List of poets

This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.

Alphabetical list

A

Abâ€"Ak

Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), American poet
Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
Henry Abbey (1842â€"1911), American poet
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872â€"1958), American poet, novelist and short story writer
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881â€"1938), English poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"
Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872â€"1956), journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate
Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet-diplomat
Sam Abrams (born 1935), American poet
Seth Abramson (born 1976), American poet, editor, literary critic, and freelance journalist
Kosta AbraÅ¡eviÄ‡ (1879â€"1898), Serbian poet
Dannie Abse (born 1923), Welsh poet
Kathy Acker (1947â€"1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer
Diane Ackerman (born 1948), American author, poet, and naturalist
Duane Ackerson (born 1942), American writer of speculative poetry and fiction
Milton Acorn (1923â€"1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
Harold Acton (1904â€"1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante
Gilbert Adair (1944â€"2011), Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist
Virginia Hamilton Adair (1919â€"2004), American poet
Helen Adam (1909â€"1993), Scottish American poet, collagist and photographer; active in the San Francisco Renaissance
Draginja AdamoviÄ‡ (1925â€"2000), Serbian poet
John Adams (1704â€"1740), American poet
LÃ©onie Adams (1899â€"1988), American poet
Ryan Adams (born 1974), singer-songwriter with Whiskeytown and The Cardinals who had his first book Infinity Blues published in 2009
Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
Joseph Addison (1672â€"1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
Kim Addonizio (born 1954) American poet, novelist
Endre Ady (1877â€"1919), Hungarian poet
Aeschylus (525â€"456 BC), Athenian tragedian
Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BC), Roman comic poet
John Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
James Agee (1909â€"1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
Deborah Ager (born 1977), American poet, editor
Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), American poet
DritÃ«ro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
Delmira Agustini (1886â€"1914), Uruguayan poet
Ai (1947â€"2010), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1940), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
Conrad Aiken (1889â€"1973), American poet and author
Akazome Emon (956â€"1041), Japanese poet and historian
Mark Akenside (1721â€"1770), English poet and physician
Rachel Akerman (1522â€"1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
Bella Akhmadulina (1937â€"2010), Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova (1889â€"1966), Russian poet
Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914â€"1976), Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms; associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement
Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
Salman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian American psychoanalyst, professor, and poet; writes in English and Urdu

Alâ€"Am

Luigi Alamanni (1495â€"1556), Italian poet and statesman
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.1698â€"1770), Scots poet, perhaps the finest Gaelic poet of the 18th century
GillebrÃghde Albanach (fl.1200â€"1230), medieval Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader
Alcaeus (4th century BC), Athenian comic poet whose comedies marked the transition between Old Comedy and Middle Comedy
Alcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd century BC), Greek author of a number of epigrams in the Greek Anthology
Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 620Â â€" 6th century BC), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island
Guru Amar Das (1479â€"1574), Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956), American poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist
Alcman (fl. 7th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799â€"1888), American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer
Richard Aldington (1892â€"1962), English writer and poet
Vasile Alecsandri (1821â€"1890), Romanian poet
Claribel AlegrÃa (born 1924), Central American poet
Vicente Aleixandre (1898â€"1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977
Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879â€"1901), Slovene symbolist poet
Sherman Alexie (born 1966), American poet, writer, filmmaker, and occasional comedian
Felipe Alfau (1902â€"1999), Catalan American novelist and poet
Agha Shahid Ali Indian, Kashmiri, American poet
Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
Dante Alighieri (1265â€"1321), Italian poet
James Alexander Allan (1889â€"1956), Australian poet
William Allegrezza (born 1974), American poet, professor, and editor
Dick Allen (born 1939), American poet, literary critic and academic
Donald Allen (1912â€"2004), American poet, publisher, editor, and translator
Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832â€"1911), American author, journalist and poet
Ron Allen (1947â€"2010), American playwright and poet
Zamounde S. Allie Jr. (born 1965), American poet
William Allingham (1824 or 1828â€"1889), Irish man of letters and poet
Washington Allston (1779â€"1843), American painter and poet
Damaso Alonso (1898â€"1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
Alta (Alta Gerrey; born 1942), American poet, prose writer, and publisher
Natan Alterman (1910â€"1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
Alurista (born 1947), Chicano poet and activist
Al Alvarez (born 1929), English poet
Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist
Amara Sinha (fl. c. AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
Yehuda Amichai (1924â€"2000) Israeli poet
Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan American poet, essayist and translator
Kingsley Amis (1922â€"1995) English author and poet
A. R. Ammons (1926â€"2001) American author and poet

Anâ€"Aq

Anacreon (570 BCâ€"488 BC), Greek lyric poet
Alfred Andersch (1914â€"1980), German writer, publisher.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805â€"1875), Danish poet
Victor Henry Anderson (1917â€"2001), American poet, kahuna, and leader and teacher of the Feri Tradition
MÃ¡rio de Andrade (1893â€"1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
Bernard AndrÃ© (1450â€"1522), French Augustinian poet, poet laureate for Henry VII of England
Peter Andrej (born 1959), Slovenian poet, musician, guitar player, and producer
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919â€"2004), award-winning Portuguese poet and writer
Bruce Andrews (born 1948), American Language poet
Kevin Andrews (1924â€"1989), philhellene, writer and archaeologist
Ron Androla (born 1954), American poet
Guru Angad (1504â€"1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
Ralph Angel (born 1951), American poet and translator
Maya Angelou (1928â€"2014), American poet
Marion Angus (1865â€"1946), Scottish poet who wrote in Scots
J. K. Annand (1908â€"1993), Scots poet, best known for his children's poems
Mika AntiÄ‡ (1932â€"1986), Serbian poet
David Antin (born 1932), American poet and critic
Antler (born 1946), American poet
Susanne Antonetta (born 1956), American poet and author
Brother Antoninus (1912â€"1994), American poet
Chairil Anwar (1922â€"1949), Indonesian poet
Johannes Anyuru (born 1979), Swedish poet
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880â€"1918), French poet
Apollonius of Rhodes (270â€"after 245 BC), poet and librarian at the Library of Alexandria
Maja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poet
Philip Appleman (born 1926), American poet and professor
Pawlu Aquilina (1929â€"2009), Maltese poet

Ar

Louis Aragon (1897â€"1982), French poet, novelist and editor
Archilochus (c. 680Â â€" c. 645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878â€"1954), American Dadaâ€"ist; art collector, critic and poet
Tudor Arghezi (1880â€"1967), Romanian poet
Ludovico Ariosto (1474â€"1533), Italian poet
Aristophanes (c. 446Â â€" c. 386 BC), Greek dramatic poet
Guru Arjan (1563â€"1606), Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Rae Armantrout (born 1947), American Language poet
Simon Armitage (born 1963), British poet, playwright, and novelist
Richard Armour (1906â€"1989), American poet and author
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769â€"1860), German patriotic author and poet
Bettina von Arnim (1785â€"1859), German writer, publisher, composer, singer and visual artist
Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781â€"1831), German poet and novelist
Craig Arnold (1967â€"2009), American poet and professor
Matthew Arnold (1822â€"1888), British poet and cultural critic
Jean Arp (1886â€"1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
Antonin Artaud (1896â€"1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
Robert P. Arthur (born 1943), American poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, critic, director, and professor

Asâ€"Ay

M. K. Asante (born 1982), American author, poet, filmmaker, and professor
John Ashbery (born 1927), American poet; 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Cliff Ashby (1919â€"2012), British poet and novelist
RenÃ©e Ashley, American poet and novelist.
Anton AÅ¡kerc (1856â€"1912), Slovenian language poet and Roman Catholic priest
Margaret Atwood (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
W. H. Auden (1907â€"1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist
Joseph Auslander (1897â€"1965), American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937â€"1941
Ausonius (c. 310Â â€" 395), Latin poet and teacher of rhetoric at Burdigala (Bordeaux, France)
Paul Auster (born 1947), American author, poet, playwright, and essayist
James Avery (born 1948), American actor, poet, and screenwriter
Margaret Avison (1918â€"2007), Canadian poet
Krayem Awad (born 1948), Vienna-based painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin
Gennady Aygi (1934â€"2006), Russian poet
Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poet
Robert Aytoun (1570â€"1638), Scottish poet
Jody Azzouni (born 1954), American philosopher, professor, poet, writer

B

Ba

Babâ€"Ban

Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet
Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), American poet and writer of Apache and Chicano descent
Bacchylides (fl. 5th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
Bellamy Bach, pseudonym used by a group of writers of fiction, poetry, short stories
Joseph M. Bachelor (aka Joseph Morris; 1889â€"1947), American author, poet, editor and educator
Harivansh Rai Bachchan 20th century, Hindi poet
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926â€"1973), Austrian poet and author
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian Poet
George Bacovia (1881â€"1957), Romanian poet
Krzysztof Kamil BaczyÅ„ski (1921â€"1944), Polish poet and soldier
Mahnaz Badihian (aka Oba), Iranian-American poet
Julio Baghy (1891â€"1967), Hungarian actor and one of the leading authors of the Esperanto movement; wrote Esperanto poetry
Bai Juyi (772â€"846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty
Joanna Baillie (1762â€"1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuanian-American translator, editor, and poet
David Baker (born 1954), American poet
BÃ¢kÃ® (1526â€"1600), Ottoman poet (pen name of Mahmud AbdÃ¼lbÃ¢kÃ®)
John Balaban (born 1943), American poet and translator
Jesse Ball (born 1978), American poet and novelist
Addie L. Ballou (1837â€"1916), American poet and suffragist
Konstantin Balmont (1867â€"1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator
Russell Banks (born 1940), American writer of fiction and poetry

Barâ€"Bax

Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934â€"2014), American writer, poet, dramatist, essayist and music critic
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743â€"1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author
Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883â€"1942), Colombian poet and writer
John Barbour (c. 1320Â â€" 1395), Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots
Alexander Barclay (c. 1476Â â€" 1552), English/Scottish poet
George Barker (1913â€"1991), English poet and author
Les Barker (born 1947), English poet
Coleman Barks (born 1937), American poet
Mary Barnard (1909â€"2001), American poet, biographer and translator
Djuna Barnes (1892â€"1982), American writer
William Barnes (1801â€"1886), English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
Catherine Barnett (born 1960), American poet and educator
Richard Barnfield (1574â€"1620), English poet
Laird Barron (born 1970), American poet, author
Bertha Hirsch Baruch, late 18th- to early 19th-century American writer, poet and suffragette
Todd Bash (born 1965), American avant-garde playwright, poet and writer
Matsuo BashÅ (1644â€"1694), renku and haiku poet
Michael Basinski (born 1950), American text, visual and sound poet
Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet
Arlo Bates (1850â€"1918), American author, poet, educator and newspaperman
David Bates (1809â€"1870), American poet
Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), American poet, writer, professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate
JÃ¡nos BatsÃ¡nyi (1763â€"1845), Hungarian poet
Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), American poet, journalist and educator
Charles Baudelaire (1821â€"1867), French poet, essayist, art critic and translator
Eric Baus (born 1975), American poet
Cirilo Bautista (born 1941), Filipino poet, writer and critic
Charles Baxter (born 1947), American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry
James K. Baxter (1926â€"1972), New Zealand poet

Be

Jan Beatty, American poet
Francis Beaumont (1584â€"1616), poet, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre
Samuel Beckett (1906â€"1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist, and poet
Joshua Beckman, American poet
Matija BeÄ‡koviÄ‡ (born 1939), Serbian writer and poet
Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer (1836â€"1870), Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803â€"1849), English poet, dramatist and physician
Patricia Beer (1919â€"1999), English poet and critic
Aphra Behn (1640â€"1689), English Restoration dramatist; one of first English professional female writers
Erin Belieu (born 1967), American poet
Marvin Bell (born 1937), American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa
Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791â€"1863), Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco
Xuan Bello (born 1965), best-known Asturian language poet
Hilaire Belloc (1870â€"1953), Anglo-French writer and historian
Andrei Bely (1880â€"1934), Russian novelist, poet, theorist and literary critic
Stephen Vincent BenÃ©t (1898â€"1943), American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist
William Rose BenÃ©t (1886â€"1950), American poet, writer, and editor
Gottfried Benn (1886â€"1956), German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902â€"1981), African-American writer and poet
Jim Bennett (born 1951), Liverpool poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
Bo Bergman (1869â€"1967), Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy
Ä°lhan Berk (1918â€"2008), Turkish poet
Charles Bernstein, (born 1950), American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar; prominent Language poet

BÃ©roul (12th century), Norman poet who wrote the episodic poem Tristan
Daniel Berrigan (born 1921), American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet
Ted Berrigan (1934â€"1983), American poet
James Berry (born 1924), Jamaican poet, based in England
Wendell Berry (born 1934), American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer
John Berryman (1914â€"1972), American poet and scholar
Mary Ursula Bethell (1874â€"1945), New Zealand social worker and poet, born in Horsell, Surrey, England
John Betjeman (1906â€"1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
Helen Bevington (1906â€"2001), American poet, prose writer and educator

Bhâ€"Bl

Subramanya Bharathi (1882â€"1921), Tamil writer, poet, journalist, social reformer, and Indian independence activist
Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet; native speaker of Gujarati
Å¹mitrok Biadula (1886â€"1941), Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer, cultural worker, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement
Laurence Binyon (1879â€"1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar
Earle Birney (1904â€"1995), Canadian anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa (1947â€"2003), Slovene poet
Elizabeth Bishop (1911â€"1979), American poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
Ram Prasad Bismil (1897â€"1927), Urdu-Hindi poet and revolutionary
Bill Bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet
Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975), American Navajo poet
Paul Blackburn (1926â€"1971) American poet
Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904â€"1965), American literary critic and poet.

