sherman Alexie

Paula Gunn Allen

Ray Young Bear

Joseph Bruchac

Louise Erdrich

Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan

Adrian C. Louis

N. Scott Momaday

Simon J. Ortiz

Wendy Rose

Leslie Marmon Silko

Gerald Vizenor

James Welch

Sherman Alexie

Vine Deloria Jr.

Louise Erdrich

María Irene Fornés

Josefina Lopez

Leslie Marmon Silko

David Treuer

James Welch

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