Poet
- Dannie Abse (White Coat Purple Coat)
- Leonie Adams (High Falcon - 1929)
- James Agree
- Sin Ai
- Conrad Aiken
- Anna Akhmatova
- Richard Aldington
- Claribel Alegría
- Alisoun
- Donald Allen (New American Poetry)
- Yehuda Amichai
- A. R. Ammons
- Jon Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Brother Antoninus
- Chairil Anwar (Indonesian poet* 1922-1949)
- Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
- Tudor Arghezi (greatest Romanian poet)
- Matthew Arnold
- John Ashbery
- Douglas Asper
- W. H. Auden
- Leonard Bacon
- Robert Bagg
- Christianne Balk (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
- Barba Porfirio Jacob (Colombian poet)
- George Barker
- William Barnes
- Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
- Elizabeth Barrett
- Judith Baumel (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)
- Beddoes (English writer in Germany)
- Ben Belitt
- Marvin Bell
- William Benet Rose
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
- Bing & Cohen (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
- John Bishop Peale
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Don Blanding
- William Blake
- Michael Blumenthal
- Robert Bly
- Louise Bogan
- Boileau
- Philip Booth
- Edgar Bowers
- Mark Boyd Alexander (1563-1601 - sonnets)
- Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)
- William Braithwaite (1878-1962)
- Bertolt Brecht
- André Breton
- Robert Bridges
- John Malcol Brinnin
- Daniel Louis Brodsky
- William Bronk
- Rupert Brooke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- William C. Bryant
- Charles Bukowski
- Basil Bunting
- Michael Burkard
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns
- Edwin G. Burrows
- William S. Burroughs
- Samuel Butler (1612-80)
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Caedmon (old English)
- Robert Calvert
- Roy Campbell
- Thomas Campion (1567-1619)
- Will Carleton
- Lewis Carroll
- Hayden Carruth
- Gaius Catullus Valerius
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy
- Craig Charles
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Henri Chopin
- John Ciardi
- Amy Clampitt
- Lucille Clifton
- Stan Cohen
- Samuel T. Coleridge
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins (1721-1759)
- Evan S. Jr. Connell
- Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
- Clark Coolidge
- Gregory Corso (Gasoline - Beat poet)
- Malcolm Cowley (Dada)
- Abraham Cowley
- Cowper
- George Crabbe
- Christopher Pearce Cranch (19th c. American)
- Hart Crane (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane
- Douglas Crase
- Robert Creeley (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
- Countee Cullen
- e. e. Cummings
- J. V. Cunningham
- Kate Daniels
- W. H. Davies
- Edward Davison (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
- Peter Davison (poet son of Edward)
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Walter de la Mare
- DeCosta-Willis (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
- Madeline DeFrees
- Babette Deutsch
- Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Emily Dickinson
- James Dickey
- Stephen Dobyns
- John Donne
- Hilda Doolittle
- Gavin Douglas
- Leah B. Drake
- John Drinkwater
- Du Mu (803-852 - Chinese poet)
- Alan Dugan
- Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
- Stephen Dunn
- Lawrence Durrell (A Private Country* Poems)
- Stuart Dybek
- Charles F. Easton
- Richard Eberhart
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Empson
- Paul Engle
- Louise Erdrich
- Max Ernst (Dada)
- Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
- Salvador Espriu
- Abbie Huston Evans
- William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
- Richard Everswine
- Galvin Ewart
- Thomas Ferril
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Lawrence Fixel
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- John Forbes
- Robert Francis
- Robert Frost
- Jean Garrigue
- David Gascoyne
- Stefan George
- Richard Gilder
- Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)
- Allen Ginsberg
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni
- Louise Glück (Bobbitt Prize winner)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Rumer Golden (In Noahs Ark)
- Eugen Gomringer
- Ray Gonzalez (After Aztlan* Latino Poets of the 90s)
- Robert Graves
- Thomas Gray
