List of poets
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==Alphabetical list==
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=== A ===
====Ab-Ak====
*[[Dannie Abse]] (born [[1923 in poetry|1923]]), English poet
*[[Milton Acorn]] ([[1923 in poetry|1923]]–[[1986 in poetry|1986]]), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
*[[Léonie Adams]] ([[1899 in poetry|1899]]–[[1988 in poetry|1988]]), American poet
*[[Fleur Adcock]] (born [[1934 in poetry|1934]]), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
*[[Joseph Addison]] ([[1672 in poetry|1672]]–[[1719 in poetry|1719]]), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
*[[Endre Ady]] ([[1877 in poetry|1877]]–[[1919 in poetry|1919]]), Hungarian poet
*[[Aeschylus]] (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
*[[Lucius Afranius (poet)]] (fl. circa [[94 BC]]), Roman comic poet
*[[Patience Agbabi]] (born [[1965 in poetry|1965]]), English poet
*[[James Agee]] ([[1909 in poetry|1909]]–[[1955 in poetry|1955]]), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
*[[Dritëro Agolli]] (born [[1931 in poetry|1931]]), Albanian poet
*[[Ai (poet)|Ai]] (born [[1947 in poetry|1947]]), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
*[[Conrad Aiken]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]–[[1973 in poetry|1973]]), American poet and author
*[[Mark Akenside]] ([[1721 in poetry|1721]]–[[1770 in poetry|1770]]), English poet and physician
*[[Bella Akhmadulina]] (born [[1957 in poetry|1957]]), Russian poet
*[[Anna Akhmatova]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]–[[1966 in poetry|1966]]), Russian poet
====Al-Am====
*[[Luigi Alamanni]], (1495–1556)
*[[Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi]], (1207-1273)
*[[Alcman]] (''fl.'' 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
*[[Richard Aldington]] ([[1892 in poetry|1892]]–[[1962 in poetry|1962]])
*[[Claribel Alegria]] (born [[1924 in poetry|1924]]), Central American poet
*[[Vicente Aleixandre]], ([[1898 in poetry|1898]]–[[1984 in poetry|1984]]), [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Laureate]] [[1977 in poetry|1977]]
*[[Josip Murn Aleksandrov]] ([[1879 in poetry|1879]]–[[1901 in poetry|1901]])
*[[Muhammad Ali]], (born [[1942 in poetry|1942]]), [[Boxing|boxer]], war protester, civil rights protester, and [[poet]]
*[[Dante Alighieri]], (1265-1321), Italian poet
*[[James Alexander Allan]] ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]–[[1956 in poetry|1956]]), Australian poet
*[[William Allingham]], (1824 or 1828-[[1889 in poetry|1889]])
*[[Damaso Alonso]] ([[1898 in poetry|1898]]–[[1990 in poetry|1990]]), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
*[[Natan Alterman]] ([[1910 in poetry|1910]]–[[1970 in poetry|1970]]), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
*[[Al Alvarez]] (born [[1929 in poetry|1919]]), English poet
*[[Amara Sinha]] (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
*[[Ambroise]], Norman-French poet of the [[Third Crusade]]
*[[Yehuda Amichai]] ([[1924 in poetry|1924]]–[[2000 in poetry|2000]]) Israeli poet
*[[Kingsley Amis]] ([[1922 in poetry|1922]]–[[1995 in poetry|1995]]) English author and poet
*[[A. R. Ammons]]([[1926 in poetry|1926]]–[[2001 in poetry|2001]]) American author and poet
====An-Ap====
*[[Anacreon (poet)|Anacreon]] (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet
*[[Alfred Andersch]], ([[1914]]-[[1980]])
*[[Hans Christian Andersen]], [[Denmark|Danish]] poet ([[1805]]–[[1875]])
*[[Jon Anderson]], (born [[1944]]), [[England|English]] [[rock music]] vocalist and lyricist
*[[Mário de Andrade]], ([[1893]]-[[1945]]), [[Literature of Brazil|Brazilian]] poet, [[novel]]ist, [[musicology|musicologist]], [[art history|art historian]] and [[art critic|critic]], and [[photography|photographer]]
*[[Aneirin]], medieval (6th century) epic poet
*[[Antler (poet)]], ([[1946]]-)
*[[Brother Antoninus]]
*[[Chairil Anwar]], (Indonesian poet: [[1922]]-[[1949]])
*[[Guillaume Apollinaire]], ([[1880]]-[[1918]])
*[[Apollonius of Rhodes]] (270-after 245 BC)
====Ar-Au====
*[[Louis Aragon]], (1897-1982)
*[[Archilochus]], (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
*[[Hugh Antoine d'Arcy]] (1843-1925)
*[[Walter Arensberg|Walter Conrad Arensberg]] (1878-1954), American Dada-ist <!-- his entry here has been handicapped by the former bad lk based on confusing his middle and surnames. I'm not attesting to his being a poet -- but there is no support for the existence of "Walter Arensberg Conrad" except WP, so surely this is who was intended by this entry that i've modified -->
*[[Tudor Arghezi]] (Romanian poet)
*[[Ludovico Ariosto]], (1474-1533)
*[[Rae Armantrout]], (1947-)
*[[Simon Armitage]], (born 1963)
*[[Ernst Moritz Arndt]]
*[[Achim von Arnim]], (1781-1831)
*[[Bettina von Arnim]], (1785-1859)
*[[Matthew Arnold]], (1822-1888)
*[[Jean Arp]], (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
*[[Antonin Artaud]], (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
*[[John Ashbery]], (born 1927)
*[[Anton Askerc]], (1856-1912)
*[[Farid al-Din Attar]], (c. 1130-c. 1230)
*[[Margaret Atwood]], (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
*[[W. H. Auden]], (1907-1973)
*[[Ausiàs March]], (1397-1459)
*[[Ausonius]], (c. 310-395)
====Av-Ay====
*[[Margaret Avison]] (born 1918)
*[[Robert Ayton]] (1570-1638)
*[[Ashok Chakradhar]] (Born 8th February 1951)
=== B ===
====Ba====
=====Bab-Bal=====
*[[Ken Babstock]], Canadian
*[[Bacchylides]], (died c. 467 BC)
*[[Ingeborg Bachmann]], (1926-1973)
*[[Sutardji Calzoum Bachri]], The President of Indonesian Poet
*[[George Bacovia]], Romanian poet
*[[Janos Bacsanyi]], (1763-1845)
*[[Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski|Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]], (1921-1944)
*[[Julio Baghy]]
*[[Bai Juyi]]
*[[Joanna Baillie]], (1762-1851)
*[[Bâkî]], (1526–1600), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman]] poet
*[[Jesse Ball]] American poet
=====Bar-Bax=====
*[[Amiri Baraka]] (aka Leroi Jones)
*[[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]], (1743-1825)
*[[Porfirio Barba-Jacob]]
*[[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour]], (c. 1316-1395)
*[[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], (1913-1991)
*[[Les Barker]]
*[[Richard Barnefield]], (1574-1627)
*[[William Barnes]], (1801-1886)
*[[Elizabeth Barrett]](March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
*[[Charles Baudelaire]], (1821-1867)
*[[James K. Baxter]], (1926-1972)
====Be====
*[[Francis Beaumont]], (1586-1616)
*[[Joshua Beckman]]
*[[Gustavo Adolfo Becquer]], (1836-1870)
*[[Thomas Lovell Beddoes]], (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
*[[Aphra Behn]], (1640-1689)
*[[Marvin Bell]], (1937-?)
