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Revision as of 20:50, 2 February 2011
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Henry Abbey (1842–1911)
- Sam Abrams (born 1935)
- Seth Abramson (born 1976)
- Diane Ackerman (born 1956)
- Duane Ackerson (born 1942)
- Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968)
- Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004)
- Helen Adam (1909–1993)
- John Adams (poet) (1704–1740)
- Léonie Adams (1899–1988)
- Kim Addonizio (born 1954)
- James Agee (1909–1955)
- Ai (poet) (born 1947)
- Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
- Salman Akhtar (born 1946)
- Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956)
- Bronson Alcott
- Sherman Alexie (born 1966)
- Felipe Alfau (1902–1999)
- Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949)
- William Allegrezza (born 1974)
- Dick Allen (born 1939)
- Donald Allen (1912–2004)
- Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832 – 1911)
- Ron Allen (born 1947)
- Washington Allston (1779 – 1843)
- Alurista (born 1947)
- Julia Álvarez (born 1950)
- Alta (Alta Gerrey) (born 1942)
- Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960)
- A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)
- Victor Anderson (1917-2001)
- Bruce Andrews (born 1948)
- Kevin Andrews (writer) (1924 – 1989)
- Ron Androla (born 1954)
- Ralph Angel (born 1951)
- Maya Angelou (born 1928)
- David Antin (born 1932)
- Antler (born 1946)
- "Brother Antoninus" — William Everson (1912–1994)
- Susanne Antonetta (born 1956)
- Philip Appleman (born 1926)
- Adrian Arancibia (born 1971)
- Rae Armantrout ((born 1947)
- Richard Armour (poet) (1906–1989)
- Craig Arnold (born 1967)
- Robert P. Arthur (born 1943)
- M. K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982)
- John Ashbery (born 1927)
- Augusta Emma Stetson (1842–1928)
- Joseph Auslander (1897–1965)
- Paul Auster (born 1947)
- James L. Avery, Sr. (born 1948)
- Sevan Aydinian (born 1983)
- Jody Azzouni (born 1954)
B
- Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952)
- Bellamy Bach (pseudonym used by a group of writers)
- Joseph M. Bachelor (1889–1947)
- Mahnaz Badihian
- Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940)
- David Baker (born 1954)
- John Balaban, (born 1943)
- Jesse Ball (born 1978)
- Russell Banks
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (born 1934)
- David Baratier(born 1970)
- Coleman Barks
- Mary Barnard
- Djuna Barnes
- Tim Barnes
- Catherine Barnett
- Candy Barr
- Laird Barron
- Bertha Hirsch Baruch
- Todd Bash
- Ellen Bass, (born 1947)
- Arlo Bates
- David Bates (poet)
- Dawn-Michelle Baude
- Eric Baus
- Charles Baxter (author)
- Abel Beach
- Ray Young Bear
- Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin
- George Beck
- Julian Beck
- Larry Beckett
- Joshua Beckman
- Aja Beech, (born 1978)
- Ethel Lynn Beers
- Erin Belieu, (born 1957)
- Marvin Bell
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- William Rose Benét
- Park Benjamin (poet)
- Nelson Bentley
- Bill Berkson
- David Berman (musician)
- Charles Bernstein (born 1950)
- Steven Jesse Bernstein (1950–1991)
- Anselm Berrigan
- Ted Berrigan (1934–1983)
- Wendell Berry (born 1934)
- John Berryman (1914–1972)
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Lorraine Bethel
- Helen Bevington
- Frank Bidart (born 1939)
- Ambrose Bierce
- Linda Bierds
- David Biespiel
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958)
- John Peale Bishop
- Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975)
- Baxter Black
- Paul Blackburn (1926–1971)
- Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet)
- Nicole Blackman
- Kimberly M. Blaeser
- Don Blanding
- Robin Blaser
- Anthony Bleecker
- Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
- Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919)
- Henry Ames Blood
- Roberts Blossom
- Robert Bly (born 1926)
- Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672)
- D. A. Blyler
- Maxwell Bodenheim
- Jean Boese
- Louise Bogan
