Putting Our Dead Poets Back on the Map
List of American Poets
for Dead Poets Maps
This is a list of over 600 American poets compiled for the “Dead Poets” Maps, a 20092010 project of the Dead Poets Society of America. The names were added by
consulting the reference works and online resources cited at the bottom.
The purpose of the maps is for people to document the gravesites, and sometimes
memorials, of American poets. This way the public can help to enrich the cultural and
historical commons by “diggʼn up” dead poets. Probably only 40% of the poetsʼ graves
have been documented to date, so the online maps serve as references for those
helping to research, and put our dead poets back on the map!
This is the list as of February 13, 2010. The Maps for individual states and regions can
be accessed here: http://deadpoes.org/help1.html
STATE MAPS
The names on this list of American poets organized by state and region correspond to
Dead Poets Maps (http://deadpoes.org/help1.html). Names on the state lists are either
arranged chronologically, according to when a poet was added to a map, or
alphabetically. There are also some duplicates, as some poets are closely associated
with more than one state.
CALIFORNIA
John Vance Cheney CA
Noel Peattie
Robert Menzies McAlmon (March 9, 1896 - February 2, 1956
Ina Coolbrith
Charles Lummis
Frances Dean Smith d. 2009 ,
Thom Gunn 1929 – 2004 San Fran.
John Russell McCarthy LA CA
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22469
James Monroe Whitfield 1822 – 1871 San Fran
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9372702
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2088
WIS Carrie Jacobs-Bond Cal d & Wis b.
Charles B. Garrigus
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7012218
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 – 1935
Clark Ashton Smith (1893#6A63DC
Auburn, California
Jan. 13, 1893
Minnie M. Tingle (1874 -#6A63F6
Birth: 1874 Death: 1926
Anais Nin http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12806
Nader Naderpour d. 2000 LA/CA
Paul Monette 45 – 95 LA CA
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2519
Cliff Odets
Glendale CA
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6308
Ferdinand Earle Glendale LA
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21125
James Foley PL North Dakota & CA (LA)
Kay Boyle 1902-1992
Edgar Bowers GA
David Bromige Sonoma, CA. Poet, teacher David Bromige
Charles Buwkoski
Robert Duncan
William Everson d. Santa Cruz, June 3, 1994
Robinson Jeffers. Carmel, California
Edward Markham
Diane Middlebrook
Cincinnatus Hiner "Joaquin" Miller
Harold Norse San Francisco?
Kenneth Rexroth
Yvor Winters was born in Chicago in 1900
RHODE ISLAND
Leonard Bacon (1887-1954)
George Berkley
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)
Anne Charlotte Botta
Charles Timothy Brooks
Albert Spaulding Cook
Kaplan, Peter (1957-1977)
Harry Lyman Koopman
Joseph Brown Ladd (1764-1786)
Sam Foss
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
Fanny Purdy Palmer (1839-1923)
Allen Paul
Charles Horace Philbrick (1922-1970)
Winfield Townley Scott (1910-1968)
Sarah Helen Whitman
Van Zandt. Newport poet and governor of RI.
Catherine R. Williams
CONNECTICUT
Elizabeth Akers Allen (Memorial) Originally from Maine.
Joel Barlow
Steven Vincent Benet
Louise Chandler Moulton 1835 -1908 CT
Mt. Auburn, Cambridge
Rose Terry Cooke
Timothy Dwight
Fitz-Greene Halleck
William Meredith
James Merrill
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Wallace Stevens
Theodore Tilton. Birth: Oct. 2, 1835
New York, USA Death: May 25, 1907, France
Johathan Trumball
Mark Van Doren
Capt Eugene Fitch Ware CT ‡ CO & KS
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12067367
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Short Beach, CT.
Henry Clay Work
WISCONSIN
Carrie Jacobs-Bond Cal d & Wis b.
MARJORIE M. BITKER (1901 - 1990)
Eve Merriam Eve
EDNA K. MEUDT (1906 - 1989)
Lorine Neidecker
GRETA CELIA LAGRO POTTER (1894 - 1981)
Carl Sandburg
R. E. SEBENTHALL (Roberta 1917 - 1979)
MARYA ZATURENSKA (1902 - 1982) (Madison)
IOWA
Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers (July 23, 1838–May 24, 1933)
Amy Clampitt
George Cram Cook
Arthur Davison (November 10, 1883–November 30, 1945)
Floyd James Dell
Mona Van Duyn. U.S. Poet Laureate.
