1. Tell me any American poet you know. 2. Do you know any American poets? 3. Can someone please tell me the names of some American poets! 4. American poet laureates serve one -year terms and have few public duties. 5. Ali helped introduce American poets to a venerable Persian poetic form, the ghazal. 6. But New England would be a rather lesser place than it actually became so that the typical American poets would be Lanier and Poe rather than Longfellow and Whittier. 7. By the time I was in my senior year of high school, I had discovered a number of American poets. 8. Ezra Pound, the American poet entranced by Mussolini, was arrested and committed to a Washington mental hospital for his propaganda broadcasts in support of Italian Fascism. 9. For that matter, can you imagine the University of Massachusetts naming a library after Ezra Pound, a great American poet who embraced Fascism? 10. He admits a liking for the American poets William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. |