Selected Poems

John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) was an American Imagist poet born in Little Rock, Arkansas, who became the first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1939 for his Selected Poems. Notable works include Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915), Goblins and Pagodas (1916), The Black Rock (1928), and South Star (1941). He associated with Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the Imagist movement and later engaged with the Southern Agrarians.