*[[Gioconda Belli]], (born 1948)
*[[Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli]], ([[Rome|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 Benet|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.
*[[Ilhan Berk]]
*[[Daniel Berrigan]]
*[[Wendell Berry]]
*[[John Berryman]]
*[[John Betjeman]], (1906-1984)
*[[Helen Bevington]] (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)
====Bi-Bl====
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*[[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
*[[Lucian Blaga]], Romanian poet
*[[Don Blanding]], (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
*[[William Blake]], (1757-1827), English painter, poet
*[[Aleksandr Blok]], (1880-1921)
*[[Benjamin Paul Blood]], (1832-1919)
*[[Michael Blumenthal]]
*[[Roy Blumenthal]], (born 1968)
*[[Edmund Blunden]]
*[[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]]
*[[Robert Bly]]
====Bo====
*[[Jean Bodel]]
*[[Louise Bogan]]
*[[Matteo Maria Boiardo]], Italian poet
*[[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], (1636-1711)
*[[Eavan Boland]], (born 1944)
*[[Heinrich Böll]], (1917-1985)
*[[Arna Wendell Bontemps]]
*[[Jorge Luis Borges]], (1899-1986)
*[[Tadeusz Borowski]]
*[[Mark Alexander Boyd]], (1563-1601)
*[[Kay Boyle]] (A Glad Day)
====Br====
=====Bra-Bri=====
*[[Di Brandt]], (born [[1952]]), Manitoba poet and literary critic
*[[Richard Brautigan]], ([[1935]]-[[1984]])
*[[Bertolt Brecht]], ([[1898]]-[[1956]]), German ''Three-penny Opera'' lyricist
*[[Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero|Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero]] ([[1585]]-[[1618]]), Dutch poet and playwright
*[[Christopher Brennan]], ([[1870]]-[[1932]]), Australian
*[[Clemens Brentano]], ([[1778]]-[[1842]])
*[[Clemens Brentano|Clemens von Brentano]], ([[1778]]-[[1842]])
*[[André Breton]], ([[1896]]-[[1966]])
*[[Nicholas Breton]], ([[1542]]-[[1626]])
*[[Ken Brewer]], (born [[1941]])
*[[Robert Bridges]], ([[1844]]-[[1930]])
=====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]], (born 1917)
*[[Joan Brossa]], (1919-1998)
*[[Nicole Brossard]], (born 1943), [[formalism|formalist]] poet
*[[Flora Brovina]]
*[[Thomas Edward Brown]], (1830-1897)
*[[George Mackay Brown]]
*[[William Browne]], (1588-1643)
*[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], (1806-1861)
*[[Robert Browning]], (1812-1889)
*[[William Cullen Bryant]], (1794-1878)
*[[Bryher]]
*[[Valeri Bryusov]], (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
====Bu-By====
*[[Georg Büchner]]
*[[Vincent Buckley]], (1927-1988)
*[[Charles Bukowski]], (1920-1994) poet, 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]]
*[[Raegan Butcher]]
*[[Ray Buttigieg]], (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
*[[Ignazio Buttitta]], (Sicilian dialect)
*[[Witter Bynner]] (also under Emanuel Morgan)
*[[George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]], (1788-1824)
=== C ===
====Ca====
=====Cab-Cap=====
*[[Lydia Cabrera]] (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
*[[Caedmon]] (old English)
*[[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 (Poet)|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]]
*[[Cao Cao]], (155 AD-220 AD)
*[[Cao Pi]]
*[[Cao Zhi]], (192-232)
=====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'')
*[[Lewis Carroll]], (1832-1898)
*[[Hayden Carruth]]
*[[Anne Carson]], (born 1950)
*[[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)
====Ce-Ci====
*[[Paul Celan]], (1920-1970)
*[[Anica Cernej]], (1900-1944)
*[[Luis Cernuda]], (1903-1963)
*[[Mário Cesariny]], (1923-2006)
*[[John Chalkhill]]
*[[Jean Chapelain]], (1595-1674)
*[[Arthur Chapman]], (1873-1935)
*[[George Chapman]], (1560-1634)
*[[René Char]], (1907-1998)
*[[Craig Charles]], (born 1964), ([[Red Dwarf (television)|Red Dwarf]], [[Captain Butler]])
*[[Thomas Chatterton]]
*[[Geoffrey Chaucer]], (ca.1343-1400), ''Chanticleer the Fox'' (extract from ''[[Canterbury Tales]]'')
*[[Billy Childish]]
*[[Dario Chioli]], Italian poet, born 1956
*[[Choe Chiwon]], Korean ([[Silla]]) poet, born 857
*[[Henri Chopin]], (born 1922)
*[[Chrétien de Troyes]], (fl. 12th century)
*[[Ralph Chubb]], (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
*[[John Ciardi]], [[Italian-American]] poet
====Cl====
*[[Amy Clampitt]]
*[[John Clare]], (1793-1864)
*[[George Elliott Clarke]], poet, [[U of T]] professor
*[[Paul Claudel]], (1868-1955)
*[[Matthias Claudius]]
*[[Brian P. Cleary]]
*[[Michelle Cliff]]
*[[Lucille Clifton]],
*[[Arthur Hugh Clough]], (1819-1861)
====Co====
=====Coc-Cor=====
*[[Jean Cocteau]], (1889-1963), French writer
*[[Leonard Cohen]], (born 1934), poet/singer
*[[Hartley Coleridge]], (1796-1849)
*[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]], (1861-1907)
*[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], (1772-1834), English poet
*[[Billy Collins]] (U.S. Poet Laureate)
*[[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]], (1721-1759)
*[[William Congreve (playwright)|William Congreve]], (1670-1729), English poet
*[[Robert Conquest]], historian and poet
*[[Henry Constable]], (1562-1613)
*[[Clark Coolidge]]
*[[Wendy Cope]]
*[[Tristan Corbière]], (1845-1875)
* [[Francis Cornford]] and [[Frances Cornford]]
*[[Gregory Corso]], Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
*[[Jayne Cortez]]
=====Cot-Cow=====
*[[Malcolm Cowley]], (1898-1989), (Dada)
*[[Abraham Cowley]], (1618-1667)
*[[William Cowper]], (1731-1800)
====Cr-Cz====
*[[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]]