- Arna Bontemps
- Bruce Boston
- David Bottoms, (born 1949)
- Jenny Boully
- Kay Boyle, (1902–1992)
- William Brandon (author)
- Beth Brant
- Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)
- Kate Braverman
- Donari Braxton
- Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
- Ken Brewer (1941–2006)
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster
- Kim Bridgford
- Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)
- John Malcolm Brinnin (1916–1999)
- James Brock (born 1958)
- Joseph Brodsky (1940 – 1996),
- Louis Daniel Brodsky (born 1941)
- David Bromige (1933 - )
- William Bronk (1918–1999)
- Charles Timothy Brooks
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
- Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?–1845)
- "Brother Antoninus" — William Everson (1912–1994)
- Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
- Alice Brown (writer)
- Rita Mae Brown
- Francis Fisher Browne
- William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
- Jack Buck
- David Budbill, (born 1940)
- Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
- David R. Bunch
- Henry Cuyler Bunner
- José Antonio Burciaga
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Amelia Josephine Burr
- Maxwell Struthers Burt
- Raegan Butcher
- Ray Buttigieg (born 1955)
- W. E. Butts
- Witter Bynner
- Gilbert Byron
C
- Alex Caldiero
- James Edwin Campbell (poet)
- Mary Baine Campbell
- Melville Henry Cane
- Skipwith Cannell
- Joe Cardarelli
- Jim Carroll
- Hayden Carruth, (1921–2008)
- Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904)
- Jared Carter
- Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
- Phoebe Cary
- Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
- Sandra M. Castillo
- Ana Castillo
- Madison Cawein
- Thomas Centolella
- Joseph Ceravolo
- Richard Wayne Chambliss, Jr.
- William Ellery Channing (1818–1901)
- Arthur Chapman (1874–1935)
- John Jay Chapman
- Fred Chappell
- Alexander Chee
- Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945)
- Maxine Chernoff
- Bob Cherry
- Chrystos
- Angélico Chávez
- James Wm. Chichetto
- William Childress
- John Ciardi (1916–1986)
- Noah Cicero
- Sandra Cisneros
- Carson Cistulli (born 1979)
- Amy Clampitt
- Tom Clark (poet)
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909 - 1971)
- John Clarke (poet)
- Lucille Clifton, (1936–2010)
- Joshua Clover
- Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)
- Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976)
- Stanton A. Coblentz
- Andrei Codrescu
- Robert P. T. Coffin
- Ira Cohen
- Nan Cohen
- Jim Cohn
- Henri Cole
- Norma Cole
- Wanda Coleman
- Billy Collins (born 1941)
- Betsy Colquitt (born 1927)
- Shanna Compton (born 1970)
- Hilda Conkling
- Evan S. Connell
- Leo Connellan (1928–2001)
- Gillian Conoley
- J. Gordon Coogler
- Rose Terry Cooke
- Ina Coolbrith
- Clark Coolidge
- Dennis Cooper
- Jake Copass
- William Corbett
- Billy Corgan
- Cid Corman (1924–2004)
- Alfred Corn, (born 1943)
- Gregory Corso (1930–2001)
- Jayne Cortez
- Joe Cottonwood
- Henri Coulette
- John Cournos
- Elise Cowen
- Louis O. Coxe
- Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Hart Crane, (1899–1932)
- Stephen Crane, (1871–1900)
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Gary William Crawford
- Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
- Judson Crews (born 1917)
- Harry Crosby (1898–1929)
- Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
- E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- J.V. Cunningham (1911–1985)
- Bloodgood Cutter
D
- Beverly Dahlen (born 1934)
- Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Steve Dalachinsky
- Enid Dame
- S. Foster Damon
- Jim Daniels (born 1956)
- Tina Darragh
- Robert von Dassanowsky
- Guy Davenport
- Donald Davidson (poet)
- Gustav Davidson
- Michael Davidson (born 1944)
- Alan Davies (poet)
- Dale Davis (poet)
- Gwen Davis
- Jon Davis (poet)
- Clarence Day
- Jaime de Angulo
- Caridad de la Luz
- Philip F. Deaver
- Madeline DeFrees, (born 1919)
- Edwin Denby (poet)
