List of poets

List of poets

People on this list should ideally have wikipedia articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.

A

• Joze Abram[?], (1875-1938), poet
• Dannie Abse, (born 1923), (White Coat Purple Coat)
• Milton Acorn, (1923-1986), poet, has published 18 volumes of poetry
• Leonie Adams[?], (High Falcon - 1929), poet
• Fleur Adcock[?], (born 1934), poet
• Joseph Addison, (1672-1719), English poet
• Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
• Dritëro Agolli[?], poet
• James Agree[?], poet
• Sin Ai[?], poet
• Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973), poet
• Mark Akenside, (1721-1770), poet
• Bella Akhmadulina[?], (born 1957), poet
• Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966), poet
• Linda Aksomitis[?], novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue, manual for use of serger.
• Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556), poet
• Fran Albreht[?], (1889-1965), poet
• Ivan Albreht[?], poet
• Vera Albreht[?], poet
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273 CE), poet
• Richard Aldington, poet
• Claribel Alegría[?], poet
• Vicente Aleixandre, (1989-1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov[?], (1879-1901), poet
• Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
• Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
• Alisoun[?], poet
• Donald Allen[?] (New American Poetry)
• William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889), poet
• Damaso Alonso[?], poet
• Natan Alterman[?], poet
• Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Yehuda Amichai[?], poet
• A. R. Ammons[?], poet
• Anacreon, Greek poet
• Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980), poet
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944), musician
• Jorge Carrera Andrade[?], (1903-1978), poet
• Miha Andreas[?], (1762-1821), poet
• Aneirin, medieval epic poet
• Maya Angelou[?], (born 1928), poet
• Brother Antoninus[?], poet
• Chairil Anwar[?], (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949), poet
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918), (born Russian) poet
• Apuleius, poet
• Louis Aragon, (1897-1982), poet
• Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
• Tudor Arghezi[?] (greatest Romanian poet)
• Bonaventura Carles Aribau[?], (1798-1862), poet
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533), Italian poet
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963), poet
• Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet
• Achim von Arnim[?], (1781-1831), German poet
• Bettina von Arnim[?], (1785-1859), German poet
• Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), English poet
• Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
• Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
• John Ashbery, (born 1927), poet
• Thomas Ashe[?], (1836-1889), poet
• Anton Askerc[?], (1856-1912), poet
• Douglas Asper[?], poet
• Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230), poet
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), English poet
• Ausonius, (c. 310-395), poet
• Miha Avanzo[?], (born 1949), poet
• Margaret Avison, (born 1918), poet, has published 8 volumes of poetry
• Robert Ayton[?], (1570-1638), poet

B

• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC), poet
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973), poet
• Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881), poet
• Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845), poet
• Robert Bagg[?], poet
• Julio Baghy[?], poet
• Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851), poet
• France Balantic[?], (1921-1943), poet
• Christianne Balk[?] (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
• Amiri Baraka[?] (aka Leroi Jones)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825), poet
• John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395), poet
• Barba Porfirio Jacob[?] (Colombian poet)
• George Barker[?], poet
• Richard Barnefield[?], (1574-1627), poet
• William Barnes, (1801-1886), poet
• Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867), poet
• Elizabeth Barrett[?], poet
• Judith Baumel[?] (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)
• James K. Baxter, (1926-1972), poet
• Francis Beaumont[?], (1586-1616), poet
• Joshua Beckman, poet
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer[?], (1836-1870), poet
• Beddoes[?] (English writer in Germany)
• Aphra Behn, (1640-1689), poet
• Ben Belitt[?], poet
• Marvin Bell[?], poet
• Gioconda Belli[?], (born 1948), poet
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli[?], (Roman dialect)
• Hilaire Belloc[?], poet
• Andrey Bely[?], (1880-1934), poet and author
• William Benet Rose[?], poet
• Stephen Vincent Benet[?], (1898-1943), poet
• Stephen Vincent Benét[?], (1898-1943), poet
• Gottfried Ben[?], German poet
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett[?], poet
• Nejc Bernard[?], (born 1970), poet
• Daniel Berrigan[?], poet
• Wendell Berry[?], poet
• John Berryman[?], poet
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet
• Helen Bevington[?] (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
• Bing & Cohen[?] (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
• Miron Bialoszewski[?], poet
• Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943), poet
• Earle Birney[?], (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Nevin Birsa[?], (born 1947), poet
• John Bishop Peale[?], poet
• Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979), poet
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Don Blanding[?], poet
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Andrej Blatnik[?], (born 1963), poet
• Aleksandr Blok[?], (1880-1921), poet
• Michael Blumenthal[?], poet
• Edmund Blunden, poet
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt[?], poet
• Robert Bly[?], poet
• Louise Bogan[?], poet
• Boileau, (1636-1711), poet
• Berta Bojetu[?], (1946-1997), poet
• Eavan Boland[?], (born 1944), poet
• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985), author
• Arna Wendell Bontemps[?], poet
• Philip Booth[?], poet
• Edgar Bowers[?], poet
• Mark Boyd Alexander[?], (1563-1601 - sonnets), poet
• Esad Babacic[?], (born 1965), poet
• Rado Bordon[?], (1915-1992), poet
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentinean writer
• Marx Alexander Boyd[?], (1563-1601), poet
• Matej Bor[?], (1913-1956), poet
• Tadeusz Borowski[?], poet
• Allison Boyer[?], (born 1974), poet
• Daniel C. Boyer, (born 1971), painter, poet
• Kay Boyle[?] (A Glad Day)
• William Braithwaite[?], (1878-1962), poet
• Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
• Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984), American novelist, poet
• Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
• Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842), poet
• André Breton, (1896-1966), poet
• Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842), poet
• Vida Brest[?], (born 1925), poet
• Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626), poet
• Robert Bridges, (1844-1930), poet
• John Malcol Brinnin[?], poet
• Daniel Louis Brodsky[?], poet
• Joseph Brodsky[?], (1940-1996), poet
• Wladyslaw Broniewski[?], poet
• William Bronk[?], (died 1999), poet
• Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), British author
• Brooke, Rupert, (1887-1925), English poet
• Brooks, Gwendolyn[?], (born 1917), poet
• Joan Brossa[?], (1919-1998), poet
• Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet[?]
• Brovina, Flora, poet
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897), poet
• William Browne[?], (1588-1643), poet
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), English poet
• Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), English poet
• William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878), poet
• Sterling A. Brown[?], poet
• Andrej Brvar[?], (born 1945), poet
• Ernest Bryll[?], poet
• Valeri Bryusov[?], (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
• Georg Büchner[?], German poet
• Andrej Budal[?], (1889-1972), poet
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), US author
• Basil Bunting[?], poet
• Ronnie Burk, (1955-2003), poet
• Michael Burkard[?], poet
• Stanley Burnshaw[?], poet
• Robert Burns, (1759-1796), poet
• Edwin G. Burrows[?], poet
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997), British author
• Andrzej Bursa[?], poet
• Wilhelm Busch, (1832-1908), poet
• Samuel Butler, (1612-80), English novelist, poet
• Ignazio Buttitta[?], (sicilian dialect)
• Gjon Buzuku[?], poet
• Witter Bynner[?] (also under Emanuel Morgan)
• Lord Byron, (1788-1824), Lord Byron, poet

