It was Anne Bradstreet. Now you know who the first published poet in the American colonies was.
The first published poet in the American colonies was Anne Bradstreet. She was a Puritan poet whose work was published in 1650 in a collection called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America."
Louise May Alcott
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.
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.
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.
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet. It was first published in 1842 as part of a collection of his poetry.
Phillis Wheatly was an African-American poet, and she is specially remembered because she was the first African-American woman published in the US, with her book called 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral', which was published in 1773.
Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first essay, "Nature," in 1836.