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This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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Ab–Ak • Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet • Aarudhra (1925–1998), Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry • Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet • Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet and fiction writer • Siôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeer • Aria Aber (born 1991), Afghan poet and novelist, resides in the US, writes and publishes primarily in English • Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet and literary critic • Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1948-1953 • Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049), Persian poet • Sam Abrams (1935–2023), US poet, editor and critic • Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet • Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet • Dannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh poet in English • Kathy Acker (1947–1997), US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright • Diane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist • Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction • Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright • Harold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante • János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost • Tamás Aczél (1921–1994), Hungarian poet • Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic • Virginia Hamilton Adair (1919–2004), US poet • Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer • Draginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serbian poet • John Adams (1704–1740), US poet • Léonie Adams (1899–1988), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1948–1949 • Ryan Adams (born 1974), US singer-songwriter and writer • Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poet • Fleur Adcock (1934–2024), New Zealand poet mainly in England • Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician • Kim Addonizio (born 1954), US poet and novelist • Artur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poet • Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet • Mariska Ady (1888–1977), Hungarian poet • Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedian • Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translator • Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BCE), Roman comic poet • John Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer • Patience Agbabi (born 1965), British poet and performer • James Agee (1909–1955), US novelist, screenwriter, and poet • Deborah Ager (born 1977), US poet and editor • István Ágh (1938–2025), Hungarian poet • Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), US poet • Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017), Albanian poet • Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Spanish poet • Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet • Ishaaq bin Ahmed (1095 – 12th century), Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali Isaaq clan-family • Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet • Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic • Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), US poet and author; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1950–1952 • Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poet • Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian • Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician • Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German • Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1929–1990), Iranian poet, Persian poet • Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet • Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet • Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914–1976), Indian Urdu poet • Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter • Salman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian US professor and poet writing in English and Urdu Al–Am • Amina Al Adwan (born 1944), Jordanian writer, poet and critic • Ali al-Marhun (1916–2010), Saudi faqīh and poet • Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951–2021), Sudanese poet • Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), Scottish Gaelic poet • Ave Alavainu (1942–2022), Estonian poet • Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader • Alcaeus (4th c. BCE), Athenian comic poet in Greek • Alcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BCE), Greek writer of verse epigrams • Alcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos • Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956), US poet, scholar and critic • Alcman (fl. 7th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet • Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), US poet and teacher • Richard Aldington (1892–1962), English poet and writer • Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet • Tudur Aled (c. 1465–1525), Welsh poet writing in Welsh • Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), Central US poet writing in Spanish • Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977 • Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901), Slovene symbolist poet • Sherman Alexie (born 1966), US poet and writer • Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), Catalan US novelist and poet • Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), Indian, Kashmiri and US poet • Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet • Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet • Ali al-Hujwiri (1009–1072), Persian poet • James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet • August Alle (1899–1952), Estonian poet • Dick Allen (1939–2017), US poet, critic and academic • Donald Allen (1912–2004), US poet, editor and translator • Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), US author and poet • Ron Allen (1947–2010), US poet and playwright • Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonian poet • William Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet and man of letters • Washington Allston (1779–1843), US painter and poet • Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist and critic • Alta (Alta Gerrey; 1942–2024), US poet and writer • Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator • Alurista (born 1947), Chicano poet and activist • Al Alvarez (fl. 1929–2019), English poet • Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayist • Betti Alver (1906–1989), Estonian poet • Moniza Alvi (born 1954), Pakistani-British poet and writer • Guru Amar Das (1479–1574), Punjabi poet and Sikh guru • Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of Third Crusade • Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet • Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translator • Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English author and poet • Majeed Amjad (1914–1974), Indian/Pakistani poet in Urdu • A. 