American Literature Posters and Art Prints

E. E. Cummings quote:To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Black Writer. Representation matters. It’s important to see representation on television, in advertising, in the workplace, and in the real world. This series lets black people tell the world “I’m black and I do this.” It may just inspire someone to follow their dream.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

With this image, we celebrate American writer Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man.

Emily Dickinson: Reclusive 19th-century American poet known for her innovative style, exploring themes of nature, death, and immortality. Her concise yet profound verses have left an indelible mark on modern poetry.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

a poem by william carlos williams

Stephen Crane's war novel, The Red Badge of Courage shows a photograph of fallen soldiers on an American Civil War battlefield, an example of the terrible cost of war. The text is an example of Stephen Crane's use of "stream of consciousness" narrative style.

This Vintage Retro Dark Academia Edgar Allen Poe portrait was created by AI Art Originals, generated by Midjourney. An inspirational gift for macabre poets, bookworms, and American literature lovers.

Edgar Allan Poe: “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

charles bukowski logo for literature lovers

My Antonia Willa Carter Book Cover

T.S. Eliot portrait and quote: Do I dare disturb the universe?

Ernest Hemingway quote: The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway quote: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel.

A tired old truck and a quote from Steinbeck's stark novel of the 1930's American Great Depression.

El Hombre Dorado

Whimsical Raven painted with watercolor and pastels featuring an Edgar Alan Poe quote

E. E. Cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

William Faulkner portrait and quote: “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

Mark Twain quote: I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Edith Wharton portrait and quote:'If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.'

Helen Keller portrait and quote: What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Alien and Mark Twain quote: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Ernest Hemingway quote about writing: My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Vintage cover design of Lovecraft's famous novel At The Mountains of Madness

Show your love for Southern women writers and classic literature in this Zora & Eudora & Harper & Flannery tee ;)

Ernest Hemingway quote: As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway quote about war: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Mark Twain quote: Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Edgar Allan Poe portrait and quote: "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

Famed Southern writer, William Faulkner, once said, "If the story is in you, it has to come out." White, Transparent background

Bukowski quote about poetry

Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart shows the heart buried beneath the floor and the old man’s blue eye that drove a madman to murder.