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"America isn’t normally considered a poetic nation" ???? Whatever were you thinking? That is bewilderingly uninformed.

Walt Whitman—Emily Dickinson—Robert Frost—T. S. Eliot—Sylvia Plath—Langston Hughes—Elizabeth Bishop—E. E. Cummings—Marianne Moore—Edgar Allan Poe—Ezra Pound—Hart Crane—Maya Angelou—Herman Melville—Wallace Stevens—Edna St. Vincent Millay—Mary Oliver—William Carlos Williams—Gwendolyn Brooks—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Claudia Rankine—Robert Penn Warren—Anne Sexton—Ralph Waldo Emerson—Adrienne Rich—Robert Lowell—Louise Glück—Allen Ginsberg—Theodore Roethke—Henry David Thoreau—Frank O'Hara—Carl Sandburg—Gary Snyder—Charles Bukowski—Dorothy Parker—Jay Parini—Gertrude Stein—Shel Silverstein—William Cullen Bryant—W. H. Auden—David Ignatow—John Berryman—John Ashbery—Vladímir Nabokov—W. S. Merwin—Loren Eiseley—

…. and hundreds more. Boy, Andrew, that was a Bonehead Comment.

American poetry is unique in content, style, cadence and form. American Haiku was created by Jonothan Hayes.

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