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This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.

Alphabetical list

Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ab–Ak

Chris Abani, Nigerian poet
Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
Ryan Adams (1974–), singer-songwriter with Whiskeytown and The Cardinals who had his first book Infinity Blues published in 2009
Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
Aeschylus (525–456 BC), Athenian tragedian
Lucius Afranius (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
Ai (1947–2010), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet

Al–Am

Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207–1273)
Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet
Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901)
Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
Dante Alighieri, (1265–1321), Italian poet
James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
William Allingham, (1824 or 1828–1889)
Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
A. R. Ammons (1926–2001) American author and poet

An–Aq

Anacreon (570 BC–488 BC), Greek lyric poet
Alfred Andersch, (1914–1980)
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet (1805–1875)
Jon Anderson, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist
Mário de Andrade, (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
Maya Angelou, (born April 4, 1928), American Poet
Antler, (b.1946), American poet
Brother Antoninus
Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922–1949)
Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880–1918)
Apollo Poetry (1983)
Apollonius of Rhodes (270–after 245 BC)
Maja Apostoloska, (born 1976), Macedonian poetess
Pawlu Aquilina, (1929–2009), Maltese poet

Ar–Au

Louis Aragon, (1897–1982)
Archilochus, (ca.680–ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925)
Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), American Dada–ist
Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet
Ludovico Ariosto, (1474–1533)
Rae Armantrout, (1947–)
Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
Ernst Moritz Arndt, (1769–1860), German patriotic author and poet
Achim von Arnim, (1781–1831)
Bettina von Arnim, (1785–1859)
Matthew Arnold, (1822–1888)
Jean Arp, (1886–1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
Antonin Artaud, (1896–1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
John Ashbery, (born 1927)
Anton Askerc, (1856–1912)
Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
W. H. Auden, (1907–1973)
Ausiàs March, (1397–1459)
Ausonius, (c. 310–395)

Av–Ay

Margaret Avison (1918–2007)
Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet
Robert Ayton (1570–1638)

B

Ba

Bab–Bal

Ken Babstock, Canadian
Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926–1973)
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Indonesian Poet
George Bacovia, Romanian poet
Janos Bacsanyi, (1763–1845)
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921–1944)
Julio Baghy
Bai Juyi
Joanna Baillie, (1762–1851)
Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
John Balaban, (born 1943), American poet
Jesse Ball American poet
Konstantin Balmont, Russian poet

Bar–Bax

Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743–1825)
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
John Barbour, (c. 1316–1395)
George Barker, (1913–1991)
Les Barker
Richard Barnefield, (1574–1627)
William Barnes, (1801–1886)
Elizabeth Barrett(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
Matsuo Bashō, (1644–1694), renku and haiku poet
Michael Basinski, (b.1950)
Ellen Bass, (born 1947)
Charles Baudelaire, (1821–1867)
James K. Baxter, (1926–1972)

Be

Francis Beaumont, (1586–1616)
Joshua Beckman
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836–1870)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803–1849) (English writer in Germany)
Aphra Behn, (1640–1689)
Erin Belieu, (born 1957), American poet
Marvin Bell, (1937–?)
Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
Hilaire Belloc
Andrey Bely, (1880–1934)
Gottfried Ben
Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898–1943)
William Rose Benét, (1886–1950)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
Bo Bergman (1869–1967)
Ilhan Berk
Daniel Berrigan
Wendell Berry
John Berryman
Charles Bernstein, (b.1950)
John Betjeman, (1906–1984)
Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi–Bl

Laurence Binyon, (1879–1943)
Earle Birney, (1904–1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
Elizabeth Bishop, (1911–1979)
Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975), American poet
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (1895–1961)
Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
William Blake, (1757–1827), English painter, poet
Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
Aleksandr Blok, (1880–1921)
Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832–1919)
Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
Edmund Blunden
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Robert Bly

Bo

Jean Bodel
Louise Bogan
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636–1711)
Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
Heinrich Böll, (1917–1985)
Nozawa Bonchō, (c.1640–1714), Japanese haikai poet
Arna Wendell Bontemps
Jorge Luis Borges, (1899–1986)
Tadeusz Borowski
Hristo Botev, (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
David Bottoms, (born 1949), American poet
Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563–1601)
Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra–Bri

Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, (c. 1612–1672) Landed in Salem, MA, June 14, 1630 America's first published poet
Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
Richard Brautigan, (1935–1984)
Bertolt Brecht, (1898–1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
Christopher Brennan, (1870–1932), Australian
Joseph Payne Brennan, (1918–1990)
Clemens Brentano, (1778–1842)
André Breton, (1896–1966)
Nicholas Breton, (1542–1626)
Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
Robert Bridges, (1844–1930)
Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)

