List of poets

A. R. Ammons
(1926 - 2001)

Ai
(1947 - present)

Alan Dugan
(1923 - 2003)

Alan Seeger
(1886 - 1916)

Alice Duer Miller
(1874 - 1942)

Alice Walker
(1944 - present)

Allen Ginsberg
(1926 - 1997)

Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914)

Amy Clampitt
(1920 - 1994)

Amy Lowell
(1874 - 1925)

Anastasia Clark
(1959 - present)

Andree Chedid
(1920 - present)

Andrew Hudgins
(1951 - present)

Anne Sexton
(1928 - 1974)

Anne Waldman
(1945 - present)

Annie Dillard
(1945 - present)

Annie Finch
(1956 - present)

Anthony Hecht
(1923 - 2004)

April Bernard
(1956 - present)

Archibald MacLeish
(1892 - 1982)

Arna Bontemps
(1902 - 1973)

Arthur Sze
(1950 - present)

Audre Lorde
(1934 - 1992)

Belinda Subraman
(1953 - present)

Bernadette Geyer
(1968 - present)

Billy Collins
(1941 - present)

Bob Hicok
(1960 - present)

Bob Kaufman
(1925 - 1986)

Bret Harte
(1836 - 1902)

Brooks Haxton
(1950 - present)

C. K. Williams
(1936 - present)

Carl Rakosi
(1903 - 2004)

Carl Sandburg
(1878 - 1967)

Carolyn Forche
(1950 - present)

Carolyn Kizer
(1925 - present)

Catherine Anderson
(1954 - present)

Cecilia Woloch
(1956 - present)

Charles Bukowski
(1920 - 1994)

Charles Simic
(1938 - present)

Chris Tusa
(1972 - present)

Christopher Morley
(1890 - 1957)

Claude McKay
(1889 - 1948)

Conrad Aiken
(1889 - 1973)

Cornelius Eady
(1954 - present)

Countee Cullen
(1903 - 1946)

Craig Erick Chaffin
(1954 - present)

D. C. Berry
(1942 - present)

Daisy Fried
(1967 - present)

Dale Harcombe
(1947 - present)

David Ignatow
(1914 - 1997)

David Lehman
(1948 - present)

David St. John
(2006 - present)

David Wagoner
(1926 - present)

Deborah Ager
(1971 - present)

Delmore Schwartz
(1913 - 1966)

Denise Duhamel
(1961 - present)

Diane di Prima
(1934 - present)

Diane Wakoski
(1937 - present)

Donald Hall
(1928 - present)

Donald Justice
(1925 - present)

Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)

E. E. Cummings
(1894 - 1962)

Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)

Edgar Bowers
(1924 - 2000)

Edgar Lee Masters
(1868 - 1950)

Edith Wharton
(1862 - 1937)

Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 - 1950)

Edward Dorn
(1929 - 1999)

Edward Hirsch
(1950 - present)

Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869 - 1935)

Edwin Markham
(1852 - 1940)

Eleanor Wilner
(1937 - present)

Elinor Wylie
(1885 - 1928)

Elizabeth Bishop
(1911 - 1979)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1850 - 1919)

Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886)

Emma Lazarus
(1849 - 1887)

Erica Jong
(1942 - present)

Erin Belieu
(1965 - present)

Etheridge Knight
(1931 - 1991)

Eugene Field
(1850 - 1895)

Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972)

Forrest Hamer
(1956 - present)

Frances Mayes
(1940 - present)

Francis Scott Key
(1779 - 1843)

Frank Bidart
(1939 - present)

Galway Kinnell
(1927 - present)

Gary R. Ferris
(1965 - present)

Gary Snyder
(1930 - present)

Gary Soto
(1952 - present)

Gerald Stern
(1925 - present)

Geraldine Connolly
(1947 - present)

Gertrude Stein
(1874 - 1946)

Grace Paley
(1922 - present)

Gregory Corso
(1930 - 2001)

Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917 - 2000)

Hart Crane
(1899 - 1932)

Hayden Carruth
(1921 - present)

Heather McHugh
(1948 - present)

Helen Hunt Jackson
(1831 - 1885)

Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)

Henry Van Dyke
(1852 - 1933)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882)

Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)

Hilda Doolittle
(1886 - 1961)

Howard Nemerov
(1920 - 1991)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge
(1748 - 1816)

Imamu Amiri Baraka
(1934 - present)

Jack Gilbert
(1925 - present)

Jack Kerouac
(1922 - 1969)

Jack Prelutsky
(1940 - present)

James A. Emanuel
(1921 - present)

James Dickey
(1923 - 1997)

James Lee Jobe
(1956 - present)

James Merrill
(1926 - 1995)

James Schuyler
(1923 - 1991)

James Tate
(1943 - present)

James Weldon Johnson
(1871 - 1938)

James Whitcomb Riley
(1849 - 1916)

James Wright
(1927 - 1980)

Jane Kenyon
(1947 - 1995)

Jean Toomer
(1894 - 1967)

Jean Valentine
(1934 - present)

Jennifer Reeser
(1968 - present)

Jerome Rothenberg
(1931 - present)

Jessie Redmon Fauset
(1882 - 1961)

Jim Carroll
(1950 - present)

Joaquin Miller
(1841 - 1913)

Joel Barlow
(1754 - 1812)

John Ashbery
(1927 - present)

John Berryman
(1914 - 1972)

John Crowe Ransom
(1888 - 1974)

John Gould Fletcher
(1886 - 1950)

