List of Jewish American poets

For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

• Seth Abramson, poet
• David Berman, poet, rock musician and cartoonist
• Charles Bernstein, poet
• David Biespiel, poet
• Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
• Richard Chess, poet, professor of Jewish Studies at UNCA
• Carl Dennis, poet **
• Alter Esselin, carpenter, poet
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
• Louise Glück, poet **
• Jorie Graham, poet **
• Allen Grossman, poet
• Marilyn Hacker, poet
• Anthony Hecht, poet **
• John Hollander, poet, critic
• Richard Howard, poet, translator **
• Chester Kallman, poet, librettist
• Rodger Kamenetz,poet
• Burt Kimmelman, poet
• Kenneth Koch, poet
• Maxine Kumin, poet **
• Stanley Kunitz, poet **
• Emma Lazarus, poet
• Denise Levertov, poet (born UK)
• Philip Levine, poet **
• Samuel Menashe, poet
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet^[2]
• Richard Michelson, Poet, Children’s Book Author.
• Howard Nemerov, poet **
• George Oppen, Objectivist poet **
• Alicia Ostriker, poet
• Rochelle Owens, poet
• Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997–2000)
• Hyam Plutzik, poet
• Gabriel Preil, Hebrew Poet
• Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
• Abraham Regelson, poet, translator
• Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet
• Raphael Rudnik, poet
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet
• Benjamin Saltman, poet
• Delmore Schwartz, poet
• Frederick Seidel, poet
• Karl Shapiro, poet **
• Carl Solomon, beat poet
• Gertrude Stein, Modernist poet/writer
• Gerald Stern, poet
• Samuel Ullman, poet ^[3]
• Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist
• Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
• Zvi Yair, poet

See also

• Jewish American literature
• List of Yiddish language poets
• List of Jewish American authors
• List of Jewish American playwrights
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Before Columbus Foundation