Bro–Bry

James Brock, (born 1958)
Joseph Brodsky, (1940–1996)
Wladyslaw Broniewski
William Bronk, (died 1999)
Anne Brontë, (1820–1849)
Charlotte Brontë, (1816–1855)
Emily Brontë, (1818–1848), British author
Rupert Brooke, (1887–1915)
Gwendolyn Brooks, (1917–2000)
Joan Brossa, (1919–1998)
Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
Flora Brovina
Petrus Brovka (1905–1980), Soviet poet
Thomas Edward Brown, (1830–1897)
George Mackay Brown
Sterling Brown, (1901–1989)
William Browne, (1588–1643)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806–1861)
Robert Browning, (1812–1889)
William Cullen Bryant, (1794–1878)
Bryher
Valeri Bryusov, (1873–1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu–By

Georg Büchner
Vincent Buckley, (1927–1988)
David Budbill, (born 1940)
Charles Bukowski, (1920–1994) poet, novelist
Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist
Basil Bunting
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
Stanley Burnshaw
Robert Burns, (1759–1796)
William S. Burroughs, (1914–1997)
Edwin G. Burrows
Andrzej Bursa
Yosa Buson, (1716–1784), Japanese haikai poet and painter
Raegan Butcher
Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
Lord Byron, (1788–1824)

C

Ca

Cab–Cap

Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
Caedmon (old English)
Alison Calder, Canadian poet
Cali Xuseen Xirsi
Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
Callimachus (c.305–c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
Robert Calvert, (1945–1988)
Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
Roy Campbell (1901–1957)
Jan Campert,(1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist
Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
Thomas Campion, (1567–1619), composer, poet
Thomas Campbell, (1774–1844)
Melville Henry Cane, (1879–1980)
Ivan Cankar, (1876–1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893–1973)
Edip Cansever (187–29, 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei, and poet
Cao Cao, (155 AD–220 AD), warlord, poet
Cao Zhi, (192–232), Chinese poet

Car–Cav

Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
Giosuè Carducci, (1835–1907)
Thomas Carew, (1595–1639)
Henry Carey, (1693–1743)
Bliss Carman, (1861–1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
Jim Carroll, (1949–2009)
Lewis Carroll, (1832–1898)
Hayden Carruth, (1921-2008)
Anne Carson, (born 1950)
Jared Carter (born 1939)
William Cartwright, (1611–1643)
Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
Catullus, (c. 84BC–54BC), Roman poet
Charles Causley
C. P. Cavafy, (1863–1933)

Ce–Ci

Paul Celan, (1920–1970)
Thomas Centolella
Anica Cernej, (1900–1944)
Luis Cernuda, (1903–1963)
Mário Cesariny, (1923–2006)
Ashok Chakradhar, (born 1951)
John Chalkhill
Jean Chapelain, (1595–1674)
Arthur Chapman, (1873–1935)
George Chapman, (1560–1634)
René Char, (1907–1998)
Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343–1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
Billy Childish
Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
Chiyo-ni, (1703–1775)
Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
Ralph Chubb, (1892–1960), poet, painter, printer
John Ciardi, Italian-American poet

Cl

Amy Clampitt
John Clare, (1793–1864)
George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978)
Paul Claudel, (1868–1955)
Matthias Claudius
Brian P. Cleary
Michelle Cliff
Lucille Clifton, (1936-2010)
Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819–1861)

Co

Coc–Cos

Jean Cocteau, (1889–1963), French writer
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
Hartley Coleridge, (1796–1849)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861–1907)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772–1834), English poet
Wanda Coleman, African-American poet
Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
William Collins, (1721–1759)
William Congreve, (1670–1729), English poet
Paul Conneally, (born 1959)
Robert Conquest, historian and poet
Henry Constable, (1562–1613)
Clark Coolidge
Wendy Cope
Tristan Corbière, (1845–1875)
Alfred Corn, (born 1943)
Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
Jayne Cortez
George Cosbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet

Cot–Cow

Malcolm Cowley, (1898–1989), (Dada)
Abraham Cowley, (1618–1667)
William Cowper, (1731–1800)

Cr–Cz

George Crabbe, (1754–1832)
Hart Crane, (1899–1932), (The Bridge)
Stephen Crane, (1871–1900), USA writer
Richard Crashaw, (1613–1649)
Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women – Black Mountain School)
Octave Crémazie
Charles Cros, (1842–1888), French poet and inventor
Aleister Crowley, (1875–1947), English Occultist and poet
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
Necati Cumalı
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Allan Cunningham, (1784–1842)
Allen Curnow, (1911–2001)
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

Da

Roque Dalton, (1935–1975) Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
David Daniels, (1933– ) Visual Poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863–1938), revolutionary
Rubén Darío, (1867–1916)
Erasmus Darwin, (1731–1802), British poet and herbalist
Jibanananda Das,(1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
René Daumal, (1908–1944)
Jean Daurat, (1508–1588)
Alan Davies, American poet
W. H. Davies
William Davenant, (1606–1668)
Donald Davidson, (1893–1968)
John Davies, (1569–1626), historian
Jon Davis
Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
Denis Davydov, (1784–1839)
Cecil Day-Lewis