C

• Lydia Cabrera[?] (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Dilys Cadwaladr[?], poet
• Caedmon (old English)
• Andon Zako Çajupi[?], poet
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937), author/poet
• Robert Calvert, (1945-1988), poet
• Luis de Camões, (poet, author of the Lusíadas[?])
• Roy Campbell[?], poet
• Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
• Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844), poet
• Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980), poet
• Ivan Cankar[?], (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist.
• Mary Wedderburn Cannan[?], (1893-1973), poet
• Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD), poet
• Cao Pi, poet
• Cao Zhi, (192-232), poet
• Andrej Capuder[?], (born 1942), poet
• Ernesto Cardenal[?], (born 1925), poet
• Giosue Carducci, (1835-1907), Italian poet
• Thomas Carew[?], (1595-1639), poet
• Henry Carey[?], (1693-1743), poet
• Will Carleton[?], poet
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
• Hayden Carruth[?], poet
• Anne Carson, (born 1950), Canadian writer
• William Cartwright[?], (1611-1643), poet
• Gaius Catullus Valerius, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
• Charles Causley[?], poet
• C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933), poet
• Anica Cernej[?], (1900-1944), poet
• Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963), poet
• Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674), poet
• George Chapman[?], (1560-1634), poet
• Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler[?])
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922), poet
• John Ciardi[?], Italian-American poet
• Franc Cimperman[?], (1852-1873), poet
• Josip Cimperman[?], (1847-1893), poet
• Amy Clampitt[?], poet
• John Clare, (1793-1864), poet
• George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
• Paul Claudel, (1868-1955), poet
• Matthias Claudius, poet
• Michelle Cliff[?], poet
• Lucille Clifton[?], poet
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861), poet
• Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Stan Cohen[?], poet
• Wanda Coleman[?], poet
• Hartley Coleridge[?], (1796-1849), poet
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge[?], (1861-1907), poet
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
• Billy Collins[?] (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins, (1721-1759), poet
• William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
• William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
• Evan S. Jr. Connell[?], poet
• Leo Connellan[?] (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
• Henry Constable[?], (1562-1613), poet
• Clark Coolidge[?], poet
• Wendy Cope[?], poet
• Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875), poet
• James D. Corrothers[?], poet
• Gregory Corso, (1930-2001), (Gasoline - Beat poet)
• Jayne Cortez[?], poet
• Jeni Couzyn[?], poet
• Malcolm Cowley[?], (1898-1989), (Dada)
• Abraham Cowley[?], (1618-1667), poet
• William Cowper, (1731-1800), poet
• George Crabbe[?], (1754-1832), poet
• Christopher Pearce Cranch[?], (19th c. American), poet
• Hart Crane[?], (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
• Douglas Crase[?], poet
• Richard Crashaw[?], (1613-1649), poet
• Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
• Octave Crémazie, poet
• Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
• Marij Cuk[?], (born 1952), poet
• Countee Cullen[?], (died 1946), poet
• E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962), poet
• Valentin Cundric[?], (born 1938), poet
• Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842), poet
• J. V. Cunningham[?], poet
• Allen Curnow[?], (1911-2001), poet
• Ivor Cutler[?], Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

• Kate Daniels[?], poet
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
• Jia Dao[?], poet
• Ruben Dario[?], (1867-1916), poet
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
• René Daumal, (1908-1944), poet
• Jean Daurat, (1508-1588), poet
• W. H. Davies[?], poet
• William Davenant, (1606-1668), poet
• John Davies[?], (1569-1626), historian
• Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference), poet
• Peter Davison, (born 1951), (poet son of Edward)
• Denis Davydov[?], (1784-1839), poet
• Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
• Ales Debeljak[?], (born 1961), poet
• Anton Debeljak[?], (1887-1952), poet
• Tine Debeljak[?], (born 1913), poet
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• DeCosta-Willis[?] (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
• Madeline DeFrees[?], poet
• Marie de France, poet
• Thomas Dekker[?], (1575-1641), poet
• Milan Dekleva[?], (born 1946), poet
• Leconte de Lisle[?], parnassian[?] poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555-1628), poet
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855), poet
• Tory Dent, (1958- ), poet (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Jeronim De Rada[?], poet
• Jure Detela[?], (1951-1992), poet
• Babette Deutsch[?], poet
• Aubrey de Vere[?], poet
• Feliks Dev[?], (1732-1786), poet
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
• Diane Di Prima[?] (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923-1997), poet
• Stephen Dobyns[?], American author, novelist, poet
• Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal[?], (born 1959), poet
• John Donne, (1572-1631), poet
• Maura Dooley[?], poet
• Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
• Ivan Dornik[?], (1892-1968), poet
• Gavin Douglas[?], poet
• Keith Douglas[?], (1920-1944), poet
• Rita Dove[?], poet
• Ernest Dowson[?], (1867-1900), poet
• Leah B. Drake[?], poet
• Michael Drayton, (1563-1631), poet
• Ciril Drekonja[?], (1896-1944), poet
• Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
• John Drinkwater, (1882-1937), poet
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
• William Drummond[?], (1585-1649), poet
• William Henry Drummond[?], (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
• John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright
• Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560), poet
• W.E.B. Du Bois, poet
• W.E.N. Du Bois[?], poet
• Joze Dular[?], (1915-2000), poet
• Du Fu[?], the Poet Saint
• Du Mu[?], (803-852 - Chinese poet), poet
• W. E. B. Du Bois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
• Alan Dugan[?], poet
• Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955), poet
• Edouard Dujardin[?] (We'll to the Woods No More)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906), poet
• William Dunbar, (1465-1520), poet
• Robert Duncan[?] (Black Mountain School)
• Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
• Stephen Dunn[?], poet
• Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
• Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
• Stuart Dybek[?], poet

