Museum of American PoeticsExhibits

20th Century International Bards

This exhibit focuses on major international poets who, with their words, told the social, political and aesthetic story of occupation, resistance and change in the 20th Century. Global lineages continue to have profound impacts on shaping the diverse strands of 21st Century experimental poetries.

 

   
Jorge Luis Borges
(Argentina)
 

Silvina Ocampo
(Argentina)
   
   
    Avetik Isahakyan
Avetik Isahakyan
(Armenia)
Ilse Aichinger (Austria)
Ilse Aichinger
(Austria)
   
  Ingeborg Bachmann (Austria)
Ingeborg Bachmann
(Austria)
 
George Trakl
George Trakl
(Austria)
   
  Utpal Kumar Basu  (Bengal)
Utpal Kumar Basu
(Bengal)
 
    Malay Roy Choudhury (Bengal)
Malay Roy Choudhury
(Bengal)
Rabindranath Tagore (Bengal)
Rabindranath Tagore
(Bengal)
     
       
  Vinicius de Moraes
Vinicius de Moraes
(Brazil)
   
     
Clarice Lispector
(Brazil)
W.H. Auden (Britian)
W.H. Auden
(Britain)
       
  Robert Graves (Britian)
Robert Graves
(Britain)
   
      D. H. Lawrence (Britian)
D. H. Lawrence
(Britain)
Doris Lessing (Britian)
Doris Lessing
(Britain)
     
    Mina Loy (Britian)
Mina Loy
(Britain)
 
Wilfred Owen (Britian)
Wilfred Owen
(Britain)
       
   
J.R.R. Tolkien
(Britain)
   

Roberto Bolaño
(Chile)
       
     
María de la Cruz
(Chile)

Gabriela Mistral
(Chile)
       
      Pablo Neruda (Chile)
Pablo Neruda
(Chile)
 
  Nicanor Parra (Chile)
Nicanor Parra
(Chile)
   
       
Gonzalo Rojas
Gonzalo Rojas
(Chile)
 
      Ai Qing (China)
Ai Qing
(China)
  Bei Dao
Bei Dao
(China)
   
        Bei Ling
Bei Ling
(China)
    Bian Zhi-lin (China)
Bian Zhilin
(China)
   
Dai Wang-shu (China)
Dai Wangshu
(China)
       
      Gu Cheng (China)
Gu Cheng
(China)
 
  Guo Mo-ruo (China)
Guo Mo-ruo
(China)
     
       
    Hai Zi (China)
Hai Zi
(China)
   
        Hu Shih (China)
Hu Shih
(China)

Lin Huiyin
(China)
       
     
Lu Xun
(China)
 
  Mu Dan (China)
Mu Dan
(China)
   
       

Qiu Jin
(China)
     
   
Rong Zi
(China)
      Shen Ts'ung-wen (China)
Shen Congwen
(China)
  Wen Chu-an
Wen Chu-an
(China)
   
     
    Wen Yiduo (China)
Wen Yiduo
(China)
 
       
      Zhao Luo-rui (China)
Zhao Luorui
(China)
     
    Zheng Min (China)
Zheng Min
(China)
 
Geronimo (20th C Chiricahua Apache)
Geronimo: His Own Story
(Chiricahua Apache)
     
     
Dulce María Loynaz
(Cuba)
    Jose Marti
Jose Marti
(Cuba)
 
       
    Salah 'Abd al-Sabur
Salah Abdel Sabour
(Egypt)
 
       
     
Roque Dalton
(El Salvador)
Guillaume Apollinaire (France)
Guillaume Apollinaire
(France)
     
  Antonin Artaud (France)
Antonin Artaud
(France)
 
        Georges Brassens (France)
Georges Brassens
(France)
  Andre Breton (France)
Andre Breton
(France)
   
    Jean Cocteau (France)
Jean Cocteau
(France)
 
Robert Desnos (France)
Robert Desnos
(France)
   
Jacques Prevert (France)
Jacques Prevert
(France)
   
      Hilde Domin (Germany)
Hilde Domin
(Germany)

Anne Frank
(Germany)
     
     
  Gertrude Kolmar (Germany)
Gertrud Kolmar
(Germany)
 
  Rainer Marie Rilke (Germany)
Rainer Maria Rilke
(Germany)
Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs
(Germany/Sweden)
   
  Constantine Cavafy (Greece)
Constantine Cavafy
(Greece/Egypt)
    Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
Odysseas Elytis
(Greece)
Nikos Kazantsakis (Greece)
Nikos Kazantzakis
(Greece)
 
  Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos
(Greece)
Giorgos Seferis (Greece)
Giorgos Seferis
(Greece)
   
   
  Angelos Sikelianos (Greece)
Angelos Sikelianos
(Greece)

Sri Aurobindo
(India)
     
     

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
(India)
   
     

Mahatma Gandhi
(India)
     
 
Sarojini Naidu
(India)
 
     
    Kamala Surayya (India)
Kamala Surayya
(India)
  'Abdal-Wahhab al-Bayyati
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati
(Iraq)
   
     
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
(Iraq)
   
     
Sargon Boulus
Sargon Boulus
(Iraq)
     
    Nazik al-Mala'ika
Nazik al-Malaika
(Iraq)
   
    Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
Samuel Beckett
(Ireland)
  Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
Seamus Heaney
(Ireland)
   
    James Joyce (Ireland)
James Joyce
(Ireland)
 
       
      W.B. Yeats (Ireland/Britian)
W.B. Yeats
(Ireland)
Yehuda Amichai (Israel)
Yehuda Amichai
(Israel)
   
  Hannah Szenes (Israel)
Hannah Szenes
(Israel)
   
       
  Dino Campana (Italy)
Dino Campana
(Italy)
   
      Primo Levi (Italy)
Primo Levi
(Italy)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
(Italy)
   
   
Miklós Radnóti
(Hungary)
 
     
  Tamura Ryuichi (Japan)
Ryuichi Tamura
(Japan)
 
       
Sadako Kurihara
(Japan)
   
Sagawa Chika
(Japan)
   

Sakutaro Hagiwara
(Japan)
       
       
Takuboku Ishikawa
(Japan)
 
Yosano Akiko
(Japan)
 

Rosario Castellanos
(Mexico)
   
     
  Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
(Mexico)
 
    Ernesto Cardinal (Nicaragua)
Ernesto Cardenal
(Nicaragua)
Leonel Rugama
Leonel Rugama
(Nicaragua)
     
      Black Elk (20th C Oglala Souix)
Black Elk
(Oglala Sioux)
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
(Pakistan)
     
    Allama Iqbal Muhummad Iqbal (Pakistan)
Muhammad Iqbal
(Pakistan)
 

Ada Jafri
(Pakistan)
       
     
  Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)
Mahmoud Darwish
(Palestine)
   
       
  Samih al-Qasim
Samih al-Qasim
(Palestine)
   
     
Fadwa Tuqan
(Palestine)
     
    Ibrahim Tukan
Ibrahim Tuqan
(Palestine)

Renia Spiegel
(Poland)
       
  Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
Wislawa Szymborska
(Poland)
   
      Fernando Pessoa (Portugal)
Fernando Pessoa
(Portugal)

Julia De Burgos
(Puerto Rico)
     
   
Clara Lair
(Mercedes Negrón Muñoz)
(Puerto Rico)
 
       
Luis Llorens Torres
(Puerto Rico)
  Dennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus
(Rhodesia)
   
     
Nina Cassian (Romania)
Nina Cassian
(Romania)
   
    Tristan Tzara (Romania/France)
Tristan Tzara
(Romania/France)
  Anna Akhmatova (Russia)
Anna Akhmatova
(Russia)
   
      Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Russia)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
(Russia)
   
Osip Mandelstam
(Russia)
 
       
  Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russia)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(Russia)
   
    Marina Tsvetaeva (Russia)
Marina Tsvetaeva
(Russia)
 
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(Russia)
     
    Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa)
Breyten Breytenbach
(South Africa)
 
 
Ingrid Jonker
(South Africa)
   
     
Nelson Mandela
(South Africa)
Don Mattera (South Africa)
Don Mattera
(South Africa)
     
     
Kang Kyeong-ae
(South Korea)
 
       
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Na Hye-sok
(South Korea)
 
     
  Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti
(Spain)
   

Miguel de Unamuno
(Spain)
     
      Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca
(Spain)
  Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) (Syria/Lebanon)
Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber)
(Syria)
   

Colette Khoury
(Syria)
     
      Nizar Qabbani (Syria)
Nizar Qabbani
(Syria)
  Lhasang Tsering
Lhasang Tsering
(Tibet)
   
   
Gülten Akin
(Turkey)
 
  Nazim Hikmet (Turkey)
Nazim Hikmet
(Turkey)
   
   
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna
(Turkey)
  Andres Eloy Blanco
Andres Eloy Blanco
(Venezuela)
 
   
  Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe)
Dambudzo Marechera
(Zimbabwe)