Lucian Blaga (1895â€"1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright
William Blake (1757â€"1827), English painter, poet and printmaker
Don Blanding (1894â€"1957), American poet, journalist, writer and speaker
Adrian Blevins (born 1964), American poet
Alexander Blok (1880â€"1921), Russian lyrical poet
Benjamin Paul Blood (1832â€"1919), American philosopher and poet
Robert Bloomfield (1766â€"1823),English labouring class poet
Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet
Edmund Blunden (1896â€"1974), English poet, author and literary critic
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840â€"1922), English poet and writer
Robert Bly (born 1926), American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement

Bo

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313â€"1375), Italian author and poet
Jean Bodel (1165â€"1210), Old French poet
Louise Bogan (1897â€"1970), American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1â€"1494), Italian Renaissance poet
Nicolas Boileau-DesprÃ©aux (1636â€"1711), French poet and critic
Eavan Boland (born 1944), Irish poet
Alan Bold (1943â€"1998), Scots poet, biographer, and journalist
Christian BÃ¶k (born 1966), experimental Canadian poet
Heinrich BÃ¶ll (1917â€"1985), one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers
Edmund Bolton (c. 1575Â â€" c. 1633), English historian and poet
Nozawa BonchÅ (c. 1640Â â€" 1714), Japanese haikai poet
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906â€"1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi, and poet
Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902â€"1973), American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance
Kurt Boone, American published poet
Jorge Luis Borges (1899â€"1986), Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator
Tadeusz Borowski (1922â€"1951), Polish writer and journalist
Hristo Botev (1848â€"1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
Gordon Bottomley (1874â€"1948), was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas
David Bottoms (born 1949), American poet; Georgia Poet Laureate
Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), American poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010â€"2012
Edgar Bowers (1924â€"2000), American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989
Mark Alexander Boyd (1562â€"1601), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
Kay Boyle (1902â€"1992), American writer, educator, and political activist

Br

Braâ€"Bri

Alison Brackenbury (born 1953) is a British poet from Lincolnshire
Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612Â â€" 1672), Landed in Salem, Massachusetts, June 14, 1630 America's first published poet
Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic
Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930), Bridgetown, Barbados is considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon
Richard Brautigan (1935â€"1984), American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Bertolt Brecht (1898â€"1956), German playwright, poet, lyricist, notable work: the Three-penny Opera
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585â€"1618), Dutch poet and playwright
Radovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poet
Christopher Brennan (1870â€"1932), Australian poet and scholar
Joseph Payne Brennan (1918â€"1990), American poet, writer of fantasy and horror fiction
Clemens Brentano (1778â€"1842), German poet and novelist
AndrÃ© Breton (1896â€"1966), French writer and poet; a founder of Surrealism
Nicholas Breton (1545â€"1626), English poet and novelist
Ken Brewer (1941â€"2006), American poet and scholar; a Utah Poet Laureate
Robert Bridges (1844â€"1930), English poet; a Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author

Broâ€"Bry

Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), American poet and translator
James Brock (born 1958), American poet
Joseph Brodsky (1940â€"1996), Russian poet and essayist
Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897â€"1962), Polish poet and soldier
William Bronk (1918â€"1999), American poet
Anne BrontÃ« (1820â€"1849), British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the BrontÃ« literary family
Charlotte BrontÃ« (1816â€"1855), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three BrontÃ« sisters
Emily BrontÃ« (1818â€"1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel Wuthering Heights
Rupert Brooke (1887â€"1915), English poet
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917â€"2000), African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
Hans Adolph Brorson (1694â€"1764), Danish Pietist bishop and poet.
Joan Brossa (1919â€"1998), Catalan poet, playwright and plastic artist
Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet, living in the United States
Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and womenâ€™s rights activist
Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905â€"1980), Soviet Belarusian poet
George Mackay Brown (1921â€"1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist
James Brown known as J.B.Selkirk (1832â€"1904), Scots poet and essayist
Sterling Brown (1901â€"1989), African-American professor, author of works on folklore, poet and literary critic
Thomas Edward Brown (1830â€"1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
Frances Browne (1816â€"1887), Irish poet and novelist
William Browne (1590â€"1643), English poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806â€"1861), English poet, one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era
Robert Browning (1812â€"1889), English poet and playwright, prominent Victorian era poet
William Cullen Bryant (1794â€"1878), American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post
Colette Bryce (born 1970), poet from Northern Ireland
Bryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894â€"1983), English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor
Valeri Bryusov (1873â€"1924), poet, novelist, critic

Buâ€"By

Dugald Buchanan (DÃ¹ghall Bochanan) (1716â€"1768), Scots poet writing in Scot and Scottish Gaelic.
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841â€"1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Georg BÃ¼chner (1813â€"1837), German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
Vincent Buckley (1927â€"1988), Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic
David Budbill (born 1940), American poet, and playwright
Arun Budhathoki (born 1986), Nepali poet (aka Daniel Song)
Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), American poet
Charles Bukowski (1920â€"1994), American poet, novelist and short story writer
Ivan Bunin (1870â€"1953) Russian poet and novelist
Basil Bunting (1900â€"1985), British modernist poet
Anthony Burgess (1917â€"1993), English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic
Robert Burns (1759â€"1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist
Stanley Burnshaw (1906â€"2005), American poet
John Burnside (born 1955), Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline, winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize
William S. Burroughs (1914â€"1997), American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer
Andrzej Bursa (1932â€"1957), Polish poet and writer
Yosa Buson (1716â€"1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter
Raegan Butcher (born 1969), American poet and singer
Ray Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, composer, musician
Ignazio Buttitta (1899â€"1997), Sicilian dialect poet
Anthony Butts, (born 1969), American poet
Kathryn Stripling Byer (born 1944), American poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005â€"2009
Witter Bynner (aka Emanuel Morgan) (1881â€"1968), American poet, writer and scholar
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788â€"1824), British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

C

Ca

Cabâ€"Cap

Lydia Cabrera (1899â€"1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
Caedmon (fl. 7th century), earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known
Maoilios Caimbeul (b. 1944), Scots poet and children's writer (in Gaelic)
Scott Cairns (born 1954), American poet, memoirist and essayist
Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator
Angus Calder (1942â€"2008), Scots poet, academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor
Pedro CalderÃ³n de la Barca y Barreda GonzÃ¡lez de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y RiaÃ±o (1600â€"1681), dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
Musa CÃ¤lil (1906â€"1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist
Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist, biographer, filmmaker and painter
Callimachus (c. 305Â â€" c. 240 BC), Hellenistic poet; noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria
Robert Calvert (1944â€"1988), South African writer, poet and musician
Norman Cameron (1905â€"1953), Scottish poet
LuÃs de CamÃµes (c. 1524Â â€" 1580), early Portuguese poet (author of Os LusÃadas)
Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h) Ã draig Caimbeul), Scottish award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor
David Campbell (1915â€"1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in New Guinea
Roy Campbell (1901â€"1957), South African poet and satirist
Thomas Campbell (1777â€"1844), Scottish poet
Jan Campert (1902â€"1943), Dutch poet and journalist
Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist
Thomas Campion (1567â€"1619), English composer, poet and physician
Matilde Camus (born 1919), Spanish poet and researcher
Melville Henry Cane (1879â€"1980), American poet and lawyer
Ivan Cankar (1876â€"1918), Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893â€"1973), British poet
Edip Cansever (1928â€"1986) Turkish poet
Cao Cao (155 ADÂ â€" 220 AD), warlord, poet
Cao Pi (formally known as Emperor Wen of Wei) (187â€"226), Chinese poet; the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao
Cao Zhi (192â€"232), Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao
Vahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poet

Carâ€"Cav

Ernesto Cardenal (born 1925), Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet and politician
GiosuÃ¨ Carducci (1835â€"1907), Italian poet and teacher
Thomas Carew (1595â€"1639), English Cavalier poet
Henry Carey (1687â€"1743), English poet, dramatist and song-writer
Bliss Carman (1861â€"1929), Canadian-American poet associated with the Confederation Poets
Jim Carroll (1949â€"2009), author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician
Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832â€"1898), English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Hayden Carruth (1921â€"2008), American poet and literary critic
Ann Elizabeth Carson (born 1929), Canadian poet, author, artist, sculptor, feminist, and psychotherapist
Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor
Jared Carter (born 1939), American poet and editor
William Cartwright (1611â€"1643), English dramatist and churchman
Neal Cassady (1926â€"1968), a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s
Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), American poet and professor
Catullus (c. 84Â â€" 54 BC), Latin poet of the Roman Republic
Charles Causley (1917â€"2003), Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer
C. P. Cavafy (1863â€"1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant
Guido Cavalcanti (1250sâ€"1300), Florentine poet, and friend of Dante Alighieri
Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623â€"1673), English aristocrat, writer, and scientist

Ceâ€"Ci

Paul Celan (1920â€"1970) Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator
Thomas Centolella, American poet
Blaise Cendrars (1887â€"1961), French poet and author
Anica ÄŒernej (1900â€"1944), Slovene author and poet
Luis Cernuda (1903â€"1963), Spanish poet and literary critic
AimÃ© CÃ©saire (1913â€"2008), French poet, author and politician from Martinique
MÃ¡rio Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923â€"2006), Portuguese surrealist poet
Ashok Chakradhar (born 1951), Hindi author and poet
John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet
Jean Chapelain (1595â€"1674), French poet and critic during the Grand SiÃ¨cle; known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the AcadÃ©mie franÃ§aise
Arthur Chapman (1873â€"1935), American cowboy poet and newspaper columnist
George Chapman (1559â€"1634), English dramatist, translator, and poet
Fred Chappell (born 1936), American author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997â€"2002
RenÃ© Char (1907â€"1998), French poet
Charles, Duke of OrlÃ©ans (1394â€"1465), Duke of OrlÃ©ans from 1407, medieval poet of more than five hundred poems, mostly written during his time as a prisoner of war
Craig Charles (born 1964), English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ
Thomas Chatterton (1752â€"1770), English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343Â â€" 1400), author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer; Father of English literature
Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910â€"1996), American Franciscan priest, historian, author, poet, and painter.
Susana ChÃ¡vez (1974â€"2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leonean poet and novelist
Kelly Cherry (born 1940), American writer, Poet Laureate of Virginia,
G. K. Chesterton, (1874â€"1936) was an English writer in a wide range of genres, including poetry
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1959)
Choe Chiwon (born 857), Korean (Silla) poet
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703â€"1775), Japanese poet of the Edo period; one of the greatest female haiku poets
Henri Chopin (1922â€"2008),avant-garde poet and musician
Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240Â â€" c. 1305), French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose
ChrÃ©tien de Troyes (fl. 12th century), French poet and trouvÃ¨re
Ralph Chubb (1892â€"1960), poet, painter, printer
Charles Churchill (1732â€"1764), English poet and satirist.
John Ciardi, (1916â€"1986) Italian-American poet, translator, and etymologist
Colley Cibber (16711757), English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate
Jovan Ä†irilov (born 1931), Serbian theater expert, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, poet
Carson Cistulli (born 1979), American poet, essayist and English professor
HÃ©lÃ¨ne Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, professor, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic

Cl

Amy Clampitt (1920â€"1994), American poet and author
Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer
John Clare (1793â€"1864), English poet
Elizabeth Clark (1918â€"1978), Scottish poet and playwright
Austin Clarke (1896â€"1974), leading Irish poets
George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Poet, University of Toronto professor
Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh
Paul Claudel (1868â€"1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat
Claudian (c. 370Â â€" 404 AD), Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius
Matthias Claudius (1740â€"1815), German poet, also known by the penname of â€œAsmusâ€.
Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), American humorist, poet, and author
Jack Clemo (1916â€"1994), English Christian poet, drawing particular inspiration from Cornwall
Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Jamaican-American author of short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism
Lucille Clifton (1936â€"2010), educator and Poets Laureate of Maryland
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819â€"1861), English poet, an educationalist, and assistant to Florence Nightingale

Co

Coaâ€"Con

Grace Stone Coates (1881â€"1976), Montana writer
Alison Cockburn(1712â€"1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialite
Jean Cocteau (1889â€"1963), French writer
Judith Ortiz Cofer, (born 1952), Puerto Rican poet and author
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
Wanda Coleman (born 1946), African-American poet
Hartley Coleridge (1796â€"1849), English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861â€"1907), British novelist, essayist, and poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772â€"1834), English poet
Edward Coletti, (born 1944), Italian-American poet
Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States 2001â€"2003
William Collins (1721â€"1759), English poet
William Congreve (1670â€"1729), English playwright and poet
Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright
Paul Conneally, (born 1959), poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough
Robert Conquest (born 1917), Anglo-American historian and poet best known for his influential works of Soviet history
Henry Constable (1562â€"1613), English poet
David Constantine (born 1944), British, Lancashire-born poet and translator.

Cooâ€"Cow

Clark Coolidge (born 1939, American poet
Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
Robert Copland (fl 1515), English printer, author and translator
Tristan CorbiÃ¨re (1845â€"1875), French poet of the Brittany region
Cid Corman (1924â€"2004) was an American poet, translator and editor
Alfred Corn (born 1943), American poet and essayist
Frances Cornford (1886â€"1960), English poet; wife to F. M. Cornford
F. M. Cornford (1874â€"1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband to Frances Cornford (Full name: Francis Macdonald Cornford)
Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright.
Gregory Corso (1930â€"2001), American Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb"
Jayne Cortez (born 1936), American poet, and performance artist
George CoÈ™buc (1866â€"1918), Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist
Charles Cotton (1630â€"1687), English poet, author and translator
Abraham Cowley (1618â€"1667), One of the leading English poets of the 17th century
Malcolm Cowley (1898â€"1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist
William Cowper (1731â€"1800), English poet and hymnodist

Crâ€"Cz

George Crabbe (1754â€"1832), English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
Hart Crane (1899â€"1932), American modernist poet
Stephen Crane (1871â€"1900), American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist
Richard Crashaw (1613â€"1649), English poet; one of the central figures associated with the Metaphysical poets in the 17th century
Robert Creeley (born 1926), American poet and author; usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
Octave CrÃ©mazie (1827â€"1879), "The father of French Canadian poetry"
MiloÅ¡ Crnjanski, poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat
Charles Cros (1842â€"1888), French poet and inventor
Aleister Crowley (1875â€"1947), English Occultist and poet
Andrew Crozier (1943â€"2008), poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
Countee Cullen (1903â€"1946), American poet who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Necati CumalÄ± (1921â€"2001), Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry
E. E. Cummings (1894â€"1962), American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
Allan Cunningham (1784â€"1842), Scottish poet and author
James Vincent Cunningham (1911â€"1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
Allen Curnow (1911â€"2001), New Zealand poet and journalist
Ivor Cutler (1923â€"2006), Scottish poet, musician, songwriter and humorist

D

Da

Roque Dalton (1935â€"1975), Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono (born 1940), Indonesian poet
Samuel Daniel (1562â€"1619), English poet and historian
David Daniels (1933â€"2008) Visual poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American poet
Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet, who wrote in Old French
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863â€"1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and soldier during World War I
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843â€"1925), French-born poet and writer; pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry
RubÃ©n DarÃo (1867â€"1916), Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo
Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), major Indian poet and short story writer, writing in English
Erasmus Darwin (1731â€"1802), British poet and herbalist
Mahmoud Darwish (1941â€"2008), Palestinian poet and author; known as Palestinian national poet
Elizabeth Daryush (1887â€"1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
Jibanananda Das (1899â€"1954), Bengali poet and author
RenÃ© Daumal (1908â€"1944), French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
Jean Daurat (1508â€"1588), French poet, scholar, and a member of a group known as La PlÃ©iade
William Davenant (1606â€"1668), English poet and playwright
Guy Davenport (1927â€"2005), American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, and teacher
Donald Davidson (1893â€"1968) American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author
John Davidson (1857â€"1909), Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads
Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808â€"1825), American poet
Donald Davie (1922â€"1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic
Alan Davies (born 1951), American poet, critic and editor
Hugh Sykes Davies (1909â€"1984), English poet, novelist, communist and British surrealist
Sir John Davies (1569â€"1626), English poet, lawyer, and politician
W. H. Davies (1871â€"1940), Welsh poet and writer
Jon Davis, American poet
Edward Davison (1898â€"1970) Scottish American poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
Peter Davison, (1928â€"2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisherÂ ;son of poet Edward Davison
Denis Davydov (1784â€"1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars; noted for hussar poetry
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904â€"1972), Anglo-Irish poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1968â€"1972

