American Poet Hoodies

With this image, we celebrate Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972).

With this image, we celebrate Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972).

With this image, we celebrate American and Jamaican poet Claude McKay who was one of the pillars of the Harlem Renaissance.

Black History Month: Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You -- A digital illustration of Audre Lorde accepting and embracing herself with her quote "Your Silence Will Not Protect You" on a Dark Background

This is a portrait of young Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, who later becomes famous as Jack Kerouac, the writer of the cult novel On the Road. His favorite themes were rambling, drinking, and all that jazz.

Only few few books of poetry were ever as influential as Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". It was revolutionary in several ways: it promoted free verse and opened a whole set of new perspectives and topics.

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

With this image, we celebrate Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972).

With this image, we celebrate Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972).

“Art is our defense against hysteria and death.” Theodore Roethke Artists and writers and poets speak out. American poet Theodore Roethke’s understanding that the arts can serve to defend us against the forces of darkness and destruction.

During his life, Carl Sandburg was one of the most famous American poets. As a journalist, he developed a sense for his nation's heartbeat. That shown in his poetry and other writings. Sandburg is "perhaps the first American urban folk singer", always bringing his guitar to poetry readings. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times, twice for poetry and once for the biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Arguably, Walt Whitman is the most American poet that ever lived. "Walt Whitman is America," Ezra Pound exclaimed. In the background of this portrait you see a fragment of the poem A Noiseless Patient Spider.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Charles Bukowski portrait

There are not many key-poets in the history of literature. France has Villon, Rimbaud and Baudelaire, Britain has Shakespeare and Milton, America has Walt Whitman!

Sara Teasdale ( 1884 - 1933) was an American lyrical poet and the first woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

Norah Lange was an essential Argentinian ultramodernist poet. She was a member of the Florida Group. Jorge Luis Borges dedicated an article to her.

Sara Teasdale ( 1884 - 1933) was an American lyrical poet and the first woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe's Full Poem "A Dream Within a Dream" in a vintage gothic frame.

César Vallejo was a great Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. He is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century poetry.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a Puerto Rican and American poet and writer. He was a modernist, associated with the movement of imagism (Ezra Pound), and he wanted to make a fusion of painting and poetry. Some of his books' titles directly express this platform, i.e., " Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems". This book won him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963.

Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean diplomat and educator, but above all the pride of her nation in the field of literature. Her emotional and lyrical poems talk about love and nature, betrayal and sorrow. In 1945, she received the Nobel Prize in literature.

César Vallejo was a great Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. He is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century poetry.

César Vallejo was a great Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. He is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century poetry.

César Vallejo was a great Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. He is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century poetry.

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was already known as a poet at thirteen. He grew into one of the leading figures of Latin-American and world literature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez called him "the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language". In 1971, Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Edgar Allan Poe's Full Poem "A Dream" in a vintage gothic frame.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

Tale by A. Monterroso

Here is an almost abstract portrait of Jack Kerouac, the writer of the cult novel On the Road.

E. E. Cummings: “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

The "Resist Normality - Beautiful Girl and Roses" T-shirt is a rebellious and artistic piece that encourages a departure from the ordinary. Featuring a captivating design of a beautiful girl and roses, the shirt symbolizes a resistance to conformity and a celebration of individuality. It's a stylish and expressive choice for those who appreciate unique and non-conventional aesthetics, making a bold statement against the norms of normality.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

E. E. Cummings quote:Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.