From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.
[edit] Alphabetical list
- Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
- Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet
- Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
- Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- Draginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serbian poet
- Léonie Adams (1899–1988), 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 (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
- Kim Addonizio (born 1954) American poet, novelist
- Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
- Aeschylus (525–456 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Lucius Afranius (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
- James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
- Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
- Ai (1947–2010), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
- Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
- Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
- Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet
- Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
- Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556)
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273)
- Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
- Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet
- Claribel Alegría (born 1924), Central American poet
- Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
- Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901)
- Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
- Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet
- James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
- William Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889)
- Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
- Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
- Al Alvarez (born 1929), English poet
- Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist
- Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
- Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
- A. R. Ammons (1926–2001) American author and poet
- Anacreon (570 BC–488 BC), Greek lyric poet
- Alfred Andersch (1914–1980), German writer, publisher.
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet
- Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
- Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
- Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet
- Maya Angelou (b. 1928), American Poet
- Mika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poet
- Antler (b. 1946), American poet
- Brother Antoninus (1912–1994), American poet
- Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), Indonesian poet
- Johannes Anyuru (b. 1979), Swedish poet
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet
- Apollo Poetry (aka Sevan Aydinian) (b. 1983), Armenian American poet
- Apollonius of Rhodes (270–after 245 BC), poet and librarian at the Library of Alexandria
- Maja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poet
- Pawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Maltese poet
- Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
- Archilochus, (ca.680–ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
- Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925)
- Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), American Dada–ist
- Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533)
- Rae Armantrout (1947–)
- Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
- Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German patriotic author and poet
- Achim von Arnim (1781–1831)
- Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859)
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
- Jean Arp (1886–1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
- Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
- John Ashbery, (born 1927)
- Anton Askerc (1856–1912)
- Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
- W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
- Ausiàs March (1397–1459)
- Ausonius, (c. 310–395)
[edit] Bab–Bal
[edit] Bar–Bax
- Jan Beatty, American poet
- Francis Beaumont (1586–1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Matija Becković, Serbian poet
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836–1870)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
- Erin Belieu, (born 1957), American poet
- Marvin Bell, (1937–?)
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely (1880–1934)
- Gottfried Ben
- Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
- William Rose Benét (1886–1950)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
- Bo Bergman (1869–1967)
- Ilhan Berk
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- Charles Bernstein, (b.1950)
- John Betjeman (1906–1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
- Laurence Binyon (1879–1943)
- Earle Birney (1904–1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975), American poet
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet (1895–1961)
- Don Blanding, (fl. mid-20th century), American,
- William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet
- Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
- Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921)
- Subramaniya Bharathi,Tamil poet,(1882–1921)
- Ram Prasad Bismil,Urdu-Hindi poet,(1897–1927)
- Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919)
- Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
[edit] Bra–Bri
- Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, (c. 1612–1672) Landed in Salem, Massachusetts, June 14, 1630 America's first published poet
- Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)
- Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet, lyricist, notable work: the Three-penny Opera
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian
- Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
- Clemens Brentano (1778–1842)
- André Breton (1896–1966)
- Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)
- Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
- Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)
[edit] Bro–Bry
- James Brock, (born 1958)
- Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996)
- Wladyslaw Broniewski
- William Bronk, (died 1999)
- Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British author
- Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
- Joan Brossa (1919–1998)
- Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
- Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
- Flora Brovina
- Petrus Brovka (1905–1980), Soviet poet
- Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897)
- George Mackay Brown
- Sterling Brown (1901–1989)
- William Browne (1588–1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
- Robert Browning (1812–1889)
- William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
- Bryher
- Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Georg Büchner