Paul Engle
Garland, Hamlin Hannibal (September 14, 1860–March 4, 1940)
James Norman Hall
James Schell Hearst
Donald Justice
Ulrik Vilhelm Koren (December 22, 1826–December 19, 1910)
Larry Kramer Iowa
Raymond Joseph Kresensky (December 28, 1892–September 25, 1955)
Frederick Manfred : (January 6, 1912–September 7, 1994)
John Luckey McCreery
Christian Metz : (December 30, 1793 or 1794–July 24, 1867)
Jay G. Sigmund (December 11, 1885–October 19,
ILLINOIS
Mark Turbyfill IL 1896 -1990 b OK, lived Chicago
Janet Lewis (1899 - 1998)
John Dickson, 1916-2009:
Ralph J. Mills Jr. (1931 – August 18, 2007)
ADAMS, FRANKLIN P.
BAUGHER, RUBY DELL
BROWNELL, BAKER ( 1887- )
BRYANT, JOHN (1807-1902
FEARING, KENNETH (1902- ).
HASTE, GWENDOLEN (1889- ).
HAY, JOHN (1835-1905).
HOVEY, RICHARD (1864-1900
LARCOM, LUCY (1824-1893).
MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD (1892- ).
MARQUIS, DONALD ROBERT PERRY (1878-1937).
MONROE, HARRIET (1860-1936).
MONTR.OSS, Lois SEYSTER (1897MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHN (1869-1910).
NEIHARDT, JOHN GNEISENAU (1881- ).
NORTH, JESSICA (MACDONALD) (1894- ).
SARETT, LEW (1888- ).
STARRETT, CHARLES VINCENT (1886VAN DOREN, MARK (1894- ).
WATERMAN, NIXON (1859-1944),
AMSBARY, WALLACE BRUCE (1867- ).
AYSCOUGH, FLORENCE (1878-1942).
CLARK, THOMAS CURTIS (1877- ).
DAVIS, FRANK MARSHALL (1905- ).
DEVRIES, PETER (1910- ).
DILLON, GEORGE (1906- ).
Dow, DOROTHY MINERVA (1903EBERHART, NELL RICHMOND ( -1944).
KENNARD, MARIETTA CONWAY.
LEE, AGNES (pseud, of Mrs. Otto Freer
MCGAFFEY, ERNEST (1861- ).
MALLOCH, DOUGLAS (1877-1938).
RICE, WALLACE (1859-1939).
STROBEL, MARION (1895- ).
TAYLOR, BERT LESTON (1866-1921).
WINTERS, YVOR ( 1900- ) .
Mary Hunter Austin
Margaret Walker Alexander
G Brooks
Glenn Ward Dresbach (1889–1968) ILL & Ark
Abe Lin
Vachel Lindsay
Edgar Lee Masters
James Matthews
Carl Sandburg WI & NC
Shel Silverstein
Eugene Field
INDIANA
Sarah T. Barrett Bolton
Theodore Dreiser
Max Ehrmann
John Finley
Hildegarde Flanner 1920–1977
Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
William Herschell
Etheridge Knight
Mary Hannah Krout (1851 - 1927)
Rebecca Lard:
LeRoy Oliver MacLeod
Arthur Franklin Mapes
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947)
Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916
Maurice Thompson:
KENTUCKY
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Sarah Campbell Birth: Apr. 24, 1890 Death: Nov. 18, 1965
Madison Cawein
Joseph Seamon Cotter (1861-1949)
Lillie D. Chaffin (b. 1925 - d. 1993)
Olive Tilford Dargan
James Tandy Ellis
James Baker Hall (b. 1935 - 2009)
Joel Tanner Hart
Alice Polk Hill
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8820905
Edward G. Hill (b. 1883 - d. )
Edwin Carlisle Litsey (b. 1874 - d. 1970 )
Jane Mayhall (1918 - 200#6A7104
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Jim Wayne Miller (b. 1936 - d. 1996)
Tom Mobley
1926 James Thomas Cotton Noe (b. 1864 - d. 1953)
Theodore O'Hara
Agnes O'Rear (b. 1896 - d. 1990)
Elvira Sydnor Miller Slaughter