*[[Charles Cros]], (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
*[[Aleister Crowley]], (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
*[[Cui Hao (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
=== D ===
====Da====
*[[Roque Dalton]], (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
*[[Sapardi Djoko Damono]], Indonesian Poet
*[[David Daniels (poet)|David Daniels]], (1933- ) Visual Poet
*[[Jeffrey Daniels (author)|Jeffrey Daniels]], African-American Poet
*[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]], (1863-1938), revolutionary
*[[Jia Dao]]
*[[Rubén Darío]], (1867-1916)
*[[Erasmus Darwin]], (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
*[[Jibanananda Das]],(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author
*[[René Daumal]], (1908-1944)
*[[Jean Daurat]], (1508-1588)
*[[Alan Davies (poet)|Alan Davies]], American poet
*[[W. H. Davies]]
*[[William Davenant]], (1606-1668)
*[[Donald Davidson (poet)|Donald Davidson]], (1893-1968)
*[[John Davies (poet)|John Davies]], (1569-1626), historian
*[[Edward Davison]], (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
*[[Peter Davison (poet)|Peter Davison]], (born 1951), (son of Edward)
*[[Denis Davydov]], (1784-1839)
*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]]
====De====
*[[James Deahl]]
*[[Aurora de Albornoz]], (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
*[[Aleš Debeljak]], (born 1961)
*[[Daniel Defoe]], (1659/61? - 1731)
*[[Walter de la Mare]], author, poet
*[[Thomas Dekker (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)
*[[Aubrey de Vere]]
*[[Alfred de Vigny]], (1797-1863), 19th century poet
====Di-Do====
*[[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)
*[[Blaga Dimitrova]]
*[[Paul Dirmeikis]], (1954- ), French poet
*[[Thomas M. Disch]], (1940-2008), American poet, novelist
*[[Henry Austin Dobson]]
*[[Stephen Dobyns]], American author, novelist, poet
*[[Pete Doherty]], (born 1979), British musician, songwriter, poet
*[[Antonia Donatiello]], (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
*[[John Donne]], (1572-1631)
*[[H.D.|Hilda Doolittle]], (1886-1961), U.S. [[Imagist]] poet
*[[Gavin Douglas]]
*[[Keith Douglas]], (1920-1944)
*[[Rita Dove]]
*[[Ernest Dowson]], (1867-1900)
====Dr====
*[[Jane Draycott]]
*[[Michael Drayton]], (1563-1631)
*[[Aleksander Stavre Drenova]], (1872-1947), Albanian poet
*[[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]], (1882-1937)
*[[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff]], (1797-1848), German poet
*[[William Drummond]], (1585-1649)
*[[William Henry Drummond]], (1854-1907), poet, ''The habitant''
*[[John Dryden]], (1631-1700), poet and playwright
====Du-Dy====
*[[Joachim du Bellay]], (c. 1522-1560)
*[[W.E.B. DuBois]], (1868-1963), writer, activist
*[[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 (poet)|Robert Duncan]] (Black Mountain School)
*[[Douglas Dunn]], (born 1942)
*[[Stephen Dunn]]
*[[Helen Dunmore]], poet, novelist
*[[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany]], (1878-1957), Irish poet
*[[Lawrence Durrell]], (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
*[[Stuart Dybek]]
*[[Bob Dylan]], born 1941
=== E ===
====Ea-Er====
*[[Richard Eberhart]]
*[[Russell Edson]]
*[[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
*[[Ana Elsner]], multi-lingual American poet
*[[Paul Eluard]], French poet
*[[Claudia Emerson]], (born 1957) American poet
*[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], (1803-1882), American author
*[[Gevorg Emin]], (1918-1998), Armenian poet
*[[Mihai Eminescu]], Romanian poet
*[[William Empson]], (1906-1984)
*[[Yunus Emre]]
*[[Michael Ende]], (1929-1995), German poet
*[[R.M. Engelhardt]], (born 1964), American 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]]
====Es-Ew====
*[[Maggie Estep]], American slam poet
*[[Wolfram von Eschenbach]], (died 1220)
*[[Clayton Eshleman]] (Antiphonal Swing)
*[[Florbela Espanca]], (poet)
*[[Salvador Espriu]], writer
*[[Euripides]] (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
*[[Mari Evans]]
*[[William Everson]] (In The Fictive Wish)
*[[Gavin Ewart]]
=== F ===
*[[Faruk Iremet]] (1965-), Swedish, Zazaish and Turkish poet
====Fe-Fo====
*[[Fenggan]]
*[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] (1919-)
*[[Leandro Fernández de Moratín]] (1760-1828)
*[[Ian Hamilton Finlay]], (born 1925)
*[[Annie Finch]], American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
*[[Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward Fitzgerald]], (1809-1883)
*[[Robert Fitzgerald]] (1910 - 1985)
*[[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], (1579-1625)
*[[John Gould Fletcher]], (1886-1950), [[Imagist]] poet
*[[F. S. Flint]] (Imagist manifestos)
*[[Theodor Fontane]], (1819-1898)
*[[John Forbes (poet)|John Forbes]], (1950-1998), Australian poet
*[[Carolyn Forché]], born 1950
*[[Ford Madox Ford]], (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
*[[John Ford (dramatist)|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
====Fr-Fu====
*[[Janet Frame]], (born 1924)
*[[Robert Francis (poet)|Robert Francis]], (1901-1987)
*[[Veronica Franco]], (1546-1591)
*[[Naim Frashëri]] (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 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 language|Azerbaijani]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] poet
=== G ===
====Ga-Gl====
*[[Mirza Ghalib|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
*[[Stefan George]], (1868-1933)
*[[Paul Gerhardt]], (c. 1606-1676)
