Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

Pioneer Masters

These exhibits convey a sense of the transhistoric nature of long ago American poetic expression still burning, immediate, and timely.

 

    Southwestern U.S. Rock Art
Southwestern
U.S. Rock Art
    
      Grand Canyon Polychrome Sites
Grand Canyon
Polychrome Sites
   
       
        Slave Narritives
Slave Narratives
Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammon
(1711- before 1806)		    
      Phyllis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley
(c. 1753-1784) 		 

Sequoyah
Cherokee
(c. 1767–1843)		      
   
Sacagawea
Lemhi Shoshone
(c. 1788–1812)		  
      Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child
(1802- 1880)
 
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
(1803–1806)		      
     
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)		  
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)		      

Henry David Thoreau
(1813-1862)		    
      Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
(1818-1895)
  Whitman
Walt Whitman
(1819–1892)		    

    Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
(1830–1886)		  

Tatanka Yotanka
Hunkpapa Lakota
(c. 1831–1890) 		       
   
Transcendentalism
(1830s-1840s)		    
       
Brook Farm
(1840s)
 
The Dial
(1840-1844)