Effie Waller Smith (1879-1960)
James Still (b. 1906 - d. 2001)
Jesse Hilton Stuart (b. 1907 - d. 1984)
Hollis Summers (1916-1987)
Allen Tate (1899-1979
Robert Penn Warren
Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby
Lowell Allen Williams (b. 1907 - d.1995)
Robert Burns Wilsom Birth: Oct. 30, 1850, Death: Mar. 31,
George Washington Cutter
TENNESSEE
James Agee
Arna Bontemps
Virginia Boyle
Johnny Cash
Margaret Danner 1915-1986
Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893,
James Dickey
Will Allen Dromgoole 1860-1934
Epperson, Clara Cox, 1869-1937:
Fabio, Sarah Webster, 1928-1979
Fisher, Leland M., 1875-1905
Fogg, Mary Middleton, 1800-1872:
Will Thomas Hale
Robert Hayden
Randall Jarrell
Andrew Nelson Lytle (December 26, 1902 – December 12, 1995)
Walter Malone 1866 - 1915
McClellan, George M., 1860-1934
Adah Isaacs Menken (Actually, Ada C. McCord)
1835 – 1868 Tennessee. Died in Paris\
Merchant, Jane, 1919-1972
Miles, Emma (Bell), 1879-1919
Merrill Moore (1903 – 1957)
John Crowe Ransom
Abram J. Ryan
Evelyn Scott
Allen Tate
Robert Penn Warren. buried in Stratton, VT.
William Ridley Wills 1898 - 1957
Moore, John Trotwood, 1858-1929
Rogers, Alex, 1876-1930
Tolson, Melvin, 1898-1966
Whitson, Beth Slater, 1879-1930
Winslow, Anne Goodwin, 1875-1959
Richard Wright (Europe)
ALABAMA
Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938
Elbert Calvin Henderson (1903–1974)
Carl Patrick Morton (1920–1994
Morton Dennison Prouty Jr.
Helen Friedman Blackshear (1911–2003),
Sun Ra
Rev. Abram Ryan
Eugene Walker
Maria Howard Weeden
Margaret Walker
GEORGIA
Conrad Aiken
Adrienne Bond (1933-1996)
William Edgar Bowers Jr.
Thomas Holley Chivers
James Dickey
Arthur Crew Inman (1895-1963)
Paul Hamilton Hayne
Sidney Lanier
Robert Loveman
James Pierpont
James Randall
Byron Herbert Reece
John Ryan Seawright
John Stone (1936-2008)
Francis Orray Ticknor (1822-1874)
Don West (1906-1992)
Richard Henry Wilde
F A. Butler Kemble
SOUTH CAROLINA
Washington Allston (1779#6A6483
Joseph Dumbleton
James Dickey
Grace Beacham Freeman
Paul Hamilton Hayne
DuBose Heyward
Helen von Kolnitz Hyer
Dr. James Kirkpatrick
Penina Moise
Josephine Pinkney
Beatrice Witte Ravenel
Archibald Rutledge
\William Gilmore Simms (1#6A6448
Bennie Lee Sinclair
Henry Timrod
SC & MA
North Carolina
Thad Stem,
Helen Bevington,
Guy Owen,
Charles E. Eaton,
Stephen Knauth,
Margaret Rabb.
Henry Jerome Stockard
James Larkin Pearson
Olive Tilford Dargan
Carl Sandburg
Sidney Lanier
Charles Olson
Robert Creeley
VIRGINIA
John Dos Passos
Leigh Buckner Hanes (189#6A644C VA
Sherwood Anderson?
Joseph Frederick Awad
Phillip Pendleton Cooke
Guy Carleton Drewry
George Garrett
Larry Levis
MARGARET J. PRESTON (1820-1897)
Abram J. Ryan
George Sandys
Captain John Smith
Anne Spencer
JOHN R. THOMPSON (1823-1873)
George Tucker
Carter Warner Wormeley
Ruby Altizer Roberts
WASHINGTON DC
George Washington Cutter
John Howard Payne
John Joyce
Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967)
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Vachel Lindsay??
