List of poets

This is a list of poets. People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry. Please place names on the list only if there is a real and existing article on the poet.

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Alphabetical list

A

Ab-Ak

• Joze Abram, (1875-1938)
• Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
• Milton Acorn, (1923-1986)
• Leonie Adams, (High Falcon - 1929)
• Fleur Adcock, (born 1934)
• Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
• Endre Ady, (1877-1919)
• Lucius Afranius (poet), Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
• Patience Agbabi, (born 1965)
• James Agee, (1909-1955)
• Dritëro Agolli, (born 1931)
• Ai, (born 1947), pseudonym of Florence Anthony
• Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
• Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
• Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
• Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)

Al-Am

• Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
• Richard Aldington
• Claribel Alegria
• 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
• Natan Alterman
• Al Alvarez
• Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
• Yehuda Amichai
• Kingsley Amis, born 1922
• A. R. Ammons

An-Ap

• Anacreon
• Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944)
• Mário de Andrade, (1893-1945)
• Aneirin, medieval epic poet
• Antler (poet), (1946-)
• Brother Antoninus
• Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
• Apuleius

Ar-Au

• Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
• The Archpoet (Medieval)
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843-1925)
• Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
• Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
• Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt
• 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)
• Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
• Ausiàs March, (1397-1459)
• Ausonius, (c. 310-395)

Av-Ay

• Margaret Avison, (born 1918)
• Robert Ayton, (1570-1638)

B

Ba

Bab-Bal

• Ken Babstock, Canadian
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of 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
• Jesse Ball American 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
• Charles-Pierre 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)
• Marvin Bell
• 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
• Daniel Berrigan
• Wendell Berry
• John Berryman
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
• Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi-Bl

• Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
• 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
• Jarvis Black
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
• Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Michael Blumenthal
• 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)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
• Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra-Bri

• [William Braithwaite], (1878-1962)
• 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
• Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
• Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
• André Breton, (1896-1966)
• Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
• Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
• Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)

Bro-Bry

• Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
• Wladyslaw Broniewski
• William Bronk, (died 1999)
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
• Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
• Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
• Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
• Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
• Flora Brovina
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
• George Mackay Brown
• 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)
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
• 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
• 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)
• Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
• Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
• Luis 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
• Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
• Cao Pi
• Cao Zhi, (192-232)

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)
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
• Hayden Carruth
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
• Gaius Valerius Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
• Charles Causley
• C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)

Ce-Ci

• Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
• Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
• Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
• 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
• Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
• 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
• Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
• Matthias Claudius
• Michelle Cliff
• Lucille Clifton,
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)

Co

Coc-Cor

• 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
• Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
• William Congreve (playwright), (1670-1729), English poet
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
• Clark Coolidge
• Wendy Cope
• Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
• Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
• Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
• Jayne Cortez

Cou-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)
• E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
• Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
• Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
• Leona Czwartkowski

D

Da

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

De

• James Deahl
• Ales Debeljak, (born 1961)
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• Miriam DeCosta-Willis, poet & editor (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
• Marie de France
• Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
• Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
• Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
• Aubrey de Vere
• William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

Di-Do

• Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
• Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923-1997)
• Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
• Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
• Henry Austin Dobson
• Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, 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. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
• 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

• Richard Eberhart
• Russell Edson
• Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
• 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 Eluard, French poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
• William Empson, (1906-1984)
• Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
• R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
• Paul Engle
• Ennius
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
• Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
• Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)

Es-Ew

• Maggie Estep, American slam poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
• Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
• Florbela Espanca, (poet)
• Salvador Espriu, writer
• Mari Evans
• William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
• Gavin Ewart

F

Fe-Fo

• Fenggan
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
• 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.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
• 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 (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 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
• 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

• Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
• Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
• George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
• David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001)
• Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
• John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
• Stefan George, (1868-1933)
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
• Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
• 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 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

• Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
• Cvetko Golar, (1879-1965)
• Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
• Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
• Pavel Golia, (1887-1959)
• Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
• Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet,
• Sergei Gorodetsky January 17 (January 5 (O.S.)), 1884— June 8, 1967)
• Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra-Gri

• Urejanje Niko Grafenauer [1] wiki link, (born 1940)
• 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, (1560-1592)
• Horace Gregory
• Eamon Grennan
• Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
• 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)
• Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
• Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

H

Ha

• Hafez
• Dennis M. Hammes {born 1945}
• Han Yu
• Han-Shan
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
• Gwen Harwood
• Alamgir Hashmi
• 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)
• John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
• Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
• William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
• Adrian Henri
• George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
• Zbigniew Herbert
• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803)
• Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
• Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
• Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English 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
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
• Ellen Hinsey, 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
• George Moses Horton
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe

Hu

• 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

I

• Jean Ingelow

J

Ja-Ju

• Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
• Clive James
• Randall Jarrell
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Jia Dao
• 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
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
• 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

K

Ka-Kh

• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
• Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
• [Miha Kastelic], (1796-1868)
• Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
• Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
• John Keats, (1795-1821)
• Weldon Kees
• X. J. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
• Keorapetse Kgositsile
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
• Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
• Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)

Ki-Kn

• 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
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
• Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob-Ky

• Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
• Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica
• Ted Kooser
• Srecko Kosovel, (1904-1926)
• Taja Kramberger, (born 1970)
• Ruth Krauss
• Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz

L

La

• Aquiles La Grave
• Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
• Philip Lamantia
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
• Steven Curtis Lance, romantic poet
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
• Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
• James Laughlin
• Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
• D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
• Layamon
• Irving Layton, (born 1912 - 2006)

Le

• Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
• Jan Lechon
• Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
• Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
• Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
• Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
• Boleslaw Lesmian
• Rika Lesser
• Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
• Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
• 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
• Li Yu
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
• Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
• Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
• Federico García Lorca
• Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
• Robert Lowell
• Amy Lowell, (1874-1925)
• Mina Loy (Dada)
• Lu You
• Gherasim Luca
• Lucilius
• Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
• Lucan
• Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
• Frank L. Ludwig (born 1964 in Hamburg), Irish
• 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, Junior, (1922-1941), (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
• Patrick Magee, (1986-Present), poet, writer, musician
• Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
• Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.

Mal-Mar

• Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
• David Mallet
• Sir Thomas Malory
• [Miroslav Malovrh], (1861-1922)
• 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)
• Manilius
• Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
• Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
• Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
• Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
• Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
• [Joan Maragall], (1860-1911), writer
• Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
• Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
• Edwin Markham
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
• Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
• Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
• Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)

Mas-Maz

• John Masefield, (1878-1967)
• Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
• Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
• 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
• William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902)
• Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
• Campbell McGrath
• Wendy McGrath
• Thomas McGrath (Movie at the End of the World)
• 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

Me

• Meng Houran
• Norman MacCaig
• Mei Yaochen
• Meng Haoran
• George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
• 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)

Mi-Ml

• Henri Michaux, poet and painter
• Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
• Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
• Josephine Miles
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
• Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
• Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
• Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004)
• Alice Duer Miller
• Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
• 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
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
• Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
• Frederick Morgan
• 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)
• Howard Moss
• Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
• Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)

Mu

• Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
• Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
• Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
• Les Murray, (born 1938)
• Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
• Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
• Susan Musgrave, Poet.

N

Na-Nj

• Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
• 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
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
• B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
• John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
• Lorine Niedecker
• Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
• Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler

No-Ny

• Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
• Fan Noli
• Caroline Norton
• Cyprian Kamil Norwid
• [Anton Novacan], (1887-1951)
• [Boris A. Novak], (born 1953)
• Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
• Alfred Noyes
• Naomi Shihab Nye

O

• Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), New York School
• Sharon Olds
• Mary Oliver
• Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
• Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
• George Oppen
• Peter Orlovsky (beat)
• Alice Oswald
• Ouyang Xiu
• Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 BC-17 AD), (more commonly known as Ovid)
• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)

P

Pa

• Robert Pack
• Ruth Padel
• Ron Padgett
• [Pavlina Pajk], (1854-1901)
• Grace Paley
• Francis Turner Palgrave
• 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
• [Marko Pavcek], (1958-1979)
• 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
• Sam Pereira
• Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
• Pascale Petit
• Francesco Petrarca
• Ambrose Philips
• Pi Rixiu
• Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
• Ruth Pitter
• Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)

Po-Pu

• Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
• Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
• Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
• Halina Poswiatowska
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed
• E.J. Pratt
• France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
• Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
• Robert Priest
• Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
• Bryan Waller Proctor
• Luigi Pulci
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet

R

Ra-Re

• Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
• Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
• Meta Rainer, (born 1904)
• Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
• Dudley Randall
• Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
• Darren B. Rankins (Born 1966)
• John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
• Mauri Raus Estonian poet
• Tom Raworth
• David Ray
• Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
• Wayne Ray, 1950 -
• Byron H. Reece
• Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
• Ishmael Reed
• R.D. Reeve (The Blue Cat)
• 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)
• Naomi Replansky
• Ivan Resman, (1848-1905)
• Kenneth Rexroth
• Charles Reznikoff

Ri

• 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

Ro

• Michele Roberts
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
• Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
• Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , (1647-1680)
• Carolyn M. Rodgers
• Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
• Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
• Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
• Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
• Penelope Rosemont
• Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
• Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
• Braco Rotar
• Nicholas Rowe
• Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
• Andrej Rozman Roza, (born 1955)
• Tadeusz Rozewicz
• Gregor Rozman