E

• Charles F. Easton[?], poet
• Richard Eberhart[?], poet
• Russell Edson[?], poet
• Joseph von Eichendorff[?], (1788-1857), poet
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
• Fran Eller[?], (1873-1956), poet
• Ebenezer Elliott[?], (1781-1849), poet
• Paul Eluard, French poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• William Empson, (1906-1984), poet
• Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
• Paul Engle[?], poet
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?], (born 1929), German poet
• Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
• Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220), poet
• Clayton Eshleman[?] (Antiphonal Swing)
• Florbela Espanca[?], (poet)
• Salvador Espriu[?], writer
• Abbie Huston Evans[?], poet
• Mari Evans[?], poet
• William Everson[?] (In The Fictive Wish)
• Richard Everswine[?], poet
• Galvin Ewart[?], poet

F

• Thomas Ferril[?], poet
• Afanasiy Fet[?], (1812-1892), poet
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925), poet
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883), poet
• Robert Fitzgerald[?], poet
• Lawrence Fixel[?], poet
• John Fletcher[?], (1579-1625), poet
• F. S. Flint[?] (Imagist manifestos)
• Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898), poet
• John Forbes[?], poet
• Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
• John Ford, (1586-1639), cinematographer, director, writer, editor, producer, actor
• France Forstneric[?], (born 1958), mathematician.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827), poet
• Janet Frame, (born 1924), poet
• Robert Francis[?], poet
• Veronica Franco, (1546-1591), poet
• Naim Frashëri[?], poet
• Louis Fréchette[?], (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Erich Fried[?], (1921-1988), poet
• Max Frisch[?], (1911-1991), Swiss poet
• Ervin Fritz[?], (born 1940), poet
• Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
• Anton Funtek[?], (1862-1932), poet

G

• Jean Garrigue[?], poet
• Samuel Garth[?], poet
• George Gascoigne, (1525-1577), poet
• David Gascoyne[?], poet
• Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), poet
• John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
• Stefan George[?], (1868-1933), poet
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676), poet
• Lapo Gianni[?], poet
• Richard Gilder[?], poet
• Gary Gildner[?] (Letters from Vicksburg)
• Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997), US eccentrical writer
• Dana Gioia[?] (essays on poetry)
• Nikki Giovanni[?], (born 1943), poet
• Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850), poet
• Janko Glazer[?], (1893-1975), poet
• Denis Glover[?], (1912-1980), poet
• Louise Glück[?] (Bobbitt Prize winner)
• Goran Gluvi&[?], (born 1957), poet
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
• Cvetko Golar[?], (1879-1965), poet
• Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970), poet
• Rumer Golden[?] (In Noahs Ark)
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes[?]
• Pavel Golia[?], (1887-1959), poet
• Eugen Gomringer[?], poet
• Luis de Gongora[?], Spanish poet
• Ray Gonzalez[?], (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s), poet
• Lorna Goodison[?], poet
• Vojko Gorjan[?], (1949-1975), poet
• Alojz Gradnik[?], (1882-1968), poet
• Niko Grafenauer[?], (born 1940), poet
• Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
• Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
• Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
• Robert Greene, (1560-1592), poet
• Simon Gregorcic[?], (1844-1906), poet
• Pankracij Gregorec[?], (1867-1920), poet
• Barbara Gregoric[?], (born 1964), poet
• Horace Gregory[?], poet
• Eamon Grennan[?], poet
• Fulk Greville[?], (1554-1628), poet
• Nicholas Grimald[?], (1519-1562), poet
• Uri Tsvi Grinberg[?], poet
• Angelina Weld Grimke[?], poet
• Charlotte Forten Grimke[?], poet
• Stanislaw Grochowiak[?], poet
• Philip Gross[?], poet
• Igo Gruden[?], (1893-1948), poet
• Edgar Guest[?], (American poet of the 1920s), poet
• Jorge Guillen[?], (1893-1984), poet
• Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
• Louise Imogen Guiney[?], poet
• Guido Guinizzelli[?], poet
• Nikolay Gumilyov[?], (1886-1921), poet
• Thom Gunn[?], (born 1929), poet
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937), poet
• Ramon Guthrie[?], poet
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986), poet

