Modernist
T.S. ElliotEzra PoundE.E. Cummings
Imagist
T.
E. HulmeRichard Aldington
Harlem Renaissance
Langston HughesClaude MckayWeldon JohnsonCountee Cullen
Beat Poetry
DRUGS, SEX, GAY RIGHTS, BUDDHISMAllen GinsbergJack KerouacLawrence Ferlinghetti
Confessionalists
Sylvia PlathAnne SextonJohn Berryman Robert Lowell
Black Arts Movement
Imamu Amir BarakaGwendolyn BrooksNikki Giovanni
Black Mountain School
Denise Lebertov-
Chicano Poetry
Lorna Dee Cervantes-Juan Felipe Herrera- Mexican American, Poet Laureate
Contemporary
Maya Angelou- Civil Activist, Caged birdBilly Collins- alcoholicNaomi Shihab Nye- one with the cute and not so cute poemsGary Soto- one with the oranges
Slam Poetry
Lemon Andersen- “Please don’t take my Air Jordan’s” guyEdwin Torres- Nuyorican