Deâ€"Dh

James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisher
Aurora de Albornoz (1926â€"1990) 20th-century Spanish poet
John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist
AleÅ¡ Debeljak (born 1961), Slovenian cultural critic, poet and essayist
Jean Louis De Esque (born 1879), poet and author of Betelguese, a trip through hell.
Daniel Defoe (1659/61?â€"1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe
Madeline DeFrees (born 1919), American poet
Thomas Dekker (1572â€"1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer
Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz (1651â€"1695), 17th-century Mexican poet
Baltasar del AlcÃ¡zar (1530â€"1606), Spanish poet
Walter de la Mare (1873â€"1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
Leconte de Lisle (1818â€"1894), French poet of the Parnassian movement
Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet, writing in English and Shetland dialect
FranÃ§ois de Malherbe (1555â€"1628), French poet, critic, and translator
Alfred de Musset (1810â€"1857), 19th-century poet
GÃ©rard de Nerval (1808â€"1855), French poet, essayist and translator
Sir John Denham (c1614â€"1669), English poet and courtier
Tory Dent (1958â€"2005), American poet, art critic and commentator on the AIDS crisis
Ã‰variste de Parny (1753â€"1814), French poet
Regina Derieva (born 1949), Russian poet and writer
Johan Andreas DÃ¨r Mouw (1863â€"1919), Dutch poet and philosopher
Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-American poet
Eustache Deschamps (1346â€"1406), medieval French poet
Lord de Tabley (1835â€"1895), poet and botanist
Babette Deutsch (1895â€"1982), American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
FÃ©lix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562â€"1635), Spanish playwright and poet
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, important courtier poet, praised as a playwright, although none of his plays survive
Alfred de Vigny (1797â€"1863), French poet, playwright and novelist
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist

Diâ€"Do

SouÃ©loum Diagho, contemporary Tuareg poet
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (born 1949), Italian-Canadian poet; second Poet Laureate of Toronto
Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
James Dickey (1923â€"1997), American poet and novelist; eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
Emily Dickinson (1830â€"1886), American poet
Matthew Dickman (born 1975), American poet; twin of Michael Dickman
Michael Dickman (born 1975), American poet; twin of Matthew Dickman
Blaga Dimitrova (1922â€"2003), Bulgarian poet and Vice President
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908â€"1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic
Diane di Prima (born 1934), American poet
Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet
Vladislav PetkoviÄ‡ Dis (1880â€"1917), Serbian poet
Thomas M. Disch (1940â€"2008), American poet, novelist
Tim Dlugos (1950â€"1990), American poet
Henry Austin Dobson (1840â€"1921), English poet and essayist
Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), American author, novelist, poet
Gojko Äogo, Serbian poet
Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848â€"1867), English poet who died young from drowning
Joe Dolce, (born 1947), Australian musician, songwriter, poet and essayist
John Donne (1572â€"1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England
H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886â€"1961), American Imagist poet
Edward Dorn (1929â€"1999), American poet and teacher
Mark Doty (born 1953), American poet and memoirist
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843â€"1926), English poet, writer, and traveller
Gavin Douglas (1474â€"1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translator
Keith Douglas (1920â€"1944), English war poet
Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet and author; US Poet Laureate
Ernest Dowson (1867â€"1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement

Dr

Jane Draycott, British poet
Michael Drayton (1563â€"1631), English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era
Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872â€"1947), Albanian poet
John Drinkwater (1882â€"1937), English poet and dramatist
Annette von Droste-HÃ¼lshoff (1797â€"1848), German poet
William Drummond (1585â€"1649), Scottish poet
William Henry Drummond (1854â€"1907), Irish-born Canadian poet
John Dryden (1631â€"1700), Restoration era English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright

Duâ€"Dy

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544â€"1590), French Huguenot poet
Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522Â â€" 1560), French poet, critic, and a member of La PlÃ©iade
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868â€"1963), writer, activist
Norman Dubie (born 1945), American poet
Jovan DuÄiÄ‡ (1871â€"1943), Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat
Du Fu (712â€"770), prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
Du Mu (803â€"852), leading Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty
Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Alan Dugan (1923â€"2003), American poet
Richard Duke (1658â€"1711), English clergyman and poet, associated with the Tory writers of the Restoration era
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872â€"1906), African-American poet, novelist, and playwright
William Dunbar (c. 1460Â â€" c. 1520), Scots makar
Robert Duncan (1919â€"1988), American poet; associated with New American Poetry and Black Mountain poets, as well as a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance
Camille Dungy (born 1972), American poet, academic, essayist, and critic
Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic, and critic
Stephen Dunn (born 1939), American poet
Helen Dunmore (born 1952), British poet, novelist and children's writer
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878â€"1957), Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell (1912â€"1990), expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer
Stuart Dybek (born 1942), American poet, writer
Sir Edward Dyer (1543â€"1607), English courtier and poet.
Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist

E

Eaâ€"En

Richard Eberhart (1904â€"2005), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and National Book Award for Poetry winner
Russell Edson (born 1935), American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator
Terry Ehret (born 1955), American poet
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788â€"1857), German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819â€"1880), English novelist, journalist and translator; one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
T. S. Eliot (1888â€"1965), American British publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
Ebenezer Elliott (1781â€"1849), English poet, known as the "Corn Law rhymer"
Royston Ellis (born 1941), English poet inspired by Beat Generation
Paul Ã‰luard (1895â€"1952), French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement
Odysseus Elytis (1911â€"1996) Greek poet
Claudia Emerson (born 1957) American poet, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â€"1882), American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement
Gevorg Emin (1918â€"1998), Armenian poet, essayist, and translator
Mihai Eminescu (1850â€"1889), Romanian Romantic poet, novelist and journalist
William Empson (1906â€"1984), English literary critic and poet; key figure in New Criticism
Yunus Emre (1240?â€"1321?), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
Michael Ende (1929â€"1995), German author of fantasy, poetry and children's literature
Paul Engle (1908â€"1991), American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright
Ennius (c. 239Â â€" c. 169 BC), considered the father of Roman poetry
D J Enright (1920â€"2002), British academic, poet, novelist and critic
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German author, poet, translator and editor

Erâ€"Ew

Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American heritage
Haydar ErgÃ¼len (born 1956), Turkish poet
Max Ernst (1891â€"1976), German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet; a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism
Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170Â â€" c. 1220), German knight and poet; Minnesinger
Clayton Eshleman (born 1935), American poet, translator and editor
MartÃn Espada (born 1957), American poet and teacher
Florbela Espanca (1894â€"1930), Portuguese poet
Salvador Espriu (1913â€"1985), Catalan poet
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
Alter Esselin (1889â€"1974), Yiddish American carpenter, poet
Claude Esteban (1935â€"2006), French poet
Maggie Estep (born 1963), American writer, musician, slam poet
Jerry Estrin (1947â€"1993), American poet and magazine editor
Euripides (480â€"406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Mari Evans (born 1923), African-American poet
William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912â€"1994), American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance; literary critic, printer
Gavin Ewart (1916â€"1995), English poet

F

Faâ€"Fn

Frederick William Faber (1814â€"1863), English poet, hymn writer and theologian
Padraic Fallon (1905â€"1974), Irish poet
Christian Falster (1690â€"1752), Danish poet and philologist
U. A. Fanthorpe, CBE (1929â€"2009), English poet
Eleanor Farjeon (1881â€"1965), English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire
J.P. Farrell (born 1968), American poet and musician
Elaine Feinstein (born 1930), English a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
Fenggan (fl. 9th century), Chinese Zen monk-poet lived in the Tang Dynasty
Elijah Fenton (1683â€"1730), English poet, biographer and translator
James Fenton (born 1931), linguist and poet who writes in Ulster Scots
James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist and literary critic; former Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Ferdowsi (935â€"1020), Persian poet
Robert Fergusson (1750â€"1774), Scots poet, and influence on Robert Burns
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), American poet, painter, liberal activist
Leandro FernÃ¡ndez de MoratÃn (1760â€"1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and Spanish Enlightenment poet
David FernÃ¡ndez Rivera (born 1986), Spanish poet, playwright, musician and theatre director
Henry Fielding (1707â€"1754), English novelist, dramatist and poet
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661â€"1720), English poet whose nature poetry was praised by William Wordsworth
Annie Finch (born 1956), American poet, librettist, translator
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925â€"2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
Roy Fisher (born 1930), English poet and jazz pianist
Edward Fitzgerald (1809â€"1883), English poet and writer; first and most famous English translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Robert Fitzgerald (1910â€"1985), American poet, critic and translator
Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548Â â€" 1611), English poet and diplomat, member of the English Parliament
Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586Â â€" 1623), English poet, chiefly known for his poem Christ's Victorie and Triumph
John Fletcher (1579â€"1625), Jacobean era English playwright, poet
John Gould Fletcher (1886â€"1950), Imagist poet
Phineas Fletcher (1582â€"1650), English poet, elder son of Giles Fletcherthe elder, and brother of Giles the younger
F. S. Flint (1885â€"1960), English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group

Foâ€"Fu

Jean Follain (1903â€"1971), French author, poet, and corporate lawyer
Theodor Fontane (1819â€"1898), German novelist and poet; German language realist writer
John Forbes (1950â€"1998), Australian poet
Carolyn ForchÃ© (born 1950), American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate
Ford Madox Ford (1873â€"1939), English novelist, poet, critic, and editor
John Ford (1586â€"1639), English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet
John M. Ford (1957â€"2006), American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet
Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947â€"1975), Scots poet and critical theorist
Ugo Foscolo (1778â€"1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
William Fowler (c. 1560â€"1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier, and translator
Janet Frame (1924â€"2004), New Zealand author
Anatole France (1844â€"1924), French poet, journalist, and novelist
Robert Francis (1901â€"1987), American poet
Veronica Franco (1546â€"1591), Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice
G S Fraser (1915â€"1980), Scots poet, literary critic and academic
Gregory Fraser (born 1963), American poet, editor, and professor
Naim FrashÃ«ri (1846â€"1900), Albanian poet and writer; regarded as the national poet of Albania
Louis-HonorÃ© FrÃ©chette (1839â€"1908), Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer
Grace Beacham Freeman (1916â€"2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985â€"86
Erich Fried (1921â€"1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer, and translator
Jean Froissart (c. 1337Â â€" c. 1405), French chronicler and court poet
Robert Frost (1874â€"1963), American poet; received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Gene Frumkin (1928â€"2007), American poet and teacher
John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller
Roy Fuller (1912â€"1991), English poet
Alice Fulton, (born 1952), American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
FuzÃ»lÃ® (1483?â€"1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Gaâ€"Gl

Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet

James Galvin (born 1951), American poet
Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808â€"1876), French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric
Robert Garioch (1909â€"1981), pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, Scots poet and translator
Hamlin Garland (1860â€"1940), American novelist, poet, psychical researcher, essayist and short-story writer
Raymond Garlick (1926â€"2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and first editor of the Anglo-Welsh Review
Richard Garnett (1835â€"1906), English scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
Jean Garrigue (1914â€"1972), American poet
Samuel Garth (1661â€"1719), English physician and poet
George Gascoigne (1535â€"1577), English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier
David Gascoyne (1916â€"2001), English poet associated with the Surrealist movement
ThÃ©ophile Gautier (1811â€"1872), French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic
John Gay (1685â€"1732), English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904â€"1991), American writer, poet, and cartoonist
Juan Gelman (born 1930), Argentinian poet, writer, translator
Stefan George (1868â€"1933), German poet, editor, and translator
Dan Gerber (born 1940), American poet
Paul Gerhardt (1607â€"1676), German hymn writer
Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797â€"1869) Urdu and Persian poet from Subcontinent India
Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), American children's author, poet, speaker, and nationally syndicated feature writer
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic and artist
Khalil Gibran (1883â€"1931), Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878â€"1962), British Georgian poet
Jack Gilbert (born 1925), American poet
Allen Ginsberg (1926â€"1997), American poet; one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation
Dana Gioia (born 1950), American writer, critic, poet and businessman
Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator
Zinaida Gippius (1869â€"1945), Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479â€"1552), Italian scholar and poet
Giuseppe Giusti (1809â€"1850), Italian poet
Denis Glover (1912â€"1980), New Zealand poet and publisher
Louise GlÃ¼ck (born 1943), American poet; US Poet Laureate

Go

Guru Gobind Singh (1666â€"1708), Sikh Guru, founder of Khalsa, and Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Brij Bhasha, and Farsi Poet
GÃ©rald Godin (1938â€"1994), Quebec poet and politician
Patricia Goedicke (1931â€"2006), American poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749â€"1832), German writer, artist, and politician
Octavian Goga (1881â€"1938), Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator
Leah Goldberg (1911â€"1970), prolific Hebrew language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and researcher
Rumer Godden (1907â€"1998), English writer, poet
Ziya GÃ¶kalp Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist
Oliver Goldsmith (1730â€"1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet
Pavel Golia (1887â€"1959), Slovenian poet and playwright
Luis de GÃ³ngora (1561â€"1627), Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet
Paul Goodman (1911â€"1972), US novelist, playwright, poet, psychotherapist and public intellectual
Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540â€"1594), English pastoral poet, and translator
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833â€"1870), Australian poet, jockey and politician.
Sergei Gorodetsky (1884â€"1967), Russian poet
Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American performance poet and an avant-garde artist
Herman Gorter (1864â€"1927), Dutch poet and socialist
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849â€"1928), English poet, author and critic
Remy de Gourmont (1858â€"1915), French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic
John Gower (c. 1330Â â€" 1408), English poet and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer

Gr

Anders Abraham GrafstrÃ¶m (1790â€"1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612â€"1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier and poet
Jorie Graham (1950), American poet, the first woman to be appointed Boylston Professor at Harvard
W S Graham (1918â€"1986), Scottish poet
Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographer
Alex Grant, Scottish American poet, teacher
GÃ¼nter Grass (born 1927), German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Richard Graves (1715â€"1804), British poet and essayist
Robert Graves (1895â€"1985), British author, scholar
Sir Alexander Gray (1882â€"1968), Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator, writer and poet
Thomas Gray (1716â€"1771), British poet
Robert Greene (1558â€"1592), English author, poet
Dora Greenwell (1821â€"1882), English poet
Linda Gregg (born 1945) American poet
Horace Gregory (1898â€"1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and professor
Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554â€"1628), Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Susan Griffin (born 1943), American ecofeminist poet, writer
Bill Griffiths (1948â€"2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival
Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean journalist, poet, short-story writer, activist, columnist and scholar
Geoffrey Grigson (1905â€"1985), British poet and critic
Franz Grillparzer (1791â€"1872), Austrian writer, poet, dramatist
Nicholas Grimald (1519â€"1562), English poet and dramatist
Angelina Weld GrimkÃ© (1880â€"1958), African-American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
Charlotte Forten GrimkÃ© (1835â€"1914), African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator
Rufus W. Griswold (1815â€"1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic
Nikanor GrujiÄ‡ (1810â€"1887), Serbian Bishop, statesman, writer, poet, orator and translator
StanisÅ‚aw Grochowiak (1934â€"1976), Polish poet and dramatist
Philip Gross (born 1952), British poet, novelist, playwright and academic
Igo Gruden (1893â€"1948), Slovene poet and translator
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783â€"1872), Danish poet, pastor, author, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician

Guâ€"Gy

Edgar Guest (1881â€"1959), English-born American poet
Paul Guest, American quadriplegic poet and memoirist
Bimal Guha (born 1952), Leading Bangladeshi modern poet
Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200Â â€" c. 1240), French scholar and poet from Lorris, the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose
Jorge GuillÃ©n (1893â€"1984), Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27
NicolÃ¡s GuillÃ©n (1902â€"1989), Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer
Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230Â â€" 1276), Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo
Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvÃ¨re
GÃ¼l Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
Nikolay Gumilyov (1886â€"1921), Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement
Ivan GunduliÄ‡ (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589â€"1638), Croatian Baroque poet
Thom Gunn (1929â€"2004), Anglo-American poet; associated with The Movement
Lee Gurga (born 1949), American haiku poet
Ivor Gurney (1890â€"1937), English composer and poet
Lars Gustafsson (born 1936), Swedish poet, novelist and scholar
Pedro Juan GutiÃ©rrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist, poet
Beth Gylys (born 1964), American poet and professor.
Brion Gysin (1916â€"1986), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist

H

Ha

Rafey Habib, Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic
Hadraawi (born 1943), Somali poet and songwriter
Hafez (1315â€"1390), Persian poet
Hai Zi (1964â€"1989), Chinese poet
John Haines (1924â€"2011), American poet and educator
Donald Hall (born 1928), 2006 US Poet Laureate
Arthur Hallam (1811â€"1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by his friend Alfred Tennyson
Michael Hamburger (1924â€"2007), British translator, poet, critic, and academic
Han Yu (768â€"824), Chinese essayist and poet, during the Tang dynasty
Hanshan (fl. 9th century), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty
Thomas Hardy (1840â€"1928), English novelist and poet
Charles Harpur (1813â€"1868), Australian poet
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 1921), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
Jim Harrison (born 1937), American author; poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays
Tony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwright
Carla Harryman (born 1952), American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets
David Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriter
Peter HÃ¤rtling (born 1933), German writer and poet
Michael Hartnett (1941â€"1999), Irish poet, who wrote in both English and Irish
Gwen Harwood (1920â€"1995), Australian poet and librettist
Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani origin
Ahmet HaÅŸim (1884?â€"1933), influential Turkish poet
Robert Hass (born 1941) American poet, and former Poet Laureate
Olav H. Hauge (1908â€"1994), Norwegian poet
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862â€"1946), German dramatist, poet, and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
Stephen Hawes (died 1523), popular English poet during the Tudor dynasty period
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803â€"1875), Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall
George Campbell Hay (1915â€"1984), Scots poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English
Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th century), Scots poet and translator
Robert Hayden (1930â€"1980), American poet, essayist, educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
William Hayley (1745-1820), English writer, friend of Cowper
Tony Haynes (born 1960) American Poet, songwriter, author, lyricist

He

Seamus Heaney (1939â€"2013), Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
Josephine D. Heard (1861Â â€" c. 1921), American teacher, poet
John Heath-Stubbs (1918â€"2006), English poet and translator
Anne HÃ©bert (1916â€"2000), Canadian poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht (1923â€"2004), American poet
Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), American poet, historian, philosopher, and author
Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American poet, writer, performer
Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator
John Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter
Heinrich Heine (1797â€"1856), German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Lyn Hejinian (1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
Acharya Hemachandra (1089â€"1172), Jain scholar, poet, and polymath who wrote on grammar, philosophy, prosody, and contemporary history
Felicia Hemans (1793â€"1835), English poet
Essex Hemphill (1957â€"1995), American poet and activist
Hamish Henderson (1919â€"2002); Scottish poet, songwriter, soldier and intellectual, a catalyst for the folk revival in Scotland
William Ernest Henley (1849â€"1903), English poet, critic and editor
Adrian Henri (1932â€"2000), English poet and painter
Robert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poet
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583â€"1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher; brother of George Herbert
George Herbert (1593â€"1633), public orator and poet
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561â€"1621), (nÃ©e Sidney) one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, poetry, and poetic translations
Zbigniew Herbert (1924â€"1998), Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744â€"1803), German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Miguel HernÃ¡ndez (1910â€"1942), Spanish poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements
Herodas or Herondas (3rd century BC), Greek poet and the author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse
Antoine HÃ©roet, (died 1568), French poet
Robert Herrick (1591â€"1674), English poet
Hesiod (fl. 750â€"650 BC), ancient Greek poet
Phoebe Hesketh (1909â€"2005), English poet
Hermann Hesse (1877â€"1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
Dorothy Hewett (1923â€"2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
John Harold Hewitt (1907â€"1987), poet born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
William Heyen (born 1940), poet, literary critic, novelist
Thomas Heywood (c. 1570sÂ â€" 1641), English playwright, actor, and author

Hiâ€"Hr

Dick Higgins (1938â€"1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
Scott Hightower (born 1952), American poet and teacher
NÃ¢zÄ±m Hikmet (1902â€"19693), Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist
Geoffrey Hill (born 1932), English poet and professor
Hilda Hilst (1930â€"2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), American poet
Hipponax (6th century BC), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, Ancient Greek iambic poet
Rozalie Hirs, (born 1965), Dutch poet
Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953), American poet
George Parks Hitchcock (1914â€"2010), American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter
H. L. Hix (born 1960), American poet and academic
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368Â â€" 1426), English poet and clerk
Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet who writes in English, and translator
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874â€"1929), Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist
James Hogg (1770â€"1835), Scottish poet and novelist
David Holbrook (1923â€"2011), British writer, poet and academic
Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin (1770â€"1843), German lyric poet; associated with Romanticism
Barbara Holland (born 1933), American author
John Hollander (born 1929), Jewish-American poet and literary critic
Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809â€"1894), American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author
Homer (fl. 8th century BC), Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Thomas Hood (1799â€"1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood
A. D. Hope (1907â€"2000), Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844â€"1889), English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65â€"08 BC), Roman lyric poet
George Moses Horton (1797â€"1884), African-American poet
Joan Houlihan, American poet
A. E. Housman (1859â€"1936), English classical scholar and poet
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517â€"1547), English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry
Richard Howard (born 1929), American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; associated with Language poetry
Hrotsvitha (died c.1002), poet and playwright from Lower Saxony; the first known woman dramatist in literature

Huâ€"Hy

Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), a modern poet from Bangladesh
Langston Hughes (1902â€"1967), American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist
Ted Hughes (1930â€"1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Richard Hugo (1923â€"1982), American poet
Victor Hugo (1802â€"1885), French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Vicente Huidobro (1893â€"1948), Chilean poet; exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo
Lynda Hull (1954â€"1994), American poet
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883â€"1917), English critic and poet
Alexander Hume (1560â€"1609), Scottish poet
Leigh Hunt (1784â€"1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
Sam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poet.
Há»" XuÃ¢n HÆ°Æ¡ng (1772â€"1822), Vietnamese poet born at the end of the LÃª Dynasty
Aldous Huxley (1894â€"1963), English novelist; writer of short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts
Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896â€"1983), American poet, writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974â€"1983

I

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828â€"1906) major Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Ibycus (fl. second half of 6th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, numbered in the canonical list of nine lyric poets
Ikkyu (1394â€"1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Vojislav IliÄ‡ (1860â€"1894), Serbian poet
Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, (1877â€"1938) Indian Poet (Pakistan's national poet)
Avetik Isahakyan (1875â€"1957), an Armenian lyric poet
Sabit Ince (1954-), a Turkish lyric poet
Sergey Izgiyaev (1922â€"1972), poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descent

J

FP Jac (1955â€"2008), Danish poet
Äura JakÅ¡iÄ‡ (1832â€"1878), Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist, bohemian and patriot
Rolf Jacobsen (1907â€"1994), Norwegian poet, writer
Ada Jafarey (born 1924) Pakistani Urdu poetess
Richard Jago (1715â€"1781), English poet
James I, King of Scots (1394â€"1437), author of The Kingis Quair
James VI and I (1566â€"1625), King of Scots, and King of England and Ireland from 1603
Clive James (born 1939), Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist
Ernst Jandl (1925â€"2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator
Patricia Janus (1932â€"2006), American poet and artist
Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), American poet and critic
Randall Jarrell (1914â€"1965), American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist; US Poet Laureate
Robinson Jeffers (1887â€"1962), American poet
Vojin JeliÄ‡ (1921â€"2004), Croatian Serb poet, writer
Rod Jellema (born 1927), American poet, teacher, and translator
Simon Jenko (1835â€"1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writer
Elizabeth Jennings (1926â€"2001), English poet
Jia Dao (779â€"843), Chinese poet active during the Tang Dynasty
John of the Cross (1542â€"1591), Spanish mystic and poet
Edmund John (1883â€"1917), British poet of the Uranian school
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880â€"1966), American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Helene Johnson (1906â€"1995), African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson (1871â€"1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
Lionel Johnson (1867â€"1902), English poet, essayist and critic
Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwake) (1861â€"1913), Canadian writer and performer, whose poems celebrated her First Nations heritage
Samuel Johnson (1709â€"1784), English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
George Benson Johnston (1913â€"2004), Canadian poet, translator, and academic
David Jones (1895â€"1974), British artist and poet
Richard Jones, English American poet
Ben Jonson (1573â€"1637), poet and dramatist
June Jordan (1936â€"2002), American poet and educator
Anthony Joseph, British-Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and lecturer
Jenny Joseph (born 1932), English poet
Jovan JovanoviÄ‡ Zmaj (1833â€"1904), Serbian poet, physician
James Joyce (1882â€"1941), Irish novelist and poet
Frank Judge (born 1946), American editor and publisher, poet, translator and film critic
Jamal JumÃ¡, Iraqi poet and researcher
Donald Justice (1925â€"2004), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980
Juvenal (fl. 1st centuryÂ â€" 2nd century CE), Roman poet, satirist
Jumoke Verissimo (1979), Nigerian poet

K

Kaâ€"Kh

Kabir (1440â€"1518), mystic poet and sant of India
KÄlidÄsa (fl. c. 4th century) Sanskrit poet
Kambar (c. 1180Â â€" 1250), Tamil poet
Kannadasan (1927â€"1981),Tamil Poet, Author and lyricist
Jim Kacian (born 1953), American haiku poet, editor, publisher, and public speaker
Uuno Kailas (1901â€"1933), Finnish poet, author, and translator
Chester Kallman (1921â€"1975), American poet, librettist, and translator, who collaborated with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky
KÃ¡lmÃ¡n Kalocsay (1891â€"1976), Hungarian poet; one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature
Anna KamieÅ„ska (1920â€"1986), Polish poet, writer, translator and literary critic
Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor
Orhan Veli Kanik (1914â€"1950), Turkish poet; a founder of the Garip Movement
Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic
Andreas Karavis, fictitious poet; hoax created by poet David Solway
Mary Karr (born 1955), American poet, essayist and memoirist
Vim Karenine (born 1933) American poet, essayist and novelist
Julia Kasdorf (born 1962) American poet
Laura Kasischke (born 1961) American poet, fiction writer
Erich KÃ¤stner (1899â€"1974), German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist
Bob Kaufman (1925â€"1986), American Beat poet and surrealist; coined the term "beatnik"
Shirley Kaufman (born 1923), American poet and translator
Patrick Kavanagh (1904â€"1967), Irish poet and novelist
Nikos Kavvadias (1910â€"1975), Greek poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899â€"11976), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary
John Keats (1795â€"1821), English Romantic poet.
Weldon Kees (1914â€"1955), American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker
Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history
Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), American poet
Walter Kennedy (c. 1455Â â€" 1518), Scottish makar
X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of textbooks and children's literature
Jane Kenyon (1947â€"1995), American poet and translator
Jack Kerouac (1922â€"1969), American novelist and poet
Sidney Keyes (1922â€"1943), English poet killed in action in Tunisia during World War II.
Keorapetse Kgositsile (born 1938), South African poet and political activist
Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet
Khushal Khan Khattak (1613â€"1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior, charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe
Omar KhayyÃ¡m (1048â€"1122), Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet
Velemir Khlebnikov (1885â€"1922), Russian poet and playwright; part of the Russian Futurist movement
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886â€"1939), Russian poet and literary critic
Ab'ul Hasan YamÄ«n ud-DÄ«n Khusrow (1253â€"1325), known as AmÄ«r Khusrow, Sufi musician, great poet and scholar

Kiâ€"Kn

Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet
SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard (1813â€"1855), Danish philosopher and poet
Takarai Kikaku (1661â€"1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo BashÅ
Joyce Kilmer (1886â€"1918), American writer and poet
Edward King (1612â€"1637), the subject of Milton's Lycidas, born in Ireland, a member of a Yorkshire family which had migrated to Ireland
Henry King (1592â€"1669), English poet and bishop
William King (1663â€"1712), English poet
Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634â€"1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer
Gottfried Kinkel (1815â€"1882), German poet and revolutionary
Galway Kinnell (born 1927), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982
John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor
Thomas Kinsella (born 1928), Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher
Rudyard Kipling (1865â€"1936), English short-story writer, poet and novelist
Danilo KiÅ¡ (1935â€"1989), Serbian novelist, short story writer and poet
Necip FazÄ±l KÄ±sakÃ¼rek (1904â€"1983), Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and activist
Eila Kivikk'aho (1921â€"2004), Finnish poet
Carolyn Kizer (born 1925), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
Sarah Klassen (born 1932) Canadian writer of short fiction collection and five books of poetry
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724â€"1803), German poet
Etheridge Knight (1931â€"1991), African-American poet