De

James Deahl
Aurora de Albornoz, (1926–1990) 20th century Spanish poet
Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
Daniel Defoe, (1659/61? – 1731)
Madeline DeFrees, (born 1919)
Walter de la Mare, author, poet
Thomas Dekker, (1575–1641)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651–1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
François de Malherbe, (1555–1628),
Alfred de Musset, (1810–1857), 19th century poet
Gérard de Nerval, (1808–1855)
Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530–1606)
Tory Dent, (1958– ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
Evariste de Parny, 18th century French poet
Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
Alfred de Vigny, (1797–1863), 19th century poet

Di–Do

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Canadian poet
Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
Emily Dickinson, (1830–1886), American poet
James Dickey, (1923–1997)
Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
Blaga Dimitrova
Paul Dirmeikis, (1954– ), French poet
Thomas M. Disch, (1940–2008), American poet, novelist
Tim Dlugos, (1950–1990), American poet
Henry Austin Dobson
Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet (born 1941)
Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
John Donne, (1572–1631)
Hilda Doolittle, (1886–1961), U.S. Imagist poet
Gavin Douglas
Keith Douglas, (1920–1944)
Rita Dove
Ernest Dowson, (1867–1900)

Dr

Jane Draycott
Michael Drayton, (1563–1631)
Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872–1947), Albanian poet
John Drinkwater, (1882–1937)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797–1848), German poet
William Drummond, (1585–1649)
William Henry Drummond, (1854–1907), poet, The habitant
John Dryden, (1631–1700), poet and playwright

Du–Dy

Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522–1560)
W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868–1963), writer, activist
Norman Dubie, (born 1945)
Du Fu, the Poet Saint
Du Mu, (803–852), Chinese poet
Alan Dugan
Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872–1906)
William Dunbar, (1465–1520)
Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
Stephen Dunn
Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878–1957), Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell, (1912–1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
Stuart Dybek
Bob Dylan, born 1941

E

Ea–Er

EmmaPassions Iruoghene Emesakoru
Richard Eberhart
Russell Edson
Terry Ehret, (born 1955)
Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788–1857)
George Eliot, (1819–1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888–1965), writer
Ebenezer Elliott, (1781–1849)
Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
Paul Éluard, French poet
Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803–1882), American author
Gevorg Emin, (1918–1998), Armenian poet
Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (1850–1889)
William Empson, (1906–1984)
Yunus Emre
Michael Ende, (1929–1995), German poet
Paul Engle
Ennius
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
Haydar Ergülen
Max Ernst, (1891–1976), (Dada)
Mehmet Erte

Es–Ew

Maggie Estep, American slam poet
Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
Martin Espada, American poet and teacher
Florbela Espanca, poet
Salvador Espriu, writer
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
Euripides (480–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Mari Evans
William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
Gavin Ewart

F

U.A. Fanthorpe (1929–), British poet and CBE
Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist
J.P. Farrell, (1968–), American poet and musician

Fe–Fo

Fenggan
Ferdowsi, (935–1020), Persian poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–)
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828)
Ian Hamilton Finlay, (1925–2006)
Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
Edward Fitzgerald, (1809–1883)
Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)
John Fletcher, (1579–1625)
John Gould Fletcher, (1886–1950), Imagist poet
F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
Theodor Fontane, (1819–1898)
John Forbes, (1950–1998), Australian poet
Carolyn Forché, born 1950
Ford Madox Ford, (1873–1939), promoter of many other writers.
John Ford, (1586–1639), playwright and poet.
John M. Ford, (1957–2006), novelist and poet.
Ugo Foscolo, (1778–1827)
Hristo Fotev, (1934–2002), Bulgarian poet
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

Fr–Fu

Janet Frame, (born 1924)
Robert Francis, (1901–1987)
Veronica Franco, (1546–1591)
Naim Frashëri (1846—1900)
Louis Fréchette, (1839–1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Erich Fried, (1921–1988)
Max Frisch, (1911–1991), Swiss poet
Robert Frost, (1874–1963), American poet
Gene Frumkin, (1928–2007), American poet
Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Ga–Gl

James Galvin, (1951 – )
Karina Galvez, (1964– ), Ecuadorian Poet
Asadulla Khan Ghalib, (1796–1869) Urdu & Persian Poet
Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876)
Jean Garrigue (1914–1972)
Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
George Gascoigne, (1525–1577)
David Gascoyne (1916–2001)
Théophile Gautier, (1811–1872)
John Gay, (1685–1732), songwriter, poet
Stefan George, (1868–1933)
Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606–1676)
Aaref Ghazvini, (1882–1934)
Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
Khalil Gibran, (The Prophet) (1883–1931)
Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 – May 26, 1962)
Allen Ginsberg, (1926–1997)
Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
Giuseppe Giusti, (1809–1850)
Denis Glover, (1912–1980)
Louise Glück, (1943 – ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

Gérald Godin, (1938–1994), Quebec poet and politician
Patricia Goedicke, (1931-2006)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832), (part-time)
Octavian Goga (1881–1938) Romanian poet
Lea Goldberg, (1911–1970)
Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
Ziya Gökalp
Oliver Goldsmith, (1730–1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
Pavel Golia (1887–1959)
Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967)
Hedwig Gorski, (born 1949), first Performance poet, American avant-garde literature
Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra–Gri