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Edgar Guest (most popular American poet of 20's)
- Nicolas Guillén (Cuban poet)
- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Thom Gunn
- Ramon Guthrie
- Brion Gysin
- Thomas Hardy
- Gwen Harwood
- Seamus Heaney
- Anthony Hecht
- Heinrich Heine
- George Herbert (1593-1633)
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Dorothy Hewett
- Geoffrey Hill
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- A. D. Hope
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A. E. Housman
- Langston Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Lionel Johnson
- Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
- James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City* Kerouac as Poet)
- Ben Jonson
- Donald Justice (The Summer Anniversary)
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- John Keats
- Weldon Kees
- Harry Kemp
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jack Kerouac
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)
- Joyce Kilmer
- Galway Kinnell (Body Bags)
- Thomas Kinsella
- Rudyard Kipling
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
- Ted Kooser
- Ruth Krauss
- Ernest Kroll
- Maxine Kumin
- Stanley Kunitz
- Li Po
- Lamantia, Philip
- Landor, Walter Savage (English writer in Italy)
- Langland, Jospeh
- Larkin, Philip
- Laughlin, James
- Lawes
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Leonard, William Ellery
- Lerman, Eleanor
- Levertov, Denise (Black Mountain triumverate)
- Levine, Philip
- Levis, Larry
- Lewis, Wyndham
- Lezama Lima, José (Cuban poet)
- Lincoln, Joseph C.
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Lipking, Lawrence
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lorca, Federico Garc
- Lorde, Audre (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)
- Richard Lovelace
- Lowell, Robert
- Lowell, Amy
- Loy, Mina (Dada)
- Lucilius
- MacDiarmid, Hugh (Scottish poet)
- MacDonald, Cynthia
- MacKenzie, Compton
- MacLeish, Archibald
- MacNeice, Louis
- Madhubuti, Haki R.
- Mahon, Derek (Northern Irish poet)
- Makuck, Peter
- Mallarmé, Stephane
- Mandelstam, Osip E.
- Markham, Edwin
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Andrew Marvell
- John Masefield
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Mazur, Gail
- McAuley, James
- McCarriston, Linda
- McClure, Michael (Dark Brown - beat)
- McCrae, John (1919 - In Flanders Field)
- McGinley, Phyllis
- William Topaz McGonagall
- McGrath, Thomas (Movie at the End of the World)
- McKay, Claude
- McKinney, Irene
- McPherson, Sandra
- Meisetsu (1847-1926 - haiku poet)
- Merrill, Stuart (symbolist)
- Merrill, James (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Merwin, W.S. (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Metcalf, Paul (Melville's grandson)
- Miles, Josephine
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Spike Milligan
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Miller, Alice Duer
- John Milton
- Mitchell, S. Weir
- Monroe, Harriet (Poetry magazine)
- Montale, Eugenio (Nobel Laureate)
- Moore, Marianne
- Moore, Merrill (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
- Morgan, Frederick
- Morris, William (Norse sagas & old French matter)
- Moss, Howard
- Mueller, Lisee
- Muldoon, Paul
- Mumey, Nolie
- Les Murray
- Marcia Nardi
- Ogden Nash
- Howard Nemerov (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda (Residence on Earth 1946)
- Lorine Niedecker
- Caroline Norton
- Alfred Noyes (Scottish poet)
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Frank O'Hara (NY School)
- Sharon Olds
- Dave Oliphant
- Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
- George Oppen
- Peter Orlovsky (beat)
- Ovid
- Wilfred Owen
- Pack, Robert
- Palgrave, F.T.
- Palladas
- Dorothy Parker
- Pastan, Linda
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Paterson, Andrea
- Pawlwoski, Robert
- Peele (Batsabe Sings)
- Pinsky, Robert (former US poet laureate)
- Pitter, Ruth
- Sylvia Plath (The Colossue)
- Plomer, Williams
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Alexander Pope
- [[Pound, Ezra] ]] (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
- Prior, Matthew
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Raine, Kathleen
- Rakosi, Carl
- Ransom, John Crowe (Kenyon College)
- Ray, David
- Ray, Man (Dada)
- Reece, Byron H.
