poet_group.csv

The poet_group.csv file contains a list of poets and their associated racial or ethnic groups based on the poems published on poets.org. We have identified the racial and ethnic groups of poets using the “occasions” field, especially when the occasion is relevant to specific racial and ethnic groups. To align with US Census racial and ethnic categories, we selected the following occasions: "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month” for Asian/Pacific Americans (APA), “Black History Month” or African Americans (AA), “Hispanic Heritage Month” for Latino/a/x American (LXA), and “Native American Heritage Month” for Native Americans (NA). To better follow US Census categories, we distinguished between Asians and Pacific Islanders by manually identifying poems by Pacific Islanders through a review of the descriptions of the poems. Therefore, in this paper, APA-AA represents Asian Americans without Pacific Islanders, while APA-PA denotes Pacific Islanders exclusively. In our study, ‘Others’ or ‘General’ poems represent works by poets who are not associated with the specific occasions we use to identify the underrepresented groups. Additionally, we have reassigned 329 poets to specific underrepresented groups after reviewing their biography pages on poets.org; however, these biographies are not detailed enough to distinguish the mixed-race identities recognized by the US Census. Upon determining the racial and ethnic categories of the poets, we organized their poems into the corresponding categories. However, we acknowledge that our grouping strategy may overlook some poems by underrepresented groups, despite its comprehensiveness.