Ru

• Friedrich Rückert
• Muriel Rukeyser, (1913-1980)
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877)

S

Sa

• Umberto Saba
• Sa'di
• Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (1487-1558)
• Tomaz Salamun, (born 1941)
• Severin Sali, (1911-1992)
• [Joan Salvat-Papasseit], (1894-1924)
• Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
• Sonia Sanchez
• Jordi de Sant Jordi
• Sappho, ancient Greek poet
• Mitja Sarabon
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet

Sc-Se

• Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
• Susan Schaeffer
• Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
• Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
• Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
• Philip Schultz (Deep Within The Ravine - Lamont selection)
• Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
• Claudio Sciacca, young poet, painter, writer
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
• Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
• Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
• Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
• Tone Seliskar, (1900-1969)
• Peter Semolic, (born 1967)
• Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
• 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
• Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
• Jo Shapcott
• Karl Shapiro
• Luci Shaw
• Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
• William Shenstone
• Taras Shevchenko
• James Shirley, (1596-1666)
• Avraham Shlonsky
• Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
• Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
• Arvi Siig Estonian poet
• Ron Silliman (born 1946)
• Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
• Shabnam Sharma, Indian (Hindi) Poetess
• Charles Simic
• Barbara Simoniti
• Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
• Albert Sirok
• Karel Sirok
• Lemn Sissay
• L.E. Sissman
• Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
• Ivan Sivec, (born 1945)
• Tara Singh

Sk-Sn

• John Skelton, (1460-1529)
• Myra Sklarew
• Kathleen Spivack (The Beds We Lie In)
• Kenneth Slessor
• Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
• Juliusz Slowacki
• Christopher Smart
• Joze Smit, (born 1922)
• Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806)
• Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)
• LeRoy Smith
• Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
• Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
• Stevie Smith, (1902-1971)
• William Jay Smith
• Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771)
• W.D. Snodgrass (aka S.S. Gardons)
• Joze Snoj, (born 1934)
• Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
• Tara Singh

So-Sp

• Edith Södergran
• David Solway, (born 1941)
• William Somervile, (1675-1742)
• Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
• Natsume Soseki, (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
• Valentin Stanic, (1774-1847)
• Jernej Stante
• George Starbuck
• Statius, (c. AD 45-96)
• C.K. Stead, (born 1932)
• Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
• Ales Steger, (born 1973)
• Morris Stegosaurus (Keith Morris Kurzman), slam poet
• Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
• Eric Stenbock
• Gerald Stern
• Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), lighthouses
• Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
• James Still
• 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)
• Jesse Stuart

Su-Sz

• Su Shi
• Su Xiaoxiao
• Sir John Suckling
• Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
• Francis Sullivan
• Taisto Summanen Karelian poet
• Jules Supervielle
• Patrick Süskind (b. 1949)
• Keston Sutherland
• Barton Sutter
• Ivo Svetina (b. 1948)
• May Swenson
• Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909)
• Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618)
• Wisława Szymborska (b. 1923), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

T

Ta-Te

• Ales Tacer
• Geneviere Taggard (Calling Western Union)
• Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)
• Anton Tanc, (1887-1947)
• Tao Qian
• Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595)
• Allen Tate, (1899-1979)
• James Tate
• Veno Taufer, (born 1933)
• Vida Taufer, (1903-1966)
• Zora Tavcar
• Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Henry Taylor, (1800-1886)
• Sara Teasdale
• Marjan Telatko
• Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
• Lucy Terry
• A.S.J. Tessimond

Th-To

• Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
• Alexander Theroux
• 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, (1834-1882)
• James Thomson (Seasons)
• Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
• Chidiock Tichborne, (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
• Thomas Tickell
• Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853)
• Melvin B. Tolson
• Lovro Toman, (1827-1870)
• Margaret Tongue
• Jean Toomer
• Edo Torkar
• Igor Torkar, (born 1913)
• Ridgely Torrence

Tr-Tz

• Thomas Traherne
• Georg Trakl, (1887-1914)
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
• Ivan Zamejski Trinko, (1863-1954)
• Quincy Troupe
• Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
• Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
• Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
• Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
• Mary Tull, (Stained Windows; #52 Dorrance Contempry series)
• Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar poet
• Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
• Julian Tuwim
• Jan Twardowski
• Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605)
• Fyodor Tyutchev, (1803-1873)
• Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)

U

• Joze Udovic, (1912-1986)
• Miguel de Unamuno
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
• Louis Untermeyer, (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
• John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
• Allen Upward, Imagist
• Turgut Uyar

