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page 3American male poets
Ameen Rihani
Arab-American writer (1876-1940)
Ocean Vuong
Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)
James Lipton
poet, talk show host, writer, teacher (1926-2020)
Walter Abish
Austrian-American author
Jim Harrison
American poet, novelist, and essayist (1937–2016)
Nathaniel Parker Willis
American magazine writer, editor, and publisher (1806-1867)
Robert Creeley
American poet (1926-2005)
Joel Barlow
American poet, diplomat, politician and businessman (1754–1812)
Charles Olson
American writer (1910–1970)
Stephen Gyllenhaal
American film director (1949-)
Allen Tate
American poet, essayist and social commentator (1899–1979)
Yip Harburg
American lyricist (1896–1981)
Shelley Berman
American comedian, actor, writer, and teacher (1925–2017)
Harold Budd
American musician (1936–2020)
Countee Cullen
American author (1903–1946)
Robert Hunter
American lyricist, musician, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet
William Gilmore Simms
American writer (1806–1870)
Rod McKuen
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933-2015)
Joaquin Miller
American poet and frontiersman (1837–1913)
Ishmael Reed
American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher
James Merrill
American poet (1926–1995)
Robert Pinsky
American poet, editor, literary critic, academic (born 1940)
Frank Belknap Long
American novelist, short story writer, poet (1901–1994)
Stuart Merrill
American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language (1863-1915)
Gjekë Marinaj
poet, translator
Peter Orlovsky
American poet (1933-2010)
Philip Freneau
American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor (1752-1832)
Hervey Allen
American novelist, biographer (1889–1949)

Fitz James O'Brien
Irish-American writer

Lecrae
Lecrae Devaughn Moore (born October 9, 1979) is an American Christian rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, and recording producer and executive. Since having begun his career in 2004, he has released ten studio albums and four mixtapes as a solo artist, as well as recording with the hip-hop collective 116, which he co-founded.
John Gould Fletcher
American writer (1886–1950)
Mark Van Doren
American poet and literary critic (1894–1972)
James Whitcomb Riley
American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist (1894–1967)
Alan Seeger
American poet and soldier (1888-1916)
John Giorno
American writer (1936-2019)
Daniel Berrigan
American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet (1921–2016)
Billy Collins
American poet (born 1941)
Max Ehrmann
American writer, poet, and attorney (1872–1945)
Gerard Malanga
American photographer and poet (born 1943)
Qiu Xiaolong
Chinese-American writer
Ralph Chaplin
American writer, artist and labor activist
Clarence Day
American writer (1874–1935)
Nipsey Russell
American entertainer (1918–2005)
Ian Wolfe
American actor (1896-1992)
Michael McClure
American writer (1932–2020)
Ben Lerner
American writer and poet
Joyce Kilmer
American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier (1886–1918)
James Kirke Paulding
American writer (1778–1860)
Galway Kinnell
American poet (1927–2014)
Jonathan Harris
American character actor (1914–2002)
A. K. Ramanujan
Indian linguist (1929-1993)
John Howard Payne
American actor and writer (1791-1852)
Richard Eberhart
American poet (1904–2005)
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
poet, novelist and writer from the United States
C. K. Williams
American poet and critic (1936-2015)
Yusef Komunyakaa
American poet and academic (born 1947)
Eugene Field
American writer (1850-1895)
Robert Duncan
American poet (1919-1988)
Stephen Holden
American writer and critic (born 1941)