Best places to start

• Wikipedia entry on Regionalism in visual art   
• Another detailed overview of American Regionalism
• ​For poetry in particular:  Prioritizing Place: In Defense of Regionalism → article published on poetryfoundation.org

Some poets of Regionalism

• Carl Sandburg → see Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers, or his Complete Poems
• Robert Frost
• The Fugitive Poets → John Crowe Ransom; Allan Tate; Robert Pen Warren
• Lorine Neidecker
• Maxine Kumin → see Up Country: Poems of New England (featuring pen and ink illustrations by Barbara Swan)
• William Carlos Williams → see Paterson
• Robinson Jeffers
• Maynard Dixon → a painter and poet

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Artwork behind title: Thomas Hart Bentons's Slow Train Through Arkansas (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum