Walt Whitman
The Brooklyn printer who reinvented poetry: across forty years and a single ever-growing book, Leaves of Grass, Whitman pioneered free verse and gave America its most expansive voice.
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Emily Dickinson
The reclusive genius of Amherst who wrote nearly 1,800 poems in near-total privacy — and, decades after her death, became one of the founders of modern American poetry.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874–1963), the four-time Pulitzer winner who kept traditional form alive in the modernist age, found whole worlds in stone walls, snowy woods, and forking roads.