Koâ€"Ky

Kobayashi Issa (1763â€"1828), Japanese haikai poet
Jan Kochanowski (1530â€"1584), Polish Renaissance poet
Kenneth Koch (1925â€"2002), American poet, playwright, and professor; New York School
Petar KoÄiÄ‡ (1877â€"1916), Bosnian Serb writer, politician
Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), American poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994
Faik Konica (1875â€"1942) Albanian poet
Ted Kooser (born 1939), American poet; US Poet Laureate 2004â€"2006
SreÄko Kosovel (1904â€"1926), Slovene expressionist poet
Laza KostiÄ‡ (1841â€"1910), Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, philosopher, polyglot, publicist, and politician
DezsÅ' KosztolÃ¡nyi (1885â€"1936) Hungarian poet and prose writer
Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovenian poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist
Ignacy Krasicki (1735â€"1801), Poland's leading Enlightenment poet; critic of the clergy, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator
Zlatko Krasni (1951â€"2008), Serbian poet
Ruth Krauss (1901â€"1993), American poet and children's books author
Krayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian Austrian painter, sculptor and poet
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1940), American writer, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Miroslav KrleÅ¾a (1893â€"1981), Croatian and Yugoslav poet, novelist
Antjie Krog (born 1952), prominent South African poet, academic and writer
Marilyn Krysl (born 1942), American poet, short story writer

Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian Irish novelist, poet and literary translator
Maxine Kumin (born 1925), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1981â€"1982
Stanley Kunitz (1905â€"2006), American poet; twice US Poet Laureate (1974, 2000)
Yanka Kupala (1882-1942), Belarusian poet
Tuli Kupferberg (1923â€"2010), American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist
Momoko Kuroda (é»'ç"°æå, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet
Onat Kutlar (1936â€"1995), prominent Turkish writer, film producer/actor, and poet
Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), American poet
Kusumagraj (1912â€"1999), eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist
Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587â€"1642), English lawyer, courtier, poet and politician

L

La

Pierre Labrie (born 1972), poet from Quebec
Jean de La Fontaine (1621â€"1695), French fabulist, one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century
Jules Laforgue (1860â€"1887), Franco-Uruguayan poet, a major influence on Ezra Pound and T S Eliot
Jarkko Laine (1947â€"2006), Finnish poet, writer, playwright
Ivan V. LaliÄ‡ (1931â€"1996), Serbian poet
Philip Lamantia (1927â€"2005), American poet and lecturer
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790â€"1869), French writer, poet and politician
Charles Lamb (1775â€"1834), English essayist and poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L., 1802â€"1838), English poet and novelist.
Walter Savage Landor (1775â€"1864), English writer and poet
William Langland (c. 1332Â â€" c. 1386) probable author of the dream-vision Piers Plowman
Emilia Lanier (1569â€"1645), first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet
Laozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th century BC), philosopher, poet of ancient China
Alda Lara (1930â€"1962), Angolan poet
Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772â€"1855), American poet; first poet of Indiana
Bruce Larkin (born 1957), American children's author and poet
Philip Larkin (1922â€"1985), English poet and novelist
Claudia Lars (1899â€"1974), Salvadoran poet
Else Lasker-SchÃ¼ler (1869â€"1945), German poet and playwright
Lasus of Hermione (6th century BC), Greek lyric poet from the city of Hermione in the Argolid
David Lehman (born 1948), American poet, editor
Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist
James Laughlin (1914â€"1997), American poet, publisher
Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), American poet, essayist, and professor
Comte de LautrÃ©amont (1846â€"1870), Uruguayan-born French poet
Jan Lauwereyns (born 1969), Belgian poet, writer and scientist
Dorianne Laux (born 1952), American poet
Christine Lavant (1915â€"1973), Austrian poet and novelist
D. H. Lawrence (1885â€"1930), English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Henry Lawson (1867â€"1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson (1848â€"1920), Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson
Robert Lax (1915â€"2000), American poet; friend of Thomas Merton
laxmi prasad devkota (1909â€"1959),NEPALI POET;best known for his humnity "A son of kshatriya toches these feet not with scorn. The measure of a man is not his class but his heart", greatest poet of nepali

Le

Edward Lear (1812â€"1888), British artist, illustrator, author, and poet
Jan LechoÅ„ (1899â€"1956), Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat; co-founder of the Skamander literary movement
Francis Ledwidge (1887â€"1917), Irish war poet
David Lee (born 1966), American poet
Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and critic
Eino Leino (1878â€"1926), Finnish poet and journalist
Brad Leithauser (born 1953), American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher
Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright
Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet
John Leonard (born 1965) Australian
Lekhnath Paudyal (1885-1967),Nepalese poet
Giacomo Leopardi (1798â€"1837), Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist
Mikhail Lermontov (1814â€"1841), Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter
Ben Lerner (born 1979), American poet, novelist, and critic
BolesÅ‚aw LeÅ›mian (1877â€"1937), Polish poet, artist
Rika Lesser (born 1953), American poet, translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729â€"1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic
Denise Levertov (1927â€"1997), British-born American poet; associated with the Black Mountain poets
Dana Levin (born 1965), American poet and teacher
Philip Levine (born 1928), American poet; 2011â€"2012 US Poet Laureate, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Larry Levis (1946â€"1996), American poet
D. A. Levy (1942â€"1968), American poet, artist, and alternative publisher
William Levy (born 1939), magazine editor, short story writer and poet
Oswald LeWinter (1931â€"2013), Ages of Chaos & Fury (2005) and More Atoms of Memory (2006)
Alun Lewis (1915â€"1944), Welsh poet, one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War
C S Lewis (1898â€"1963), novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast
Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet, and the inaugural National Poet of Wales
J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), American poet and Children's Poet Laureate (2011â€"13)
Saunders Lewis (1893â€"1985), Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist
Wyndham Lewis (1884â€"1957), English painter and author

Liâ€"Ly

Li Houzhu (937â€"978), last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975; poet
JosÃ© Lezama Lima (1910â€"1976), Cuban writer and poet
Tim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic, professor
Li Bai (701â€"762), major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
Li Jiao, official during Tang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty; poet
Li Qingzhao (1084â€"1151), Chinese writer and poet of the Song Dynasty
Li Shangyin (813â€"858), Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty
Tim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayist
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906â€"2001), American author, aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh
Sarah Lindsay, American poet
Vachel Lindsay (1879â€"1931), American poet
Yannis Livadas (born 1969), Greek poet
Terry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist, poetry reviewer and academic
Thomas Lodge (1558â€"1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
Iain Lom (c. 1624â€"c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807â€"1882), American poet and educator
Michael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poet from Belfast
Federico GarcÃa Lorca (1898â€"1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Audre Lorde (1934â€"1992) Caribbean-American writer, poet, librarian and activist
Richard Lovelace (1618â€"1658), English cavalier poet
Amy Lowell (1874â€"1925), American poet of the imagist school; 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Russell Lowell (1819â€"1891), American Romantic poet, critic, editor and diplomat; Fireside Poets
Robert Lowell (1917â€"1977), American poet, confessional poetry movement; 1947 and 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 1947 US Poet Laureate
Maria White Lowell (1821â€"1853), American poet and abolitionist
Mina Loy (1882â€"1966), English artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian
Lu You (1125â€"1209), Chinese Song Dynasty poet
Gherasim Luca (1913â€"1994), Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet
Lucan (39â€"65 AD), Roman poet
Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author
Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd century BC), Roman satirist
Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century AD), poet, friend of Seneca; procurator of Sicily during the reign of Nero
Lucretius (c. 99 BCÂ â€" c. 55 BC), Roman poet and philosopher
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836â€"1870), American author, journalist, and explorer
Luo Binwang (640â€"684), Chinese writer and poet, recognized as one of the Four Greats of the Early Tang
Thomas Lux (born 1946), American poet
Mario Luzi (1914â€"2005), Italian poet
John Lydgate (1370â€"1450), English monk and poet
John Lyly (1553â€"1606), English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright and politician
Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490â€"c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet
George Lyttelton (1709â€"1773), English politician, poet, statesman and a patron of the arts

M

Ma

Macâ€"Mak

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800â€"1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician
George MacBeth (1932â€"1992), Scottish poet and novelist
Norman MacCaig (1910â€"1996), Scots poet
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892â€"1978), Scots poets, the most prominent poet of the Scottish Renaissance
George MacDonald (1824â€"1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean (1911â€"1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941â€"1987), Canadian writer, poet
Antonio Machado (1875â€"1939), Spanish poet; a leader of the Generation of '98
Arthur Machen (1863â€"1947), Welsh short story writer, poet, novelist, journalist, actor
Compton Mackenzie (1883â€"1972), Scottish writer, biographer, historian, memoirist, poet; co-founded the Scottish National Party
Archibald MacLeish (1892â€"1982), American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes
Aonghas MacNeacail (born 1942), writer in Scottish Gaelic
Louis MacNeice (1907â€"1963), Irish poet and playwright; of the generation of "thirties poets"
Hector Macneill (1746â€"1818), Scots poet and song-writer
James Macpherson (1736â€"1796), Scottish writer, poet, and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems
Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-American author, educator, and poet
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922â€"1941), American aviator and poet; combat pilot officer
Derek Mahon (born 1941), Northern Irish poet
Rudolf Maister (1874â€"1934), Slovene military officer, poet and political activist
Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919â€"1977), Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet, painter and novelist
Desanka MaksimoviÄ‡ (1898â€"1993), Serbian poet and professor
Majeed Amjad (1914â€"1974), Punjabi Urdu poet

Malâ€"Mar

Stephane Mallarme (1842â€"1898), French poet and critic; symbolist movement
David Mallet (c. 1705Â â€" 1765), Scottish dramatist, poet
Sir Thomas Malory (1405â€"1471), English writer, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Goffredo Mameli (1827â€"1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam (1891â€"1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan (1803â€"1849), Irish poet
Bill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor; inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate
Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD), Roman poet and astrologer
Maurice Manning (born 1966), American poet
Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895â€"1988), British poet and author
Robert Mannyng (1275â€"1340), English chronicler and Gilbertine monk, writing in Middle English, French and Latin
Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher
Manuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th century), royal poet in Persia
Alessandro Manzoni (1785â€"1873), Italian poet, novelist
AusiÃ s March (1397â€"1459), medieval Valencian poet and knight
Morton Marcus (1936â€"2009), American poet and author
Paul Mariani (born 1940), American poet and a professor at Boston College
Marie de France (fl. 12th century), medieval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876â€"1944), Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement
Giambattista Marino (1569â€"1625), Italian poet
E. A. Markham (1939â€"2008), Montserratian poet, playwright, novelist and academic
Edwin Markham (1852â€"1940), American poet
ÄorÄ'e MarkoviÄ‡ Koder (1806â€"1891), Nicknamed "Koder", he was one of the most enigmatic of Serbian poets; referred to as the first Serbian modernist.
Christopher Marlowe (1564â€"1593), English dramatist, poet and translator
ClÃ©ment Marot (1496â€"1544), French poet of the Renaissance period
Don Marquis (1878â€"1937), American humorist, journalist, novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright
Edward Garrard Marsh (1783â€"1862), English poet and Anglican clergyman
John Marston (1576â€"1634), English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
JosÃ© MartÃ (1853â€"1895), Cuban poet and writer
Martial (40Â â€" c. 102), Roman epigrammatists
Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist
Harry Martinson (1904â€"1978), Swedish sailor, author and poet
Andrew Marvell (1621â€"1678), English metaphysical poet and politician

Masâ€"Maz

John Masefield (1878â€"1967), English poet and writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1930â€"1967)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868â€"1950), American poet, biographer, and dramatist
Glyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright, librettist, and lecturer
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893â€"1930), Russian and Soviet poet and playwright
Karl May (1842â€"1912), German writer, poet, composer, playwright, musician
Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and prose writer

Mc

James McAuley (1917â€"1976), Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism
Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/American poet and literary critic
J. D. McClatchy (born 1945), American poet and literary critic
Michael McClure (born 1932), American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist
John McCrae (1872â€"1918), Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier; "In Flanders Fields"
Walt McDonald (born 1934), American poet, former Poet Laureate of Texas
Bryant H. McGill (born 1969), American editor and author
Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet, stand-up comedian
William Topaz McGonagall (1825â€"1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian, poet
Campbell McGrath (born 1962), American poet
Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet, novelist
Thomas McGrath (1916â€"1990), American poet
Heather McHugh (born 1948), American poet, translator and educator
Duncan McIntyre (1724â€"1812), Scots Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
James McIntyre (1827â€"1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay (1889â€"1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet
Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
Rod McKuen (born 1933), American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
James McMichael (born 1939), American poet
Ian McMillan (born 1956), British poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster

Me

Narsinh Mehta (1414?â€"1481?), poet-saint of Gujarat, India; bhakta, Gujarati literature
Mei Yaochen (1002â€"1060), Chinese poet of the Song dynasty
Peter Meinke (born 1932), American poet, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer, first Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, FL
Herman Melville (1819â€"1891), American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet
Meng Haoran (689 or 691Â â€" 740), Chinese Tang Dynasty poet
George Meredith (1828â€"1909), English poet, novelist
Kersti Merilaas (1913â€"1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
Alda Merini (1931â€"2009) Italian writer and poet
Stuart Merrill (1863â€"1915), American Symbolist poet; wrote predominantly in French
James Merrill (1926â€"1995), American poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Thomas Merton (1915â€"1968), American author and Trappist monk
W. S. Merwin (born 1927), American poet, author, translator; 1971, 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate
Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew (1869â€"1928), English poet
Henry Meyer (1840â€"1925), American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch

Miâ€"Ml

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824â€"1873), Bengali poet and dramatist
Henri Michaux (1899â€"1984), Belgian-born French language poet, writer, and painter
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475â€"1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
Adam Mickiewicz (1798â€"1855), Polish national poet, essayist, translator, publicist and political writer
Veronica Micle (1850â€"1889), Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet
Christopher Middleton (d. 1628) (c. 1560Â â€" 1628), English poet and translator
Christopher Middleton (born 1926), British poet and translator, especially of German literature
Agnes Miegel (1879â€"1964), German author, journalist, and poet
Josephine Miles (1911â€"1985), American poet and literary critic
Jennifer Militello, American poet and professor
Branko MiljkoviÄ‡ (1934â€"1961), Serbian poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892â€"1950), American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist; 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Alice Duer Miller (1874â€"1942), American writer and poet
Grazyna Miller (1957â€"2009), poet and translator Italianâ€"Polish
Jane Miller, American poet
Joaquin Miller (1837â€"1913), American poet; "Poet of the Sierras"
Leslie Adrienne Miller, American poet
Vassar Miller (1924â€"1998), writer and poet, who suffered from cerebral palsy
Spike Milligan (1918â€"2002), Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz (1911â€"2004), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
John Milton (1608â€"1674), English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England
Sima MilutinoviÄ‡ Sarajlija (1791â€"1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet
Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator
Gabriela Mistral (1889â€"1957), Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist; Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945
Adrian Mitchell (1932â€"2008), English poet, novelist and playwright.
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829â€"1914), American physician and writer
Stephen Mitchell, (born 1943) American poet, translator, scholar, anthologist
Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), American cowboy poet
Ndre Mjeda (1866â€"1937), Albanian Gheg poet