- Vincent Buckley (1927–1988)
- David Budbill, (born 1940)
- Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) poet, novelist
- Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns (1759–1796)
- William S. Burroughs (1914–1997)
- Edwin G. Burrows
- Andrzej Bursa
- Yosa Buson (1716–1784), Japanese haikai poet and painter
- Raegan Butcher
- Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
- Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
- Anthony Butts, (born 1969), American poet
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron (1788–1824)
[edit] Cab–Cap
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet – anthropoetry)
- Caedmon (old English)
- Alison Calder, Canadian poet
- Cali Xuseen Xirsi
- Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Callimachus (c.305–c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
- Robert Calvert (1945–1988)
- Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell (1901–1957)
- Jan Campert,(1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist
- Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
- Thomas Campion (1567–1619), composer, poet
- Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)
- Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980)
- Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973)
- Edip Cansever (187–29, 226), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei, and poet
- Cao Cao, (155 AD–220 AD), warlord, poet
- Cao Zhi, (192–232), Chinese poet
[edit] Car–Cav
- Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907)
- Thomas Carew (1595–1639)
- Henry Carey (1693–1743)
- Bliss Carman (1861–1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Jim Carroll (1949–2009)
- Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
- Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)
- Ann Elizabeth Carson, (born 1929), Canadian Poet
- Anne Carson, (born 1950), Canadian Poet
- Jared Carter (born 1939)
- William Cartwright (1611–1643)
- Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
- Catullus, (c. 84BC–54BC), Roman poet
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933)
- Nick Cave, (born 1957), singer, pianist, novelist, poet
- Paul Celan (1920–1970)
- Thomas Centolella
- Anica Cernej (1900–1944)
- Luis Cernuda (1903–1963)
- Mário Cesariny (1923–2006)
- Ashok Chakradhar, (born 1951)
- John Chalkhill
- Jean Chapelain (1595–1674)
- Arthur Chapman (1873–1935)
- George Chapman (1560–1634)
- Fred Chappell, (born 1936), Author and poet. North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002
- René Char (1907–1998)
- Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343–1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
- Susana Chávez (1974–2011), 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,
- Billy Childish
- Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
- Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775)
- Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
- Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
- Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter, printer
- John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
- Jovan Ćirilov, Serbian poet
- Carson Cistulli (born 1979)
[edit] Coa–Cos
- Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), Montana writer
- Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, (born 1952), Puerto Rican poet and author
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
- Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet
- Wanda Coleman, African-American poet
- Edward Coletti, (born 1944), Italian-American poet (Ed Coletti)
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins (1721–1759)
- William Congreve (1670–1729), English poet
- Paul Conneally, (born 1959)
- Robert Conquest, historian and poet
- Henry Constable (1562–1613)
- Clark Coolidge
- Wendy Cope
- Tristan Corbière (1845–1875)
- Alfred Corn, (born 1943)
- Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
- Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
- Jayne Cortez
- George Coşbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet
[edit] Cot–Cow
- George Crabbe (1754–1832)
- Hart Crane (1899–1932), (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane (1871–1900), USA writer
- Richard Crashaw (1613–1649)
- Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women – Black Mountain School)
- Octave Crémazie
- Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet
- Charles Cros (1842–1888), French poet and inventor
- Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English Occultist and poet
- Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- Necati Cumalı
- E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
- Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)
- Allen Curnow (1911–2001)
- Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
- Roque Dalton (1935–1975) Salvadoran poet
- Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- David Daniels (1933– ) Visual Poet
- Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
- Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), revolutionary
- Rubén Darío (1867–1916)
- Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), British poet and herbalist
- Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008)
- Jibanananda Das,(1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
- René Daumal (1908–1944)
- Jean Daurat (1508–1588)
- Alan Davies, American poet
- W. H. Davies
- William Davenant (1606–1668)
- Donald Davidson (1893–1968)
- John Davidson (1857–1909)
- John Davies (1569–1626), historian
- Jon Davis
- Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
- Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
- Denis Davydov (1784–1839)
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- James Deahl
- Aurora de Albornoz (1926–1990) 20th century Spanish poet
- Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
- Daniel Defoe (1659/61? – 1731)
- Madeline DeFrees, (born 1919)
- Walter de la Mare, author, poet
- Thomas Dekker (1575–1641)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
- Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
- François de Malherbe (1555–1628),
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), 19th century poet
- Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)
- Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606)
- Tory Dent (1958– ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
- Evariste de Parny, 18th century French poet
- Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
- Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
- Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
- Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), 19th century poet
- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Canadian poet
- Diane di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
- Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
- James Dickey (1923–1997)
- Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
- Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Vladislav Petković Dis, Serbian poet
