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List of notable poets
List of poets
People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.
Poets (by language not nationality)
Poets by Nationality
Poets by genre or movement
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See also: list of people by occupation, lists of people, poetry
A
- 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)
- Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC
- Dritëro Agolli
- James Agree
- Sin Ai
- Conrad Aiken, (1889-1973)
- Mark Akenside, (1721-1770)
- Bella Akhmadulina, (born 1957)
- Anna Akhmatova, (1889-1966)
- Linda Aksomitis, novels, travel, poetry under pseudonym Sunflower Sue
- Luigi Alamanni, (1495-1556)
- Fran Albreht, (1889-1965)
- Ivan Albreht
- Vera Albreht
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273 CE)
- Richard Aldington
- Claribel Alegria
- Vicente Aleixandre, (1989-1984), 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
- Alisoun
- Donald Allen (New American Poetry)
- William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
- Damaso Alonso
- Natan Alterman
- Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- Yehuda Amichai
- A. R. Ammons
- Anacreon
- Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
- Jon Anderson, (born 1944)
- Jorge Carrera Andrade, (1903-1978)
- Miha Andreas, (1762-1821)
- Aneirin, medieval epic poet
- Maya Angelou, (born 1928)
- Brother Antoninus
- Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
- Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
- Apuleius
- Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
- Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada)
- Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
- Bonaventura Carles Aribau, (1798-1862)
- Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
- 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)
- Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889)
- Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
- Douglas Asper
- Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
- Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
- Ausonius, (c. 310-395)
- Miha Avanzo, (born 1949)
- Margaret Avison, (born 1918)
- Robert Ayton, (1570-1638)
B
- Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
- Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
- Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
- Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881)
- Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
- Robert Bagg
- Julio Baghy
- Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
- France Balantic, (1921-1943)
- Christianne Balk (W. Whitman winner - Bindweed)
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
- John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
- Barba Porfirio Jacob
- George Barker
- Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
- William Barnes, (1801-1886)
- Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
- Elizabeth Barrett
- Judith Baumel (The Weight of Numbers - Whitman award)
- James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)
- Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
- Beddoes (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
- Ben Belitt
- Marvin Bell
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
- William Benet Rose
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
- Gottfried Ben
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Nejc Bernard, (born 1970)
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
- Bing & Cohen (Greek & Roman erotic verse)
- Miron Bialoszewski
- Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
- Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- John Bishop Peale
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Don Blanding
- William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
- Andrej Blatnik, (born 1963)
- Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
- Michael Blumenthal
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
- Louise Bogan
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, (1636-1711)
- Berta Bojetu, (1946-1997)
- Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
- Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Philip Booth
- Edgar Bowers
- Mark Boyd Alexander, (1563-1601 - sonnets)
- Esad Babacic, (born 1965)
- George Bacovia, Romanian poet
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
- Rado Bordon, (1915-1992)
- Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
- Marx Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
- Matej Bor, (1913-1956)
- Tadeusz Borowski
- Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)
- 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
- Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
- André Breton, (1896-1966)
- Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
- Vida Brest, (born 1925)
- Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
- Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
- John Malcol Brinnin
- Daniel Louis Brodsky
- 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
- Sterling A. Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
- William Browne, (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
- William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
- Andrej Brvar, (born 1945)
- Bryher
- Ernest Bryll
- Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Georg Büchner
- Andrej Budal, (1889-1972)
- Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
- Basil Bunting
- Ronnie Burk, (1955-2003)
- Michael Burkard
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
- Edwin G. Burrows
- William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
- Andrzej Bursa
- Wilhelm Busch, (1832-1908)
- Samuel Butler, (1612-80), English novelist, poet
- Ignazio Buttitta, (sicilian dialect)
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
C
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Dilys Cadwaladr
- Caedmon (old English)
- Andon Zako Çajupi
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
- Luis de Camões, (poet, author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell
- 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)
- Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi, (192-232)
- Andrej Capuder, (born 1942)
- Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosue Carducci, (1835-1907)
- Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
- Will Carleton
- Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
- Hayden Carruth
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
- Gaius Catullus Valerius, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
- Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
- Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
- Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674), poet
- George Chapman, (1560-1634), poet
- René Char, (1907-1998), 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
- Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- 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
- Donald Davidson, (1893-1968), 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
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- 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
- Gavin 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
- John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898), poet
- John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian 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
- Albert Gazeley,(1937), poet & wrtier
- 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
- Divo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638), 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
- Alamgir Hashmi, 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, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- 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)
- Marjetka Jersek
- Milan Jesih, (born 1950)
- Fenton Johnson
- 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
- Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
- James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904), poet
- James Joyce, (1882-1941)
- Donald Justice (The Summer Anniversary)
- Juvenal
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)
- Weldon Kees
- Harry Kemp
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jozef Kenda, (1859-1929)
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
- Dragotin Kette, (1876-1899)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Omar Khayyam, (1048-1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
- Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)
- Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
- Henry King, (1592-1669)
- William King, (1663-1712)
- Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
- Galway Kinnell (Body Bags)
- John Kinsella
- Thomas Kinsella
- 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
- Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
- 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, combat pilot officer)
- 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
- 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)
- Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
- Gail Mazur
- James McAuley
- Linda McCarriston
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
- Colleen McElroy
- Phyllis McGinley
- 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
- Don McKay
- Irene McKinney
- Sandra McPherson
- Meisetsu, (1847-1926 - haiku poet)
- Meng Houran
- Norman MacCaig
- Anton Medved, (1869-1910)
- Vladimir Memon
- Janez Menart, (born 1929)
- George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Ace Mermolja, (born 1951)
- 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)
- Paul Metcalf (Melville's grandson)
- Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)
- 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.
