I am going to take a guess, but it could be Louise May Alcott. She lived in Concord, Mass at the start of the revolution.
It was Anne Bradstreet. Now you know who the first published poet in the American colonies was.
Yes, Anne Bradstreet passed away on September 16, 1672. She was a prominent English-American poet, known for being the first published poet in the American colonies.
The first published poet in American history is generally considered to be Anne Bradstreet. She was an English-born poet who immigrated to America in the 1600s and published a collection of poems titled "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" in 1650.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley is the first black female poet to have her works published in 1773.
"The First Snowfall" was written by American poet James Russell Lowell in the 19th century, published in 1847.
Phillis Wheatley's poems were first published in England because there were doubts about the authenticity and authorship of her work in the American colonies, due to her being a young enslaved woman. Publishing in England provided her with validation and a broader audience, as well as credibility as a poet.
"But you didn't" is a poem written by Merrit Malloy, an American poet and author. It was first published in her book "The People Who Didn't" in 1971.
Lucy Terry Prince was an African American Poet. Her first poem was published in 1855. It was called "Bars Fight".
The poem Rain in Summer was written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet. His first two collections of essays were published in the year 1841 and the second in 1844.