- Paul Dirmeikis (1954– ), French poet
- Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), American poet, novelist
- Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), American poet
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet (born 1941)
- Gojko Đogo, Serbian poet
- Pete Doherty, (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
- Joe Dolce, (born 1947), Australian musician, songwriter, poet
- John Donne (1572–1631)
- Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), U.S. Imagist poet
- Gavin Douglas
- Keith Douglas (1920–1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson (1867–1900)
- Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522–1560)
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, activist
- Norman Dubie, (born 1945)
- Jovan Dučić, Serbian poet and diplomatist
- Du Fu, the Poet Saint
- Du Mu, (803–852), Chinese poet
- Alan Dugan
- Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
- William Dunbar (1465–1520)
- Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
- Stephen Dunn
- Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
- Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poet
- Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
- Stuart Dybek
- Bob Dylan, born 1941
- Richard Eberhart
- Russell Edson
- Terry Ehret, (born 1955)
- Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857)
- George Eliot (1819–1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), writer
- Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849)
- Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
- Paul Éluard, French poet
- Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet
- Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet, Poet Laureate of Virginia
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American author
- Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (1850–1889)
- William Empson (1906–1984)
- Yunus Emre
- Michael Ende (1929–1995), German poet
- Paul Engle
- Ennius
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
- Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
- Haydar Ergülen
- Max Ernst (1891–1976), (Dada)
- Mehmet Erte
- Maggie Estep, American slam poet
- Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
- Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
- Martín Espada, American poet and teacher
- Florbela Espanca, poet
- Salvador Espriu, writer
- Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
- Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish American carpenter, poet
- Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
- Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), U.S. poet
- Euripides (480–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Mari Evans
- William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
- Gavin Ewart
- Fenggan
- Ferdowsi, (935–1020), Persian poet
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
- Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
- Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883)
- Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)
- John Fletcher (1579–1625)
- John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Imagist poet
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- Jean Follain (1903–1971) French poet
- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
- John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet
- Carolyn Forché, born 1950
- Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), promoter of many other writers.
- John Ford (1586–1639), playwright and poet.
- John M. Ford (1957–2006), novelist and poet.
- Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827)
- Hristo Fotev (1934–2002), Bulgarian poet
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
- Janet Frame, (born 1924)
- Robert Francis (1901–1987)
- Veronica Franco (1546–1591)
- Naim Frashëri (1846—1900)
- Louis Fréchette (1839–1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Erich Fried (1921–1988)
- Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss poet
- Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet
- Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), American poet
- Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
- Fuzûlî (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
- James Galvin (1951 – )
- Karina Galvez (1964– ), Ecuadorian poet
- Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1796–1869) Urdu & Persian poet
- Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876)
- Jean Garrigue (1914–1972)
- Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
- George Gascoigne (1525–1577)
- David Gascoyne (1916–2001)
- Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
- John Gay (1685–1732), songwriter, poet
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904–1991)
- Stefan George (1868–1933)
- Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
- Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606–1676)
- Aref Qazvini (1882–1934)
- Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
- Khalil Gibran, (The Prophet) (1883–1931)
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 – May 26, 1962)
- Jack Gilbert, (born 1925) American poet
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850)
- Denis Glover (1912–1980)
- Louise Glück (1943 – ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
[edit] Gra–Gri
- Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish poet
- Mark Granier, (born 1957), Irish poet
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Richard Graves (1715–1804), British poet and essayist
- Robert Graves (1895–1985), British author
- Thomas Gray (1716–1771), British poet
- Robert Greene (1558–1592)
- Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English woman poet
- Linda Gregg, (born 1945) American poet
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Fulk Greville (1554–1628)
- Susan Griffin
- Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
- Franz Grillparzer
- Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562)
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- Charlotte Forten Grimké
- Nikanor Grujić, Serbian poet
[edit] Gro–Gy
- Stanisław Grochowiak
- Philip Gross
- Igo Gruden (1893–1948)
- Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
- Paul Guest, (American poet, memoirist, quadriplegic)
- Bimal Guha, (born 1952) Leading Bangladeshi modern poet
- Jorge Guillen (1893–1984)
- Nicolas Guillén (1902–1989), (Cuban poet)
- Guido Guinizelli
- Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
- Gül Baba
- Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921)
- Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola), (1589–1638)
- Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
- Lee Gurga, (born 1949) American haiku poet
- Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
- Lars Gustafsson, (born 1936) Swedish poet
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950– )
- Beth Gylys, (born 1964), American poet and professor.