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Ammons (1926–2001), US author and poet An–Aq • Anacreon (570–488 BCE), Greek lyric poet • Alfred Andersch (1914–1980), German writer and publisher • Mir Anees (or Anis) (1803–1874), Indian poet in Urdu • Guda Anjaiah (1955–2016), Telugu Indian poet, singer, lyricist and writer from Telangana • Anvari (1117–1157), Persian poet • Temsüla Ao (1945–2022), Indian Naga poet, short story writer, and ethnographer • Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writer • Victor Henry Anderson (1917–2001), US poet, kahuna and teacher of the Feri Tradition • Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), Brazilian poet • Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist and critic • Bernard André (1450–1522), French Augustinian poet: poet laureate to Henry VII of England • Peter Andrej (born 1959), Slovenian poet and musician • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writer • Bruce Andrews (born 1948), US poet of language • Kevin Andrews (1924–1989), Anglo-Greek philhellene writer and archeologist • Ron Androla (born 1954), US poet • Aneirin (fl. 6th c.), Brythonic epic poet • Guru Angad (1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet • Ralph Angel (1951–2020), US poet and translator • Maya Angelou (1928–2014), US poet • James Stout Angus (1830–1923), Shetland poet mainly in Shetland dialect • Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet in Scots • J. 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Annand (1908–1993), Scottish children's poet • Mika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poet • David Antin (1932–2016), US poet and critic • Antler (born 1946), US poet • Susanne Antonetta (born 1956), US poet and author • Brother Antoninus (1912–1994), US poet • Raymond Antrobus (living), British poet and educator • Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), Indonesian poet • Johannes Anyuru (born 1979), Swedish poet • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet • Apollonius of Rhodes (270 – post–245 BCE), Greek poet and librarian in Alexandria • Maja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poet • Philip Appleman (1926–2020), US poet and professor • Lajos Áprily (1887–1967), Hungarian poet and translator • Pawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Maltese poet Ar • Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French poet, novelist and editor • János Arany (1817–1882), Hungarian poet • Archilochus (c. 680 – c. 645 BCE), Greek lyric poet • Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Telugu poet • Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), US dadaist, critic and poet • Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet • Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet • Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BCE), Greek dramatic poet • Guru Arjan (1563–1606), Sikh guru and Punjabi poet • Rae Armantrout (born 1947), US language poet • Simon Armitage (born 1963), English poet, playwright and novelist • Richard Armour (1906–1989), US poet and author • Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German author and poet • Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), German writer, composer and visual artist • Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelist • Craig Arnold (1967–2009), US poet and professor • Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), English poet and cultural critic • Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld (Poet of Earls, c. 1012 – 1070s), Icelandic skald • Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942), Polish poet • Jean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, painter and poet • Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French playwright, poet and essayist As–Az • Asadi Tusi (1000–1073), Persian poet • M. K. Asante (born 1982), US author, poet and professor • John Ashbery (1927–2017), US poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry • Cliff Ashby (1919–2012), English poet and novelist • Renée Ashley, US poet and novelist • Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest • Asjadi (10th–11th c.), Persian poet • Adam Asnyk (1838–1897), Polish poet and dramatist • Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poet • Mina Assadi (born 1942), Iranian poet, Persian poet, author and songwriter • Vishnu Raj Atreya (1944–2020), Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelist • Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and essayist • W. H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-US poet, essayist • Imre Augustich (Imre Augustič, 1837–1879), Slovenian/Hungarian poet • Joseph Auslander (1897–1965), US poet, anthologist and novelist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1937–1941 • Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala (Bordeaux) • Paul Auster (1947–2024), US poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator • James Avery (1945–2013), US actor, poet and screenwriter • Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet • Krayem Awad (born 1948), Viennese painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin • Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet • Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970), Nigerian poet • Ayinampudi Srilakshmi (born 1967), Telugu poet • Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poet • Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet • Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Persian poet, essayist, critic and translator • Azraqi (11th c.), Persian poet • Jody Azzouni (born 1954), US philosopher and poet ==B==
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Ba • Baba Tahir (11th c.), Persian poet • Mihály Babits (1883–1941), Hungarian poet and translator • Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet • Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), US poet and writer of Apache/Chicano descent • Bacchylides (fl. 5th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet • Bellamy Bach (fl. 1980s), joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poets • Harivansh Rai Bachchan (fl. 20th c.), Hindi poet • Joseph M. Bachelor (also Joseph Morris, 1889–1947), US author, poet and educator • Simon Bacher (1823–1891), Hebrew poet in Hungary • Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author • Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian poet • George Bacovia (1881–1957), Romanian poet • Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldier • Vahshi Bafqi (1532–1583) Persian poet • Julio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian Esperanto author and poet • Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886–1951), Persian poet • Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty • Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Scottish poet and dramatist • József Bajza (1804–1858), Hungarian poet and critic • Józef Baka (1706/1707–1788), Polish/Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priest • Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuania-US translator, editor and poet • David Baker (born 1954), US poet • Hinemoana Baker (born 1968), New Zealand poet and musician • Bâkî (1526–1600), Ottoman-Turkish language poet (pseudonym of Mahmud Abdülbâkî) • John Balaban (born 1943), US poet and translator • Bálint Balassi (1554–1594), Hungarian poet • Béla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian poet and critic • Edward Balcerzan (born 1937), Polish poet, critic and translator • Stanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet and diplomat • Jesse Ball (born 1978), US poet and novelist • Zsófia Balla (born 1949), Hungarian poet from Romania • Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), US poet and suffragist • Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator • Russell Banks (1940–2023), US fiction writer and poet • Anne Bannerman (1765–1829), Scottish poet • Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet and dramatist • Marcin Baran (born 1963), Polish poet and journalist • Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator • Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer • Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's author • John Barbour (c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet, first major writer in Scots • Nidia Barboza (born 1954), Costa Rican poet and feminist activist • Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet • George Barker (1913–1991), English poet and author • Les Barker (1947–2023), English poet • Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African poet • Coleman Barks (1937–2026), US poet • Mihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c. 1778–1824), Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary • Mary Barnard (1909–2001), US poet, biographer and translator • Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), US writer • William Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, poet and philologist • Catherine Barnett (born 1960), US poet and educator • Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), English poet • Willis Barnstone (born 1927), US poet and literary translator • Maria Barrell (died 1803), poet, playwright and writer of periodicals • Laird Barron (born 1970), US poet, author • Sándor Barta (1897–1938), Hungarian poet executed in USSR • Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet and Quaker • Bertha Hirsch Baruch (fl. late 18th – early 19th c.), US writer, poet and suffragist • Todd Bash (born 1965), US avant-garde playwright, poet and writer • Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poet • Michael Basinski (born 1950), US text, visual and sound poet • Ellen Bass (born 1947), US poet • Arlo Bates (1850–1918), US author, poet and educator • David Bates (1809–1870), US poet • Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), US poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012–2014 • János Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poet • Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), US poet, journalist and educator • Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translator • Edward Baugh (1936–2023), Jamaican poet and scholar • Cirilo Bautista (1941–2018), Philippines poet, writer and critic • Charles Baxter (born 1947), US writer and poet • James K. Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poet Be • Jan Beatty (born 1952), US poet • Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet and dramatist • Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet • Joshua Beckman (living), US poet • Matija Bećković (born 1939), Serbian writer and poet • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet and fiction writer • Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physician • Patricia Beer (1919–1999), English poet and critic • Sapargali Begalin (1895–1983), Kazakh poet • Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration dramatist; early professional female writer • Ferenc Békássy (1893–1915), Hungarian poet • Erin Belieu (born 1967), US poet • Marvin Bell (1937–2020), US poet and teacher; Poet Laureate of Iowa, 2000–2004 • Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist • Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian sonneteer in Romanesco • Xuan Bello (1965–2025), Asturian poet • Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian • Andrei Bely (1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet and critic • Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), US author, poet and fiction writer • William Rose Benét (1886–1950), US poet, writer and editor • Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), English poet, biographer and novelist • Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet • Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-US writer and poet • Jim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Liverpool punk era • Louise Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (1919–2006), Jamaican poet and folklorist • Richard Berengarten (born 1943), English poet, writer and translator • Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer and critic • İlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poet • Charles Bernstein (born 1950), US poet and scholar • Béroul (12th c.), Norman poet of episodic Tristan • Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016), US poet, priest and peace activist • Ted Berrigan (1934–1983), US poet • James Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican poet based in England • Wendell Berry (born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmer • John Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholar • Dániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poet • Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker • John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster • Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–1830), English poet, writer and entertainer • Helen Bevington (1906–2001), US poet, prose writer and educator • L. 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Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet and essayist Bh–Bl • Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and Indian independence activist • Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet in Gujarati • Źmitrok Biadula (1886–1941), Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer and independence activist • Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Polish poet, novelist and playwright • Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, critic and translator • Biernat of Lublin (c. 1465 – post-1529), Polish poet and fabulist • Laurence Binyon (1879–1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar • Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887—1984), Bangladeshi theologian, poet and academic • Earle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatist • Nevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poet • Balázs Birtalan (1969–2016), Hungarian poet and publicist • Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), US poet and short-story writer; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1949-1950 • Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), poet and revolutionary writing in Urdu and Hindi • Bill Bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet • Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975), US