Anders Abraham Grafström, (1790–1870), Swedish poet
Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
Richard Graves, (1715–1804), British poet and essayist
Robert Graves, (1895–1985), British author
Thomas Gray, (1716–1771), British poet
Robert Greene, (1558–1592)
Dora Greenwell, (1821–1882), English woman poet
Horace Gregory
Eamon Grennan
Fulk Greville, (1554–1628)
Susan Griffin
Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
Franz Grillparzer
Nicholas Grimald, (1519–1562)
Angelina Weld Grimke
Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro–Gy

Stanisław Grochowiak
Philip Gross
Igo Gruden, (1893–1948)
Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
Jorge Guillen, (1893–1984)
Nicolas Guillén, (1902–1989), (Cuban poet)
Guido Guinizelli
Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
Gül Baba
Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886–1921)
Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola), (1589–1638)
Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
Ivor Gurney, (1890–1937)
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950– )
Brion Gysin, (1916–1986)

H

Ha

Marilyn Hacker
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
Hafez, (1315–1390), Persian poet
Hai Zi
John Haines, (born 1924)
Han Yu
Han-Shan
Thomas Hardy, (1840–1928), English poet
Jim Harrison, (born 1937)
Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
David Harsent
Peter Härtling
Gwen Harwood
Alamgir Hashmi
Ahmet Haşim
Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862–1946)
Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803–1875), Cornish poet/vicar
Robert Hayden

He

Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
John Heath-Stubbs
Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht, (1923–2004)
Jennifer Michael Hecht
John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
Heinrich Heine, (1797–1856)
Felicia Hemans, (1793–1835)
Essex Hemphill, (1957–1995)
William Ernest Henley, (1849–1903)
Adrian Henri
Robert Henryson, (died c.1500) Scottish poet
George Herbert, (1593–1633), public orator and poet
Zbigniew Herbert
Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744–1803)
Miguel Hernandez, (1910–1942)
Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
Robert Herrick, (1591–1674), English poet
Hesiod, ancient Greek poet
Phoebe Hesketh, (1909–2005), English poet
Hermann Hesse, (1877–1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
Thomas Heywood, (157?–1650)

Hi–Hr

William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
Dick Higgins, (1938–1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
Nazım Hikmet
Ellen Hinsey, poet
H.L. Hix, American poet
Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874–1929)
James Hogg, (1770–1835)
Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770–1843)
John Hollander, (born 1929)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809–1894), USA scholar
Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
Thomas Hood, (1798–1845)
A. D. Hope (July 21, 1907 – July 13, 2000)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844–1889)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman lyric poet
George Moses Horton
Joan Houlihan
A. E. Housman, (1859–1936)
Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), (1517–1547)
Richard Howard
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe

Hu–Hy

Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
Langston Hughes, (1902–1967)
Ted Hughes, (1930–1998)
Richard Hugo
Victor Hugo, (1802–1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
Vicente Huidobro, (1893–1948)
Lynda Hull, (1954–1994)
Alexander Hume, (1560–1609)
James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784–1859), English poet
Aldous Huxley, (1894–1963)

I

Avetik Isahakyan, (1875–1957), an Armenian lyric poet

J

Ja–Ju

FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
Richard Jago, (1715–1781)
Clive James
Randall Jarrell
Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
Simon Jenko, (1835–1869)
Elizabeth Jennings
Jia Dao
John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet
Edmund John
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Helene Johnson
James Weldon Johnson, (1871–1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
Lionel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784)
David Jones, (1895–1974), artist and poet
Richard Jones
Ryan Jones
Ben Jonson, (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
June Jordan, (1936–2002), American poet and educator
Anthony Joseph
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904)
James Joyce, (1882–1941)
Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
Donald Justice, (1925–2004), poet and artist
Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist

K

Ka–Kh

Kabir, Indian social reformer.
Kālidāsa'Sanskrit poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rebel poet of Bengal
Jim Kacian (born 1953)
Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish
Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891–1976)
Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
Orhan Veli Kanik
Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
Suzy Kassem, (1975–present)
Erich Kästner, (1899–1974), poet, novelist
Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
Shirley Kaufman (born 1923)
Patrick Kavanagh, (1904–1967)
John Keats, (1795–1821)
Weldon Kees
Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
X. J. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac, (1922–1969), US writer
Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Khushal Khan Khattak
Omar Khayyám, (1048–1122)
Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885–1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886–1939)
Nikos Kavvadias, (1910–1975), Greek poet

Ki–Kn

Takarai Kikaku, (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
Joyce Kilmer, (1886–1918)
Amy King
Henry King, (1592–1669)
William King, (1663–1712)
Gottfried Kinkel, (1815–1882)
Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
John Kinsella (born 1963)
Thomas Kinsella
Rudyard Kipling, (1865–1936), Just So Stories
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004)
Carolyn Kizer, (born 1925)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724–1803)
Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob–Ky