*[[Aaref Ghazvini]], (1882- 1934)
*[[Charles Ghigna (Father Goose)]] (born 1946)
*[[Khalil Gibran]], (The Prophet) (1883-1931)
*[[Wilfred Wilson Gibson]] (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
*[[Allen Ginsberg]], (1926-1997)
*[[Dana Gioia]] (essays on poetry)
*[[Nikki Giovanni]], (born 1943)
*[[Giuseppe Giusti]], (1809-1850)
*[[Denis Glover]], (1912-1980)
*[[Louise Gluck|Louise Glück]], (1943 - ) [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]
====Go====
*[[Gérald Godin]], (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], (1749-1832), ''(part-time;)''
*[[Octavian Goga]] (1881-1938) Romanian poet
*[[Leah Goldberg|Lea Goldberg]], (1911-1970)
*[[Rumer Godden]] (In Noahs Ark)
*[[Ziya Gökalp]]
*[[Oliver Goldsmith]], (1730-1774), ''The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes''
*[[Pavel Golia]] (1887-1959)
*[[Luis de Gongora]], Spanish poet
*[[Lorna Goodison]] (born 1947) Jamaican poet
*[[Sergei Gorodetsky]] (1884-1967)
*[[Herman Gorter]] (1864-1927), Dutch poet
====Gr====
=====Gra-Gri=====
*[[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 (16th century)|Robert Greene]], (1558-1592)
*[[Horace Gregory]]
*[[Eamon Grennan]]
*[[Fulk Greville]], (1554-1628)
*[[Bill Griffiths]], (born 1948)
*[[Franz Grillparzer]]
*[[Nicholas Grimald]], (1519-1562)
*[[Angelina Weld Grimke]]
*[[Charlotte Forten Grimke]]
=====Gro-Gy=====
*[[Stanisław Grochowiak]]
*[[Philip Gross]]
*[[Igo Gruden]], (1893-1948)
*[[Edgar Guest]], (American poet of the [[1920s]])
*[[Jorge Guillen]], (1893-1984)
*[[Nicolas Guillen|Nicolas Guillén]], (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
*[[Guido Guinizelli]]
*[[Guiot de Provins]], (French poet of the 12th century)
*[[Gül Baba]]
*[[Nikolay Gumilyov]], (1886-1921)
*[[Dzivo Gundulic|Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola]], (1589-1638)
*[[Thom Gunn]], (born 1929)
*[[Ivor Gurney]], (1890-1937)
*[[Pedro Juan Gutiérrez]] ([[Cuba]], [[1950]]- )
*[[Brion Gysin]], (1916-1986)
=== H ===
====Ha====
*[[Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi']]
*[[Hafez (poet)|Hafez]]
*[[Han Yu]]
*[[Hanshan (poet)|Han-Shan]]
*[[Thomas Hardy]], (1840-1928), English poet
*[[Tony Harrison]], (born 1937)
*[[Carla Harryman]], (born 1952)
*[[Gwen Harwood]]
*[[Alamgir Hashmi]]
*[[Ahmet Haşim]]
*[[Gerhart Hauptmann]], (1862-1946)
*[[Stephen Hawes]], (died 1523)
*[[Robert Stephen Hawker]], (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
*[[Robert Hayden]]
====He====
*[[Seamus Heaney]], (born 1939), [[Saoi]] of [[Aosdána]]
*[[John Heath-Stubbs]]
*[[Anne Hébert]], poet and novelist
*[[Anthony Hecht]], (1923-2004)
*[[Jennifer Michael Hecht]]
*[[John Hegley]], also performs as half of the "Popticians"
*[[Heinrich Heine]], (1797-1856)
*[[Felicia Hemans]], (1793-1835)
*[[William Ernest Henley]], (1849-1903)
*[[Adrian Henri]]
*[[George Herbert]], (1593-1633), public orator and poet
*[[Zbigniew Herbert]]
*[[Johann Gottfried Herder]]
*[[Johann Gottfried von Herder]], (1744-1803)
*[[Miguel Hernandez]], (1910-1942)
*[[Antoine Héroet]], (died 1568)
*[[Robert Herrick (poet)|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 (novel)|Steppenwolf]]''
*[[Dorothy Hewett]], novelist, poet
*[[Thomas Heywood]], (157?-1650)
====Hi-Hr====
*[[William Heyen]], poet, literary critic, novelist
*[[Dick Higgins]], (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
*[[Scott Hightower]], (born 1952)
*[[Geoffrey Hill]], (born 1932)
*[[Nazım Hikmet]]
*[[Ellen Hinsey]], poet
*[[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, Sr.|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)
*[[Horace|Quintus Horatius Flaccus]]
*[[George Moses Horton]]
*[[Joan Houlihan]]
*[[Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman]], (1859-1936)
*[[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey]], (1517-1547)
*[[Richard Howard]]
*[[Fanny Howe]]
*[[Susan Howe]]
====Hu====
*[[Mohammad Nurul Huda]], a modern poet from Bangladesh
*[[Langston Hughes]], (1902-1967)
*[[Ted Hughes]], (1930-1998)
*[[Richard Hugo]]
*[[Victor Hugo]], (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
*[[Vicente Huidobro]], (1893-1948)
*[[Lynda Hull]], (1954-1994)
*[[Alexander Hume]], (1560-1609)
*[[James Henry Leigh Hunt]], (1784-1859), English poet
*[[Aldous Huxley]], (1894-1963)
=== I ===
*[[Avetik Isahakyan]], (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet
=== J ===
====Ja-Ju====
*[[Richard Jago]], (1715-1781)
*[[Clive James]]
*[[Randall Jarrell]]
*[[Robinson Jeffers]], (died 1962)
*[[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 (poet)|David Jones]], (1895-1974), artist and poet
*[[Ben Jonson]], (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
*[[Anthony Joseph]]
*[[Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj|Jovan Jovanović Zmaj]] (1833-1904)
*[[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
=== K ===
====Ka-Kh====
*[[Kábir]],
*[[Uuno Kailas]] (1901-1933), Finnish
*[[Kálmán Kalocsay]], (1891-1976)
*[[Ilya Kaminsky]] (born 1977)
*[[Orhan Veli Kanik]]
*[[Andreas Karavis]], (born 1932)
*[[Erich Kästner]], (1899-1974), poet, novelist
*[[Bob Kaufman]] (coined "Beatnik")
*[[Patrick Kavanagh]], (1904-1967)
*[[John Keats]], (1795-1821)
*[[Weldon Kees]]
*[[Arthur Kelton]], (d. 1549/1550)
*[[X. J. Kennedy]]
*[[Jack Kerouac]], (1922-1969), US writer
*[[Frederick Kesner (poet)|Frederick Kesner]] (born 1967) Australian poet
*[[Keorapetse Kgositsile]]
*[[Khushal Khan Khattak]]
*[[Omar Khayyám]], (1048-1122)
*[[Velemir Khlebnikov]], (1885-1922)
