American male poets

American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)

American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)

American romantic poet and journalist (1794-1878)

American rock musician (born 1956)

American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930-1999)

poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)

American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner (1779-1843)

American novelist and poet (1889–1973)

American writer

American diplomat (1852–1933)

Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)

American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author (1949–2011)

American politician (1916–2005)

American poet (1917–1977)

American musician

American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist

American writer (1868–1950)

Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)

Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet

American writer (1930-2001)

American author (1893-1961)

American novelist, historian and editor (1771-1810)

American poet (1869–1935)

American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906)

American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)

American poet (1887–1962)

American poet (1921-2017)

American poet (1927–2019)

American writer (1922–1994)

American rapper from New York

American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021)

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)

American author and filmmaker

American political writer, poet, and essayist (1945–2022)

Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he shot Garfield in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882.

American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)

American author, poet, and punk musician (1949–2009)

American novelist and poet (1943–2022)

American writer

American poet, novelist, editor (1836–1907)

American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter

Chinese-American writer

American poet (1905-2006)

American science fiction author and poet (1940–2008)

Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator (1934–2014)

American poet (1879–1931)

American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)

American writer and activist (1871–1938)

American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

American writer (1923–1997)

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

author and poet

American writer

American writer (1883-1969)

American musician (born 1949)

United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)

American actor (1935–2009)