Kobayashi Issa, (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
Jan Kochanowski (1530–84)
Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
Faik Konica
Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
Srecko Kosovel (1904–1926)
Dezső Kosztolányi Hungarian poet
Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
Dimitris P. Kraniotis (born 1966), Greek poet
Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
Ruth Krauss
Miroslav Krleža (1589–1638), poet, novelist
Marilyn Krysl
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet, novelist
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz
Tuli Kupferberg (1923–)
Onat Kutlar
Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
Kusumagraj, eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist

L

La

Pierre Labrie (1972– ), poet from Quebec
Jarkko Laine, Finnish poet
Philip Lamantia
Alphonse de Lamartine
Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), (English writer in Italy)
Philip Larkin, (1922–1985)
James Laughlin, (1914-1997)
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)
Jan Lauwereyns (born 1969)
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
Layamon
Irving Layton, Canadian poet (1912–2006)
Emma Lazarus

Le

Edward Lear (1812–1888)
Jan Lechon
Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
David Lee, (born 1966)
Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish
Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
Lalitha Lenin
John Leonard (1965– ) Australian
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), poet, novelist
Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
Boleslaw Lesmian
Rika Lesser
Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
Dana Levin (poet), (born 1965)
Philip Levine
Larry Levis
D. A. Levy (1942–1968), artist, poet, and publisher
William Levy
Saunders Lewis (1893–1985)
Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)

Li

Li Hou Zhu, (931–978)
José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
Tim Liardet
Li Po, (701–762), the Poet Immortal
Li Qiao
Li Qingzhao
Li Shangyin
Tim Lilburn
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906–2001)
Sarah Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay, (1879–1931)
Thomas Lodge, (1556–1625)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807–1882), American
Federico García Lorca
Audre Lorde, (1934–1992) American poet
Richard Lovelace, (1618–1658)
Amy Lowell, (1874–1925), American
James Russell Lowell, (1819–1891), American
Robert Lowell, (1917–1977), American
Mina Loy (Dada)
Lu You
Gherasim Luca
Lucilius
Maria White Lowell, (1821–1853), American
Lucan, (39–65), Roman
Lucretius, (98?–55 BC), physicist
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
Luo Binwang
Mario Luzi
John Lydgate, (1370–1450)
John Lyly, (1553–1606)
George Lyttelton, (1709–1773)

M

Ma

Mac–Mak

Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892–1978)
George MacDonald, (1824–1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean, (1911–1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
Arthur Machen, (1863–1947), Irish poet
Compton Mackenzie
Archibald MacLeish, (1892–1982)
Louis MacNeice, (1907–1963)
Haki R. Madhubuti
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922–1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), general and poet
G. D. Madgulkar (1919–Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
Clarence Major (born 1936)
Majeed Amjad (Pakistani poet)

Mal–Mar

Stephane Mallarme, (1842–1898)
David Mallet, (c.1705–1765)
Sir Thomas Malory
Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan
Bill Manhire (born 1946)
Marcus Manilius (1st century)
Heinrich Mann, (1871–1950)
Klaus Mann, (1906–1949)
Thomas Mann, (1875–1955), author
Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895–1988)
Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269–1340)
Chris Mansell (1953–)
Alessandro Manzoni, (1785–1873), poet, novelist
Ausias March, (1397–1459), poet of the 15th century
Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
Giambattista Marini, (1569–1625)
Edwin Markham
Christopher Marlowe, (1564–1593), English playwright
Clément Marot, (1496–1544)
José Martí, (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer.
Martial (40–ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
Harry Martinson, (1904–1978), Swedish poet
Andrew Marvell, (1621–1678)

Mas–Maz

John Masefield, (1878–1967)
Edgar Lee Masters, (1869–1950)
Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893–1930)
Karl May, (1842–1912), German poet

Mc

Michael McClure (Dark Brown – beat)
John McCrae, (1872–1918), In Flanders Fields
Bryant H. McGill
Elvis McGonagall
William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
Campbell McGrath
Wendy McGrath
Thomas McGrath, (1916–1990)
Heather McHugh, (born 1948)
Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
James McIntyre, (1827–1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay
Don McKay
Rod McKuen
James McMichael (born 1939)

Me

Norman MacCaig
Mei Yaochen
Meng Haoran
George Meredith, (1828–1909), English poet, novelist
Kersti Merilaas, (1913–1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
Stuart Merrill, (1863–1915), (symbolist)
James Merrill, (1926–1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
Thomas Merton, (1915–1968), American author and Trappist monk
W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew, (1869–1928)
Henry Meyer, (1840–1925)

Mi–Ml

Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Henri Michaux, poet and painter
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798–1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
Veronica Micle (1850–1889)
Agnes Miegel, (1879–1964)
Josephine Miles
Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892–1950)
Joaquin Miller, (1837–1913)
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Spike Milligan, (1918–2002), (The Goon Show)
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911–2004)
Alice Duer Miller
Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian –Polish,
Jane Miller
John Milton, (1608–1674), English poet
Gabriela Mistral, (1889–1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Adrian Mitchell
S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
Ndre Mjeda