*[[Vladislav Khodasevich]], (1886-1939)
*[[Nikos Kavvadias]], (1910-1975), Greek poet
====Ki-Kn====
*[[Joyce Kilmer]], (1886-1918)
*[[Amy King]]
*[[Henry King]], (1592-1669)
*[[William King (poet)|William King]], (1663-1712)
*[[Gottfried Kinkel]], (1815-1882)
*[[Galway Kinnell]] (born 1927, Body Bags)
*[[John Kinsella]] (born 1963)
*[[Thomas Kinsella]]
*[[Rudyard Kipling]], (1865-1936), ''[[Just So Stories]]''
*[[Necip Fazıl Kısakürek]]
*[[Eila Kivikk'aho]] (1921-2004)
*[[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]], (1724-1803)
*[[Etheridge Knight]]
====Ko====
=====Kob-Ky=====
*[[Jan Kochanowski]] (1530-84)
*[[Kenneth Koch]] (NY Poet school)
*[[Yusef Komunyakaa]] (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
*[[Faik Konica]]
*[[Ted Kooser]]
*[[Koroglu]]
*[[Srecko Kosovel]] (1904-1926)
*[[Taja Kramberger]] (born 1970)
*[[Ignacy Krasicki]] (1735-1801)
*[[Ruth Krauss]]
*[[Miroslav Krleza|Miroslav Krleža]] (1589-1638), poet, novelist
*[[Maxine Kumin]]
*[[Stanley Kunitz]]
*[[Tuli Kupferberg]] (born 1923)
*[[Onat Kutlar]]
=== L ===
====La====
*[[Pierre Labrie]] poet from Quebec (1972- )
*[[Jarkko Laine]] Finnish poet
*[[Philip Lamantia]]
*[[Alphonse de Lamartine]]
*[[Charles Lamb]], (1775-1834)
*[[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]
*[[Walter Savage Landor]], (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
*[[Philip Larkin]], (1922-1985)
*[[James Laughlin]]
*[[Comte de Lautréamont]], (1846-1870)
*[[D. H. Lawrence]], (1885-1930), author of ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]''
*[[Henry Lawson]], prose and poetry
*[[Layamon]]
*[[Eric Layman]]
*[[Irving Layton]], (born 1912 - 2006)
*[[Lalitha Lenin]]
====Le====
*[[Edward Lear]] (1812-1888)
*[[Jan Lechon]]
*[[Francis Ledwidge]] (1887-1917)
*[[Dennis Lee]], writer of children's poetry
*[[Eino Leino]] (1878-1926), Finnish
*[[Giacomo Leopardi]] (1798-1837), Italian poet
*[[Mikhail Lermontov]] (1814-1841), poet, novelist
*[[Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]], (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
*[[Boleslaw Lesmian]]
*[[Rika Lesser]]
*[[Gotthold Lessing]], playwright, poet
*[[Denise Levertov]] (Black Mountain triumvirate)
*[[Philip Levine (poet)|Philip Levine]]
*[[Larry Levis]]
*[[D. A. Levy]] (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
*[[William Levy]]
*[[Saunders Lewis]] (1893-1985)
*[[Wyndham Lewis]] (1884-1957)
====Li====
*[[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)
*[[Vachel Lindsay]], (1879-1931)
*[[Thomas Lodge]], (1556-1625)
*[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], (1807-1882), American
*[[Federico García Lorca]]
*[[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
*[[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|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)
===M===
====Ma====
=====Mac-Mak=====
*[[Hugh MacDiarmid]], (1892-1978)
*[[George MacDonald]], (1824-1905), poet, novelist
*[[Sorley MacLean]], (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
*[[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], Canadian writer, poet
*[[Arthur Machen]], (1863-1947), Irish poet
*[[Compton Mackenzie]]
*[[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.
=====Mal-Mar=====
*[[Stéphane Mallarmé|Stephane Mallarme]], (1842-1898)
*[[David Mallet (dramatist and poet)|David Mallet]]
*[[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|Manilius]]
*[[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
*[[Marie de France]], (fl. 12th century)
*[[Giambattista Marini]], (1569-1625)
*[[Edwin Markham]]
*[[Christopher Marlowe]], (1564-1593), English playwright
*[[Clément Marot]], (1496-1544)
*[[Martial]] (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
*[[Harry Martinson]], (1904-1978), Swedish poet
*[[Andrew Marvell]], (1621-1678)
=====Mas-Maz=====
*[[John Masefield]], (1878-1967)
*[[Edgar Lee Masters]], (1869-1950)
*[[Matsuo Bashō]], (1644-1694), [[haiku]] poet
*[[Glyn Maxwell]], (born 1962)
*[[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], (1893-1930)
*[[Karl May]], (1842-1912), German poet
====Mc====
*Dermot McCarthy, (born 1948), Canadian poet and academic
*[[Michael McClure]] (Dark Brown - beat)
*[[John McCrae]], (1872-1918), ''[[In Flanders Fields]]''
*[[Bryant H. McGill]]
*[[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 (poet)|Thomas McGrath]], (1916-1990)
*[[Duncan McIntyre]], Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
*[[James McIntyre (poet)|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)
====Me====
*[[Meng Houran]]
*[[Norman MacCaig]]
*[[Mei Yaochen]]
*[[Meng Haoran]]
*[[George Meredith]], (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
*[[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|W.S. Merwin]], (The Miner's Pale Children)
*[[Sarah Messer]], (born 1966), American poet and writer
*[[Charlotte Mew]], (1869-1928)
*[[Henry Meyer]], (1840-1925)
====Mi-Ml====
* [[Henri Michaux]], poet and painter
* [[Adam Mickiewicz]], (1798-1855), outstanding [[Poland|Polish]] poet and writer
* [[Veronica Micle]] ([[1850]]-[[1889]])
* [[Agnes Miegel]], (1879-1964)
* [[Josephine Miles]]
* [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], (1892-1950)
* [[Joaquin Miller]], (1837-1913)
* [[Leslie Adrienne Miller]]
* [[Tim Miller]], poet and publisher
* [[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 language|Italian]] -[[Polish language|Polish]],
* [[John Milton]], (1608-1674), English poet
* [[Gabriela Mistral]], (1889-1957), Winner of the [[nobel prize]] for literature.