- Reed, Ishmael
- Reeve, F.D. (The Blue Cat)
- Replansky, Naomi
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Reznikoff, Charles
- Rice, Stan
- Rich, Adrienne
- Ridge, Lola
- Riding, Laura
- Ridler, Anne
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Rochester, John Earl of
- Rodgers, Carolyn M.
- Roethke, Theodore
- Rosenberg, Isaac
- Rosetti, Dante G.
- Rossetti, Christina
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Carl Sandburg
- Sanchez, Sonia
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sappho
- Sassoon, Siegfried (1930s)
- Schaeffer, Susan
- Schiller, Friedrich
- Schultz, Philip (Deep Within The Ravine - Lamont selection)
- Schwartz, Delmore (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Scott-Heron, Gil
- Seifert, Jaroslav (Nobel Prize)
- Seneca
- Service, Robert
- Sexton, Anne
- Shapiro, Karl
- William Shakespeare
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Sidney, Sir Philip
- Siegel, Eli
- Simic, Charles
- Simpson, Louis
- Sisson, L.E.
- Sitwell, Edith
- Skpivack, Kathleen (The Beds We Lie In)
- Slessor, Kenneth
- Smith, William Jay
- Smith, LeRoy
- Smith, Stevie
- Snodgrass, W.D. (aka S.S. Gardons)
- Snyder, Gary (beat - Regarding Wave)
- Soto, Gary
- Spender, Stephen (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
- Spenser, Edmund
- Stafford, William
- Starbuck, George
- Stern, Gerald
- Stevens, Wallace
- Stickney, Trumbull (19th c.)
- Still, James
- Strand, Mark (former poet laureate)
- Stuart, Jesse
- Suckling, Sir John
- Sullivan, Francis
- Supervielle, Jules
- Sutter, Barton
- Swenson, May
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Taggard, Geneviere (Calling Western Union)
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Tate, James
- Tate, Allen
- Taylor, Eleanor Ross
- Taylor, Henry
- Teasdale, Sara
- Alfred Tennyson
- Ernest Thayer
- Theroux, Alexander
- Dylan Thomas
- Thomas, Edward
- R. S. Thomas
- Thompson, John
- Thompson, Francis
- Tongue, Margaret
- Torrence, Ridgely
- Tsvetaeva, Marina
- Tull, Mary (Stained Windows; #52 Dorrance Contempry series)
- Tzara, Tristan (Dada)
- Louis Untermeyer (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
- John Updike (Facing Nature)
- Jean Valentine (Home Deep Blue)
- Mona Van Duyn
- Helen Vendler
- Jonas Very (19th c. American "Renaissance")
- Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
- Peter Viereck
- Francois Villon (15th c. French)
- Walther von der Vogelweide
- Andrei Voznesensky
- Wagoner, David
- Wakoski, Diane (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
- Walcott, Derek
- Waldrop, Rosmarie
- Walen, Philip
- Waley, Arthur (Translations from the Chinese)
- Walker, Alice
- Walsinghame
- Ward, Candice
- Warniek Marilyn Nelson
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Wayne, David
- Weiss, Theodore
- Whalen, Philip (beat)
- Wheelock, John Hall (The Black Panther)
- White, E.B. (Fox of Peacock)
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wieners, John (beat - Ace of Pentacles)
- Wilbur, Richard (past poet laureate - Things of This World)
- Oscar Wilde
- Williams, Shirley
- Williams, Miller
- Williams, William Carlos (Paterson)
- Wilson, Robley
- Winters, Yvor
- Wordsworth, Williams
- Wright, Franz
- Wright James (The Green Wall)
- Wright, Charles
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas (They flee from me)
- Wylie, Elinor
- John Yau
- William Butler Yeats
- Stephen Yenser (Whitman winner - The Fire In All Things)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Marguerite Young
- Young David
- Andrea Zanzotto
- William Zaranka
- Marya Zaturenska
- Paul Zimmer
- Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
Poets (by language not nationality)*