- Brion Gysin (1916–1986)
- Seungmoo Ha
- Rafey Habib
- Marilyn Hacker
- Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
- Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet
- Hai Zi
- John Haines, (born 1924)
- Donald Hall, (born 1928), 2006 US Poet Laureate
- Han Yu
- Han-Shan
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English poet
- Jim Harrison, (born 1937)
- Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
- Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
- David Harsent
- Peter Härtling
- Gwen Harwood
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Ahmet Haşim
- Olav Hauge (1908–1994)
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)
- Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
- Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), Cornish poet/vicar
- Robert Hayden
- Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
- John Heath-Stubbs
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Allison Hedge Coke, poet, writer, performer
- Markus Hediger, poet and translator
- John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
- Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
- Essex Hemphill (1957–1995)
- William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
- Adrian Henri
- Robert Henryson, (died c.1500) Scottish poet
- George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)
- Miguel Hernandez (1910–1942)
- Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet
- Hesiod, ancient Greek poet
- Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet
- Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
- Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
- Thomas Heywood, (157?–1650)
- William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
- Dick Higgins (1938–1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
- Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
- Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
- Hilda Hilst, (1930-2004)
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Ellen Hinsey, poet
- Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953) American poet
- George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), U.S. poet and publisher of "Kayak" magazine
- H.L. Hix, American poet
- Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929)
- James Hogg (1770–1835)
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)
- John Hollander, (born 1929)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), USA scholar
- Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Thomas Hood (1798–1845)
- A. D. Hope (July 21, 1907 – July 13, 2000)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Roman lyric poet
- George Moses Horton
- Joan Houlihan
- A. E. Housman (1859–1936)
- Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), (1517–1547)
- Richard Howard
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
- Djura Jaksic, Serbian poet
- Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994)
- Richard Jago (1715–1781)
- Clive James
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
- Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Serbian poet from Knin, Dalmatia
- Simon Jenko (1835–1869)
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Jia Dao
- John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet
- Edmund John
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
- Lionel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- David Jones (1895–1974), artist and poet
- Richard Jones
- Ryan Jones
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
- June Jordan (1936–2002), American poet and educator
- Anthony Joseph
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet
- James Joyce (1882–1941)
- Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
- Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
- Donald Justice (1925–2004), poet and artist
- Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist
- Kabir, Indian social reformer.
