Anna Akhmatova is regarded as one of Russia’s greatest poets. In addition to poetry, she wrote prose including memoirs, autobiographical pieces, and literary scholarship on Russian writers such as Aleksandr...
Yosano Akiko is one of the best-known female poets from post-classical Japan. Her work is celebrated for its eroticism and emotional explicitness; the publication of her first collection of poetry,...
Ibn Al-`Arabi was known as the “The Greatest Master” (al-shaykh al-akbar) of Islamic mystical thought. He died in Damascus in 1240.
Nazik al-Mala'ika was born in Baghdad. She earned an undergraduate degree at the College of Arts in Baghdad and an MA in comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She...
Imru al-Qays was a sixth-century poet and prince of the Kindite kingdom of Northern and Central Arabia.
Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021),...
A prolific writer for adults and children, Francisco X. Alarcón was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico. Alarcón returned to the United States to attend California State...
Sally Alatalo’s practice percolates in the hybrid realms of language collage, visual poetry, artists’ books, unruly archives and performative events. Her current projects originate in the rehabilitation of an orchard...
Poet George Albon was born in Du Quoin, Illinois, and raised in St. Louis. He earned a BA in film theory from Southern Illinois University. Influenced by George Oppen and Lorine...
Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator originally from Paterson, New Jersey, who has published three books of poetry, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017). The editor and translator of Spit...
Poet, novelist, translator, scholar, and activist Ammiel Alcalay was born and raised in Boston. He studied Latin and ancient Greek at City College in New York and earned his PhD...
Sandra Alcosser was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. She earned her BA from Purdue University and an MFA from the University of Montana, where...
Poet, editor, and translator Daisy Aldan was born in New York City to actor Esther Edelheit Aldan and designer Louis Aldan. As a child actor, Daisy Aldan starred in the...
Richard Aldington was prominent in several literary capacities; most notably as a founding poet of the Imagist movement and as a novelist who conveyed the horror of World War I...
Novelist, poet, and children’s writer Dorothy Keeley was raised in Chicago, the first of four daughters of a newspaper editor. Educated at Smith College, she married World War I veteran...
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the poetry collection Fur Not Light (2019), which The Kenyon Review called an “example of radical humility … its poems enact a quiet but persistent empathy in the world of...
Charles Alexander is a poet, an artist, and a book publisher. His collections of poetry include Hopeful Buildings (1990), Pushing Water (1998), Four Ninety Eight to Seven (1997), Etudes: D&...
Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, New York, but grew up in Washington, DC, the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman,...
Kwame Alexander is a poet, children's book author, playwright, producer, and the author of over a dozen books, including Booked (2016), The Crossover (2014), He Said, She Said (2014), Acoustic Rooster and...
Born in Allahabad, India, poet Meena Alexander was raised in Kerala and Sudan. She earned a BA at Khartoum University and a PhD at Nottingham University. Described as “undoubtedly one...