H

• Rachel Hadas[?], poet
• Hafez, poet
• Suheir Hammad[?], Palestinan-American poet and political activist
• Matjaz Hanzek[?], (born 1949), poet
• Jerzy Harasymowicz[?], poet
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
• Frances E. W. Harper[?], poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
• Michael S. Harper[?], poet
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937), poet
• Milka Hartman[?], (born 1902), poet
• Gwen Harwood[?], poet
• Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946), poet
• Fany Hausmann[?], (1818-1862), poet
• Stephen Hawes[?], (died 1523), poet
• Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
• Robert Hayden[?], poet
• Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
• John Heath-Stubbs[?], poet
• Anne Hébert[?], poet and novelist
• Anthony Hecht[?], poet
• John Hegley[?], also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856), poet
• Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835), poet
• Essex Hemphill[?], poet
• William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903), poet
• Adrian Henri[?], poet
• George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
• Zbigniew Herbert[?], poet
• Johann Gottfried Herder[?], poet
• Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803), poet
• Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942), poet
• Antoine Héroet, (died 1568), poet
• Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), American poet, novelist
• Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game[?], Steppenwolf
• Dorothy Hewett[?], novelist, poet
• Thomas Heywood[?], (157?-1650), poet
• Rita Ann Higgins[?], poet, member of Aosdána
• Geoffrey Hill[?], (born 1932), poet
• Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
• Branko Hofman[?], (born 1929), poet
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929), poet
• James Hogg, (1770-1835), poet
• Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843), poet
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
• Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Hugh Hood[?], Montreal Anglo poet. Master work is 10 volume novel.
• Thomas Hood, (1798-1845), poet
• A. D. Hope[?], poet
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889), poet
• Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus
• George Moses Horton[?], poet
• Jurij Houdlin[?], (born 1973), poet
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936), poet
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547), poet
• Ivan Hribovsek[?], (1923-1945), poet
• Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), poet
• Ted Hughes, (1930-1998), poet
• Richard Hugo[?], poet
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
• Vicente Huidobro[?], (1893-1948), poet
• Alexander Hume[?], (1560-1609), poet
• James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet

J

• Clive James[?], poet
• Gustav Janus[?], (born 1939), poet
• Miran Jarc[?], (1900-1942), poet
• Urban Jarnik[?], (1784-1844), poet
• Randall Jarrell[?], poet
• Robinson Jeffers[?], (died 1962), poet
• Simon Jenko[?], (1835-1869), poet
• Elizabeth Jennings, poet
• Vida Jeraj[?], (1875-1932), poet
• Luka Jeran[?], (1818-1896), poet
• Marjetka Jersek[?], poet
• Milan Jesih[?], (born 1950), poet
• Fenton Johnson[?], poet
• Georgia Douglas Johnson[?], poet
• Helene Johnson[?], poet
• James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
• Lionel Johnson[?], poet
• Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), English poet
• David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
• Leroi Jones[?] aka Amiri Baraka
• James T. Jones[?] (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
• James Joyce, (1882-1941), Irish author
• Donald Justice[?] (The Summer Anniversary)
• Juvenal, poet

K

• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976), poet
• Ivana Kampus[?], (born 1945), poet
• Miha Kastelic[?], (1796-1868), poet
• Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman[?] (coined "Beatnik")
• Patrick Kavanagh[?], (1904-1967), poet
• John Keats, (1795-1821), Irish poet
• Weldon Kees[?], poet
• Harry Kemp[?], poet
• X. J. Kennedy[?], poet
• Jozef Kenda[?], (1859-1929), poet
• Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
• Dragotin Kette[?], (1876-1899), poet
• Keorapetse Kgositsile[?], poet
• Omar Khayyam, (1048-1122), Persian poet
• Velemir Khlebnikov[?], (1885-1922), poet
• Vladislav Khodasevich[?], (1886-1939), poet
• Nguyen Khuyen[?] (Vietnamese)
• Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918), poet
• Henry King[?], (1592-1669), poet
• William King, (1663-1712), poet
• Johann Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882), poet
• Galway Kinnell[?] (Body Bags)
• Thomas Kinsella[?], poet
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories[?]
• Milan Klec[?], (born 1954), poet
• Marjan Klinar[?], (1922-1983), poet
• Mile Klopcic[?], (1905-1984), poet
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803), poet
• Majda Kne[?], (born 1954), poet
• Etheridge Knight[?], poet
• Fran Kobal[?], (1881-1937), poet
• Josip Kobal[?], (1870-1888), poet
• Andrej Kocbek[?], poet
• Edvard Kocbek[?], (1904-1981), poet
• Matjaz Kocbek[?], (born 1946), poet
• Jan Kochanowski[?], (born 1530), poet
• Kenneth Koch[?] (NY Poet school)
• Anton Koder[?], (1851-1918), poet
• Andrej Kokot[?], (born 1936), poet
• Miklavz Komelj[?], (born 1970), poet
• Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pultizer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica[?], poet
• Ted Kooser[?], poet
• Sonja Koranter[?], (born 1948), poet
• Barbara Korun[?], poet
• Jovan Koseski[?], (1798-1884), poet
• France Kosmac[?], (1922-1974), poet, film director, publicist.
• Srecko Kosovel[?], (1904-1926), poet
• Miroslav Kosuta[?], (born 1936), poet
• Vladimir Kos[?], (born 1924), poet
• Jure Kovic[?], poet
• Kajetan Kovic[?], (born 1931), poet
• Barbara Kozak[?], poet
• Lojze Krakar[?], (1929-1995), poet
• Taja Kramberger, (born 1970), poet
• Ruth Krauss[?], poet
• Marko Kravos[?], (born 1943), poet
• Ernest Kroll[?], poet
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski[?], poet
• Maxine Kumin[?], poet
• Stanley Kunitz[?], poet