- Kālidāsa'Sanskrit poet
- Kambar, Tamil poet, (12th century BC)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rebel poet of Bengal
- Jim Kacian (born 1953)
- Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish
- Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976)
- Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
- Orhan Veli Kanik
- Jaan Kaplinski, (born 1941)
- Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
- Julia Kasdorf, (born 1962) American poet
- Laura Kasischke (born 1961) American poet
- Erich Kästner (1899–1974) poet, novelist
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- Shirley Kaufman (born 1923)
- Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967)
- Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poet
- John Keats (1795–1821)
- Weldon Kees
- Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1940), American writer, Poet Laureate of Virginia
- Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), US writer of French-Canadian ancestry
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- Omar Khayyám (1048–1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov (1885–1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939)
- Khawar Rizvi, (1 June 1938–15 Nov 1981)
[edit] Kob–Ky
- Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
- Jan Kochanowski (1530–84)
- Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
- Petar Kocic, Serbian poet
- Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
- Faik Konica, Albanian poet
- Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
- Srecko Kosovel (1904–1926)
- Laza Kostić
- Dezső Kosztolányi Hungarian poet
- Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
- Dimitris P. Kraniotis (born 1966), Greek poet
- Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
- Zlatko Krasni
- Ruth Krauss
- Awad Krayem (born 1948)
- Miroslav Krleža (1589–1638), poet, novelist
- Marilyn Krysl
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), poet, novelist
- Maxine Kumin
- Stanley Kunitz
- Tuli Kupferberg (1923–)
- Onat Kutlar
- Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
- Kusumagraj, eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist
- Edward Lear (1812–1888)
- Jan Lechoń
- Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917)
- David Lee, (born 1966)
- Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
- Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish
- Brad Leithauser (born 1953), American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher
- Sue Lenier English poet and playwright
- Lalitha Lenin
- John Leonard (1965– ) Australian
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), poet, novelist
- Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
- Bolesław Leśmian
- Rika Lesser
- Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
- Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
- Dana Levin (poet), (born 1965)
- Philip Levine (born 1928), 2011–2012 US Poet Laureate
- Larry Levis
- D. A. Levy (1942–1968), artist, poet, and publisher
- William Levy
- Saunders Lewis (1893–1985)
- Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
- Li Hou Zhu, (931–978)
- José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
- Tim Liardet
- Li Po, (701–762), the Poet Immortal
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Tim Lilburn
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001)
- Sarah Lindsay
- Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
- Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša (1824–1878), Serbian poet
- Thomas Lodge (1556–1625)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American
- Federico García Lorca
- Audre Lorde (1934–1992) American poet
- Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), American
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American
- Mina Loy (Dada)
- Lu You
- Gherasim Luca
- Lucilius
- Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American
- Lucan, (39–65), Roman
- Lucretius, (98?–55 BC), physicist
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
- Luo Binwang
- Mario Luzi
- John Lydgate (1370–1450)
- John Lyly (1553–1606)
- George Lyttelton (1709–1773)
[edit] Mac–Mak
- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
- George MacDonald (1824–1905), poet, novelist
- Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scots Gaelic poet
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
- Antonio Machado (1875–1939)
- Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Irish poet
- Compton Mackenzie
- Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
- Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
- Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
- Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), general and poet
- G. D. Madgulkar (1919–Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
- Clarence Major (born 1936)
- Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poetess
- Majeed Amjad (Pakistani poet)
[edit] Mal–Mar
- Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898)
- David Mallet, (c.1705–1765)
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
- Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
- James Clarence Mangan
- Bill Manhire (born 1946)
- Marcus Manilius (1st century)
- Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
- Klaus Mann (1906–1949)
- Thomas Mann (1875–1955), author
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988)
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne (1269–1340)
- Chris Mansell (1953–)
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), poet, novelist
- Ausias March (1397–1459), poet of the 15th century
- Morton Marcus (poet) (1938–2009), poet and author
- Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
- Giambattista Marino (1569–1625)
- Edwin Markham
- Đorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Nicknamed "Koder", he was one of the most enigmatic of Serbian poets; referred to as the first Serbian modernist.
- Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English playwright
- Clément Marot (1496–1544)
- José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer.
