Leftist poetry is a historically and geographically wide-ranging category, united by the shared goals to foreground Leftist ideas and concerns. They were paricularly active in the 1930s.
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| Title | Leftist | Type of Content | School of Poetry |
| Number/Poets | 17 | Number/Members | 1 |
| Originally Posted | 17 Apr 2013 | Number/Content | 17 |
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| Creator | Modern American... | Tags | No Data |
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Poet Listing
Edwin Rolfe
Born Solomon Fishman in New York, Edwin Rolfe grew up on Coney Island. He took the pen name Rolfe in high school and eventually adopted it as his only name.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard was born in Waitsburg, Washington, where both her parents taught school and where her father was the school principal.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Herman Spector
A lifelong resident of New York, Herman Spector was a regular contributor to New Masses for several years, a key figure in the founding of the short-lived radical poetry journal Dynamo, and a contr
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: No Data
Gender:
Male
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John Wheelwright
Born to a Boston Brahmin family, John Wheelright's father was an architect who designed a number of the city's well-known buildings.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Joseph Freeman
Born in the Ukraine, Joseph Freeman came to the United States in 1904.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: Eastern European
Gender:
Male
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Joseph Kalar
Joseph Kalar was born in Merritt, Minnesota, the second son in a family that would eventually comprise nine boys and a girl who died as an infant.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Joy Davidman
Joy Davidman's first publications appeared while she was still an undergraduate at Hunter College.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Kenneth Fearing
Fearing was born in Oak Park, Illinois, now a Chicago neighborhood. His father was an attorney, though the family broke up a year after Fearing was born and he moved in with an aunt.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Kenneth Rexroth
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kenneth Rexroth moved to Chicago with his family at age twelve.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Lola Ridge
Born Rose Emily Ridge in Dublin, Ireland, Ridge was taken by her mother to New Zealand when she was thirteen.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Lucia Trent
Lucia Trent's third book of poems, Children of Fire and Shadow (1929), a collection whose often witty radicalism anticipates some of the poetry of the next decade, is her most notable.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Muriel Rukeyser
From the outset, Muriel Rukeyser was at once a political poet and a visionary.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Ruth Stone
Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Ruth Stone grew up in Indiana and Illinois and was educated at the University of Illinois.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Sol Funaroff
Sol Funaroff was born of Russian parents; his father died in Palestine after his family fled across Europe.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Tillie Lerner Olsen
Born in Nebraska of Russian parents who participated in the 1905 Revolution and fled when it failed, Tillie Lerner had to leave school to work after the eleventh grade.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: Eastern European
Gender:
Female
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V. J. Jerome
Born in a Polish ghetto, Victor Jeremy Jerome subsequently moved to London and from there came to New York. He joined the Communist Party in 1927 and in 1937 he became chairman of the U.S.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: Eastern European
Gender:
Male
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Weldon Kees
Born in Beatrice, Nebraska, Weldon Kees graduated from the University of Nebraska.
Group/School:
Leftist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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