L

• Philip Lamantia[?], poet
• Charles Lamb, (1775-1834), poet
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon[?], poet
• Walter Savage Landor[?], (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
• Joseph Langland[?], poet
• Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
• James Laughlin[?], poet
• Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870), poet
• Lawes[?], poet
• D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
• Layamon, poet
• Irving Layton[?], (born 1912), sex machine poet!
• Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense[?]
• Jan Lechon[?], poet
• Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917), poet
• Dennis Lee[?], writer of children's poetry
• William Ellery Leonard[?], poet
• Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
• Eleanor Lerman[?], poet
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
• Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov[?], (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
• Boleslaw Lesmian[?], poet
• Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
• Anton Levec[?], poet
• Peter Levec[?], (born 1923), poet
• Denise Levertov[?] (Black Mountain triumverate)
• Jernej Levicnik[?], (1808-1883), poet
• Philip Levine[?], poet
• Larry Levis[?], poet
• Zlatka Levstek[?], (born 1944), poet
• Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985), poet
• Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957), poet
• Li Hou Zhu, (931-978), poet
• José Lezama Lima[?] (Cuban poet)
• Ewa Lipska[?], poet
• Florjan Lipus[?], (born 1937), author.
• Alan Llwyd[?], (current)
• Mihael Lotric[?], (born 1937), poet
• Joza Lovrencic[?], (1890-1952), poet
• Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), US poet
• Lucan, poet
• Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
• John Lydgate[?], (1370-1450), poet
• John Lyly[?], (1553-1606), poet
• George Lyttelton[?], (1709-1773), poet
• Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
• Li Qingzhao[?], poet
• Li Shanyin[?], poet
• Li Yu[?], poet
• Joseph C. Lincoln[?], poet
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001), poet
• Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931), poet
• Lawrence Lipking[?], poet
• Ramon Llull, (1235-1315), philosopher of the 13 century
• Thomas Lodge[?], (1556-1625), poet
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American poet
• Federico Garc Lorca[?], poet
• Audre Lorde, (born 1934), black lesbian activist
• Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)[?], poet
• Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658), poet
• Robert Lowell[?], poet
• Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), poet
• Mina Loy[?] (Dada)
• Lucilius[?], poet
• Mario Luzi[?], poet

M

• Hugh MacDiarmid[?], (1892-1978), poet
• Cynthia MacDonald[?], poet
• 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[?], poet
• Nathaniel Mackey[?], poet
• Archibald MacLeish[?], (1892-1982), poet
• Louis MacNeice[?], (1907-1963), poet
• Haki R. Madhubuti[?], poet
• France Magajna[?], (born 1957), poet
• John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), (Aviation poet)
• Derek Mahon[?] (Northern Irish poet)
• Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
• Clarence Major[?], poet
• Svetlana Makarovic[?], (born 1939), poet
• Peter Makuck[?], poet
• Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898), poet
• David Mallet[?], poet
• Miroslav Malovrh[?], (1861-1922), poet
• Goffredo Mameli, (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
• Osip Mandelstam, (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
• Osip E. Mandelstam[?], poet
• James Clarence Mangan[?], poet
• Manilius, poet
• Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950), poet
• Bill Mannhire[?], (born 1946), poet
• Klaus Mann, (1906-1949), poet
• Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
• Robert Mannyng of Brunne[?], (1269-1340), poet
• Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
• Joan Maragall[?], (1860-1911), writer
• Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
• Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625), poet
• Edwin Markham[?], poet
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
• Clément Marot, (1496-1544), poet
• Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
• Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678), poet
• John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet
• Edgar Lee Masters[?], (1869-1950), poet
• Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
• Neza Maurer[?], (born 1930), poet
• Blaz Mavrel[?], poet
• Glyn Maxwell[?], poet
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930), poet
• Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
• Gail Mazur[?], poet
• James McAuley[?], poet
• Linda McCarriston[?], poet
• Michael McClure[?] (Dark Brown - beat)
• John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
• Colleen McElroy[?], poet
• Phyllis McGinley[?], poet
• William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), poet
• Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
• 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[?], poet
• Don McKay[?], poet
• Irene McKinney[?], poet
• Sandra McPherson[?], poet
• Meisetsu[?], (1847-1926 - haiku poet), poet
• Meng Houran[?], poet

• Norman MacCaig[?], poet
• Anton Medved[?], (1869-1910), poet
• Vladimir Memon[?], poet
• Janez Menart[?], (born 1929), poet
• George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
• Ace Mermolja[?], (born 1951), poet
• 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)
• W.S. Merwin[?], (The Miner's Pale Children)
• Paul Metcalf[?] (Melville's grandson)
• Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928), poet
• Henri Michaux[?], poet and painter
• Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), oustanding Polish poet and writer
• Josephine Miles[?], poet
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950), poet
• Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913), poet
• Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
• Czeslaw Milosz, Pole
• Alice Duer Miller[?], poet
• John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
• Ivan Minatti[?], (born 1924), poet
• Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Adrian Mitchell[?], poet
• S. Weir Mitchell[?], American novelist, poet
• Ndre Mjeda[?], poet
• Iztok Mlakar[?], poet
• Stefan Modrinjak[?], (1774-1827), poet
• 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), poet
• Merrill Moore[?] (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
• Thomas Moore, (1779-1852), poet
• Frederick Morgan[?], poet
• Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914), poet
• William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
• Howard Moss[?], poet
• Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-), poet
• Brane Mozetic[?], (born 1958), poet
• Lisel Mueller[?], poet
• Erich Mühsam[?], (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
• Paul Muldoon[?], (born 1951), poet
• Nolie Mumey[?], poet
• Les Murray[?], (born 1938), poet
• Anthony Munday[?], (1553-1633), poet
• Richard Murphy[?], poet, member of Aosdána
• Erna Muser[?], (1879-1901), poet
• Susan Musgrave[?], Poet. Married for love.