- Martial (40–ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
- Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish poet
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
[edit] Mas–Maz
- J.D. McClatchy
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown – beat)
- John McCrae (1872–1918), In Flanders Fields
- Bryant H. McGill
- Elvis McGonagall
- William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
- Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
- Campbell McGrath
- Wendy McGrath
- Thomas McGrath (1916–1990)
- Heather McHugh, (born 1948)
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
- James McIntyre (1827–1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Claude McKay
- Don McKay
- Rod McKuen
- James McMichael (born 1939)
- Norman MacCaig
- Mei Yaochen
- Meng Haoran
- George Meredith (1828–1909), English poet, novelist
- Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
- Alda Merini (1931–2009)
- Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), (symbolist)
- James Merrill (1926–1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Thomas Merton (1915–1968), American author and Trappist monk
- W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
- Charlotte Mew (1869–1928)
- Henry Meyer (1840–1925)
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Henri Michaux, poet and painter
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
- Veronica Micle (1850–1889)
- Agnes Miegel (1879–1964)
- Josephine Miles
- Jennifer Militello
- Branko Miljković, Serbian poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
- Joaquin Miller (1837–1913)
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Spike Milligan (1918–2002), (The Goon Show)
- Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911–2004)
- Alice Duer Miller
- Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian –Polish,
- Jane Miller
- John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
- Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet
- Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Adrian Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
- Stephen Mitchell, (born 1943) American poet, translator, scholar, anthologist
- Waddie Mitchell, American cowboy, poet
- Ndre Mjeda
- Nicholas I of Montenegro, Serbian poet
- Harold Monro
- Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
- Charles Montagu (1st Earl of Halifax), (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
- Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
- Alan Moore (poet) (contemporary Irish poet, born 1960)
- Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
- Merrill Moore (1903–1957), Sonneteer
- Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
- Dom Moraes
- John Morgan (1688–1733)
- Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914)
- William Morris (1834–1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
- Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter),(1943–1971)
- Valzhyna Mort (born 1981)
- Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
- Howard Moss
- Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999–2009)
- Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
- Micere Githae Mugo,(born 1942), Kenyan poet
- Taha Muhammad Ali, (born 1931), Palestinian poet
- Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German poet and revolutionary
- Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
- Lale Müldür, (born 1956)
- Laura Mullen, American poet
- Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
- George Murray, (born 1971), Canadian poet
- Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
- Les Murray, (born 1938)
- Anthony Munday (1553–1633)
- Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
- Susan Musgrave, Poet.
- Lukijan Musicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
- George Murnu, aromanian poet
- Nikola Musulin, Serbian poet
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
- Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
- Thomas Nashe (1567–1601)
- Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet
- Nedîm (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
- John Neihardt (1881–1973)
- Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet
- Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
- Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
- Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), historian, poet
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
- Nisami (1141–1209), Persian poet
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974– )
- B. P. Nichol (1944–1988)
- John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 – 1 July 1931)
- Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 – December 31, 1970)
- Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni), (1911–1938)
- Petar II Petrovic Njegos (1813–1851), Serb poet & ruler.
- Noon Meem Rashid (Pakistani poet)
- Narsinh Mehta ( Indian Poet ..has written in Gujarati language)
- Christopher Nolan, (born 1970), poet, member of Aosdána
- Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965)
- Nolla, Olga (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
- Harry Northup (born 1940), American poet
- Caroline Norton (1808–1877)
- Cyprian Kamil Norwid
- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772–1801), German poet and novelist
- Alfred Noyes
- Julia Nyberg (1784–1854)
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Dositej Obradović, Serbian philosopher, educator, writer and poet
- Ron Offen (1930–)
- Dennis O'Driscoll, (born 1954), Irish poet
- Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), New York School
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Charles Olson (Black Mountain School founder)
- Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
- George Oppen
- Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II, American painter & poet
- Zaharije Orfelin, Serbian polymath and poet
- Peter Orlovsky (beat)
- Gregory Orr (born 1947)
- Öser
- Agnieszka Osiecka
- Alice Oswald
- Ouyang Xiu
- Ovid, (43 BC–17 AD), Roman poet
- Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
- Ismet Özel
- Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
- Ron Padgett
- Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet, holocaust survivor
- Grace Paley
- Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 – October 24, 1897)
- Palladas
- Michael Palmer (1943–)
- Sima Pandurović, Serbian poet
- Daniele Pantano (1976–)
- Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
- Thomas Parnell (1670–1718)
- Nicanor Parra, Chile
- Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
- Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), novelist
- Benito Pastoriza Iyodo, Puerto Rico
- Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
- Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
- Don Paterson
- Coventry Patmore
- Brian Patten
- Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet
- Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican poet
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet, novelist
- Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
- Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
- Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
- Sam Pereira
- Lucia Perillo
- Persius (34–62), Roman poet
- Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935)
- Robert Peters (1924–) American poet
- Pascale Petit
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304–1374)
- Veljko Petrović (poet), Serbian poet
- Mirko Petrović-Njegoš
- Ambrose Philips
- Tanwir Phool,(born 1948) English & Urdu Pakistani poet
- Pindar (522–443 BC), Theban lyric poet
- Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365–circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Sylvia Plath (1932–1963),
- Shmuel Plavnik(1886–1941), Belarusian poet and writer
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), US mystery writer and poet
- Edward Pollock (1823–1858), California poet
- Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet
- Antonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian poet
- Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972), (Imagist movement leader)
- Halina Poswiatowska
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- E.J. Pratt Canadian poet
- Petar Preradović, Croatian poet of Serbian origin
- France Prešeren (1800–1849), Slovene
- Jacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet
- Robert Priest Canadian poet
- Richard Price (born 1966)
- Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
- Bryan Waller Proctor
- Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin Poet
- Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
- Luigi Pulci
- Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet
- pothigai tamilarasan
- Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
- Branko Radičević (1824–1853), 19th Century Serbian lyric poet
- Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
- Kathleen Raine (1908–2003)
- Samina Raja, Pakistani poet
- Milan Rakić, Serbian poet
- Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
- Dudley Randall
- Agnes Rapai (1952–) Hungarian poet
- Thomas Randolph (1605–1635)
- John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
- Stephen Ratcliffe, (born 1948), U.S. poet
- Tom Raworth
- Man Ray (1890–1976), (Dada)
- Wayne Ray, 1950 –
- Angela Readman
- Henry Reed (1914–1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- James Reaney
- Abraham Regelson (1896–1981)
- Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
- James Reiss
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
- Charles Reznikoff
- Pi Rixiu
- Umberto Saba
- Sa'di (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet
- Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German poet
- Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
- Ali Ahmad Said (1930– )
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491–1558)
- Akim Samar (1916-1943), Soviet Nanai poet
- Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
- Satsvarupa Das Goswami (1939–)
- Sonia Sanchez (1934– )
- Michal Šanda (1965– ), Czech poet
- Sappho, ancient Greek poet
- Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
- Aleksa Šantić, Serbian poet
- Taneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free-verse haiku poet
- William Saroyan (1908–1981), an American author of Armenian descent
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), British war poet
- Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet
- Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
- Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), U.S. poet
- Maurice Scève, (c. 1500–1564)
- Georges Schehadé (1905–1989)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), poet, playwright
- Arno Schmidt (1914–1979)
- Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer
- Philip Schultz
- Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), inventor of historical novel
- Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
- George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
- Johannes Secundus (1511–1536), Neo-Latin poet
- Peter Seaton (1942–2010)
- Hugh Seidman
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize)
- Léopold Senghor (1906–2001)
- Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
- Vikram Seth
- Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
- John W. Sexton (born 1958)
- Thomas Shadwell
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564–1616), English poet
- Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), Artist and black activist
- Otep Shamaya, (born 1979), poet and songwriter
- Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott
- Karl Shapiro
- Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
- William Shenstone
- Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
- Taras Shevchenko
- Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
- James Shirley (1596–1666)
- Hovhannes Shiraz (1915-1984) Armenian poet
- Avraham Shlonsky
- Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
- Eli Siegel (1902–1978)
- Ron Silliman (born 1946)
- Shel Silverstein (1930–1999)
- Simeon Simev
- Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
- Lemn Sissay
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
- Marilyn Singer
- Sjón, (born 1962 in Iceland)
- John Skelton (1460–1529)
- Sasha Skenderija
- Ed Skoog (born 1971)
- Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet
- Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, folklorist
- Kenneth Slessor
- Anton Martin Slomsek (1800–1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
- Juliusz Slowacki
- Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet
- Christopher Smart
- Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
- Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961)
- Margaret Smith, American poet and artist
- Patti Smith {poet and songwriter}
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
- William Jay Smith
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)
- Gary Snyder, (born 1930), (beat – Regarding Wave)
- Edith Södergran
- Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
- Nishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet
- David Solway, (born 1941)
- William Somervile (1675–1742)
- Sophocles, (c.496–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Charles Sorley (1895–1915), war poet
- Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- Gary Soto
- Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate 1813
- Robert Southwell (1561–1595)
- Stephen Spender, (Twenty Poems - Oxford, 1930)
- Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
[edit] Sta–Sto
- Leopold Staff
- William Stafford
- Harold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet
- Ann Stanford (1916–1987)
- George Starbuck
- Statius, (c. AD 45–96)
- Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Slovene
- Stefan Stefanović, Serbian poet
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
- Eric Stenbock
- Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), American poet and advocate
- Gerald Stern
- C. J. Stevens, (born 1927), American poet
- Wallace Stevens (1880–1955)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
- Trumbull Stickney, (19th c.)
