American Poet Hoodies

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

Activist and poet. A leader in the Harlem Renaissance

American poet Robert Frost worked a farm in his younger years, and nature became the stage of his poetic contemplations. Frost was a four times Pulitzer Prize winner!

American modernist Wallace Stivens wrote contemplative poetry delivered through crystal clear imagery. In 1955, Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The Bell Jar quote by Sylvia Plath: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Elizabeth Bishop was American poet and short story writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956.

With this image, we celebrate American poet T. S. Eliot and his famous poem The Waste Land.

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.

With this image, we celebrate American poet T.S. Eliot.

Emily Dickinson's Full Poem "Because I could not Stop for Death" in a vintage gothic frame.

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.

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Sylvia Plath portrait and quote: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Portrait of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins is a vintage fine art American West portrait painting featuring the poet and journalist Walt Whitman.

With this image, we celebrate the uniqueness of Chilean poet and writer Roberto Bolaño.

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With this image, we celebrate great American author John Fante, the writer admired by Charles Bukowski.

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Bukowski quote about poetry

Here, we are showing four stages in the life of American poet Ezra Pound.

E. E. Cummings quote: Life's not a paragraph and death I think is no parenthesis

The hero of the colonialist attempts to interfere in Vietnam not once, but several times, Hồ Chí Minh deserves recognition of one of the most astute, articulate, poetic, and downright effective world leaders of the 20th century - if not all time.

Maya Angelou Text Portrait - Typographic poster with the all her book titles

With this image, we celebrate American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker.

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

"Renascence" was a title of one of the early poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), American poet and playwright. She was a part of the bohemian lifestyle of Greenwich Village and didn't fit into mainstream society. In 1923, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

With this image, we celebrate American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker.

E. E. Cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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

E. E. Cummings quote: Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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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.

E. E. Cummings quote:To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac - the Beat Generation!

Amanda Gorman from the 2021 inauguration, reading her inspirational poem "The Hill We Climb".

High contrast portrait of Emily Dickinson