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)

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• List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers

• List of women poets

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• 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
• Ambrose the 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)

• Esad Babacic, (born 1965)
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
• Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881)
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• 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, (1913-1991)
• Les Barker
• Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
• William Barnes, (1801-1886)
• Elizabeth Barrett
• Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
• 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
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
• Don Blanding
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Andrej Blatnik, (born 1963)
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Michael Blumenthal
• Edmund Blunden
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• Robert Bly
• Louise Bogan
• Matteo Mario Boiardo, Italian poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, (1636-1711)
• Berta Bojetu, (1946-1997)
• Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Philip Booth
• Matej Bor, (1913-1956)
• Rado Bordon, (1915-1992)
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Edgar Bowers
• Mark Boyd Alexander, (1563-1601 - sonnets)
• Marx Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
• 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)
• George Mackay Brown
• 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)

• Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Dilys Cadwaladr
• Caedmon (old English)
• Andon Zako Çajupi
• Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• 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)
• John Chalkhill
• Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674), poet
• George Chapman, (1560-1634), poet
• René Char, (1907-1998), poet
• Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
• Thomas Chatterton
• 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 (poet), (1721-1759)
• William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
• Evan S. Jr. Connell, poet
• Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• 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

• 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
• Henry Austin Dobson
• 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

• 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
• Ennius
• 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

• 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

• 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
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson
• 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
• Bill Griffiths, (born 1948), 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
• Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638), poet
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929), poet
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937), poet
• Ramon Guthrie, poet
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986), poet

• 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), English poet
• 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

• Jean Ingelow

• 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

• 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
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• 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

• 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

• 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
• Harold Monro
• 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
• John Morgan, (1688-1733)
• 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.

• 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

• 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)

• 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
• Coventry Patmore
• 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
• 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
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed
• 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
• Bryan Waller Proctor
• Luigi Pulci
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet

• Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936), poet
• 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, (1913-1980), poet
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877), Poet

• 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
• Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin 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
• Thomas Shadwell
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
• Ntozake Shange, (born 1948), poet
• Jo Shapcott, poet
• Karl Shapiro, 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
• Morris Stegosaurus (Keith Morris Kurzman), slam poet
• Gertrude Stein, (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, author of Three Lives, ''[[The Autobiography of Ali
• Eric Stenbock
• 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

• 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
• Ğabdulla Tuqay, (1886-1913), Tatar 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)

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

• 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)
• Vemana
• 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)

• Robert Wace, (c. 1115-c. 1183)
• Ugonna Wachuku, (born 1971), (Inspirational and soulful poems)
• 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
• William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, the first vernacular poet
• 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

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

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

• 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