Georgia Douglas Johnson 1880 – 1966
William Waring Cuney 1906 – 1976 DC Rome NY
May Miller January 26, 1899 - February 8, 1995
Adesanya Alekoye
Owen Vincent Dodson (1914 – 1983),
Ann Darr: WWII Pilot & Poet (1920-2007) IO, NY, MD, DC
Gabrielle Edgcomb (1926-1996)
John "Gunboat" Pauker (1920-1991)
Leon-Gontran Damas was born in 1912 in Cayenne, 1978 DC?
Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
Ambrose Bierce
Elinor Morton Wylie née Hoyt
(September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928)
Merrill Leffler on O.B. HARDISON, JR.
Richard McCann on ED COX
Grace Cavalieri on ROLAND FLINT
Rebecca Villarreal on ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE
Kenneth Carroll on GASTON NEAL
Elisavietta Ritchie on BETTY PARRY
Helen Gordon Quigless Wash DC
Steve Mason Death: May 25, 2005 DC & OR
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12950325
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, NJ
James Russell Wiggins (1903 - 2000) Sedgwick, ME. Also DC
Paul Dunbar
Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-present)
Mona Van Duyn (1992-1993)
Joseph Brodsky (1991-1992)
Howard Nemerov (1988-1990)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1985-1986)
Robert Fitzgerald (1984-1985)
Anthony Hecht (1982-1984)
William Meredith (1978-1980)
Robert Hayden (1976-1978)
Josephine Jacobsen (1971-1973)
William Stafford (1970-1971)
James Dickey (1966-1968)
Stephen Spender (1965-1966)
Louis Untermeyer (1961-1963) CT
Richard Eberhart (1959-1961)
Robert Frost (1958-1959)
Randall Jarrell (1956-1958)
William Carlos Williams
(appointed in 1952 but did not serve)
Conrad Aiken (1950-1952)
Elizabeth Bishop (1949-1950)
Leonie Adams (1948-1949) CT
Robert Lowell (1947-1948)
Karl Shapiro (1946-1947)
Louise Bogan (1945-1946)
Robert Penn Warren (1944-1945)
Allen Tate (1943-1944) 14
Joseph Auslander (1937-1941)
MARYLAND
Sterling Brown
Vincent Godfrey Burns
Ebenezer Cook
Roland Henry Flint (February 27, 1934 - January 2, 2001)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key #2
Francis Scott Key #3
Ogden Nash
Sidney Lanier
Frank O'Hara
Dorothy Parker
Edward Pinkney
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe #2
James Ryder Randall
Gertrude Stein
Mattie Stepanek
Lizette Woodworth
Josephine J.acobsen US Poet Laureate.
Eli Siegel
Karl Shapiro (1913 - 2000). US Poet Laureate
New Jersey
George Arnold
Arthur Stringer
Jack Wiler
Freemont Rider
Maxwell Bodenheim
Alfred Gibbs Campbell
William Fayal Clarke
Stephen Crane
Mary Mapes Dodge
Henry Van Dyke
Phillip Freneau
Alice Duer Miller
Sarah Piatt
Delmore Schwartz
Annis Stockton
Nicholas Virgilio
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
New York
James Wright
Lola Ridge (1873-1941)
Edwin Rolfe
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Reginald Shepherd 1963-2008
William De Witt Snodgrass
Francis Saltus (1846 - 1#6A6410 Sleepy Hollow, NY
William Wilson (1801 - 1#6A6403 NY
Michael Strange (1890 - #6A646E
Amos Niven Wilder
Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1849 – 1916 NY d. Long Island
Lucretia Davidson Plattsburgh 1808 – 1825
Ruth Lechlitner
Babette Deutsch (22 September 1895 – 13 November 1982)
Emma Embury NY NYC d. Brooklyn
Lucretia Davidson Plattsburgh 1808 - 1825
Sophie Jewett b. Moravia, NY 1861 – 1909.