John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807 - 1892)

John Montague
(1929 - present)

John Trumbull
(1750 - 1831)

Jonas Mekas
(1922 - present)

Jonathan Bohrn
(1957 - present)

Jorie Graham
(1950 - present)

Joy Harjo
(1951 - present)

Joyce Kilmer
(1886 - 1918)

Joyce Sutphen
(1949 - present)

Judith Skillman
(1954 - present)

Judy Grahn
(1940 - present)

Julia Ward Howe
(1819 - 1910)

Julie Hill Alger
(1927 - 1994)

Jupiter Hammon
(1711 - 1806)

Karl Shapiro
(1913 - 2000)

Katha Pollitt
(1949 - present)

Katherine Anne Porter
(1890 - 1980)

Kelli Russell Agodon
(1969 - present)

Kenneth Koch
(1925 - 2002)

Kenneth Patchen
(1911 - 1972)

Langston Hughes
(1902 - 1967)

Larry Levis
(1946 - 1996)

Laura Riding Jackson
(1901 - 1991)

Laure-Anne Bosselaar
(2006 - present)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919 - present)

Linda Pastan
(1932 - present)

Lisa Zaran
(1969 - present)

Louisa May Alcott
(1832 - 1888)

Louise Bogan
(1897 - 1970)

Louise Gluck
(1943 - present)

Lucille Clifton
(1936 - present)

Luisa Villani
(1964 - present)

Mac Hammond
(1926 - 1997)

Maggie Anderson
(1948 - present)

Maggie Estep
(1962 - present)

Marge Piercy
(1936 - present)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan
(1940 - present)

Marianne Moore
(1887 - 1972)

Marilyn Hacker
(1942 - present)

Marilyn L. Taylor
(2006 - present)

Mark Doty
(1953 - present)

Mark Hillringhouse
(1954 - present)

Mark Irwin
(1953 - present)

Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)

Mark van Doren
(1894 - 1972)

Martha Collins
(1940 - present)

Marvin Bell
(1937 - present)

Maxine Kumin
(1925 - present)

May Swenson
(1913 - 1989)

Maya Angelou
(1928 - present)

Michael Burch
(1958 - present)

Michael Donaghy
(1954 - 2004)

Michael Lally
(1942 - present)

Muriel Rukeyser
(1913 - 1980)

Nancy Willard
(1936 - present)

Naomi Shihab Nye
(1952 - present)

Natasha Trethewey
(1966 - present)

Nick Flynn
(1960 - present)

Nikki Giovanni
(1943 - present)

Norman Dubie
(1945 - present)

Ogden Nash
(1902 - 1971)

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809 - 1894)

Patricia Goedicke
(1931 - present)

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872 - 1906)

Peter Conners
(1970 - present)

Peter Orlovsky
(1933 - present)

Philip Levine
(1928 - present)

Phillis Wheatley
(1753 - 1784)

Quincy Troupe
(1939 - present)

R.George
(1948 - present)

Ralph Angel
(1951 - present)

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)

Randall Jarrell
(1914 - 1965)

Raymond A. Foss
(1960 - present)

Raymond Carver
(1938 - 1988)

Richard Brautigan
(1935 - 1984)

Richard Hugo
(1923 - 1982)

Richard Wilbur
(1921 - present)

Rita Dove
(1952 - present)

Robert Bly
(1926 - present)

Robert Creeley
(1926 - present)

Robert Duncan
(1919 - 1988)

Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)

Robert Hayden
(1913 - 1980)

Robert Lowell
(1917 - 1977)

Robert Penn Warren
(1905 - 1989)

Robert Pinsky
(1940 - present)

Robinson Jeffers
(1887 - 1962)

Ron Padgett
(1942 - present)

Russell Edson
(1935 - present)

Russell Hughes Ragsdale
(1944 - present)

Ruth L. Schwartz
(1962 - present)

Sara Teasdale
(1884 - 1933)

Sharmagne Leland-St. John
(1953 - present)

Sharon Esther Lampert
(0 - present)

Sharon Olds
(1942 - present)

Shel Silverstein
(1932 - 1999)

Sidney Lanier
(1842 - 1881)

Stanley Kunitz
(1905 - present)

Stephen Crane
(1871 - 1900)

Stephen Dobyns
(1941 - present)

Stephen Dunn
(1939 - present)

Stephen Vincent Benet
(1898 - 1943)

Steve Kowit
(1938 - present)

Suheir Hammad
(1973 - present)

Susan Rich
(2006 - present)

Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963)

T. S. Eliot
(1888 - 1965)

Ted Kooser
(1939 - present)

Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963)

Thomas Godfrey
(1736 - 1763)

Thomas Lux
(1946 - present)

Tony Hoagland
(1953 - present)

Vachel Lindsay
(1879 - 1931)

W. S. Merwin
(1927 - present)

Wallace Stevens
(1879 - 1955)

Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)

Wanda Phipps
(1960 - present)

Weldon Kees
(1914 - 1955)

Wendell Berry
(1934 - present)

Willa Cather
(1873 - 1947)

William Bronk
(1918 - 1999)

William Carlos Williams
(1883 - 1963)

William Cullen Bryant
(1794 - 1878)

William Dean Howells
(1837 - 1920)

William Matthews
(1942 - 1997)

William Rose Benet
(1886 - 1950)

William Stafford
(1914 - 1993)

William Vaughn Moody
(1869 - 1910)

Witt Wittmann
(1947 - present)

Yusef Komunyakaa
(1947 - present)