- Richard Denner
- Reuel Denney
- Carl Dennis
- Tory Dent
- Babette Deutsch
- Jennifer K Dick
- Ray DiPalma
- George Dickerson
- James Dickey (1923–1997)
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
- Roger Dickinson-Brown (born 1944)
- Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
- Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
- R. H. W. Dillard (born 1937)
- George Dillon
- Ray DiPalma (born 1943)
- Diane Di Prima (born 1934)
- Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)
- Patricia Dobler
- Stephen Dobyns (1941)
- Owen Dodson
- John Dolan (writer)
- Nathan Haskell Dole
- Sonya Dorman
- Ed Dorn (1929–1999)
- Julia Caroline Dorr
- Mark Doty
- Franz Douskey
- Rita Dove (1952)
- Kirby Doyle
- Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820)
- Will Allen Dromgoole
- Celia Dropkin
- Norman Dubie, (born 1945)
- Bruce Ducker
- Peter Kane Dufault
- Alan Dugan (born 1923–2003)
- Henry Dumas
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
- Robert Duncan (1919–1988)
- Jim Dunlap
- Stephen Dunn
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- Job Durfee
- Stuart Dybek (born 1942)
- Bob Dylan (born 1941)
E
- Cornelius Eady
- Pliny Earle (physician)
- Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)
- David Edelstadt
- Russell Edson
- Kari edwards
- Terry Ehret, (born 1955)
- Max Ehrmann
- Larry Eigner (1927–1996)
- Loren Eiseley
- Che Elias
- T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
- James Emanuel
- Lynn Emanuel
- Claudia Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
- Paul Engle
- Theodore Enslin (born 1925)
- Daniel Mark Epstein
- Clayton Eshleman (born 1935)
- Martín Espada
- Willard R. Espy
- Maggie Estep
- Jerry Estrin (1947–1993)
- David Allan Evans
- Mari Evans
- Landis Everson (1926 – 2007)
- William Everson — Brother Antoninus (1912–1994)
F
- Ruth Fainlight
- B.H. Fairchild
- William Clark Falkner
- Roger Fanning
- Norma Farber
- Patricia Fargnoli
- John C. Farrar
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Kenneth Fearing
- Frederick Feirstein
- Irving Feldman (born 1928)
- Paul Fericano
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)
- Eugene Field
- Rachel Field
- James Thomas Fields
- Fireside Poets
- Annie Finch
- Ann Fisher-Wirth
- Bob Flanagan
- John Gould Fletcher
- Roland Flint
- Nick Flynn
- Jack Foley (poet)
- Carolyn Forché (born 1950)
- John M. Ford
- Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911)
- FrancEye (Frances Dean Smith)
- Robert Frazier
- Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
- Robert Frost (1874–1963)
- Gwen Frostic
- Gene Frumkin (born 1928)
- Nan Fry
- Gloria Frym (born 1947)
- Alice Fulton (born 1952)
G
- Tess Gallagher
- James Galvin (poet) (born 1951)
- Forrest Gander (born 1956)
- Deborah Garrison (born 1965)
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
- Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
- Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
- Jack Gilbert
- Strickland Gillilan (1869–1954)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
- Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941)
- Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)
- Peter Gizzi (born 1959)
- Jesse Glass (born 1954)
- Louise Glück (born 1943)
- Patricia Goedicke, (1931–2006)
- Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961)
- Laurence Goldstein
- Rodolfo Gonzales
- Rigoberto González
- Elaine Goodale
- Kevin Goodan
- Alice Goodman
- Paul Goodman (writer)
- Hedwig Gorski (born 1949)
- Janice Gould
- David Graham (American poet)
- Jorie Graham
- Judy Grahn
- Linda Gregerson
- Linda Gregg
- Debora Greger
- Horace Gregory
- Robert Grenier (poet)
- Susan Griffin
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimké
- Lee Groban
- Allen Grossman
- Gabriel Gudding
- Charles Guenther (1920–2008)
- Barbara Guest (1920–2006)
- Edgar Guest (1891–1959)
- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Arthur Guiterman
- R. S. Gwynn
- Brion Gysin (1916–1986)
H
- Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)
- Hermann Hagedorn
- Jessica Hagedorn
- Richard Hague
- Kimiko Hahn (born 1955)
- John Haines, (born 1924)
- Donald Hall
- Irma P. Hall
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
- Barbara Hamby
- Jupiter Hammon
- Jeff Hardy
- William Harmon
- Jim Harrison (born 1937)
- Carla Harryman (born 1952)
- Robert Hass
- Katherine Hastings
- Julian Hawthorne
- Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
- Terrance Hayes
- Paul Hamilton Hayne
- William Shakespeare Hays
- Trebor Healey
- Eloise Klein Healy
- Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Lyn Hejinian (born 1941)
- Michael Heller
- Essex Hemphill
- Alice Corbin Henderson
- Nancy A. Henry
- Oliver Herford
- William Heyen
- Leland Hickman (1934 – 1991)
- Bob Hicok
- Dick Higgins
- Scott Hightower (born 1952)
- Conrad Hilberry (born 1928)
- Donora Hillard (born 1982)
- Robert Hillyer
- Ellen Hinsey
- Edward Hirsch
- Jane Hirshfield (born 1953)
- Jack Hirschman
- George Hitchcock (1914–2010)
- H.L. Hix
- Allen Hoey (born 1952)
- Linda Hogan (born 1947)
- Tony Hoagland
- Daniel Hoffman
- Roald Hoffmann
- John Hollander (born 1929)
- Bill Holm (poet)
- Bob Holman
- M. Carl Holman
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
- Dennis Holt (born 1942)
- Garrett Hongo
- Edwin Honig (born 1919)
- George Moses Horton
- Joan Houlihan
- Richard Howard (born 1929)
- Robert E. Howard (1906–1936)
- Fanny Howe (born 1940)
- Julia Ward Howe
- Marie Howe
- Susan Howe (born 1937)
- Helen Hoyt
- Thomas Hubbard (born 1938)
- Detrick Hughes (born 1966)
- Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
- Richard Hugo (1923–1982)
- Constance Hunting (1925–2006)
- Cynthia Huntington
- Siri Hustvedt
I-J
- David Ignatow (1914–1997)
- Arthur Crew Inman
- P. Inman
- Josephine Jacobsen
- Afdhere Jama
- James Cummins
- J. J. Jameson
- Patricia Janus
- Joseph Jarman
- Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)
- Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
- Robinson Jeffers, (1887–1962)
- Ted Joans
- Orrick Glenday Johns
- Denis Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- Josephine Winslow Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
- Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937)
- Kathryn Johnston (2007–2010)
- Richard Jones (poet)
- Sarah Jones (stage)
- June Jordan
- Pierre Joris
- Andrew Joron
- Lawrence Joseph
- Matthew Josephson
- Frank Judge
- Donald Justice
K
- Jim Kacian
- Sheema Kalbasi
- Chester Kallman
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Lenore Kandel
- Mary Karr
- Julia Kasdorf
- Janet Kauffman (born 1945)
- Herbert Kaufman
- Shirley Kaufman, (born 1923)
- Sarah Kay (poet)
- W. B. Keckler
- John Keene (writer)
- Weldon Kees (1914–1955)
- Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951)
- Jamie Kennedy (poet)
- Richard Kenney
- Maurice Kenney
- Jane Kenyon
- Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
- Sophie Kerr
- Francis Scott Key
- Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
- Alicia Keys
- Kerry Shawn Keys (born 1946)
- Bill Keith
- D. Kildare
- Aline Murray Kilmer
- Joyce Kilmer
- Val Kilmer
- H.T. Kirby-Smith
- Suji Kwock Kim
- Kimiko Hahn
- Haven Kimmel
- Amy King
- Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
- Susan Kinsolving
- Mary Kinzie
- David Kirby (poet)
- Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996)
- Carolyn Kizer, (born 1925)
- August Kleinzahler (born 1949)
- William Kloefkorn
- Etheridge Knight(1933–1991)
- Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)
- Ruth Ellen Kocher
- Wayne Koestenbaum
- Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948)
- Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
- Alfred Kreymborg
- Maxine Kumin
- Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
- Laurie Kutchins
- Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
- Joanne Kyger (born 1934)
L
- Christine E. Laine
- Philip Lamantia
- Fran Landesman
- Joseph Langland
- Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
- Dorothea Lasky
- George Parsons Lathrop
- Richmond Lattimore
- Sanders Anne Laubenthal
- James Laughlin, (1914 – 1997)
- Ann Lauterbach
- Dorianne Laux
- James Lavilla-Havelin
- William P. Lawrence
- John Edward Lawson
- Robert Lax (1915–2000)
- Emma Lazarus
- Kelly Le Fave
- David Lee (poet), (born 1966)
- Li-Young Lee
- Malka Lee
- Lemon (poet)
- Aya de Leon
- Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
- David Lerner
- Jimmy Lerner
- Rika Lesser
- Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
- Dana Levin, (born 1965)
- Philip Levine (born 1928)
- Larry Levis
- D. A. Levy
- William Levy
- Alonzo Lewis
- Charles Lillard
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Tao Lin
- Sarah Lindsay
- Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
- Amon Liner
- Sara Jane Lippincott
- Jonathan Lamas
- George Cabot Lodge
- Ron Loewinsohn
- John Logan (1923 – 1987)
- Naomi Long Madgett (born 1923)
- James Longenbach
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
- Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
- Maria White Lowell
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
- Walter Lowenfels
- Mina Loy
- Felipe Luciano
- Lydia Lunch
- Masiela Lusha
- Thomas Lux
- William Whittingham Lyman Jr
- Henry Lyman
- Thomas Lynch (born 1948)
M
- Lewis MacAdams (born 1944)
- Jackson Mac Low
- Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
- Percy MacKaye
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
- Naomi Long Madgett
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
- Clarence Major, (born 1936)
- Taylor Mali
- Frank Richard Maloney
- Tom Mandel (poet)
- Djelloul Marbrook
- Morton Marcus (1936–2009)
- Joseph Moncure March
- Edwin Markham
- Don Marquis
- David Mason
- Matt Mason
- Steve Mason
- Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)
- Harry Mathews
- William Matthews (1942–1997)
- John Matthias
- Kevin Max
- Bernadette Mayer
- Frances Mayes
- Janet McAdams
- Robert McAlmon
- Jack McCarthy
- J. D. McClatchy
- Michael McClure
- Michael McFee
- Bryant H. McGill (born 1969)
- Karyna McGlynn
- Mac McGovern (born 1950)
- Michael McGovern
- Campbell McGrath
- Thomas McGrath (1916–1990)
- Heather McHugh (born 1948)
- Claude McKay (1889–1948)
- Louis McKee
- Rod McKuen
- James McMichael (born 1939)
- Darren J McMurray (born 1968)
- Wesley McNair
- Louise McNeill
- Alexander Beaufort Meek
- Abel Meeropol
- David Meltzer
- Herman Melville (born 1819–1890)
- Samuel Menashe (born 1925)
- Nancy Mercado (born 1959)
- William Meredith (born 1919)
- Billy Merrell
- Eve Merriam
- James Merrill (1926–1995)
- Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
- Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
- W.S. Merwin (born 1927)
- Tom Meschery
- Sarah Messer (born 1966)
- Henry Meyer (1840-1925)
- Robert Mezey
- William Michaelian (born 1956)
- Diane Middlebrook
- Josephine Miles (1911–1985)
- Joseph Millar
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
- Alice Duer Miller
- Jane Miller
- Rev. Jen Miller
- Joaquin Miller (1837–1913)
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- May Miller
- Tim Miller
- Vassar Miller
- Deborah A. Miranda
- Gary Miranda
- John Kearsley Mitchell
- Susan Mitchell
- K. Silem Mohammad
- Anis Mojgani
- Paul Monette
- Mong-Lan
- Marion Montgomery
- José Montoya
- William Vaughn Moody
- Clara Jessup Moore
- Charles Leonard Moore
- Daniel Moore
- Jacqueline S. Moore
- Jessica Care Moore
- Julia A. Moore
- Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
- Pat Mora
- Barbara Moraff
- A. F. Moritz
- Hilda Morley (1916–1998)
- George Frederick Morgan (1922–2004)
- Richard Morris
- Tracie Morris
- Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
- Bradford Morrow
- Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
- Stephen Morse (born 1945)
- Jennifer Moxley (born 1964)
- Viggo Mortensen
- Howard Moss
- Thylias Moss
- Louise Chandler Moulton
- Anna Cora Mowatt
- Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
- Harryette Mullen
- Charles Muñoz
- Erin Murphy
- Sheila Murphy
- Pauli Murray
- Sheila Murphy
N
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
- John Neal
- John Neihardt
- Jill Neimark
- Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
- Arthur Nersesian
- Kenn Nesbitt (born 1962)
- F. A. Nettelbeck (born 1950)
- Celeste Newbrough
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974)
- Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)
- Audrey Niffenegger
- John Frederick Nims
- Lucille Nixon
- Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
- Jessica Nordell
- Charles North
- Jessica Nelson North
- Jim Northrup (writer)
- Harry Northup (born 1940)
- Alice Notley
- Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952)
O
- Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
- Geoffrey G. O'Brien
- Ed Ochester
- Blanche Oelrichs
- Ron Offen
- Frank O'Hara (1926–1966)
- Sharon Olds (born 1942)
- Mary Oliver (born 1935)
- Alix Olson
- Charles Olson (1910–1970)
- George Oppen (1908–1984)
- Mary Oppen (1908–1990)
- James Oppenheim
- Joel Oppenheimer
- Peter Oresick
- Gregory Orr (born 1947)
- Alicia Ostriker
P
- Ron Padgett (born 1942)
- Grace Paley
- Cheryl Pallant
- Condé Benoist Pallen
- Michael Palmer (born 1943)
- Jay Parini
- Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
- David M. Parsons (born 1943)
- Lee Passarella
- Linda Pastan (born 1932)
- Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
- Josephine Preston Peabody
- Richard Peabody
- Molly Peacock
- Harry Thurston Peck
- Bryan Penberthy
- Rob Penny
- James Gates Percival
- Eleanor Percy Lee
- William Alexander Percy
- Sam Pereira (born 1949)
- Bob Perelman
- Lucia Perillo
- Alice N. Persons
- Robert Peters
- Marge Piercy (1936)
- Nick Piombino
- Robert Pinsky (1940)
- Carl Phillips
- Wanda Phipps
- Anthony Piccione
- John Pierpont
- Josephine Pinckney
- Edward Coote Pinkney
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
- Placid Poet (pseudonym used by Darren J McMurray-Poet) (born 1968)
- Lanny Poffo
- Robert Polito
- Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
- Paul Martinez Pompa
- Marie Ponsot (born 1921)
- Carol Potter
- Charles Potts (1943)
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
- Kevin Powell
- Julien de Lallande Poydras
- Jack Prelutsky (1940)
- Elizabeth Prentiss
- Reynolds Price
- Frederic Prokosch
- Kevin Prufer
Q
- George Quasha (born 1942)
R
- Kevin Rabas
- Burton Raffel
- Sam Ragan
- Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
- Lee Ranaldo
- Dudley Randall (1914–2000)
- James Ryder Randall
- Julia Randall
- Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
- John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
- Sadi Ranson
- Ron Rash
- Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948)
- Linda Ravenswood
- David Ray (born 1932)
- Wayne Ray (Alabama b. 1950, now in Canada)
- Thomas Buchanan Read
- Janice Rebibo
- Spencer Reece
- Ishmael Reed (born 1938)
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Naomi Replansky
- Paul Reps
- Carter Revard
- Donald Revell (born 1954)
- Eben E. Rexford
- Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
- Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
- Samuel F. Rhodes
- William Henry Rhodes
- René Ricard
- Cale Young Rice
- Stan Rice
- Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
- Beah Richards
- Laura E. Richards
- Monica Richards
- Lola Ridge (1873–1941)
- Laura Riding
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Alberto Ríos
- Tomás Rivera
- Amélie Louise Rives
- James J. Roberts (born 1947)
- Howard W. Robertson
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
- Edouard Roditi
- Luis J. Rodriguez
- Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
- Pattiann Rogers
- Matthew Rohrer
- Henry Rollins
- David Romtvedt
- Ronald Talney
- Raymond Roseliep
- Franklin Rosemont (born 1943)
- J. Allyn Rosser
- Terry Rossio
- Jerome Rothenberg (born 1934)
- Michael Rothenberg
- Anne Rouse (born 1954)
- Thomas Rowley (1721–1796)
- Gibbons Ruark (born 1941)
- Anne Rouse
- Thomas Rowley (poet)
- Gibbons Ruark
- Mary Ruefle
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Nipsey Russell
- Archibald Rutledge
- Carl Hancock Rux
- Abram Joseph Ryan
- Kay Ryan
- Michael Ryan (poet)
S
- Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
- Michael Salinger
- Mary Jo Salter (born 1954)
- Benjamin Saltman (1927–1999)
- Francis Saltus Saltus
- Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
- Robert Charles Sands
- Aram Saroyan
- May Sarton
- Minot Judson Savage
- Jeannine Savard
- John Godfrey Saxe
- Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
- Peter Schjeldahl
- Michael Schmidt (poet)
- Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953)
- Dan Schneider
- Pat Schneider
- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842)
- Susan Polis Schutz
- James Schuyler (1923–1991)
- Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966)
- Patricia Roth Schwartz
- Armand Schwerner
- Peter Seaton (1942 – 2010)
- Alan Seeger
- Calvin Seerveld
- Frederick Seidel
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Martha Serpas
- Dr. Seuss
- Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
- Tom Sexton
- Mekael Shane
- Ntozake Shange
- Ravi Shankar (1901–2008)
- David Shapiro
- Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
- G. S. Sharat Chandra
- Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
- Scott Shaw
- Aaron Shurin
- Eli Siegel
- Lydia Sigourney
- Richard Siken
- Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
- Edward Rowland Sill
- Ron Silliman (born 1946)
- Murray Silverstein
- Shel Silverstein (1930–1999)
- Charles Simic
- Jim Simmerman
- William Gilmore Simms
- Marge Simon
- Louis Simpson
- John Sinclair (poet)
- Hal Sirowitz (born 1949)
- Judith Skillman
- Myra Sklarew (born 1934)
- Ed Skoog (born 1971)
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Edwin E. Smith
- Elbert H. Smith
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
- Langdon Smith
- Marc Smith
- Margaret Smith (poet)
- Patti Smith
- R. T. Smith
- Rod Smith
- Rolland Smith
- Tracy K. Smith (born 1972)
- William Jay Smith
- W. D. Snodgrass (born 1926)
- Eliza Roxcy Snow
- Craig Snyder
- Laurel Snyder
- Gary Snyder (born 1930)
- Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005)
- Roberto Solis
- Gilbert Sorrentino
- Juliana Spahr
- Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
- Jack Spicer
- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
- Kim Stafford
- William Stafford (1914–1993)
- Ann Stanford (1916–1987)
- Frank Stanford (1948–1978)
- Henry Throop Stanton
- George Starbuck
- William Force Stead
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
- Edward Steinhardt (born 1961)
- Mattie Stepanek
- George Sterling
- Gerald Stern (born 1925)
- C. J. Stevens (born 1927)
- James Thomas Stevens
- Wallace Stevens (1880–1955)
- Anne Stevenson
- Susan Stewart (born 1952)
- Trumbull Stickney
- John Stigall
- James Still
- Charles Warren Stoddard
- Dejan Stojanović (born 1959)
- Donna J. Stone (1933–1994)
- Ruth Stone (born 1915)
- William Wetmore Story
- Mark Strand (born 1934)
- Joseph Stroud (born 1943)
- Lucien Stryk
- Jesse Stuart
- Michael Sturdy
- A. M. Sullivan
- Sekou Sundiata
- Barton Sutter
- Thomas Burnett Swann
- John Swanwick
- Robert Sward (born 1933))
- Cole Swensen (born )
- Karen Swenson (born 1936)
- May Swenson (1913–1989)
- Arthur Sze (born 1950)
T
- Eileen Tabios
- John Taggart
- Amber Tamblyn
- Luci Tapahonso
- Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928)
- Allen Tate (1899–1979)
- James Tate (born 1943)
- Bayard Taylor
- Bert Leston Taylor
- Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
- Michelle Tea
- Sara Teasdale
- Michael Teig
- Robbie Q. Telfer
- Todd Temkin (born 1964)
- Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
- Lucy Terry
- Steve Tesich
- Celia Thaxter
- Ernest Thayer (1863–1940)
- Scofield Thayer
- William Roscoe Thayer
- Edith Matilda Thomas
- Lewis Thomas
- Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
- Dunstan Thompson
- Lady Gwen Thompson