* [[Adrian Mitchell]]
* [[S. Weir Mitchell]], American novelist, poet
* [[Ndre Mjeda]]
====Mo====
*[[Harold Monro]]
*[[Harriet Monroe]] (Poetry magazine)
*[[Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax]], (1661-1715), creator of the [[Bank of England]]
*[[Eugenio Montale]] (Nobel Laureate)
*[[Marianne Moore]], (1887-1972)
*[[Dom Moraes]]
*[[Edythe Morahan de Lauzon]], poetess
*[[Merrill Moore]], (1903-1957), [[Sonneteer]]
*[[Thomas Moore]], (1779-1852)
*[[Frederick Morgan]]
*[[John Morgan (poet)|John Morgan]], (1688-1733)
*[[Christian Morgenstern]], (1871-1914)
*[[William Morris]], (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
*[[Jim Morrison]] (poet, songwriter)
*[[Stephen Morse]] (1945 - ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
*[[Moschus]] (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
*[[Howard Moss]]
*[[Andrew Motion]], (poet laureate 1999-)
*[[Enrique Moya]], (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
====Mu====
*[[Erich Mühsam]], (1878-1934), [[Germany|German]] poet and revolutionary
*[[Paul Muldoon]], (born 1951)
*[[Lale Müldür]], (born 1956)
*[[Laura Mullen]], American poet
*[[Sheila Murphy]], U.S. poet
*[[Joan Murray]], (born 1945), U.S. poet.
*[[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], (born 1938)
*[[Anthony Munday]], (1553-1633)
*[[Richard Murphy (poet)|Richard Murphy]], poet, member of [[Aosdána]]
*[[Susan Musgrave]], Poet.
*[[Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri]], Pakistani poet and scholar
=== N ===
====Na-Nj====
*[[Ogden Nash]], (1902-1971), : ''[[Santa Claus]]''
*[[Thomas Nashe]], (1567-1601)
*[[Nedîm]], (1681?–1730), [[Ottoman Turkish language|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 language|Azerbaijani]] poet
*[[Neşâtî]], (d. 1674), [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman]] poet
*[[Henry John Newbolt|Henry Newbolt]], (1862-1938), historian, poet
*[[John Henry Newman]], (1801-1890)
*[[Nezami]] (1141–1209)
*[[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|Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)]]
*[[Petar Petrovic Njegos]], (1813-1851), [[Serbs|Serb]] poet & ruler
====No-Ny====
*[[Christopher Nolan]], (born 1970), poet, member of [[Aosdána]]
*[[Fan Noli]] (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965)
*[[Olga Nolla|Nolla, Olga]] (1938-2001), Puerto Rican poet and writer
*[[Caroline Norton]] (1808 - 1877)
*[[Cyprian Kamil Norwid]]
*[[Novalis]], (1772-1801), German poet and novelist
*[[Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)]]
*[[Alfred Noyes]]
*[[Naomi Shihab Nye]]
=== O ===
*[[Francis Ohanyido]] (1970- ), African Philosopher -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]]
*[[Peter Orlovsky]] (beat)
*[[Öser]]
*[[Alice Oswald]]
*[[Ouyang Xiu]]
*[[Ovid]], (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet
*[[Wilfred Owen]], (1893-1918)
*[[Ismet Özel]]
=== P ===
====Pa====
*[[Ruth Padel]] (born 8 May 1946)
*[[Ron Padgett]]
*[[Grace Paley]]
*[[Francis Turner Palgrave]] (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
*[[Santeri Palin]], (1983-), Finnish poet
*[[Palladas]]
*[[Michael Palmer]], (1943-)
*[[Daniele Pantano]], (1976-)
*[[Dorothy Parker]], (1893-1967)
*[[Thomas Parnell]], (1670-1718)
*[[Nicanor Parra]], Chile
*[[Giovanni Pascoli]], Italian poet
*[[Boris Pasternak]], (1890-1960), novelist
*[[Kenneth Patchen]], (1911-1972)
*[[Andrew Barton Paterson]] ([[banjo]])
*[[Don Paterson]]
*[[Coventry Patmore]]
*[[Brian Patten]]
*[[Octavio Paz]], (1914-1998), Mexican poet
====Pe-Pl====
*[[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]]
*[[Persius]] (34-62), Roman poet
*[[Fernando Pessoa]], (1888-1935)
*[[Robert Peters]], (1924-) American poet
*[[Pascale Petit]]
*[[Petrarch]] (''Francesco Petrarca''), (1304-1374)
*[[Ambrose Philips]]
*[[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), (The Colossue)
*[[Shmuel Plavnik]](1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer
====Po-Pu====
*[[Edgar Allan Poe]], (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
*[[Marie Ponsot]], (born 1921)
*[[Alexander Pope]], (1688-1744), English poet
*[[Judith Pordon]], (born 1954), American poet
*[[Ezra Pound]], (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
*[[Halina Poswiatowska]]
*[[Winthrop Mackworth Praed]]
*[[E.J. Pratt]]
*[[France Preseren|France Prešeren]], (1800-1849), [[Slovenes|Slovene]]
*[[Jacques Prévert]], (1900-1977), French poet
*[[Robert Priest]]
*[[Richard Price (poet)]] (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
=== Q ===
=== R ===
====Ra-Re====
*[[Dalia Rabikovich]], (born 1936)
*[[Shamsur Rahman]], 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
*[[Kathleen Raine]], (1908-2003)
*[[Carl Rakosi]] (1903-2004)
*[[Dudley Randall]]
*[[Thomas Randolph]], (1605-1635)
*[[Agnes Rapai]], (1952- Hungarian poet
*[[John Crowe Ransom]], (1888-1974)
*[[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)
*[[Erich Maria Remarque]], (1898-1970), author of ''[[Im Westen nichts Neues]]'', or ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' ([[1929]])
*[[Kenneth Rexroth]]
*[[Charles Reznikoff]]
*[[Pi Rixiu]]
====Ri====
*[[Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi]] ([[1941]]-[[2001]])[[Sufi]], poet & author
*[[Stan Rice]], (1943-2002), poet and artist
*[[Adrienne Rich]]
*[[Lola Ridge]], (1873-1941)
*[[Laura Riding]], (1901-1981)
*[[Anne Ridler]]
*[[James Whitcomb Riley]], (1853-1916)
*[[Rainer Maria Rilke]], (1875-1926)
*[[Arthur Rimbaud]], (1854-1891), [[symbolist]] poet
====Ro====
*[[Edwin Arlington Robinson]], (1869-1935)
*[[Mary Robinson]], (1990-1997), Irish poet
*[[Georges Rodenbach]], Symbolist poet and novelist
*[[John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]], (1647-1680)
*[[Theodore Roethke]], (1908-1963)
*[[Pierre de Ronsard]], (1524-1585)
*[[Peter Rosegger]], (died 1918)
