Jupiter Hammon was the first African American published poet. Her first piece was an 88-line broadside published in 1760 in Hartford Connecticut.
It was Anne Bradstreet. Now you know who the first published poet in the American colonies was.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.