American Poet Hoodies

This merch is made to pay homage to the love between Emily and Sue--and to the incredible masterpiece that is AppleTV's Dickinson.

This merch is made to pay homage to the love between Emily and Sue--and to the incredible masterpiece that is AppleTV's Dickinson.

There is a feeling of lightness in the poetry of Octavio Paz, yet it is profound. Even when he uses "ordinary words", like asphalt, they acquire spiritual qualities. What looks like a love poem might as well be a meditation about death or the essence of the universe. Paz was celebrated during his life both in his native Mexico and internationally. He won the most prestigious awards you can win, like Miguel De Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Revolution Will Not Be Livestreamed design

Character from the book mosaico del Fuego

Baldwin is an American poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and social critic. His essays, collected in the book Notes of a Native Son, explore the ins and outs of racial, sexual, and class differences that have not yet been revealed in Western society, especially in the mid-10th century in the United States.

She was known as an eccentric and as a loner who was passionate about gardening. Thanks to her sister Lavinia, who published her poems posthumously, we now have a towering figure in American poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath's confessional poems touched many, and her audience continues to grow, making her one of the most famous ladies of American literature.

Edgar A. Guest quote: Each one of us has friends that he Has yet to meet and really know, Who guard him, wheresoe’er they be, From harm and slander’s cruel blow.

Jack Kerouac Quote - "The Only Truth Is Music"

High contrast portrait of Emily Dickinson

James Baldwin

Walt Whitman quote: I am large, I contain multitudes

Emily Dickinson stamp and quote: I dwell in possibility

James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1838, despite his reputation as a troublemaker, and went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School. He published his first collection of poetry in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844. He and his wife had several children, though only one survived past childhood. The couple soon b...

Walt Whitman quote: I am large, I contain multitudes

Emily Dickinson stamp and quote: That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

Walt Whitman portrait and quote: I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

Walt Whitman portrait and quote: I accept reality and dare not question it

Emily Dickinson quote:“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all

With this design, we celebrate Jack Kerouac, the writer of the cult novel On the Road.

Walt Whitman quote: Resist much obey little

Walt Whitman quote: Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling

Walt Whitman quote: Resist much obey little

Walt Whitman quote: "Do anything, but let it produce joy."

William S. Burroughs, famous American writer of the beat generation. Handwritten by badlydrawnbabe x

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular. This is a curated version of one of his popular portrait. Courtesy: Roger Ebert.com

John Hoyer Updike was one of the most distinguished American writer, poet, literary critic and novelist. He was born on 18th March 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Updike is the author of more than fifty books, prose and poetry. Updike received numerous honors and awards including the National Book Award, American Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Arts Club Medal of Honor. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich and another Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for Rabbit at Rest.

Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose.

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular. This is a digitally modified version of the self-portrait sketch done by E. E. Cummings circa 1920. The original image file is lacking source information. This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.

"James Baldwin" Typography James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, social critic. His essays, which are collected in the book Notes of a Native Son, explore the intricacies of racial, sexual, and class differences that have not been revealed in Western society, especially in the mid-10th century in the United States.

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.

The Bell Jar quote by Sylvia Plath: I am, I am, I am.