Mo

Anis Mojgani (born 1977), spoken word poet and visual artist
Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841â€"1921), poet and the only king of Montenegro
MoliÃ¨re (1622â€"1673), French platwright, whose actual name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Atukuri Molla (1440â€"1530), Telugu poet, author of the Telugu-language Ramayana
Harold Monro (1879â€"1932), British poet; proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop
Harriet Monroe (1860â€"1936), American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts; founded and edited Poetry magazine
John Montague (born 1929), Irish poet
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661â€"1715), English poet and statesman; creator of the Bank of England
Eugenio Montale (1896â€"1981), Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lenore Montanaro (born 1990), American poet, amputee
Alexander Montgomerie (c.1550?â€"1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar
Alan Moore (poet) (born 1960), Irish writer and poet
Marianne Moore (1887â€"1972), American Modernist poet and writer
Merrill Moore (1903â€"1957), American psychiatrist and poet; Sonneteer
Thomas Moore (1779â€"1852), Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer
Dom Moraes (1938â€"2004)), Goan writer, poet and columnist
Edwin Morgan (1920â€"2010), Scottish poet and translator, associated with the Scottish Renaissance
John Morgan (1688â€"1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
Christian Morgenstern (1871â€"1914), German author and poet
Eduard MÃ¶rike (1804â€"1875), German Romantic poet.
William Morris (1834â€"1896), English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, English Arts and Crafts Movement
Jim Morrison (1943â€"1971), American singer-songwriter and poet; lead singer of The Doors
Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarusian poet
Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter
Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), ancient Greek bucolic poet; student of Aristarchus of Samothrace
Howard Moss (1922â€"1987), American poet, dramatist and critic
Andrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1999â€"2009
Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer, literary translator, essayist and critic of music and literature

Muâ€"My

Micere Githae Mugo (born 1942), Kenyan playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet
Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (1856â€"1920), Somali nationalist and religious leader that established the Dervish State during the Scramble for Africa; wrote patriotic poetry
Taha Muhammad Ali (1931â€"2011), Palestinian poet
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar
Erich MÃ¼hsam (1878â€"1934), German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright
Edwin Muir (1887â€"1959), Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist and translator
Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Lale MÃ¼ldÃ¼r (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer
Laura Mullen (born 1958), American poet
Anthony Munday (1553â€"1633), English playwright and writer
George Murnu (1868â€"1957), Romanian university professor, archaeologist, historian, translator, and poet
Sheila Murphy (born 1951), American text and visual poet
George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet
Joan Murray (born 1945), American poet, writer, playwright and editor
Les Murray (born 1938), Australian poet, anthologist and critic
Richard Murphy (born 1927), Irish poet, member of AosdÃ¡na
Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer
Lukijan MuÅ¡icki (1777â€"1837), Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot
Nikola Musulin (fl. 19th century), Serbian poet
Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poet
Lam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet who writes in Polish and Vietnamese

N

Naâ€"Nj

Vladimir Nabokov (1899â€"1977), multilingual Russian novelist, poet and short story writer
Guru Nanak Dev (1469â€"1539), First Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Ogden Nash (1902â€"1971), American poet well known for his light verse
Thomas Nashe (1567â€"1601), English Elizabethan pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist
Imadaddin Nasimi, (died 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
MomÄilo NastasijeviÄ‡ (1894â€"1938), Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist
Natsume SÅseki (1867â€"1916), Japanese novelist and poet of the Meiji period
NedÃ®m (1681?â€"1730), Ottoman poet
John Neihardt (1881â€"1973), American author of poetry and prose, an amateur historian and ethnographer, and a philosopher of the Great Plains
Ã‰mile Nelligan (1879â€"1941), Quebec poet
Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), American poet, translator and children's book author
Howard Nemerov (born 1920), American poet; US Poet Laureate, 1963â€"64 and 1988â€"90; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1978
Jan Neruda (1834â€"1891), Czech journalist, writer and poet
Pablo Neruda (1904â€"1973), Chilean poet, diplomat and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
NeÅŸÃ¢tÃ®, (died 1674), Ottoman Sufi poet;
Henry John Newbolt (1862â€"1938), English historian, poet
John Henry Newman (1801â€"1890), English Catholic Cardinal; writer, poet, hymnist
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian American poet
B. P. Nichol (bpNichol) (1944â€"1988), Canadian poet
Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet
John Gambril Nicholson (1866â€"1931), English school teacher, Uranian poet, and an amateur photographer
Norman Nicholson (1914â€"1987), English poet, known for his association with the Cumbrian town of Millom
Lorine Niedecker (1903â€"1970), American Objectivist poet
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844â€"1900), German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic and classical philologist
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911â€"1938), Albanian poet and writer
Nisami (1141â€"1209), Persian poet
Nishiyama SÅin (1605â€"1682), Japanese haikai poet
Petar II Petrovic Njegos (1813â€"1851), Serbian Orthodox Prince-Bishop of Montenegro; poet, playwright
Robert Nye (born 1939), English poet, who has also written novels, plays and stories for children

Noâ€"Ny

Christopher Nolan (1965â€"2009), Irish poet and author; member of AosdÃ¡na
Fan S. Noli (1882â€"1965), Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church
Olga Nolla (1938â€"2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist and professor
Harry Northup (born 1940), American actor and poet
Caroline Norton (1808â€"1877), British society beauty, feminist, social reformer, and author
Cyprian Norwid (1821â€"1883), Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor
Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772â€"1801), German poet and novelist
Alfred Noyes (1880â€"1958), English poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (1920â€"1993), Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse
Julia Nyberg (1784â€"1854), Swedish poet and songwriter
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-American poet, songwriter, and novelist
Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian-poet, dramatist, and literary critic

O

Dositej ObradoviÄ‡ (1742â€"1811), Serbian philosopher, educator, writer and poet
Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic, playwright
Philip O'Connor (1916â€"1998), British writer and surrealist poet, who also painted
Ron Offen (1930â€"2010), American poet, playwright, critic, editor, and theater producer
Dennis O'Driscoll (born 1954), Irish poet
Frank O'Hara (1926â€"1966), American writer, poet and art critic; New York School
Sharon Olds (born 1942), American poet
Mary Oliver (born 1935), American poet; 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry National book award
Charles Olson (1910â€"1970), American modernist poet
Saishu Onoe (1876â€"1957), Japanese poet
Onomacritus (c. 530Â â€" 480 BC), priest, seer, and poet of Attica
George Oppen (1908â€"1984),
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858â€"1923), United States Army Major, inventor, painter, poet
Zaharije Orfelin (1726â€"1785), Serbian polymath and poet.
Peter Orlovsky (1933â€"2010), American poet and actor; lifelong partner of Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Orr (born 1947), American poet
Agnieszka Osiecka (1936â€"1997), Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist
Alice Oswald (born 1966), British poet; 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize
Ouyang Xiu (1007â€"1072), Chinese statesman, historian, essayist, calligrapher and poet of the Song Dynasty
Ovid, (43 BCâ€"17 AD), Roman poet
Wilfred Owen (1893â€"1918), English poet and soldier
Ä°smet Ã–zel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar

P

Pa

Ruth Padel (born 1946), British poet, author, critic
Ron Padgett (born 1942), American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator; member of the New York School
Dan Pagis (1930â€"1986), Israeli poet, holocaust survivor
Grace Paley (1922â€"2007), American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824â€"1897), British critic and poet
Palladas (fl. 4th century), Greek poet
Michael Palmer (born 1943), American poet and translator
Sima PanduroviÄ‡ (1883â€"1960), Serbian poet
Daniele Pantano (born 1976), Swiss poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717â€"1791), Welsh poet and hymn writer
Dorothy Parker (1893â€"1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Thomas Parnell (1679â€"1718), Irish poet and clergyman
Nicanor Parra (born 1914), Chilean mathematician and poet
Giovanni Pascoli (1855â€"1912), Italian poet
Boris Pasternak (1890â€"1960), Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (born 1954), Puerto Rican author of poetry, fiction and literary articles
Kenneth Patchen (1911â€"1972), American poet and novelist
Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864â€"1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author
Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician
Coventry Patmore (1823â€"1896), English poet and critic
Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet
Cesare Pavese (1908â€"1950), Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator
Octavio Paz (1914â€"1998), Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat

Peâ€"Pl

Thomas Love Peacock (1785â€"1866), English poet, novelist
Patrick Pearse (1879â€"1916), Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist; a leader of the Easter Rising
James Larkin Pearson (1879â€"1981), American poet and newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1953â€"1981
Charles PÃ©guy (1873â€"1914), French poet, essayist, and editor
Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), American poet
Sam Pereira, American poet
Lucia Perillo, American poet
Persius (34â€"62), Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
Fernando Pessoa (1888â€"1935), Portuguese poet, writer, philosopher, literary critic and translator
Lenrie Peters (1932â€"2009), Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist
Robert Peters (born 1924), American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor
Pascale Petit (born 1953), French/Welsh poet, artist
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304â€"1374), Italian scholar and poet; often called the "Father of Humanism"
Veljko PetroviÄ‡ (1884â€"1967), Serbian poetry and prose writer, art and literary critic and theoretician
Mirko PetroviÄ‡-NjegoÅ¡ (1820â€"1867), Serbian, Montenegrin soldier, diplomat and poet
Ambrose Philips (1674â€"1749), English poet and politician
Katherine Philips (1632â€"1664) Anglo-Welsh poet,
Tanwir Phool (born 1948) English & Urdu Pakistani poet
Pi Rixiu (c. 834Â â€" 883), Tang Dynasty poet
Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and documentary film maker
Pindar (522â€"443 BC), Theban lyric poet
Robert Pinsky (born 1940), American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator; 1997â€"2000 US Poet Laureate
Ruth Pitter (1897â€"1992), British poet; first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1955
Christine de Pizan (c. 1365Â â€" c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet, philosopher
Sylvia Plath (1932â€"1963), American poet, novelist and short story writer; 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, first to receive the honor posthumously
William Plomer (1903â€"1973), South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor

Poâ€"Pu

Edgar Allan Poe (1809â€"1849), American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) Nepalese poet, translator, and artist
Edward Pollock (1823â€"1858), American poet, lawyer
John Pomfret (1667â€"1702), English poet and clergyman.
Marie Ponsot (born 1921), American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
Vasko Popa (1922â€"1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descent
Alexander Pope (1688â€"1744), English poet
Antonio Porchia (1885â€"1968), Italian Argentinian poet
Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet, writer, and poetry editor
Peter Porter (1929â€"2010), British-based Australian poet
Halina PoÅ›wiatowska (1935â€"1967), Polish poet and writer
Ezra Pound (1885â€"1972), American expatriate poet and critic; promoted Imagism
AdÃ©lia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802â€"1839), English politician and poet
E. J. Pratt (1882â€"1964), Canadian poet
Petar PreradoviÄ‡ (1818â€"1872), Croatian poet, writer, and military general in the Austro-Hungarian Army; of Serbian origin
France PreÅ¡eren (1800â€"1849), Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent
Jacques PrÃ©vert (1900â€"1977), French poet and screenwriter
Richard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist, and translator
Robert Priest (born 1951) British-born Canadian poet, children's author and singer-songwriter
F. T. Prince (1912â€"2003), British poet and academic
Matthew Prior (1664â€"1721), English poet and diplomat
Bryan Procter (1787â€"1874), English poet
Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45Â â€" 15 BCE), Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age
Kevin Prufer (born 1969), American poet, academic, editor, and essayist
J H Prynne (born 1936), British poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Luigi Pulci (1432â€"1484), Italian poet best known for Morgante
Alexander Pushkin (1799â€"1837), Russian poet, novelist, playwright

Q

Nizar Qabbani (1923â€"1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909â€"1985), Indian poet, journalist, writer, translator, literary critic, educationist and politician
Aref Qazvini (1882â€"1934), Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician
Qu Yuan (343â€"278 BCE), Chinese poet who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China
Francis Quarles (1592â€"1644), English Christian poet
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901â€"1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

R

Raâ€"Re

Jean Racine (1639â€"1699), French dramatist

Branko RadiÄeviÄ‡ (1824â€"1853), Serbian lyric poet
Sam Ragan (1915â€"1996), American poet, journalist, writer; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1982â€"1996
Shamsur Rahman (1929â€"2006), Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist; key figure in Bengali literature
Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet, associated with Martian poetry
Kathleen Raine (1908â€"2003), British poet, critic, and scholar
Samina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster
Milan RakiÄ‡ (1876â€"1938), Serbian poet
Carl Rakosi (1903â€"2004), American Objectivist poet
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554â€"1618), English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Guru Ram Das (1534â€"1581), Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Allan Ramsay (1686â€"1758), Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker
Dudley Randall (1914â€"2000), African-American poet and publisher
Thomas Randolph (1605â€"1635), English poet and dramatist
John Crowe Ransom (1888â€"1974), American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor
Ãgnes Rapai (born 1952) Hungarian poet, writer, and translator
Noon Meem Rashid (1910â€"1975), Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry
Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), American poet and critic
Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936â€"2005), Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist
Tom Raworth (born 1938), British poet and visual artist; key figure in the British Poetry Revival
Wayne Ray (born 1950), American-born Canadian poet and photographer
Herbert Read (1893â€"1968), English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet
James Reaney (1926â€"2008), Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor
Peter Redgrove (1932â€"2003), prolific and widely respected British poet
Henry Reed (1914â€"1986), British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist
Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist, playwright and novelist
Ennis Rees (1925â€"2009), American poet, professor, translator; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1984â€"1985
James Reeves (1909â€"1978), British writer known for his poetry, contributions to children's literature, and the literature of traditional songs
Abraham Regelson (1896â€"1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor
Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer
James Reiss (born 1941), American poet
Robert Rendall (1898â€"1967), Orkney Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist
Pierre Reverdy (1889â€"1960), French poet, inspired by and influencing Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism
Jacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586â€"1658), Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian
Kenneth Rexroth (1905â€"1982), American poet, translator and critical essayist
Charles Reznikoff (1894â€"1976), American Objectivist poet
Raees Warsi (Born 1963), Urdu poet, writer, lyricist and TV Anchor from Pakistan