V

Va-Ve

• Jean Valentine (Home Deep Blue)
• Mona Van Duyn
• Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938)
• Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
• Matija Valjavec, (1831-1897)
• Dimitris Varos, (1949-)
• Pashko Vasa
• Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
• Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
• Sasa Vegri, (born 1934)
• Vemana
• Helen Vendler
• Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
• Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
• Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
• Jonas Very, (19th c. American "Renaissance")

Vi-Vo

• Maja Vidmar, (born 1961)
• Tit Vidmar, (1929-1999)
• Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
• Peter Viereck
• François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
• Gilles Vigneault, (born 1928), Quebec signer-songwriter and poet
• Cene Vipotnik, (1914-1972)
• Publius Vergilius Maro
• Jani Virk, (born 1962)
• Jozef Virk, (1810-1880)
• Roemer Visscher, (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
• Anton Vodnik, (1901-1965)
• France Vodnik, (1903-1986)
• Valentin Vodnik, (1758-1819), poet, journalist, philologist.
• Bozo Vodusek, (1905-1978)
• Herman Vogel, (1941-1989)
• Walter von der Vogelweide
• Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230)
• Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648)
• Joze Volaric, (born 1932)
• Zlata Volaric, (born 1930)
• Joost van den Vondel, (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
• Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)

Vr

• Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)

W

Wa

• Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
• Ugonna Wachuku, (born 1971), (Inspirational and soulful poems)
• David Wagoner
• Diane Wakoski, (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
• Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
• Rosmarie Waldrop
• Philip Walen
• Arthur Waley (Translations from the Chinese)
• Alice Walker, (born 1944)
• Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
• Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
• Walsinghame
• Wang Changling
• Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
• Candice Ward
• Warniek Marilyn Nelson
• Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
• Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
• Roger Waters
• Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
• David Wayne, (1914-1995)

We-Wh

• John Webster, (died 1630)
• Ian Wedde, (born 1946)
• Theodore Weiss
• Philip Whalen (beat)
• John Wheelock Hall (The Black Panther)
• Margaret Walker
• Martin Walser, (born 1927)
• Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
• Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785)
• Gilbert West
• Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784)
• E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
• James M. Whitfield
• Walt Whitman, (1819-1892)
• John Greenleaf Whittier, (1807-1892)

Wi

• John Wieners (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
• Kazimierz Wierzynski
• Richard Wilbur (past poet laureate - Things of This World)
• Jane Wilde, (1826-1896), Irish poet and nationalist, wife of Sir William Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde
• Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), Irish playwright, poet and satirist
• John Wilkinson
• William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, the first vernacular poet
• Saul Williams (born 1972)
• Shirley Williams (born 1930)
• Miller Williams
• Oscar Williams, American poet and anthologist
• Sherley Anne Williams
• Waldo Williams, (1904-1971), Welsh poet
• William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
• William Carlos Williams
• John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
• Robley Wilson
• Yvor Winters
• George Wither, (1588-1667)

Wo-Wy

• Rafal Wojaczek
• Christa Wolf
• Charles Wolfe, (1791-1823)
• Hans Wollschläger
• George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
• Dorothy Wordsworth, (1771-1855)
• William Wordsworth, (1770-1850)
• Franz Wright
• Philip Stanhope Worsley, (1835-1866)
• Charles Wright, musician, poet
• James Wright, (1927-1980)
• Judith Wright, (1915-2000)
• Thomas Wyatt, (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
• Elinor Wylie
• Hedd Wyn

X

• Xu Zhi Mo, melancholic poet of early 20th century China

Y

• Mark Yakich
• Leo Yankevich (1961-present)
• Yamamoto Tarazu, (1706?-1801?), "new haiku" poet
• John Yau
• William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
• Stephen Yenser (Whitman winner - The Fire In All Things)
• Sergei Yesenin, (1895-1925)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, (born 1933)
• Marguerite Young
• David Young
• Edward Young, (1683-1765)
• Kevin Young (poet), American poet (born 1970)
• Han Yu
• Yunus Emre, 13th century Turkish poet

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• Franci Zagoricnik, (born 1933)
• Ifigenija Zagoricnik, (born 1953)
• Dane Zajc, (born 1929)
• Andrea Zanzotto
• Lisa Zaran (born 1969)m
• Marya Zaturenska, (1902-1982)
• Robert L.J. Zenik
• Benjamin Zephaniah
• Paul Zimmer
• Jozef Zizenceli, (1658-1714)
• Ciril Zlobec, (born 1925)
• Asta Znidarsic
• Benjamin Znidarsic, (born 1959)
• Maricka Znidarsic
• Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ (520-609)
• Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
• Brane Zupanc, (born 1950)
• Oton Zupancic, (1878-1949)
• Uros Zupan, (born 1963)
• Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writer