N

• Marcia Nardi[?], poet
• Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
• Thomas Nashe[?], (1567-1601), poet
• Emile Nelligan, (1879-1941), French-Canadian poet
• Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson[?], poet
• Howard Nemerov[?], (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
• Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
• Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
• John Henry Newman, (1801-1890), poet
• Nezami[?], poet
• B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988), poet
• B.P Nicol[?], poet
• Lorine Niedecker[?], poet
• Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, poet
• Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & leader
• Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
• Fan Noli[?], poet
• Caroline Norton[?], poet
• Cyprian Kamil Norwid[?], poet
• Anton Novacan[?], (1887-1951), poet
• Boris A. Novak[?], (born 1953), poet
• Irena Zorko Novak[?], (born 1953), poet
• Novica Novakovic[?], (born 1965), poet
• Novalis, (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)[?], poet
• Lili Novy[?], (1885-1958), poet
• Alfred Noyes[?], poet
• Naomi Shihab Nye[?], poet

O

• Frank O'Hara[?] (NY School)
• Sharon Olds[?], poet
• Anton Oliban[?], (1824-1860), poet
• Dave Oliphant[?], poet
• Mary Oliver[?], poet
• Charles Olson[?] (Black Mountain School founder)
• Terry A. O'Neal[?], poet
• France Onic[?], (1901-1975), poet
• Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
• George Oppen[?], poet
• Peter Orlovsky[?] (beat)
• Vinko Oslak[?], (born 1947), poet
• Iztok Osojnik[?], (born 1951), poet
• Josip Osti[?], (born 1945), poet
• Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 BC-17 AD), (more commonly known as Ovid)
• Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet

P

• Robert Pack[?], poet
• Ruth Padel[?], poet
• Pavlina Pajk[?], (1854-1901), poet
• Grace Paley[?], poet
• F.T. Palgrave[?], poet
• Rado Palir[?], poet
• Palladas, poet
• Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967), poet
• Thomas Parnell[?], (1670-1718), poet
• Nicanor Parra, Chile
• Giovanni Pascoli[?], Italian poet
• Linda Pastan[?], poet
• Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
• Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972), poet
• Andrea Paterson[?], poet
• Andrew Barton Paterson[?] (banjo)
• Don Paterson[?], poet
• Vida Mokrin Pauer[?], (born 1961), poet
• Marko Pavcek[?], (1958-1979), poet
• Tone Pavcek[?], (born 1928), poet
• Robert Pawlwoski[?], poet
• Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
• Peele[?] (Batsabe Sings)
• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
• Padraic Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
• Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
• George Peel[?], (1558-1597), poet
• Charles Péguy[?], 20th century poet
• Bruno Pertot[?], poet
• Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935), poet
• Ruza Lucija Petelin[?], poet
• Francesco Petrarca[?], poet
• Ambrose Philips[?], poet
• France Pibernik[?], (born 1928), poet
• Matjaz Pikalo[?], (born 1963), poet
• Robert Pinsky[?] (former US poet laureate)
• Bojan Pisk[?], (born 1933), poet
• Klemen Pisk[?], poet
• Ruth Pitter[?], poet
• Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Iztok Geister Plamen[?], (born 1945), poet
• Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
• German Plisetsky[?], (born 1931), poet
• Williams Plomer[?], poet
• Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
• Denis Poniz[?], (born 1948), poet
• Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
• Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
• Carlo Porta[?], (Milanese dialect)
• Halina Poswiatowska[?], poet
• Blaz Potocnik[?], (1799-1872), poet
• Jure Potokar[?], (born 1956), poet
• Neil Powell[?], poet
• Andrej Praprotnik[?], (1827-1895), poet
• E.J. Pratt[?], poet
• Ivan Pregelj[?], (1883-1960), poet
• France Prešeren[?], (1800-1849), Slovene
• Jacques Prevert, (1900-1977), French poet
• Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
• Robert Priest[?], poet
• Janez Primic[?], (1785-1823), poet
• Matthew Prior[?], (1664-1721), poet
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet

R

• Kathleen Raine[?], poet
• Meta Rainer[?], (born 1904), poet
• Carl Rakosi[?], poet
• Thomas Randolph[?], (1605-1635), poet
• John Crowe Ransom[?] (Kenyon College)
• Tom Raworth[?], poet
• David Ray[?], poet
• Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
• Byron H. Reece[?], poet
• Henry Reed, (1914-1986), poet
• Ishmael Reed[?], poet
• 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[?], poet
• Ivan Resman[?], (1848-1905), poet
• Kenneth Rexroth[?], poet
• Charles Reznikoff[?], poet
• Carles Riba[?], poet
• Stan Rice, (1943-2002), poet and artist
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Lola Ridge, (1873-1941), poet
• Laura Riding, (1901-1981), poet
• Anne Ridler[?], poet
• James Whitcomb Riley[?], (1853-1916), poet
• Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926), poet
• Arthur Rimbaud, (1854-1891), symbolist poet
• Michele Roberts[?], poet
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935), poet
• Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
• Georges Rodenbach[?], Symbolist poet and novelist
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , (1647-1680), poet
• Carolyn M. Rodgers[?], poet
• Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963), poet
• Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585), poet
• Peter Rosegger, (died 1918), poet
• Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943), poet
• Penelope Rosemont[?], poet
• Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918), poet
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
• Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
• Braco Rotar[?], poet
• Nicholas Rowe[?], poet
• Richard Rowlands[?], (1565-1630), poet
• Andrej Rozman Roza[?], (born 1955), poet
• Tadeusz Rozewicz[?], poet
• Gregor Rozman[?], poet
• Friedrich Rückert, poet
• Sarah Ruden[?], poet
• Muriel Rukeyser[?], poet
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877), Poet