Phyllis McGinley
Genevieve Taggard (November 28, 1894 - November 8, 1948) WA NY
Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1849 – 1916 NY d. Long Island
James Marcus Schuyler
Gwendolyn Bennett
John Malcolm Brinnin
About Paul Blackburn. d. 1971
William Bronk
James Agee
W.H.Auden
Ted Berrigan
William Cullen Bryant
Jim Carroll
Hayden Carruth
Alice Cary
Phoebe Cary
Gregory Corsco
Adelaide Crapsey
Countee Cullen
Edward Estlin Cummings
Joy Davidman
Henry Dumas
Kenneth Fearing
Arthur Davison Ficke
Robert Fitzgerald
Joseph Freeman
Elizabeth Hollister Frost
Jupiter Hammond
Anthony Hecht
Robert Hillyer
Langston Hughes
David Ignatow
Washington Irving
Laura Riding Jackson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Jack Kerouac
Emma Lazarus
Henry Livingston
Don Marquis
Claude McKay
Thomas Merton
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Clement Moore
Marriane Moore
Ogden Nash
Frank O'Hare
George Oppen
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Reznikoff
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eli Siegel
Ernst Toller
Mark Van Doren
Richard Wright. Paris
Kenneth Koch
Zukofsky
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
John Wheelwright 1897–1940
Lucy Larcom
Adeline D. T. Whitney MA
Eugene OʼNeill Forrest Hills
John Holmes 1962 d. taught Anne Sexton
Joseph Trumbull Stickney ( 1874 – Octobe 1904) b. Geneva died in Boston
Deborah Leah Sugarbaker
Jane Turell MA
Maria Gowen Brooks 1794-1845 b. Medford, MA
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (February 4, 1821 – May 9, 1873)
Louise Moulton
Christopher Pearse Cranch, Mt. Auburn 1813-1892
John Ciardi 1916-1986 Mt. Auburn
Gamaliel Bradford 1932 Mt. Auburn
Appleton
Norton
Maria Lowell
David Thompson McCord 1997 Mt. Auburn
William Dean Howells 1837-1916
Higginson
James Freeman Clarke 1888
Washington Allston
Vincent Ferrini
Charles Olson
Jack Keroac
Rev. Timothy Flint
Rev. Very Jones
Anne Bradstreet
John Greenleaf Whittier
Elizabeth Bishop
Stanley Kunitz
Elise Asher
Charles Sprague
Phyllis Wheatley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
Henry Thoreau
William Ellery Channing
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Agha Shahid Ali
Emily Dickinson
Rev. Edward Taylor
Dr. Seuss
Robert U. Johnson
Archibald MacLeish
John O'Reilly
Anne Sexton
E. E. Cummings
Richard Henry Dana
Henry Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Robert Lowell
Julia Ward Howe
Thomas Aldrich
Nathaniel Willis
Robert Creeley
Fanny Parnell
Buckminster Fuller
Margaret Fuller
Frances Osgood
Michael Wigglesworth
John Pierpoint, Sr.
Amy Lowell
MAINE
Lucy Barnes
b.1780, Jaffrey, NH. d. August 29th, 1809, Poland, ME
Enock Lincoln b. Dec. 28, Worcester, MA d. Oct 8, 1829 Augusta.
Rev. Jonathan Fisher. (1768 - 1847) Blue Hill..
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Parker Willis. (1806 - 1867).
Seba Smith. (1792 - 1868).
John Neal (1793 - 1876)
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Henry Longfellow. (1807 - 1882)
Ann Sophia Stephens
Abigail Almira Hawes
Elizabeth Oakley Smith. (1806 - 1893)
Celia Thaxter. 1835 d. 1894 Appledore Island
Harriet Beecher Stowe. (1811-1896).
Rev. Elijah Kellog. (1813 - 1901)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909). South Berwick.
Julia Ward Howe. May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910 Mt. Auburn, Cambridge
Elizabeth Akers Allen. (1832 - 1911) born in Strong, ME.
Danielson, CT. Memorial,
Arlo Bates (1850 - 1918)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 - 1921).
Holman Day (1865 - 1935).
Edwin Arlington Robinson. (1869 - 1935).
Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943).
Cora Buzzelle Millay
Rachel Lyman Field (1894 - 1942)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Robert Tristram Coffin. (1892 - 1955)
Louise Marie Bogan (1897 - 1970). Born in Limerick Falls. Cremated.