Ri

Stan Rice (1943â€"2002), American poet and artist; husband of author Anne Rice
Adrienne Rich (1929â€"2012), American poet, essayist and feminist
Edgell Rickword (1898â€"1982), English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor
Lola Ridge (1873â€"1941), Irish-born American anarchist poet and editor
Laura Riding (1901â€"1981), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
Anne Ridler (1912â€"2001), British poet and editor
James Whitcomb Riley (1849â€"1916), American writer, poet; known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet
John Riley (1937â€"1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875â€"1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet
Arthur Rimbaud (1854â€"1891), French symbolist poet; part of the decadent movement
Alberto RÃos (born 1952), American poet, professor
Khawar Rizvi (1938â€"1981), Urdu and Persian poet, scholar

Ro-RÅ¡

Michael Roberts (1902â€"1948), English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, editor of the Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936),
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869â€"1935), American poet; won three Pulitzer Prizes
Mary Robinson (1757â€"1800), English poet and novelist
Roland Robinson (1912â€"1992), Australian poet and writer
Georges Rodenbach (1855â€"1898), Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist
W R Rodgers (1909â€"1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist, script writer, lecturer and Presbyterian minister
Theodore Roethke (1908â€"1963), American poet; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Samuel Rogers (1763â€"1855), English poet
Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), American poet
David Romtvedt, American poet
Pierre de Ronsard (1524â€"1585), French poet
Peter Rosegger (1843â€"1918), Austrian poet
Franklin Rosemont (1943â€"2009), American poet, artist, historian, street speaker; co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), American poet, writer, painter, photographer, collagist; co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
Isaac Rosenberg (1890â€"1918), English poet of World War I
Alan Ross (1922â€"2001), British poet, cricket writer and editor
Christina Rossetti (1830â€"1894), English poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828â€"1882), English poet, illustrator, painter and translator; co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Andrus RÃµuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet
Raymond Roussel (1877â€"1933), French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast
Nicholas Rowe (1674â€"1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715
Susanna Roxman, English poet born in Sweden
Tadeusz RÃ³Å¼ewicz (born 1921), Polish poet and writer
Ljubivoje RÅ¡umoviÄ‡ (born 1939), Serbian poet

Ruâ€"Ry

Friedrich RÃ¼ckert (1788â€"1866), German poet, translator, and professor
Muriel Rukeyser (1913â€"1980), American poet and political activist
JalÄl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad Rumi (1207â€"1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804â€"1877), Finnish poet; national poet of Finland, wrote in the Swedish language
Nipsey Russell (1918â€"2005), American comedian; regarded as the "poet laureate of television"
RyÅkan (1758â€"1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

Sa

Umberto Saba (1883â€"1957), Italian poet and novelist
Nelly Sachs (1891â€"1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638â€"1706), English poet and courtier
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536â€"1608), English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson (1892â€"1962), known as Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet and gardener
SaÊ¿dÄ« ShÄ«rÄzÄ« (1184â€"1283/1291), major medieval Persian poet
Ahmad Shamloo (December 12, 1925Â â€" July 24, 2000), was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran.
Benjamin Alire SÃ¡enz (born 1954), American poet, novelist and writer of children's books
Ali Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist, and translator
Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (c. 1491Â â€" 1558), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
Akim Samar (1916â€"1943), Soviet poet and novelist regarded as the first Nanai language writer
Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-American poet; associated with the Black Arts Movement
Michal Å anda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet
Carl Sandburg (1878â€"1967), American poet, writer and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458â€"1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.
Ann Sansom, British poet and writing tutor
Aleksa Å antiÄ‡ (1868â€"1924), Bosnian Serb poet
Taneda SantÅka (1882â€"1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet
Genrikh Sapgir (1928â€"1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
Sappho (c. 630â€"612Â â€" c. 570 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet from island of Lesbos
William Saroyan (1908â€"1981), American author of Armenian descent
Siegfried Sassoon (1886â€"1967), British war poet
Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924â€"1995), Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic
Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness; American writer, poet, and artist
Richard Savage (c. 1697Â â€" 1743), English poet, best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage

Scâ€"Se

Leslie Scalapino (1944â€"2010), American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor; associated with the Language and Beat poets
Maurice ScÃ¨ve (c. 1500Â â€" 1564), French poet
Friedrich Schiller (1759â€"1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Arno Schmidt (1914â€"1979), German author and translator
Dennis Schmitz (born 1937), American poet
Arthur Schnitzler (1862â€"1931), Austrian author and dramatist
Philip Schultz (born 1945), American poet; 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Schuyler (1923â€"1991), American poet; 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Morning of the Poem
Delmore Schwartz (1913â€"1966), American poet and short story writer
Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) (c. 1520Â â€" 1582/83), Scottish poet
Alexander Scott (20th-century poet) (1920â€"1989), Scottish poet and playwright
Frederick George Scott (1861â€"1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F R Scott
F. R. Scott (1899â€"1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
Tom Scott, (1918â€"1995) Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott (1771â€"1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Gil Scott-Heron (born 1949), American soul musician and jazz poet
George Bazeley Scurfield (1920â€"1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
Peter Seaton (1942â€"2010), American Language poet
Johannes Secundus (1511â€"1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poet
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639â€"1701), English poet, wit, dramatist and politician
George Seferis (pen name of GeÅrgios SeferiÃ¡dÄ"s) (1900â€"1971), important Greek poet, Nobel laureate, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Ehsan Sehgal (born 1951), Pakistani Urdu poet and writer; journalist and activist
Hugh Seidman (born 1940), American poet
Rebecca Seiferle, American poet
Jaroslav Seifert (1901â€"1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist and publisher
Semonides of Amorgos Greek iambic and elegiac poet who is believed to have lived during the 7th century BC

Robert W. Service (1874â€"1958), Scottish-Canadian poet; called the "Bard of the Yukon"
Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet
Anne Sexton (1928â€"1974), American poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, short-story writer, radio script-writer and children's novelist

Shâ€"Sj

Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642Â â€" 1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689â€"1692
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941â€"2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet & author
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564Â â€" 1616), English poet and playwright; called "Bard of Avon" and England's national poet
Tupac Shakur (1971â€"1996), American rapper, actor, producer, poet and black activist
Otep Shamaya (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, actress, poet, writer, and painter; lead singer of Otep
Ntozake Shange (born 1948), American playwright, and poet
Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer
Karl Shapiro (1913â€"2000), American poet; US Poet Laureate, 1946â€"1947
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), American poet
Luci Shaw (born 1928), Christian poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792â€"1822), one of the major English Romantic poets
William Shenstone (1714â€"1763), English poet
Bhupi Sherchan (1935â€"1989), Nepalese poet
Taras Shevchenko (1814â€"1861), Ukrainian poet and artist
Masaoka Shiki (1867â€"1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
Hovhannes Shiraz (1915â€"1984), Armenian poet
James Shirley (1596â€"1666), English dramatist
Avraham Shlonsky (1900â€"1973), Israeli poet and editor
Sir Philip Sidney (1554â€"1586), Elizabethan era English poet, courtier and soldier
Eli Siegel (1902â€"1978), Latvian-American poet and critic; founded the philosophy Aesthetic Realism
Robert Siegel (1939â€"2012), American poet and novelist
Jon Silkin (1930â€"1997), British poet
Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet; associated with Language poetry
Shel Silverstein (1930â€"1999), American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's literature
Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist
Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-American poet; 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, US Poet Laureate, 2007â€"2008
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556Â â€" 468 BC), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
Louis Simpson (1923â€"2012), Jamaican poet; 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939â€"2000), American poet, novelist, short story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986â€"2000
Burns Singer (1928â€"1964), American citizen, a poet usually identified with Scotland where he was brought up
Marilyn Singer (born 1948), American children's literature writer and poet
Lemn Sissay, British author and broadcaster
Charles Hubert Sisson (1914â€"2003), British writer, best known as a poet and translator
Edith Sitwell (1887â€"1964), British poet and critic; eldest of the three literary Sitwells
SjÃ³n (born 1962), Icelandic author and poet

Skâ€"Sn

Egill SkallagrÃmsson (c. 910â€"c. 990), Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, the protagonist of Egil's Saga

John Skelton (1460â€"1529), English poet
Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-American poet
Ed Skoog (born 1971), American poet
Pencho Slaveykov (1866â€"1912), Bulgarian poet
Petko Slaveykov (1827â€"1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist
Kenneth Slessor (1901â€"1971), Australian poet and journalist
Anton Martin SlomÅ¡ek (1800â€"1862), Slovene bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture
Juliusz SÅ‚owacki (1809â€"1849), Polish Romantic poet; one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature
Boris Slutsky (1919â€"1986), Russian poet
Christopher Smart (1722â€"1771), English poet, playwright
Hristo Smirnenski (1898â€"1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
Bruce Smith (born 1946), American poet
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749â€"1806), English Romantic poet and novelist
Clark Ashton Smith (1893â€"1961), American poet, sculptor, painter and author
Margaret Smith (born 1958), American poet, musician, and artist
Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
Stevie Smith (1902â€"1971), English poet and novelist
Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915â€"1975), Scots poet in Lallans
William Jay Smith (born 1918), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1968â€"70
Tobias Smollett (1721â€"1771), Scottish poet and author
William De Witt Snodgrass (1926â€"2009), was an American poet who won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Gary Snyder (born 1930), American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist; 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Soâ€"Sp

Edith SÃ¶dergran (1892â€"1923), Swedish-speaking Finnish poet
SÅgi (1421â€"1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic
William Somervile (1675â€"1742), English poet
Sophocles, (c. 496Â â€" 406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Charles Sorley (1895â€"1915), British war poet of World War I
Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-American author and poet
Robert Southey (1774â€"1843), English Romantic poet, one of the "Lake Poets"; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1813â€"1843
Robert Southwell (1561â€"1595), English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order; poet and clandestine missionary
Wole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet, awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
Bernard Spencer (1909â€"1963), English poet, translator, and editor
Stephen Spender (1909â€"1995), English poet, novelist and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965â€"66
Edmund Spenser (1552â€"1599), English poet best known for The Faerie Queene

St

Leopold Staff (1878â€"1957), Polish poet
William Stafford (1914â€"1993), American poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970â€"1971
Jon Stallworthy (born 1935), English academic, poet and literary critic
Harold Standish (1919â€"1972), Canadian poet and novelist
Ann Stanford (1916â€"1987), American poet
George Starbuck (1931â€"1996), American neo-formalist poet
Statius (c. 45Â â€" 96 AD), Roman poet
Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism
Stesichorus (c. 640Â â€" 555 BC), regarded as the first great poet of the Greek West
Joseph Stefan (1835â€"1893), Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet who lived in Austria
Stefan StefanoviÄ‡ (1807â€"1828), Serbian poet
Gertrude Stein (1874â€"1946), American Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, art collector
Eric Stenbock (1860â€"1895), Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction
Mattie Stepanek (1990â€"2004), American poet and advocate
George Stepney (1663â€"1707), English poet and diplomat
Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
Marinko StevanoviÄ‡ (born 1961), Bosnian poet
C. J. Stevens (born 1927), American writer of poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and biography
Wallace Stevens (1880â€"1955), American Modernist poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850â€"1894), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Trumbull Stickney (1874â€"1904), American classical scholar and poet
James Still (1906â€"2001), American poet, novelist and folklorist
Milica StojadinoviÄ‡-Srpkinja (1828â€"1878), Serbian poetess
Dejan StojanoviÄ‡ (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
Donna J. Stone (1933â€"1994), American poet and philanthropist
Ruth Stone (1915â€"2011), American poet, author and teacher
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), American poet and editor
Edward Storer (1880â€"1944), English writer, translator and poet, associated with Imagism
Theodor Storm (1817â€"1888), German writer, poet
Alfonsina Storni (1892â€"1938), Latin American Modernist poet
Mark Strand (born 1934), Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990â€"1991
Botho StrauÃŸ (born 1944), German playwright, poet, novelist and essayist
Joseph Stroud (born 1943), American poet
Jesse Stuart (1907â€"1984), American writer who is known for writing short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia

Suâ€"Sz

Su Shi (1037â€"1101), Song Dynasty writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman
Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 AD), courtesan and poet in the Southern Qi Dynasty
Sir John Suckling (1609â€"1642), English poet and inventor of the card game cribbage
Suleiman the Magnificent (1494â€"1566), ruler of the Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
Paul Summers (born 1967), English poet
Jovan SundeÄiÄ‡ (1825â€"1900), Serbian poet
Cemal SÃ¼reya (1931â€"1990), Turkish poet and writer
Abhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright, linguist, translator and critic.
Robert Sward (born 1933), American and Canadian poet and novelist
Cole Swensen (born 1955), American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor; Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
Karen Swenson (born 1936), American poet
May Swenson (1913â€"1989), American poet and playwright
Jonathan Swift (1667â€"1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837â€"1909), English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Anna ÅšwirszczyÅ„ska (aka Anna Swir; 1909â€"1984), Polish poet
Joshua Sylvester (1563â€"1618), English poet
Arthur William Symons (1865â€"1945), British poet, critic and magazine editor
John Millington Synge (1871â€"1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore
LÅ'rinc SzabÃ³ (1900â€"1957), Hungarian poet and literary translator
Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese American poet
WisÅ‚awa Szymborska (1923â€"2012), Polish Polish poet, essayist, and translator; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

T

Taâ€"Te

Rabindranath Tagore (1861â€"1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
Taliesin (fl. 6th century), British poet of the post-Roman period, a renowned bard
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915â€"1983), Tamil poet, editor, critic and publisher
Maxim Tank (1912â€"1996), Belarusian poet
Tao Qian (365â€"427), Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties period
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
Alain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter, essayist, literary critic and art critic
Torquato Tasso (1544â€"1595), Italian poet; best known for Jerusalem Delivered
Allen Tate (1899â€"1979), American poet, essayist, social commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943â€"1944
James Tate (born 1943), American poet; 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Edward Taylor (c. 1642Â â€" 1729), colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
Henry Taylor (1800â€"1886), English poet and dramatist
Henry S. Taylor (born 1942), American poet; 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Sara Teasdale (1884â€"1933), American lyrical poet
Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621â€"1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi Poet
Telesilla (fl. 510 BC), Greek poet
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809â€"1892), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850â€"1892
Talib Khundmiri (1938â€"2011), Indian Urdu language poet, humorist, architect, artist, orator
Vahan Terian (1885â€"1920), Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist
Elaine Terranova (born 1939), American poet
Lucy Terry (c. 1730Â â€" 1821), African-American poet; author of the oldest known work of literature by an African American
A. S. J. Tessimond (1902â€"1962), English poet
Neyzen Tevfik (1879â€"1953), Turkish poet, satirist, and neyzen (a "ney performer" in Turkish)