S

• Umberto Saba[?], poet
• Sa'di[?], poet
• Melin de Saint-Gelais, (1487-1558), poet
• Tomaz Salamun[?], (born 1941), poet
• Severin Sali[?], (1911-1992), poet
• Joan Salvat-Papasseit[?], (1894-1924), poet
• Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967), poet
• Sonia Sanchez[?], poet
• Jordi de Sant Jordi[?], poet
• Sappho, ancient Greek poet
• Mitja Sarabon[?], poet
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
• Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564), poet
• Susan Schaeffer[?], poet
• Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
• Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979), poet
• Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
• Philip Schultz[?] (Deep Within The Ravine - Lamont selection)
• Delmore Schwartz[?] (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
• Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949), poet
• Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
• Tone Seliskar[?], (1900-1969), poet
• Peter Semolic[?], (born 1967), poet
• Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39), poet
• Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001), poet
• Robert Service[?], poet of the Yukon
• Vikram Seth[?], poet
• Anne Sexton, (1928-1974), poet
• Karl Shapiro[?], poet
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
• Ntozake Shange[?], (born 1948), poet
• Jo Shapcott[?], poet
• Percy Bysse Shelley[?], (died 1822), poet.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), (also his wife, Mary Shelley)
• William Shenstone[?], poet
• Taras Shevchenko[?], poet
• James Shirley, (1596-1666), poet
• Avraham Shlonsky[?], poet
• Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554), poet
• Eli Siegel, (1902-1978), poet
• Charles Simic[?], poet
• Barbara Simoniti[?], poet
• Louis Simpson[?], (born 1923), poet
• Albert Sirok[?], poet
• Karel Sirok[?], poet
• Lemn Sissay[?], poet
• L.E. Sisson[?], poet
• Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964), poet
• Ivan Sivec[?], (born 1945), poet
• John Skelton, (1460-1529), poet
• Kathleen Spivack[?] (The Beds We Lie In)
• Kenneth Slessor [?], poet
• Anton Martin Slomsek[?], (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
• Juliusz Slowacki[?], poet
• Charlotte Smith[?], (1749-1806), poet
• William Jay Smith[?], poet
• LeRoy Smith[?], poet
• Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet
• Joze Smit[?], (born 1922), poet
• Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771), poet
• W.D. Snodgrass[?] (aka S.S. Gardons)
• Joze Snoj[?], (born 1934), poet
• Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat - Regarding Wave)
• Edit Södergran[?], poet
• William Somervile, (1675-1742), poet
• Charles Sorley, (1895-1915), war poet
• Ljubka Sorli[?], poet
• Natsume Soseki, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Gary Soto[?], poet
• Caroline Southey[?], (1787-1854), poet
• Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
• Robert Southwell[?], (1561-1595), poet
• A. B. Spellman[?], poet
• Anne Spencer[?], poet
• Stephen Spender[?], (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930), poet
• Edmund Spenser, (1552-1599), poet
• Leopold Staff[?], poet
• William Stafford[?], poet
• Valentin Stanic[?], (1774-1847), poet
• Jernej Stante[?], poet
• George Starbuck[?], poet
• Statius, (c. AD 45-96), poet
• C.K. Stead[?], (born 1932), poet
• Joseph Stefan, (1835-1893), Slovene
• Ales Steger[?], (born 1973), poet
• Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, author of Three Lives[?], [[The Autobiography of Ali
• Gerald Stern[?], poet
• Wallace Stevens, (1880-1955), poet
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), lighthouses
• Trumbull Stickney[?], (19th c.), poet
• James Still[?], poet
• Theodor Storm, (1817-1888), poet
• Alfonsina Storni[?], (1892-1938), poet
• Mark Strand[?] (former poet laureate)
• Botho Strauss[?], (born 1944), poet
• Josip Stritar[?], (1836-1923), poet, author and editor.
• Gregor Strnisa[?], (1929-1987), poet
• Igor Stropnik[?], (born 1966), poet
• Jesse Stuart[?], poet
• Sir John Suckling[?], poet
• Francis Sullivan[?], poet
• Jules Supervielle[?], poet
• Patrick Süskind[?], (born 1949), author of Perfume
• Keston Sutherland[?], poet
• Barton Sutter[?], poet
• Ivo Svetina[?], (born 1948), poet
• May Swenson[?], poet
• Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
• Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
• Joshua Sylvester[?], (1563-1618), poet
• Wislawa Szymborska, (born 1923), Polish poetess, Nobel Prize laureate

T

• Ales Tacer[?], poet
• Geneviere Taggard[?] (Calling Western Union)
• Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941), poet
• Anton Tanc[?], (1887-1947), poet
• Torquato Tasso, (1544-1595), poet
• James Tate[?], poet
• Allen Tate[?], (1899-1979), poet
• Veno Taufer[?], (born 1933), poet
• Vida Taufer[?], (1903-1966), poet
• Zora Tavcar[?], poet
• Eleanor Ross Taylor[?], poet
• Henry Taylor, (1800-1886), poet
• Sara Teasdale[?], poet
• Marjan Telatko[?], poet
• Alfred Tennyson, (1809-1892), English poet
• Lucy Terry[?], poet
• Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940), poet
• Alexander Theroux[?], poet
• Dylan Thomas, (1914-1953), poet
• Edward Thomas, (1878-1917), poet
• R. S. Thomas, (1913-2000), poet
• John Thompson, (1845-1913), Canadian writer
• Francis Thompson , (1859-1907), poet
• James Thomson[?], (1834-1882), poet
• Tibullus, (c. 54 BC-19 BC), poet
• Thomas Tickell[?], poet
• Ludwig Tieck, (1773-1853), poet
• Melvin B. Tolson[?], poet
• Lovro Toman[?], (1827-1870), poet
• Margaret Tongue[?], poet
• Jean Toomer[?], poet
• Edo Torkar[?], poet
• Igor Torkar[?], (born 1913), poet
• Ridgely Torrence[?], poet
• Thomas Traherne, poet
• Georg Trakl, (1887-1914), poet
• Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
• Ivan Zamejski Trinko[?], (1863-1954), poet
• Quincy Troupe[?], poet
• Marina Tsvetaeva, (1892-1941), Russian poet
• Kurt Tucholsky, (1890-1935), German poet
• Thomas Tusser, sixteenth century English poet.
• Mary Tull[?], (Stained Windows; #52 Dorrance Contempry series), poet
• Hone Tuwhare[?], (born 1922), poet
• Julian Tuwim[?], poet
• Jan Twardowski[?], poet
• Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521-1605), poet
• Fyodor Tyutchev[?], (1803-1873), poet
• Tristan Tzara, (1896-1963), (Dada)

U

• Joze Udovic[?], (1912-1986), poet
• Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet
• Louis Untermeyer[?], (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
• John Updike, (born 1932), (Facing Nature)

