Plan: American Poets

Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop’s works have always focused on the world around the poet, the impressions she took of it, and how she interpreted all of those in her poems. Her works dealt with how things affect us internally, emotionally. 
Our pick: One Art
Sylvia Plath

An American poet who took the genre of confessional poetry to another level, Plath was one of the most complex and intriguing poets, exhibiting these characteristics both through her life and her works. 

Our pick: Daddy
Charles Bukowski 

The poet who inspired me to write, who inspired me to get up and start learning more and writing more, Charles Bukowski is a poet who is filled to the brim with experiences and letting us know more about them through his works. When you read Bukowski, you are not concerned with the rhyming or the structure of the poem, but what the poem says. It feels like Bukowski is speaking with his deep, raspy voice throughout the poem. 

Our pick: So You Want to Be a Writer 
Maya Angelou 

More of a story-teller than a poet, Maya Angelou’s poems have an invigorating essence in them. She writes with conviction, with strong words and powerful sentences. You can feel the strength emanating from her poems. And to describe all these qualities, we’ve chosen the right poem, also considered to be her most famous one.
Our pick: Still I Rise
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Hart Crane 

An American poet that is often sidelined because of other gigantic names, Hart Crane was a revolutionary poet who wrote brilliant poems. He was considered to be the only Romantic poet in the time of Modernism and Free verse poetry. And his poems truly show the tinge of Romanticism, in a modern way. 
Our pick: Garden Abstract
The apple on its bough is her desire,—
Shining suspension, mimic of the sun.
The bough has caught her breath up, and her voice,
Dumbly articulate in the slant and rise
Of branch on branch above her, blurs her eyes.
She is prisoner of the tree and its green fingers.
And so she comes to dream herself the tree,
The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins,
Holding her to the sky and its quick blue,
Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight.
She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope
Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.
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