- [Dannie Abse]? (White Coat Purple Coat)
- [Leonie Adams]? (High Falcon - 1929)
- [James Agree]?
- [Sin Ai]?
- [Conrad Aiken]?
- [Anna Akhmatova]?
- [Richard Aldington]?
- [Claribel Alegría]?
- Dante Alighieri
- 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)
- Ludovico Ariosto
- [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]?
- [Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli]?
- [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)
- [Giosue Carducci]?
- [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]?
- [Thomas Ferril]?
- [Ian Hamilton Finlay]?
- Edward Fitzgerald
- [Robert Fitzgerald]?
- [Lawrence Fixel]?
- [F. S. Flint]? (Imagist manifestos)
- [John Forbes]?
- [Ugo Foscolo]?
- [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
- [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]?
- [Giacomo Leopardi]?
- [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?
- [Mario Luzi]?
- [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.]?
- [Alessandro Manzoni]?
- [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
- [Giovanni Pascoli]?
- [Pastan, Linda]?
- [Patchen, Kenneth]?
- [Paterson, Andrea]?
- [Pawlwoski, Robert]?
- Peele? (Batsabe Sings)
- [Francesco Petrarca]?
- [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)
- [Carlo Porta]?
- [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]?
- [Torquato Tasso]?
- [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]?
- Robert Penn Warren
- [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]?
- William Wordsworth
- [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)*
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