Hortense Flexner (1885 - 1973) Born in Louisville, Kentucky.
Wilbert Snow
Robert Creeley
Abbie Huston Evans. (1882 - 1983).
E. B. White
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Marguerite Yourcenar 1903 – 1987. Old Somesville cemetery, Mt. Desert Island
Barbara Adams Holland
Ruth Moore (1904 - 1989). She is buried under an apple tree on Mt. Desert Island.'
Amy Clampitt. (1920 - 1994)
Richard Aldridge. (1930 - 1994)
May Sarton
James Russell Wiggins (1903 - 2000) Sedgwick, ME. Also DC
Leo Connellan CT & ME
Ben Porter (1911-2004)
Frederick Morgan
Tory Dent. d. 2005 She lived in New York and Maine.
Constance Hunting
John Tagliabue (1923 - 2006)
Philip Booth. (1925 - 2007)
Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Lowell
Denise Levertov
George Oppen. (1908 - 1984) Grave location uncertain.
EASTERN REGION
(PA, DE, OH, VT, NH)
Dora Goodale
Eliaine Eastman
Edith Thomas
Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889 – December 28, 1949
Ernst Walsh
Eugene Jolas (1894-1952)
Bayard Taylor (James) (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878
Sarah Louisa Forten “ADA” 1814 – 1883 b. Philadelphia
Abram Sanders Piatt (182#6A753F Ohio d.
August Wilson (1945 - 20#6A7412 PA d. 2005
Coates Kinney (1826 - 19#6A727C Ohio 1904
George Henry Boker (1823#6A72EC PA
John Milo Ford (1957 - 2#6A64A4
Julia Dorr (1825 - 1913)#6A6428 Rutland, VT.
Kate Brownlee Sherwood (#6A6463 Ohio
Paul Goodman (1911 - 197#6A63E4
NH
Grace Paley VT
Thomas Buchanan Read (18#6A6FAE Laurel Hill, PA
Ben Belitt
Alice Dunbar-Nelson d. Philadelphia 1935 Married Lawrence Dunbar.
Joseph Freeman (1897-1965) NY
Darryl A. Levy Cleveland, Ohio
Richard Tiejen CT
MIDWEST REGION
Frances Densmore 1867 – 1957 Minnesota
http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/10/kenneth-resroth-american-indiansongs.html
Ruste, Rudolf G.,
Richard Hugo
Montana & Washington
John Berryman
Mona Van Duyn IOWA
Frank Marshall Davis
Langston Hughes
Howard Nemerov DC
Daniel Quisenberry KS MO
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6826697
William Stafford
James Tate
Badger Clark (1883 - 1957)
John R. Milton. South Dakota. (1924 - 1995)
Elaine Goodale Eastman d. SD b. MA
Capt Eugene Fitch Ware CT ‡ & KS
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12067367
SOUTHERN REGION
Muna Lee
Mississippi
Tennessee Williams MI
Catherine Ann Warfield MI & KY
Katherine Bellamann MI
Henry Bellamann MI d. NY
Samuel Newton Berryhill (1832-1887) MI
Jonathan Henderson Brooks MI
Hubert Creekmore, 1907, was a native of the small Mississippi town, d. NY 1966
Rose Vertner Johnson Jeffrey b. Mississippi 1828 d. 1894
Glenn Ward Dresbach (1889–1968)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (18#6A7283 Jamaica and US
Grace Crowell Texas
Donna J. Stone TX
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4971
Heberto Padilla (1932 - #6A7254 Cuba Florida
Julia de Burgos (1914 - #6A7305 Puerto Rico
Katherine Anne Porter (1#6A728A TX
A. R. Ammons
John Beecher
Turner Cassity.
He died in Atlanta on July 26, 2009, and was buried in Forest, Mississippi.