Mo

Harold Monro
Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
Charles Montagu (1st Earl of Halifax), (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
Marianne Moore, (1887–1972)
Dom Moraes
Merrill Moore, (1903–1957), Sonneteer
Thomas Moore, (1779–1852)
John Morgan, (1688–1733)
Christian Morgenstern, (1871–1914)
William Morris, (1834–1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter)
Stephen Morse (1945 – ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
Valzhyna Mort (born 1981)
Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
Howard Moss
Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999–2009)
Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)

Mu

Micere Githae Mugo,(born 1942), Kenyan poet
Erich Mühsam, (1878–1934), German poet and revolutionary
Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
Lale Müldür, (born 1956)
Laura Mullen, American poet
Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
George Murray, (born 1971), Canadian poet
Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
Les Murray, (born 1938)
Anthony Munday, (1553–1633)
Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
Susan Musgrave, Poet.
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
George Murnu, aromanian poet

My

Lam Quang My, Vietnamese poet

N

Na–Nj

Vladimir Nabokov, (1899–1977)
Naseer Ahmed Nasir( born 1954, Eminent Pakistani poet, Editor Tasteer)
Ogden Nash, (1902–1971)
Thomas Nashe, (1567–1601)
Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
John Neihardt, (1881–1973)
Émile Nelligan, (1879–1941), Quebec poet
Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938), historian, poet
John Henry Newman, (1801–1890)
Nezami, (1141–1209), Persian poet
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974– )
B. P. Nichol, (1944–1988)
John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 – 1 July 1931)
Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 – December 31, 1970)
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni), (1911–1938)
Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813–1851), Serb poet & ruler
Noon Meem Rashid (Pakistani poet)

No–Ny

Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965)
Nolla, Olga (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
Caroline Norton (1808–1877)
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772–1801), German poet and novelist
Alfred Noyes
Julia Nyberg (1784–1854)
Naomi Shihab Nye

O

Ron Offen (1930–)
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), New York School
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
George Oppen
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II, American painter & poet
Peter Orlovsky (beat)
Gregory Orr (born 1947)
Öser
Alice Oswald
Ouyang Xiu
Ovid, (43 BC–17 AD), Roman poet
Wilfred Owen, (1893–1918)
Ismet Özel

P

Pa

Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
Ron Padgett
Grace Paley
Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 – October 24, 1897)
Palladas
Michael Palmer, (1943–)
Daniele Pantano, (1976–)
Dorothy Parker, (1893–1967)
Thomas Parnell, (1670–1718)
Nicanor Parra, Chile
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
Boris Pasternak, (1890–1960), novelist
Kenneth Patchen, (1911–1972)
Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
Don Paterson
Coventry Patmore
Brian Patten
Octavio Paz, (1914–1998), Mexican poet

Pe–Pl

Thomas Love Peacock, (1785–1866), English poet, novelist
Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
Sam Pereira
Lucia Perillo
Persius (34–62), Roman poet
Fernando Pessoa, (1888–1935)
Robert Peters, (1924–) American poet
Pascale Petit
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304–1374)
Ambrose Philips
Tanwir Phool,(born 1948) English & Urdu Pakistani poet
Pindar (522–443 BC), Theban lyric poet
Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
Ruth Pitter
Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365–circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
Sylvia Plath, (1932–1963),
Shmuel Plavnik(1886–1941), Belarusian poet and writer

Po–Pu

Edgar Allan Poe, (1809–1849), US mystery writer and poet
Edward Pollock, (1823–1858), California poet
Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
Alexander Pope, (1688–1744), English poet
Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
Ezra Pound, (1885–1972), (Imagist movement leader)
Halina Poswiatowska
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
E.J. Pratt Canadian poet
France Prešeren, (1800–1849), Slovene
Jacques Prévert, (1900–1977), French poet
Robert Priest Canadian poet
Richard Price (born 1966)
Matthew Prior, (1664–1721)
Bryan Waller Proctor
Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin Poet
Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
Luigi Pulci
Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799–1837), Russian poet

Q

Nizar Qabbani

R

Ra–Re

Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
Kathleen Raine, (1908–2003)
Samina Raja, Pakistani poet
Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
Dudley Randall
Agnes Rapai, (1952– Hungarian poet
Thomas Randolph, (1605–1635)
Edwin Ranjbar, (1596-1642)
John Crowe Ransom, (1888–1974)
Tom Raworth
Man Ray, (1890–1976), (Dada)
Wayne Ray, 1950 –
Angela Readman
Henry Reed, (1914–1986)
Ishmael Reed
James Reaney
Abraham Regelson, (1896–1981)
Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
Erich Maria Remarque, (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
Charles Reznikoff
Pi Rixiu

Ri

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001)Sufi, poet & author
Stan Rice, (1943–2002), poet and artist
Adrienne Rich
Lola Ridge, (1873–1941)
Laura Riding, (1901–1981)
Anne Ridler
James Whitcomb Riley, (1853–1916)
Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875–1926)
Arthur Rimbaud, (1854–1891), symbolist poet
Alberto Rios (born 1952)

