Alphabetical Listing of Authors
Asian and Asian American Authors
Black Authors
Contemporary Authors
Latin American, Hispanic, and Latinx Authors
LGBTQ+ Authors
Limited Use Titles
Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Authors Including Diasporic Jewish Authors
Native American and Indigenous Authors
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* The terms "gay," "lesbian," "trans" and many of the other terms within the LGBTQ+ vocabulary are terms whose use began relatively recently in the 1930's. LGBTQ+ as an identity and community are also more contemporary conceptions. There is debate on whether to apply these terms to authors prior to the 1930's who did not label themselves with a queer identity. In this guide, historical authors with different relationships, gender expression, or desires than the societal norm of the time are included in order to demonstrate the diversity of sexualities and lived experiences of writers past and present. Please refer to biographical scholarship on each author for more in depth information on their lived experiences.
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A
Allison, Dorothy
Amichai, Yehuda
Angelou, Maya
Anonymous
Arenas, Reinaldo
Arnold, Matthew
Atwood, Margaret
B
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Benedetti, Mario
Berry, Liz
Supplemental Reading:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne
Bishop, Elizabeth
Blake, William
Blanco, Richard
Boland, Eavan
Bontemps, Arna
Bottoms, David
Brehm, John
Bronte, Emily
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Burns, Robert
Byron, George Gordon
C
Campion, Thomas
Cherry, Kelly
Chudleigh, Lady Mary
Cleghorn, Sarah
Clifton, Lucille
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Constable, Henry
Crane, Stephen
Cullen, Countee
Cummings, E. E.
Cassells, Cyrus
D
Dario, Ruben
Dario, Ruben
Darwish, Mahmoud
Diaz, Natalie
Dickinson, Emily
Dryden, John
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
Duhamel, Denise
E
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
F
Fearing, Kenneth
Finch, Anne - Countess of Winchelsea
Ford, Katie
G
Ginsberg, Allen
Gonzalez, Jose B.
Graham, Jorie
Grosholz, Emily
Grimke, Angelina Weld
H
Hardy, Thomas
Hayden, Robert
- A Letter From Phillis WheatleyIf you sign up with JSTOR, you get 6 free articles to read a month that are not already purchased by Seminole State. Signing up is free.
Heaney, Seamus
Herbert, George
Herrick, Robert
Hicok, Bob
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Housman, A. E
Howe, Marie
I
Ibsen, Henrik
J
Jarman, Mark
Jarrell, Randall
Johnson, Ben
Johnson, Helene
Jones, Saeed
Jordan, June
- Something Like A Sonnet for Phillis Miracle WheatleyPoem is near the end of the excerpt from Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
K
Kay, Ryan
Kennedy, X. J.
Kinnell, Galway
Knight, Etheridge
- A MELUS Interview: Etheridge KnightNorton reading includes the first paragraph of page 18.
Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Tu Do StreetEnglish original is found on the second page of the PDF.
Kooser, Ted
Kumin, Maxine
L
Larkin, Philip
Lawrence, D. H.
Lazarus, Emma
Lockwood, Patricia
Lovelace, Richard
Lowell, Amy
M
Majmudar, Amit
Marlowe, Christopher
Marvell, Andrew
Meinke, Peter
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mistral, Gabriela
Mistral, Gabriela
Mora, Pat
Supplemental Materials by the Author
Morrison, Toni
Mullen, Harryette
Myles, Eileen
N
Neruda, Pablo
O
Oberman, Miller
Owen, Wilfred
P
Petrarch, Francesco
Piercy, Marge
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pompa, Paul Martinez
Pope, Alexander
- The Rape of the LockLines 123-144 included in the Norton. Link is to the entire poem.
Pope, Jessie
Powell, Lynn
Q
Quarles, Francis
R
Raleigh, Walter
Rankine, Claudia
Ransom, John Crowe
Rich, Adrienne
- QuartoPoem found on the third page of the PDF.
- TranslationsPoem found on the second page of the PDF.
Supplemental Material by the Author
- When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-VisionNorton Readins starts on page 23 at "Most, if not all, human lives..." until the end of the last full paragraph on page 24.
Richardson, James
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Rossetti, Christina
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Roethke, Theodore
S
Sanchez, Sonia
Schultz, Philip
Shakespeare, William
Shelly, Percy
Simpson, Louis
Smith, Charlie
Smith, Patricia
Supplemental Reading:
Smith, Tracy K.
- Unrest in Baton RougeScroll down for the poem. Includes an interview.
Snodgrass, W.D.
Song, Cathy
Stallings, A. E.
- Shoulda, Woulda, CouldaPlease note: This resource is from the New Yorker, which only allows you to view 5 articles before paying a subscription. Only click on the link once, and if you reach the limit, try using another browser or computer to view the article.
Stevens, Wallace
Su, Adrienne
Suckling, John
Swenson, May
Swift, Jonathan
T
Taylor, Ann
Taylor, Jane
Tennyson, Alfred
Thomas, Dylan
Toplady, Augustus Montague
Trethewey, Natasha
Turner, Brian
Supplemental Reading:
U
Updike, John
V
Vallejo, Cesar
Voigt, Ellen Bryant
W
Wagoner, David
Waite, Stacey
- The Kind of Man I Am At the DMVSpecific poem is on page 218 of the pdf.
Walcott, Derek
- A Far Cry from AfricaFull text found in the midst of a poem explanation article.
Waller, Edmund
Wheatley, Phillis
Wilbur, Richard
- Terza RimaPlease note: This resource is from the New Yorker, which only allows you to view 5 articles before paying a subscription. Only click on the link once, and if you reach the limit, try using another browser or computer to view the article.