Jose De Diego Birth: Apr. 16, 1866, Puerto Rico Death: Oct. 17, 1918,
James Tandy Ellis
John Gould Fletcher
Edsel Ford
Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) b. Japan
Fay Hempstead Arkansas
Audrey Lourde
Alexander Lawrence Posey Eufaula McIntosh County Oklahoma,
Stan Rice (1942 - 2002) #6A72A9
Abraham J. Ryan: The poet-priest of the Confederacy. VA
Sun Ra: Birmingham, Alabama Elmwood Cemetery
Reginald Shepherd Pensacola, Florida ? 1963 – 2008 NY
Elvira Sydnor Miller Slaughter Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Birth: Oct. 12, 1860 Virginia, USADeath: Feb. 28,
Carrie Olivia Speake Birth:
Oct. 9, 1834 Death: Mar. 20, 1906
Frank Stanford
John Stone GA
Dr. Francis Orray Ticknor (1822-1874) GA
Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby KY
Robert Burns Wilsom
Birth: Oct. 30, 1850, Death: Mar. 31, 1916 Frankfort Cemetery Frankfort
Audrey May Wurdermann
Pulitzer-Prize Winner, 1934. d. May 18, 1960 Flagler Memorial Park, Miami, FL.
Ahmos Zu-Bolton
WESTERN REGION
Witter Bynner
William Stafford
Haniel Clark Long ((March 9, 1888, Yangon, Myanmar, Mary Hunter Austin 1868 – 1934 Illinois, CA, NY & New Mexico
Specifically: Ashes Placed in Crypt on Mount Pichaco
Helen Hunt Jackson
Ben Hur Lampman
Karla Kuskin d 2009 Seattle
Richard Hugo Montana & Washington
Sonora Smart Dodd
Washington b. Arkansas
Florence Byrne Cartwright Oregon
Craig Arnold
William Wines Phelps Utah
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6326911
Carlos Bulosan Washington Seattle
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5861763
Jon Anderson
Mary E. Barnard
Raymond Carver 1938 – 1988 Ocean View Cemetery, Port Angeles, WA
Grace Stone Coates
Edward Dorn 1929 – 1999 Boulder, Colorado.
Marjorie Frost
Alice Polk Hill
CO & KY
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8820905
Ella Higginson
Pauline Johnson
D. H. Lawrence
Denise Levertov
Mina Loy
Samuel Simpson Lone
May Swenson
Overseas
Richard Wright
Edith Wharton 1862 – 1937 NY
buried in Protestant Cemetery Versailles, France
Jim Morrison
Adah Isaacs Menken (Actually, Ada C. McCord)
1835 – 1868 Tennessee. Died in Paris
Robert Louis Stevenson
W.H. Auden
Slyvia Plath
Stephen Spender
Joy Davidman
TS Eliot : MO
Joyce Kilmer
Allen Seeger
Joel Barlow
Czeslaw Milosz
Ezra Pound
Gregory Corsco
Joseph Brodsky
Gertrude Stein
Tilton CT
John Howard Payne : Original Grave
Joel Tanner Hart KY
Louise Guiney MA
Lists and maps compiled by Walter Skold
Revised February 13, 2010
Main Sources of Information
on American Poets and Their Gravesites
With few exceptions, persons were included in the category of poet if they had at least
one book of poetry published either during their life or posthumously. These criteria do
not include self-published books or chapbooks of poetry.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale Research
American poets since World War II. Series 1-6
American poets, 1880-1945, Series 1-3
Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance
American Poetry. Database. Alexandria, VA, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1998
Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to
the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Alexandria, VA, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1998
Provides full-text access to approximately 50,000 poems by over 300 American poets
She wields a pen : American women poets of the nineteenth century / edited by
Janet Gray. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm
Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology
of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000). Edited by Cary Nelson
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19256
Death, Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. American Academy of Poets
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/ Poetsʼ Graves (website)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/news.html
Poetry Foundation News Archives
http://www.californiapoetry.org/contents.html
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://theotherpages.org/poems/authors.htmlhttp://theotherpages.org/poems/
Poetʼs Corner Author Index
http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=gSearch&page=gSearch&globalSear
chCriteria=poet
Find-a-Grave.com ; Famous Grave search. search term “poet”
http://www.tennesseehistory.org/encyclopedia.htm
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society
A Readerʼs Map of Rhode Island. C.D.Wright. 1999 Lost Road Publishers
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/authlist.html
Authors of American Verse (list)
An Anthology of Maine Literature. Edited by Robert Lecker and Kathleen R. Brown.
University of Maine at Orono Press, 1982