American Literature: Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Edward Taylor’s “God’s Determinations Touching His Elect”

Philip Freneau

“To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”

William Cullen Bryant

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Greenleaf Whittier

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Robert Frost

Gertrude Stein

Carl Sandburg

Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

William Carlos Williams

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound Reading

Hilda Doolittle

T. S. Eliot

Marianne Moore

Robinson Jeffers

E. E. Cummings

Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens

Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow”

Sylvia Plath

Lowell’s “Skunk Hour”

Adrienne Rich

Allen Ginsberg’s Howl

Brooks’s “We Real Cool”

Amiri Baraka

Audre Lorde’s “Dahomey”

Excerpt from “The Secret of My Endurance” (1981), by Charles Bukowski

Sherman Alexie