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A Dataset of American Poetry by Poets from Historically Underrepresented Groups in the HathiTrust Digital Library Cover

A Dataset of American Poetry by Poets from Historically Underrepresented Groups in the HathiTrust Digital Library

By: Gyuri Kang and  Kahyun Choi  
Open Access
|Mar 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Coverage of poets in HathiTrust, compared with that in poets.org.

GROUP# OF POETS FOUND IN HT# OF POETS IN POETS.ORGCOVERAGE (%)
AA13630944.01
APA-AA8019541.03
APA-PA32512.00
LA4214628.77
NA368343.37
Figure 1

Poetry collection search example in the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Table 2

Number of volumes and poems per group.

GROUP# OF VOLUMES# OF BOUNDARY-ANNOTATED VOLUMES# OF IDENTIFIED POEMS
AA136403,380
APA-AA80221,660
APA-PA33298
LA42171,563
NA36312,420
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.508 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 7, 2026
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Accepted on: Feb 14, 2026
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Published on: Mar 6, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Gyuri Kang, Kahyun Choi, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.