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- 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
- Lorine Niedecker, poet
- Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla), poet
- Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
- 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)
- Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
- George Oppen
- Peter Orlovsky (beat)
- Vinko Oslak, (born 1947)
- Iztok Osojnik, (born 1951)
- Josip Osti, (born 1945)
- Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 BC-17 AD), (more commonly known as Ovid)
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918)
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
- 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 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, (1908-2003), poet
- Meta Rainer, (born 1904), poet
- Carl Rakosi, poet
- Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635), poet
- John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974), poet
- 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
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- Umberto Saba, poet
- Sa'di, poet
- Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- ), 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
- Luci Shaw, 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
- Myra Sklarew
- Kathleen Spivack (The Beds We Lie In)
- Kenneth Slessor, poet
- Anton Martin Slomsek, (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
- Juliusz Slowacki, poet
- Joze Smit, (born 1922), poet
- Charlotte Smith, (1749-1806), poet
- LeRoy Smith, poet
- Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
- Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet
- William Jay Smith, 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
- Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic 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
- Allen Tate, (1899-1979), poet
- James Tate, poet
- Veno Taufer, (born 1933), poet
- Vida Taufer, (1903-1966), poet
- Zora Tavcar, poet
- Eleanor Ross Taylor, poet
- Henry Taylor, (1800-1886), poet
- Nikola Tesla, (1856 - 1943)
- 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
V
- 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)
- Pashko Vasa
- Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695)
- Sasa Vegri, (born 1934)
- Helen Vendler
- Jacint Verdaguer, (1845-1902)
- Paul Verlaine, (1844-1896)
- Jonas Very, (19th c. American "Renaissance")
- Maja Vidmar, (born 1961)
- Tit Vidmar, (1929-1999)
- Francis Vielé-Griffin (symbolist)
- Peter Viereck, poet
- Francois Villon, (15th c. French)
- François Villon, (1431-c.1474)
- Cene Vipotnik, (1914-1972)
- Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro
- Jani Virk, (born 1962)
- Jozef Virk, (1810-1880)
- 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)
- Andrei Voznesensky, (born 1933)
- Stanko Vraz, (1810-1851)
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- Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
- 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, poet
- Edmund Waller, (1606-1687)
- Walsinghame
- Wang Wei, (698-759), the Poet Buddha
- Wang Changling
- Candice Ward
- Warniek Marilyn Nelson
- Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989)
- Thomas Warton, (1728-1790), English academic and poet laureate
- Isaac Watts, (1674-1748)
- David Wayne, (1914-1995)
- 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)
- 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
- Shirley Williams (born 1930)
- Miller Williams
- Sherley Anne Williams
- William Williams Pantycelyn, (1717-1791)
- William Carlos Williams
- John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
- Robley Wilson
- Yvor Winters
- George Wither, (1588-1667)
- 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
- Wright James (The Green Wall)
- Philip Stanhope Worsley, (1835-1866)
- Charles Wright, musician, poet
- Judith Wright, (1915-2000)
- Thomas Wyatt, (1503-1542), UK poet & ambassador
- Elinor Wylie
- Hedd Wyn
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- Franci Zagoricnik, (born 1933)
- Ifigenija Zagoricnik, (born 1953)
- Dane Zajc, (born 1929)
- Andrea Zanzotto
- William Zaranka
- Marya Zaturenska, (1902-1982)
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Paul Zimmer
- Jozef Zizenceli, (1658-1714)
- Ciril Zlobec, (born 1925)
- Asta Znidarsic
- Benjamin Znidarsic, (born 1959)
- Maricka Znidarsic
- Louis Zukofsky (A. & 5 Statements)
- Brane Zupanc, (born 1950)
- Oton Zupancic, (1878-1949)
- Uros Zupan, (born 1963)
- Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942), Austrian writer
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