V

• Jean Valentine[?] (Home Deep Blue)
• Mona Van Duyn[?], poet
• Cesar Vallejo, (1892-1938), poet
• Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
• Matija Valjavec[?], (1831-1897), poet
• Pashko Vasa[?], poet
• Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695), poet
• Sasa Vegri[?], (born 1934), poet
• Helen Vendler[?], poet
• Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902), poet
• Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896), symbolist poet
• Jonas Very[?], (19th c. American "Renaissance"), poet
• Maja Vidmar[?], (born 1961), poet
• Tit Vidmar[?], (1929-1999), poet
• Francis Vielé-Griffin[?] (symbolist)
• Peter Viereck[?], poet
• Francois Villon, (15th c. French), poet
• François Villon, (1431-c.1474), poet
• Cene Vipotnik[?], (1914-1972), poet
• Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro
• Jani Virk[?], (born 1962), poet
• Jozef Virk[?], (1810-1880), poet
• Anton Vodnik[?], (1901-1965), poet
• France Vodnik[?], (1903-1986), poet
• Valentin Vodnik[?], (1758-1819), poet, journalist, philologist.
• Bozo Vodusek[?], (1905-1978), poet
• Herman Vogel[?], (1941-1989), poet
• Walter von der Vogelweide, poet
• Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170-c. 1230), poet
• Vincent Voiture, (1598-1648), poet
• Joze Volaric[?], (born 1932), poet
• Zlata Volaric[?], (born 1930), poet
• Andrei Voznesensky[?], (born 1933), poet
• Stanko Vraz[?], (1810-1851), poet

W

• Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183), poet
• David Wagoner[?], poet
• Diane Wakoski[?], (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
• Derek Walcott, (born 1930), (Nobel Prize for Literature)
• Rosmarie Waldrop[?], poet
• Philip Walen[?], poet
• Arthur Waley[?] (Translations from the Chinese)
• Alice Walker, (born 1944), poet and author
• Edmund Waller, (1606-1687), poet
• Walsinghame[?], poet
• Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
• Wang Changling[?], poet
• Candice Ward[?], poet
• Warniek Marilyn Nelson[?], poet
• Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989), poet
• Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
• Isaac Watts, (1674-1748), poet
• David Wayne[?], (1914-1995), poet
• John Webster[?], (died 1630), English poet
• Ian Wedde[?], (born 1946), poet
• Theodore Weiss[?], poet
• Philip Whalen[?] (beat)
• John Wheelock Hall[?] (The Black Panther)
• Margaret Walker[?], poet
• Martin Walser[?], (born 1927), poet
• Franz Werfel, (1890-1945), Czech poet
• Johan Herman Wessel, (1742-1785), poet
• Gilbert West[?], poet
• Phillis Wheatley, (1753-1784), poet
• E.B. White, (1899-1985), (Fox of Peacock)
• James M. Whitfield[?], poet
• Walt Whitman, (1819-1892), American poet
• John Greenleaf Whittier[?], (1807-1892), poet
• John Wieners[?] (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
• Kazimierz Wierzynski[?], poet
• 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[?], poet
• Shirley Williams, (born 1930), is a British politician
• Miller Williams[?], poet
• Sherley Anne Williams[?], poet
• William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791), one of the three leaders of the Methodist Revival[?] in 18th century Wales, along with [[Da
• William Carlos Williams, (1883-1963), (Paterson)
• John Wilmot[?] (Earl of Rochester)
• Robley Wilson[?], poet
• Yvor Winters[?], poet
• George Wither[?], (1588-1667), poet
• Rafal Wojaczek[?], poet
• Christa Wolf[?], German poet
• Charles Wolfe[?], (1791-1823), poet
• Hans Wollschläger[?], poet
• George Woodcock, (1912-1995), poet, critic and anarchist author of Anarchism
• Dorothy Wordsworth[?], (1771-1855), poet
• William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), English Romantic poet
• Franz Wright[?], poet
• Wright James[?] (The Green Wall)
• Philip Stanhope Worsley, (1835-1866), English poet
• Charles Wright[?], musician, poet
• Judith Wright, (1915-2000), poet
• Sir Thomas Wyatt[?] (They flee from me)
• Thomas Wyatt, (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
• Elinor Wylie[?], poet
• Hedd Wyn, poet

X

• Xu Zhi Mo[?], melancholic poet of early 20 century[?] China

Y

• John Yau[?], poet
• William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
• Stephen Yenser[?] (Whitman winner - The Fire In All Things)
• Sergei Yesenin[?], (1895-1925), poet
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko[?], (born 1933), Russian novelist
• Marguerite Young[?], poet
• Young David[?], poet
• Edward Young, (1683-1765), poet
• Han Yu[?], poet
• Yunus Emre, 13th century Turkish poet

Z

• Franci Zagoricnik[?], (born 1933), poet
• Ifigenija Zagoricnik[?], (born 1953), poet
• Dane Zajc[?], (born 1929), poet
• Andrea Zanzotto, poet
• William Zaranka[?], poet
• Marya Zaturenska, (1902-1982), poet
• Benjamin Zephaniah[?], poet
• Paul Zimmer[?], poet
• Jozef Zizenceli[?], (1658-1714), poet
• Ciril Zlobec[?], (born 1925), poet
• Asta Znidarsic[?], poet
• Benjamin Znidarsic[?], (born 1959), poet
• Maricka Znidarsic[?], poet
• Louis Zukofsky[?] (A. & 5 Statements)
• Brane Zupanc[?], (born 1950), poet
• Oton Zupancic[?], (1878-1949), poet
• Uros Zupan[?], (born 1963), poet
• Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writer

Poets (by language not nationality)

• List of Albanian language poets
• List of Catalan language poets
• List of Chinese language poets
• List of English language poets
• List of French language poets
• List of German language poets
• List of Italian language poets
• List of Latin language poets
• List of Polish language poets
• List of Russian language poets
• List of Slovene language poets
• List of Spanish language poets
• List of Welsh language poets

Poets by Nationality

• List of Canadian Poets[?]

Poets by genre or movement

• Surrealist poets
• List of web poetry artists[?]
• List of performance poets

See also: list of people by occupation, list of people, poetry