Famous Jamaican Poets - Famous Poets from Jamaica
The Jamaican famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Jamaican poets. Here you will find famous Jamaican Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Jamaican poet and we'll add him or her.
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Cliff,
Michelle
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Michelle Cliff (born 2 November 1946) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.. Jamaican-American author of short stories prose poems and works of literary criticism
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Goodison,
Lorna
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Lorna Goodison (born 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan.. Jamaican poet
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McKay,
Claude
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. Jamaican-American writer and poet
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Simpson,
Louis
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Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born March 27, 1923 in Jamaica) is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.. Jamaican poet; 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Zephaniah,
Benjamin
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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Birmingham, England) is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.. English writer dub poet and Rastafarian
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