*[[Franklin Rosemont]], (born 1943)
*[[Penelope Rosemont]]
*[[Isaac Rosenberg]], (1890-1918)
*[[Christina Rossetti]], (1830-1894), English poet
*[[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], (1828-1882), English poet
*[[Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)|Nicholas Rowe]]
*[[Richard Rowlands]], (1565-1630)
*[[Tadeusz Różewicz]]
====Ru====
*[[Friedrich Rückert]]
*[[Muriel Rukeyser]], (1913-1980)
*[[Johan Ludvig Runeberg]], (1804-1877)
*[[Rumi]]
=== S ===
====Sa====
*[[Umberto Saba]]
*[[Sa'di]]
*[[Ali Ahmad Said]], (1930- )
*[[Mellin de Saint-Gelais]], (ca. 1491-1558)
*[[Carl Sandburg]], (1878-1967)
*[[Satsvarupa dasa Goswami]] (1939-)
*[[Sonia Sanchez]]
*[[Michal Šanda]], (1965- ), Czech poet
*[[Sappho]], ancient Greek poet
*[[Ann Sansom]], contemporary English poet
*[[William Saroyan]], (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
*[[Siegfried Sassoon]], (1886-1967), British war poet
*[[Subagio Sastrowardoyo]], (1924-1995), Indonesian poet
====Sc-Se====
*[[Maurice Scève]], (c. 1500-1564)
*[[Friedrich Schiller]], (1759-1805), poet, playwright
*[[Arno Schmidt]], (1914-1979)
*[[Arthur Schnitzler]], (1862-1931), writer
*[[Delmore Schwartz]] (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
*[[Walter Scott|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
*[[Jaroslav Seifert]], (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
*[[Seneca the Elder|Seneca]], (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
*[[Léopold Senghor]], (1906-2001)
*[[Robert W. Service]], poet of the Yukon
*[[Vikram Seth]]
*[[Anne Sexton]], (1928-1974)
====Sh-Si====
*[[Thomas Shadwell]]
*[[William Shakespeare]], (c. 1564-1616), English poet
*[[Tupac Shakur]], (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
*[[Ntozake Shange]], (born 1948)
*[[Jo Shapcott]]
*[[Karl Shapiro]]
*[[Mary Shelley]], (1797-1851)
*[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], (1792-1822)
*[[William Shenstone]]
*[[Bhupi Sherchan]], [[Nepal]] poet
*[[Taras Shevchenko]]
*[[James Shirley]], (1596-1666)
*[[Avraham Shlonsky]]
*[[Sir Philip Sidney]], (born 1554)
*[[Eli Siegel]], (1902-1978)
*[[Ron Silliman]] (born 1946)
*[[Shel Silverstein]], (1930-1999)
*[[Charles Simic]]
*[[Louis Simpson]], (born 1923)
*[[Lemn Sissay]]
*[[Edith Sitwell]], (1887-1964)
*[[Marilyn Singer]]
====Sk-Sn====
*[[John Skelton]], (1460-1529)
*[[Myra Sklarew]]
*[[Andrew Slattery]], (born 1981)
*[[Kenneth Slessor]]
*[[Anton Martin Slomsek]], (1800-1862), bishop, author, poet and national regenerator.
*[[Juliusz Slowacki]]
*[[Christopher Smart]]
*[[Charlotte Smith]], (1749-1806)
*[[Clark Ashton Smith]], (1893-1961)
*[[Margaret Smith (poet)|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)
====So-Sp====
*[[Edith Södergran]]
*[[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)
====St====
=====Sta-Sto=====
*[[Leopold Staff]]
*[[William Stafford]]
*[[Harold Standish]], (1919-1972), Canadian poet
*[[George Starbuck]]
*[[Statius]], (c. AD 45-96)
*[[Joseph Stefan]], (1835-1893), [[Slovenes|Slovene]]
*[[Gertrude Stein]], (1874-1946), Modernist innovator in prose and poetry
*[[Eric Stenbock]]
*[[Mattie Stepanek]], (1990-2004), American poet and advocate
*[[Gerald Stern]]
*[[Wallace Stevens]], (1880-1955)
*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]], (1850-1894)
*[[Trumbull Stickney]], (19th c.)
*[[James Still]]
*[[Theodor Storm]], (1817-1888)
*[[Alfonsina Storni]], (1892-1938)
=====Str-Stu=====
*[[Mark Strand]] (former [[Poet Laureate]], [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]] winner)
*[[Botho Strauss]], (born 1944)
*[[Jesse Stuart]]
====Su-Sz====
*[[Su Shi]]
*[[Su Xiaoxiao]]
* [[Sir John Suckling]]
* [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], ruler of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Islam]]ic poet
* [[Cemal Süreya]]
* [[Patrick Süskind]] (b. [[1949]])
* [[Paul Summers]] poet (b.[[1967]])
* [[Robert Sward]] poet (b. [[1933]])
* [[Cole Swensen]] poet (b. [[1955]]), awareded [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in Poetry 2006
* [[May Swenson]]
* [[Jonathan Swift]] ([[1667]]–[[1745]])
* [[Algernon Swinburne]] ([[1837]]–[[1909]])
* [[Joshua Sylvester]] ([[1563]]–[[1618]])
* [[Wislawa Szymborska|Wisława Szymborska]] (b. [[1923]]), [[Polish poet]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1996]]
=== T ===
====Ta-Te====
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]], (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel laureate of 1913
*[[Tao Qian]]
*[[Jovica Tasevski - Eternijan]], Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
*[[Torquato Tasso]], (1544-1595)
*[[Allen Tate]], (1899-1979)
*[[James Tate (writer)|James Tate]]
*[[Henry Taylor]], (1800-1886)
*[[Sara Teasdale]] (1884-1933)
*[[Alfred Tennyson]], (1809-1892), English poet
*[[Lucy Terry]]
*[[A.S.J. Tessimond]]
*[[Neyzen Tevfik]]
====Th-To====
*[[Ernest Thayer]], (1863-1940)
*[[Theocritus]] (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
*[[Jan Theuninck]], (born 1954)
*[[Dylan Thomas]], (1914-1953)
*[[Edward Thomas]], (1878-1917)
*[[Lorenzo Thomas (poet)|Lorenzo Thomas]], (1944-2005)
*[[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R. S. Thomas]], (1913-2000)
*[[John Sparrow David Thompson|John Thompson]], (1845-1913), Canadian writer
*[[Francis Thompson]], (1859-1907)
*[[James Thomson (B.V.)|James Thomson]], (1834-1882)
*[[James Thomson (Seasons)]]
*[[Henry David Thoreau]], (1817-1862)
*[[Tibullus]], (c. 54 BC-19 BC)
*[[Chidiock Tichborne]], (1558-1586), conspirator and poet
*[[Thomas Tickell]]
*[[Ludwig Tieck]], (1773-1853)
*[[Melvin B. Tolson]]
*[[Jean Toomer]]
====Tr-Tz====
*[[Thomas Traherne]]
*[[Georg Trakl]], (1887-1914)
*[[Michel Tremblay]], (born 1942), author, playwright, poet
*[[Roland Michel Tremblay]], (born 1972), author, poet, scriptwriter
*[[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.
