–The Formalists:
Randall Jarrell, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill,
Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Wright
–The Confessionals/the Autobiographical poets: 1950s-80s
Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton,
Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Louise Glück,
Sharon Olds, John Haines, Robert Pinsky, Dave Smith
–New Surrealism/ “Deep Image”: 1960s-70s
Robert Bly, James Wright, W. S. Merwin,
–The Black Mountain poets: 1950s
Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, A. R. Ammons
–The Beats/San Francisco Poetry Renaissance: 1950s-60s
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder
–The New York School: 1950s-60s
Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch
–The Language Poetry: 1980s-90s, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian
–Performance poetry/“Spoken Word”: 1980s-1990s
David Antin, Cid Corman,