Thâ€"To

Ernest Thayer (1863â€"1940), American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat"
Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet
Thiruvalluvar (31 AD), Tamil poet and philosopher
Dylan Thomas (1914â€"1953), Welsh poet and writer
Edward Thomas (1878â€"1917), Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist
Lorenzo Thomas (1944â€"2005), American poet and critic
R. S. Thomas (1913â€"2000), Welsh poet and Anglican priest
John Thompson (1938â€"1976), English-born Canadian poet
John Reuben Thompson (1823â€"1873), American poet, journalist, editor and publisher
Francis Thompson (1859â€"1907), English poet and ascetic
James Thomson (1700â€"1748), Scottish poet and playwright; wrote lyrics of Rule, Britannia!
James Thomson (aka Bysshe Vanolis; 1834â€"1882), Scottish Victorian era poet
Henry David Thoreau (1817â€"1862), American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
Anthony Thwaite (born 1930), English poet and writer
Tibullus (c. 54 BCÂ â€" 19 BC), Latin poet and writer of elegies
Chidiock Tichborne (1558â€"1586), English conspirator and poet
Thomas Tickell (1685â€"1740), English poet and man of letters
Ludwig Tieck (1773â€"1853), German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic
Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920â€"1973), Somali poet
Nick Toczek (born 1950), British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster
Melvin B. Tolson (1898â€"1966), American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
Charles Tomlinson (born 1927), British poet and translator
Jean Toomer (1894â€"1967), American poet and novelist; important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
Cyril Tourneur (1575â€"1626), English poetic dramatist

Trâ€"Tz

Thomas Traherne (1636/37â€"1674), English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer
Georg Trakl (1887â€"1914), Austrian poet; considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists
Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), American poet
Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant
DuÅ¡ko TrifunoviÄ‡ (1933â€"2006), Serbian poet and writer
Calvin Trillin (born 1935), American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist
Quincy Troupe (born 1939), American poet, editor, journalist and professor
TÃµnu Trubetsky (aka Tony Blackplait; born 1963), Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, poet and individualist anarchist
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892â€"1941), Russian and Soviet poet
Kurt Tucholsky (1890â€"1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
Tulsidas (1497/1532â€"1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher
Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869â€"1923), Armenian writer and public activist; considered the national poet of Armenia
Äžabdulla Tuqay (1886â€"1913), Tatar poet, critic and publisher
George Turberville (c. 1540Â â€" c. 1597), English poet
Charles Tennyson Turner (1808â€"1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson
Julian Turner (born 1955), British poet and mental health worker
Thomas Tusser (1524â€"1580), English poet and farmer
Hone Tuwhare (1922â€"2008), New Zealand poet of MÄori ancestry
Julian Tuwim (1894â€"1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent
Jan Twardowski (1915â€"2006), Polish poet and priest
Chase Twichell (born 1950), American poet, professor, and publisher
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803â€"1873) Russian poet; last of three great Romantic poets of Russia
Tristan Tzara (1896â€"1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist; one of the founders and central figures of the Dada movement

U

Laura Ulewicz (1930â€"2007), American Beat poet
Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885â€"1945), Indian Telugu language poet; sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham
Jeff Unaegbu (born 1979), Nigerian writer, actor, artist and documentary film maker
Miguel de Unamuno (1864â€"1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888â€"1970), Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic; 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Louis Untermeyer (1885â€"1977), American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor; US Poet Laureate 1961â€"62
John Updike (1932â€"2009), American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Allen Upward (1863â€"1926), Irish-English poet, lawyer, politician and teacher; Imagist poet
Amy Uyematsu (born 1947), Japanese-American poet

V

Vaâ€"Ve

Alfonso Vallejo (born 1943), Spanish artist, playwright, poet, painter and neurologist
Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French speaking Swiss poet and writer
Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature
Cor Van den Heuvel, (born 1931), American haiku poet, editor, commentator, archivist
Mona Van Duyn (1921â€"2004), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1992â€"1993
Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer, painter, singer and fashion designer
Nikola Vaptsarov (1909-1942), Bulgarian Communist poet
Varand, (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
Dimitris Varos (born 1949), modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer
Henry Vaughan (1621â€"1695), Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509â€"1556), English poet
Vazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili; 1861â€"1915), Georgian poet and writer
Reetika Vazirani (1962â€"2003), American poet and educator
Ivan Vazov (1850â€"1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407â€"1458), Italian poet who wrote in Latin
Vemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu poet
Gavril StefanoviÄ‡ VencloviÄ‡ (fl. 1680â€"1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator
Helen Vendler (born 1933), American poetry critic and professor
Jacint Verdaguer (1845â€"1902), Catalan poet; prominent figure in the RenaixenÃ§a
Paul Verlaine (1844â€"1896), French poet associated with the Symbolist movement
Paul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poet

Viâ€"Vz

Peter Viereck (1916â€"2006), American poet, professor and political thinker
Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
Jose Garcia Villa (1908â€"1997), Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter
Xavier Villaurrutia (1903â€"1950), Mexican poet and playwright
FranÃ§ois Villon (c. 1431Â â€" 1464), French poet, thief, killer, barroom brawler, and vagabond
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70â€"19 BC), ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period
Roemer Visscher (1547â€"1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170Â â€" c. 1230), most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets
Vincent Voiture (1597â€"1648), French poet
Voltaire (1694â€"1778), (Born FranÃ§ois-Marie Arouet), French Enlightenment writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
Joost van den Vondel (1587â€"1679), Dutch playwright, poet
Andrei Voznesensky (1933â€"2010), Soviet and Russian poet
Stanko Vraz (1810â€"1851), Croatian-Slovenian poet
Vyasa, revered Hindu figure; considered to be the author of Mahabharata and some Vedas

W

Wa

Wace (c. 1110Â â€" after 1174), Norman poet
Sidney Wade (born 1951), American poet and professor
John Wain (1925â€"1994), English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with The Movement
Diane Wakoski (born 1937), American poet; associated with the deep image, confessional and Beat poets
Derek Walcott (born 1930), Saint Lucian poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-American poet, translator and publisher
Arthur Waley (1889â€"1966), English orientalist and sinologist; poet and translator
Alice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet, and activist
Margaret Walker (1915â€"1998), African-American writer
Edmund Waller (1606â€"1687), English poet and politician
Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer
Robert Walser (1878â€"1956), German-speaking Swiss writer
Connie Wanek (born 1952), American poet
Wang Wei (1597â€"1647), Chinese priestess and poet
Wang Wei (701â€"761), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
Emily Warn, American poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893â€"1978), English novelist and poet.
Robert Penn Warren (1905â€"1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic; one of the founders of New Criticism
Thomas Warton (1728â€"1790), English literary historian, critic, and poet
Vernon Watkins (1906â€"1967), British poet, translator and painter
Thomas Watson (1555â€"1592), English lyrical poet who wrote in English and Latin
George Watsky (born 1986), American poet and rapper.
Barrett Watten (born 1948), American poet, editor, and educator; associated with the Language poets
Isaac Watts (1674â€"1748), English hymn writer, theologian and logician
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832â€"1914), English critic and poet

Weâ€"Wh

Francis Webb (1925â€"1973), Australian poet
John Webster (c. 1580Â â€" c. 1634), English Jacobean dramatist
Rebecca Wee, American poet, professor
Hannah Weiner (1928â€"1997), American Language poet.
Wei Yingwu (737â€"792) Chinese poet
Wen Yiduo (1899â€"1946), Chinese poet
Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), American poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
Charles Wesley (1707â€"1788), English leader of the Methodist movement, writer of many hymns
Gilbert West (1703â€"1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologist
Philip Whalen (1923â€"2002), American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance; close to the Beat generation
Franz Werfel (1890â€"1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet
Johan Herman Wessel (1742â€"1785), Norwegian-Danish poet
Phillis Wheatley (1753â€"1784), first African-American poet
Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932), American songwriter, performer, poet, novelist, and visual artist
E.B. White (1899â€"1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
Henry Kirke White (1785-1806), English poet
James L. White (1936â€"1981), American poet, editor and teacher
Walt Whitman (1819â€"1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567â€"1573), English poet
Reed Whittemore (1919â€"2012), American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807â€"1892), American poet
Jay Wright (born 1935), African-American poet, playwright, and essayist

Wi

Anna Wickham (pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884â€"1947), British poet brought up in Australian
Les Wicks (born 1955), Australian poet, publisher, and editor
Ulrika WidstrÃ¶m (1764â€"1841), Swedish poet and translator
John Wieners (1934â€"2002), American lyric poet
Richard Wilbur (born 1921), American poet and literary translator; US Poet Laureate 1987â€"88, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 & 1989
Jane Wilde (1826â€"1896), Irish poet and nationalist
Oscar Wilde (1854â€"1900), Irish writer, playwright, and poet
John Wilkinson (born 1953), English poet
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071â€"1126), best known as the earliest troubadour whose works have survived
Emmett Williams (1925â€"2007), American poet and visual artist
Jonathan Williams (1929â€"2008), American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer
Miller Williams (born 1930), American poet, translator, and editor
Oscar Williams (1900â€"1964), Jewish Ukrainian-American anthologist and poet
Saul Williams (born 1972), African-American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Sherley Anne Williams (1944â€"1999), African-American poet, novelist, professor and social critic
Waldo Williams (1904â€"1971), Welsh language poet; pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist
William Carlos Williams (1883â€"1963), poet and physician; associated with modernism and imagism
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717â€"1791), Welsh poet and hymn writer
Clive Wilmer (born 1945), British poet,
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647â€"1680), English poet, courtier, and satirist
Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), American poet, and editor
Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey; born 1945), American political and cultural writer, essayist, and poet
Christian Wiman (born 1966), American poet and editor
Yvor Winters (1900â€"1968), American poet and literary critic
George Wither (1588â€"1667), English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist

Woâ€"Wy

Woeser (born 1966), Tibetan activist, blogger, poet and essayist
RafaÅ‚ Wojaczek (1945â€"1971), Polish poet
Christa Wolf (1929â€"2011), German literary critic, novelist, poet, and essayist
Charles Wolfe (1791â€"1823), Irish poet
Hans WollschlÃ¤ger (1935â€"2007), German writer, translator, historian, and editor
George Woodcock (1912â€"1995), Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist, poet, and literary critic
Gregory Woods (born 1953), British poet who grew up in Ghana
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771â€"1855), English author, poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770â€"1850), English Romantic poet
Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835â€"1866), English poet
Carolyn D. Wright (born 1949), American poet
Charles Wright (born in 1935), American poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
David Wright (1920â€"1994) South African-born poet and author
Franz Wright (born 1953), American poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Wright (1927â€"1980), American poet, father of Franz Wright; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Judith Wright (1915â€"2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
Lady Mary Wroth (1587Â â€" c. 1651), English poet of the Renaissance
Thomas Wyatt (1503â€"1542), English ambassador and lyrical poet
Elinor Wylie (1885â€"1928), American poet and novelist
Hedd Wyn (1887â€"1917), Welsh language poet
Edward Alexander Wyon (1842âˆ'1872), London architect and poet

X

Xenokleides (4th century BCE) poet of Athens
Cali Xuseen Xirsi (aka Yam Yam) (1946â€"2005), Somali poet who was active in the 1960s
Xu Zhimo (1897â€"1931), Chinese poet
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (born 1947), Uzbek poet; awarded the title People's Poet of Uzbekistan

Y

JÅ«kichi Yagi (1898â€"1927), Japanese poet on modern religious themes

Yaseen Anwer (born 1989), Indian bilingual poet.
Leo Yankevich (born 1961), American poet and editor
Peyo Yavorov (1878â€"1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poet
W. B. Yeats (1865â€"1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
Sergei Yesenin (1895â€"1925), Russian lyrical poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933), Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and film director
Akiko Yosano (1878â€"1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
Andrew Young (1885â€"1971), Scottish poet and clergyman
Edward Young (1681â€"1765), English poet
Kevin Young (born 1970), American poet and teacher
Marguerite Young (1908â€"1995), American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism
A. W. YrjÃ¤nÃ¤ (Aki Ville YrjÃ¤nÃ¤; born 1967), Finnish poet and the singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band CMX
Yuan Mei (1716â€"1797), Chinese poet, scholar, artist, and gastronome of the Qing Dynasty
Yunus Emre (c. 1238Â â€" c. 1320), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic

Z

Adam Zagajewski (born 1945), Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist
Andrea Zanzotto (1921â€"2011), Italian poet
Matthew Zapruder (born 1967), American poet, editor, translator, and professor
Marya Zaturenska (1902â€"1982), American lyric poet; 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Zend (1929â€"1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and artist
Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), English writer, dub poet and Rastafarian
Hristofor Zhefarovich, (c. 1690Â â€" 1753), Serbian painter, engraver, writer and poet; notable proponent of Pan-Slavism
Calvin Ziegler (1854â€"1930), German-American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
Radovan ZogoviÄ‡, Serbian/Montenegrin poet
Zuhayr ibn AbÃ® SÃ»lmÃ¢ (520â€"609), pre-Islamic Arabian poet
Louis Zukofsky (1904â€"1978), American poet; one of the primary Objectivist poets
Huldrych Zwingli (1484â€"1531), leader of the Reformation in Switzerland; also a poet, hymnwriter, author of Pestlied

Monday, February 23, 2015

List of poets

Alphabetical list

A

Abâ€"Ak

Alâ€"Am

Anâ€"Aq

Ar

Asâ€"Ay

B

Ba

Babâ€"Ban

Barâ€"Bax

Be

Bhâ€"Bl

Bo

Br

Braâ€"Bri

Broâ€"Bry

Buâ€"By

C

Ca

Cabâ€"Cap

Carâ€"Cav

Ceâ€"Ci

Cl

Co

Coaâ€"Con

Cooâ€"Cow

Crâ€"Cz

D

Da

Deâ€"Dh

Diâ€"Do

Dr

Duâ€"Dy

E

Eaâ€"En

Erâ€"Ew

F

Faâ€"Fn

Foâ€"Fu

G

Gaâ€"Gl

Go

Gr

Guâ€"Gy

H

Ha

He

Hiâ€"Hr

Huâ€"Hy

I

J

K

Kaâ€"Kh

Kiâ€"Kn

Koâ€"Ky

L

La

Le

Liâ€"Ly

M

Ma

Macâ€"Mak

Malâ€"Mar

Masâ€"Maz

Mc

Me

Miâ€"Ml

Mo

Muâ€"My

N

Naâ€"Nj

Noâ€"Ny

O

P

Pa

Peâ€"Pl

Poâ€"Pu