*[[Ghabdulla Tuqay|Ğabdulla Tuqay]], (1886-1913), [[Tatar]] poet
*[[Hone Tuwhare]], (born 1922)
*[[Julian Tuwim]]
*[[Jan Twardowski]]
*[[Pontus de Tyard]], (c. 1521-1605)
*[[Fyodor Tyutchev]], (1803-1873)
*[[Tristan Tzara]], (1896-1963), ([[Dada]])
=== U ===
*[[Miguel de Unamuno]]
*[[Giuseppe Ungaretti]], Italian poet
*[[Louis Untermeyer]], (1885-1977), (Treasury of Erotic Poetry)
*[[John Updike]], (born 1932), (Facing Nature)
*[[Allen Upward]], [[Imagist]]
*[[Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha]]
=== V ===
====Va-Ve====
*[[Mona Van Duyn]]
*[[Cesar Vallejo]], (1892-1938)
*[[Paul Valéry]], (1871-1945), [[France|French]] [[author]] and [[poet]] of the [[Symbolist poetry|Symbolist]] school
*[[Varand]], (Born 1954), [[Armenia|Armenian Poet]], Writer, Translator, painter, Professor of [[Armenian Literature]]
*[[Dimitris Varos]], (1949-)
*[[Henry Vaughan]], (1621-1695)
*[[Vazha-Pshavela]] (Luka Razikashvili), (1861-1915)
*[[Vemana]]
*[[Helen Vendler]]
*[[Jacint Verdaguer]], (1845-1902)
*[[Paul Verlaine]], (1844-1896)
*[[Paul Vermeersch]], (born 1973) Canadian
==== Vi-Vr ====
* [[Francis Viele-Griffin|Francis Vielé-Griffin]] (symbolist)
* [[Peter Viereck]]
* [[François Villon]], (1431-c.1474)
* [[Gilles Vigneault]], (born 1928), Quebec singer-songwriter and poet
* [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]]
* [[Roemer Visscher]], (1547-1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
* [[Walter von der Vogelweide]]
* [[Walther von der Vogelweide]], (c. 1170-c. 1230)
* [[Vincent Voiture]], (1598-1648)
* [[Joost van den Vondel]], (1587-1679), Dutch playwright, poet
* [[Andrei Voznesensky]], (born 1933)
* [[Stanko Vraz]], (1810-1851)
=== W ===
====Wa====
*[[Robert Wace]] (c. 1115-c. 1183)
*[[Sidney Wade]] (born 1951)
*[[Diane Wakoski]] (born 1937)
*[[Derek Walcott]] (born 1930)
*[[Rosmarie Waldrop]] (born 1935)
*[[Arthur Waley]] (1889-1966)
*[[Alice Walker]] (born 1944)
*[[Edmund Waller]] (1606-1687)
*[[Wang Wei]] (698-759)
*[[Robert Penn Warren]] (1905-1989)
*[[Thomas Warton]] (1728-1790)
*[[Roger Waters]] (born 1943)
*[[Barrett Watten]] (born 1948)
*[[Isaac Watts]] (1674-1748)
*[[David Wayne]] (1914-1995)
====We-Wh====
*[[John Webster]] (c.1580-c.1634
*[[Hannah Weiner]] (1928–1997)
*[[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|E.B. White]] (1899-1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
*[[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
====Wi====
*[[John Wieners]] (1934-2002)
*[[Richard Wilbur]] (born 1921)
*[[Jane Wilde]], (1826-1896)
*[[Oscar Wilde]], (1854-1900)
*[[John Wilkinson (poet)|John Wilkinson]] (born 1953)
*[[William IX of Aquitaine|William IX, Duke of Aquitaine]] (1071-1126)
*[[Emmett Williams]] (1925-2007)
*[[Miller Williams]] (born 1930)
*[[Oscar Williams]] (1900-1964)
*[[Saul Williams]] (born 1972)
*[[Sherley Anne Williams]] (1944-1999)
*[[Waldo Williams]] (1904-1971)
*[[William Carlos Williams]] (1883-1963)
*[[William Williams Pantycelyn]] (1717-1791)
*[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester|John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]] (1647-1680)
*[[Peter Lamborn Wilson]]
*[[Yvor Winters]] (1900-1968)
*[[George Wither]] (1588-1667)
====Wo-Wy====
*[[Rafał Wojaczek]] (born 1945-1971)
*[[Christa Wolf]] (born 1929)
*[[Charles Wolfe (poet)|Charles Wolfe]], (1791-1823)
*[[Hans Wollschläger]](1935-2007)
*[[George Woodcock]] (1912-1995)
*[[Dorothy Wordsworth]] (1771-1855)
*[[William Wordsworth]] (1770-1850)
*[[Franz Wright]] (born 1953)
*[[Philip Stanhope Worsley]] (1835-1866)
*[[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]] (born in 1935)
*[[James Wright (poet)|James Wright]] (1927-1980)
*[[Judith Wright]] (1915-2000)
*[[Thomas Wyatt (poet)|Thomas Wyatt]] (1503-1542)
*[[Elinor Wylie]] (1885-1928)
*[[Hedd Wyn]] (1887-1917)
=== X ===
*[[Xu Zhimo]], (1897-1931)
=== Y ===
*[[Leo Yankevich]] (born 1961)
*[[Peyo Yavorov]] (1878-1914)
*[[William Butler Yeats]] (1865-1939)
*[[Sergei Yesenin]], (1895-1925)
*[[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]] (born 1933)
*[[Marguerite Young]] (1908-1995)
*[[David Young (Canadian playwright)|David Young]] (born 1946)
*[[Edward Young]] (1683-1765)
*[[Kevin Young (poet)]] (born 1970)
*[[A. W. Yrjänä]] (1967-)
*[[Yunus Emre]] (1238?-1320?)
=== Z ===
*[[Adam Zagajewski]] (born 1945)
*[[Andrea Zanzotto]] (born 1921)
*[[Lisa Zaran]] (born 1969)
*[[Marya Zaturenska]] (1902-1982)
*[[Benjamin Zephaniah]] (born 1958)
*[[Calvin Ziegler]] (1854-1930)
*[[Zuhayr|Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ]] (520-609)
*[[Louis Zukofsky]] (1904-1978)
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