Ro

Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869–1935)
Mary Robinson, (1990–1997), Irish poet
Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (1971 – ), Panamanian poet and artist
Theodore Roethke, (1908–1963)
David Romtvedt
Pierre de Ronsard, (1524–1585)
Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
Penelope Rosemont
Isaac Rosenberg, (1890–1918)
Christina Rossetti, (1830–1894), English poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828–1882), English poet
Nicholas Rowe
Richard Rowlands, (1565–1630)
Susanna Roxman
Tadeusz Różewicz

Ru–Ry

Friedrich Rückert
Muriel Rukeyser, (1913–1980)
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804–1877)
Rumi
Andrus Rõuk (born 1957)
Ryōkan, (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

Sa

Umberto Saba
Sa'di, (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet
Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
Ali Ahmad Said, (1930– )
Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491–1558)
Carl Sandburg, (1878–1967)
Satsvarupa Das Goswami (1939–)
Sonia Sanchez
Michal Šanda, (1965– ), Czech poet
Sappho, ancient Greek poet
Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
Taneda Santōka, (1882–1940), Japanese free-verse haiku poet
William Saroyan, (1908–1981), an American author of Armenian descent
Siegfried Sassoon, (1886–1967), British war poet
Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924–1995), Indonesian poet

Sc–Se

Genrikh Sapgir, (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
Maurice Scève, (c. 1500–1564)
Friedrich Schiller, (1759–1805), poet, playwright
Arno Schmidt, (1914–1979)
Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
Arthur Schnitzler, (1862–1931), writer
Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
Sir Walter Scott, (1771–1832), inventor of historical novel
Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
Johannes Secundus, (1511–1536), Neo-Latin poet
Rebecca Seiferle
Jaroslav Seifert, (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize)
Léopold Senghor, (1906–2001)
Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
Vikram Seth
Anne Sexton, (1928–1974)

Sh–Si

Thomas Shadwell
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564–1616), English poet
Tupac Shakur, (1971–1996), Artist and black activist
Otep Shamaya, (born 1979), poet and songwriter
Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
Jo Shapcott
Karl Shapiro
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
Mary Shelley, (1797–1851)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792–1822)
William Shenstone
Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
Taras Shevchenko
Masaoka Shiki, (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
James Shirley, (1596–1666)
Avraham Shlonsky
Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
Eli Siegel, (1902–1978)
Ron Silliman (born 1946)
Shel Silverstein, (1930–1999)
Simeon Simev
Charles Simic
Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
Lemn Sissay
Edith Sitwell, (1887–1964)
Marilyn Singer

Sk–Sn

John Skelton, (1460–1529)
Sasha Skenderija
Ed Skoog (born 1971)
Pencho Slaveykov, (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet
Petko Slaveykov, (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist
Kenneth Slessor
Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800–1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
Juliusz Slowacki
Boris Slutsky, (1919–1986), Russian poet
Christopher Smart
Hristo Smirnenski, (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
Charlotte Turner Smith, (1749–1806)
Clark Ashton Smith, (1893–1961)
Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
Stevie Smith, (1902–1971)
William Jay Smith
Tobias Smollett, (1721–1771)
Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat – Regarding Wave)

So–Sp

Edith Södergran
Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
Nishiyama Sōin, (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet
David Solway, (born 1941)
William Somervile, (1675–1742)
Sophocles, (c.496–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Charles Sorley, (1895–1915), war poet
Natsume Sōseki, (1867–1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
Gary Soto
Robert Southey, (1774–1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Robert Southwell, (1561–1595)
Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
Edmund Spenser, (1552–1599)

St

Sta–Sto

Leopold Staff
William Stafford
Harold Standish, (1919–1972), Canadian poet
Ann Stanford (1916-1987)
George Starbuck
Statius, (c. AD 45–96)
Joseph Stefan, (1835–1893), Slovene
Gertrude Stein, (1874–1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
Eric Stenbock
Mattie Stepanek, (1990–2004), American poet and advocate
Gerald Stern
C. J. Stevens, (born 1927), American poet
Wallace Stevens, (1880–1955)
Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850–1894)
Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
James Still
Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
Ruth Stone, (born 1915)
Theodor Storm, (1817–1888)
Alfonsina Storni, (1892–1938)

Str–Stu

Mark Strand (former Poet Laureate, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner)
Botho Strauss, (born 1944)
Joseph Stroud, (born 1943)
Jesse Stuart

Su–Sz

Su Shi
Su Xiaoxiao
Michael Subritzky (b. 1950) New Zealand historian, writer, soldier and war poet
Sir John Suckling
Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
Cemal Süreya
Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
Paul Summers poet (b. 1967)
Robert Sward poet (b. 1933)
Cole Swensen poet (b. 1955), awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
Karen Swenson (born 1936)
May Swenson
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
Lőrinc Szabó Hungarian poet
Arthur Sze (born 1950)
Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