- Maurice Thompson
- William Irwin Thompson
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Tamara Thorne (born 1957)
- Richard Tillinghast (born 1940)
- Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
- Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
- Stephen Tomajczyk
- Lee Tonouchi
- Nick Tosches
- Tony Tost
- William Tremblay
- Natasha Trethewey
- David Trinidad
- Quincy Troupe
- John Trumbull (poet)
- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
- Lewis Turco (born 1934)
- Brian Turner (American poet)
- Genya Turovskaya
- Chase Twichell
- E. Donald Two-Rivers
U-V
- David Unger (born 1950)
- Louis Untermeyer (born 1885–1977)
- Charles Upton (born 1948)
- Amy Uyematsu (born 1947)
- Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979)
- Jean Valentine (born 1934)
- Cor van den Heuvel
- Mark Van Doren (born 1894–1972)
- Mona Van Duyn (born 1921–2004)
- Sheldon Vanauken (born 1914–1996)
- Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003)
- Janine Pommy Vega (born 1942)
- Jones Very (born 1813–1880)
- George Sylvester Viereck (born 1884–1962)
- Peter Viereck (born 1916–2006)
- Nick Virgilio (born 1928–1989)
- Gerald Vizenor (born 1934)
- Judith Vollmer (born 1951)
W
- Buddy Wakefield
- Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
- Diane Wald
- Anne Waldman
- Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
- Keith Waldrop (born 1932)
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Lonie Walker
- Margaret Walker
- Connie Wanek, (born 1952)
- BJ Ward
- Diane Ward
- Catherine Anne Warfield
- Emily Warn
- Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
- William John Watkins
- Barrett Watten (born 1948)
- Jim Webb
- Rebecca Wee
- Hannah Weiner
- Eliot Weinberger (born 1949)
- James Welch
- Lew Welch
- Joe Wenderoth
- Theodore Weiss (1916–2003)
- Paul West (poet)
- Philip Whalen
- Mark Whalon
- John Wheatcroft
- Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
- John Hall Wheelock
- John Brooks Wheelwright
- Edward Lucas White
- Gary J. Whitehead (born 1965)
- Ruth Whitman
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
- Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
- Reed Whittemore
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
- Margaret Widdemer
- John Wieners
- Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
- Carlos Wilcox
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Richard Henry Wilde
- Charlotte Wilder
- Charles Willeford
- C. K. Williams
- Jonathan Williams (poet)
- Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
- Paul O. Williams
- Philip Lee Williams (born 1950)
- Sarah Williams
- William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
- Elizabeth Willis (born 1961)
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Eleanor Wilner, (born 1937)
- Edmund Wilson
- Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945)
- Christian Wiman, (born 1966)
- Anne Winters
- Yvor Winters
- Sam Witt
- Larry Woiwode
- John Barton Wolgamot
- Nellie Wong
- George Edward Woodberry
- Samuel Woodworth
- Matthew A. Woodmancy
- Gamel Woolsey
- Bryan Thao Worra
- Patience Worth
- C. D. Wright, (born 1949)
- Charles Wright (poet)
- Franz Wright
- James Wright (1927–1980)
- Jay Wright (poet)
- Kirby Wright
- Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960)
- Elinor Wylie
X-Z
- Emanuel Xavier (born 1971)
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961)
- Leo Yankevich
- John Yau (born 1950)
- Al Young (born 1939)
- C. Dale Young (born 1969)
- Dean Young (poet) (born 1955)
- Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
- Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
- Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
- Andrew Zawacki (born 1972)
- Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
- Joaquin Zihuatanejo
- Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)
See also
- United States poetry
- List of poets
- List of English language poets
- List of years in poetry
- Academy of American Poets
- List of Jewish American poets