- James Still
- Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja, Serbian poetess
- Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
- Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
- Ruth Stone, (born 1915)
- Theodor Storm (1817–1888)
- Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938)
[edit] Str–Stu
- Thiruvalluvar,(31A.D.),Tamil poet
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
- Tao Qian
- Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
- Alain Tasso, Franco-Lebanese poet, painter, essayist, literary critic and art critic.
- Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
- Allen Tate (1899–1979)
- James Tate
- Henry Taylor (1800–1886)
- Henry S. Taylor
- Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
- Telesilla (fl. 510BC), Greek poet
- Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet
- Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Urdu poet, India
- Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
- Vahan Terian (1885-1920) Armenian poet
- Lucy Terry
- A.S.J. Tessimond
- Neyzen Tevfik
- Thomas Traherne
- Georg Trakl (1887–1914)
- Elizabeth Treadwell (1967–)
- Michel Tremblay, (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
- Roland Michel Tremblay, (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
- Duško Trifunović, Serbian poet
- Calvin Trillin, (born 1935), American writer of comic verse
- Quincy Troupe
- Tõnu Trubetsky Estonian/Ruthenian poet
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German poet
- Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), the "All-Armenian poet"
- Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet
- Thomas Tusser, 16th century English poet.
- Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet
- Hone Tuwhare, (born 1922)
- Julian Tuwim
- Jan Twardowski
- Chase Twichell (born 1950)
- Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521–1605)
- Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)
- Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), (Dada)
- Ville Valo
- Mona Van Duyn
- Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938)
- Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
- Jean-Pierre Vallotton (1955), French speaking Swiss poet and writer
- Cor van den Heuvel, (born 1931), American haiku poet, editor, commentator, archivist
- Varand, (Born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, translator, painter, professor of Armenian literature
- Dimitris Varos, (1949–)
- Henry Vaughan (1621–1695)
- Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003)
- Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
- Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), (1861–1915)
- Vemana
- Gavril Stefanovic Venclovic (1680–1749), Serbian poet
- Helen Vendler
- Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902)
- Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
- Paul Vermeersch, (born 1973) Canadian
- Alfonso Vallejo, (born 1943) Spanish
- John Webster (c.1580–c.1634
- Rebecca Wee
- Hannah Weiner (1928–1997)
- Wei Ying-wu (737-792) Chinese poet
- Wen Yiduo Chinese poet (1899–1946)
- Philip Whalen (1923–2002)
- Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
- Martin Walser (born 1927)
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
- Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785)
- Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
- E.B. White (1899–1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
- James L. White (1936–1981), American poet, editor and teacher
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
- Isabella Whitney b. 1540s?
- Reed Whittemore b. 1919, American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet
|
Lists of poets
|
|
| By language |
|
|
By nationality
or culture |
|
|
| By type |
|
|
.jpg)