T

Ta–Te

Rabindranath Tagore, (1861–1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
Tao Qian
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
Torquato Tasso, (1544–1595)
Allen Tate, (1899–1979)
James Tate
Henry Taylor, (1800–1886)
Henry S. Taylor
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
Telesilla (fl. 510BC), Greek poet
Alfred Tennyson, (1809–1892), English poet
Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
Lucy Terry
A.S.J. Tessimond
Neyzen Tevfik

Th–To

Ernest Thayer, (1863–1940)
Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
Jan Theuninck, (born 1954)
Dylan Thomas, (1914–1953)
Edward Thomas, (1878–1917)
Lorenzo Thomas, (1944–2005)
R. S. Thomas, (1913–2000)
John Thompson, (1845–1913), Canadian writer
Francis Thompson, (1859–1907)
James Thomson, (1700–1748)
James Thomson, (1834–1882)
Henry David Thoreau, (1817–1862)
Tibullus, (c. 54 BC–19 BC)
Chidiock Tichborne, (1558–1586), conspirator and poet
Thomas Tickell
Ludwig Tieck, (1773–1853)
Melvin B. Tolson
Jean Toomer

Tr–Tz

Thomas Traherne
Georg Trakl, (1887–1914)
Elizabeth Treadwell (1967–)
Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
Quincy Troupe
Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892–1941), Russian poet
Kurt Tucholsky, (1890–1935), German poet
Hovhannes Tumanyan, (1869–1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886–1913), Tatar poet
Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
Julian Tuwim
Jan Twardowski
Chase Twichell (born 1950)
Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521–1605)
Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803–1873)
Tristan Tzara, (1896–1963), (Dada)

U

Miguel de Unamuno
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
Louis Untermeyer, (1885–1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
Amy Uyematsu (born 1947)
Allen Upward, Imagist
Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha

V

Va–Ve

Mona Van Duyn
Cesar Vallejo, (1892–1938)
Paul Valéry, (1871–1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
Jean-Pierre Vallotton, (1955), French speaking Swiss poet and writer
Varand, (Born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
Dimitris Varos, (1949–)
Henry Vaughan, (1621–1695)
Reetika Vazirani, (1962-2003)
Ivan Vazov, (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861–1915)
Vemana
Helen Vendler
Jacint Verdaguer, (1845–1902)
Paul Verlaine, (1844–1896)
Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
Alfonso Vallejo, (born 1943) Spanish

Vi–Vr

Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
Peter Viereck
François Villon, (1431–c.1474)
Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
Publius Vergilius Maro
Roemer Visscher, (1547–1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170–c. 1230)
Vincent Voiture, (1598–1648)
Joost van den Vondel, (1587–1679), Dutch playwright, poet
Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
Stanko Vraz, (1810–1851)

W

Wa

Wace (c. 1115–c. 1183)
Sidney Wade (born 1951)
Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
Derek Walcott (born 1930)
Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
Arthur Waley (1889–1966)
Alice Walker (born 1944)
Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
Connie Wanek (born 1952)
Wang Wei (698–759)
Emily Warn
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
Thomas Warton (1728–1790)
Roger Waters (born 1943)
Barrett Watten (born 1948)
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
David Wayne (1914–1995)

We–Wh

John Webster (c.1580–c.1634
Rebecca Wee
Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899–1946)
Philip Whalen (1923–2002)
Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
Martin Walser (born 1927)
Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785)
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
E.B. White (1899–1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
James L. White (1936–1981), American poet, editor and teacher
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
Isabella Whitney b. 1540s?
Reed Whittemore b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet

Wi

Les Wicks (1955–)
Ulrika Widström (1764–1841)
John Wieners (1934–2002)
Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
Jane Wilde, (1826–1896)
Oscar Wilde, (1854–1900)
John Wilkinson (born 1953)
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126)
Emmett Williams (1925–2007)
Jonathan Williams (poet), (1929-2008)
Miller Williams (born 1930)
Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
Saul Williams (born 1972)
Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
Waldo Williams (1904–1971)
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)
Eleanor Wilner, (born 1937)
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Christian Wiman (born 1966)
Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
George Wither (1588–1667)

Wo–Wy

[(Chester Roger Webster)] (born 1951–)
Rafał Wojaczek (born 1945–1971)
Christa Wolf (born 1929)
Charles Wolfe, (1791–1823)
Hans Wollschläger(1935–2007)
George Woodcock (1912–1995)
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Franz Wright (born 1953)
Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866)
Charles Wright (born in 1935)
C.D. Wright, (born 1949)
James Wright (1927–1980)
Judith Wright (1915–2000)
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
Hedd Wyn (1887–1917)

X

Emanuel Xavier, (born 1971)
Xu Zhimo, (1897–1931)

Y

Leo Yankevich (born 1961)
Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914)
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Sergei Yesenin, (1895–1925)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933)
Akiko Yosano, (1878–1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
Marguerite Young (1908–1995)
David Young (born 1946)
Edward Young (1683–1765)
Kevin Young (born 1970)
A. W. Yrjänä (1967–)
Yunus Emre (1238?–1320?)

Z

Adam Zagajewski (born 1945)
Andrea Zanzotto (born 1921)
Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520–609)
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)

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