Navajo poet • Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson, (1832–1910) Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian poet • Paul Blackburn (1926–1971), US poet • Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), US literary critic and poet • Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright • William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmaker • Don Blanding (1894–1957), US poet, journalist, writer and speaker • Adrian Blevins (born 1964), US poet • Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English poet and writer • Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet • Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), US philosopher and poet • Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English laboring-class poet • Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet • Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and literary critic • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer • Robert Bly (1926–2021), US poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement Bo–Bri • Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965), East German author and poet • Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet • Jean Bodel (1165–1210), Old French poet • Ádám Bodor (born 1936), Hungarian poet from Romania • Louise Bogan (1897–1970), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1945–1946 • Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic • Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US poet • Christian Bök (born 1966), experimental Canadian poet • Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464), English poet and friar • Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet • Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, biographer and journalist • Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), German novelist • Edmund Bolton (c. 1575 – c. 1633), English historian and poet • Nozawa Bonchō (c. 1640–1714), Japanese haikai poet • Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German poet and Lutheran theologian • Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), US poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance • Luke Booker (1762–1835), English poet, cleric and antiquary • Kurt Boone (born 1959), US poet • Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine fiction writer, essayist and poet • Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and journalist • Hristo Botev (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary • Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet and verse dramatist • David Bottoms (1949–2023), US poet;Poet Laureate of Georgia, 2000–2012 • Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012 • Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner • Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translator • Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary • Kay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and political activist • Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poet • Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672), America's first published poet • Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic • Giannina Braschi (born 1953), US poet born in Puerto Rico • Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbadian writer • Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), US fiction writer and poet • Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet and lyricist • Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright • Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021), Jamaican dub poet and storyteller • Radovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poet • Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian poet and scholar • Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990), US poet and writer of fantasy and horror fiction • Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelist • André Breton (1896–1966), French writer, poet and founder of Surrealism • Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet and novelist • Ken Brewer (1941–2006), US poet and scholar; Poet Laureate of Utah, 2003–2006 • Breyten Breytenbach (1939–2024), South African/French writer, poet and painter • Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; UK Poet Laureate • Traci Brimhall, US poet and professor • Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author Bro–By • Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), US poet and translator • Eve Brodlique (1867–1949), British-born Canadian/American poet, author and journalist • Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian-American poet and essayist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1991-1992 • Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldier • William Bronk (1918–1999), US poet • Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë sisters • Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of three Brontë sisters • Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet • Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet • Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1985-1986 • Hans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), Danish poet and Pietist bishop • Joan Brossa (1919–1998), Catalan poet, playwright and artist • Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist • Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet in United States • Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist • Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusian poet • George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist • James Brown, known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist • Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-US academic writer and poet • Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian • Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist • William Browne (1590–1643), English poet • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet • Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright • William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), US romantic poet and journalist • Colette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Irish poet • Bryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet and memoirist • Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, novelist and critic • Jan Brzechwa (1898–1966), Polish poet and children's writer • Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scottish poet in Scots and Scottish Gaelic • Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist • August Buchner (1591–1661), German Baroque poet and professor • Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German writer, poet and dramatist • Vincent Buckley (1927–1988), Australian poet, essayist and critic • David Budbill (1940–2016), US poet and playwright • Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), US poet • Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet • Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), US poet, novelist and short story writer • Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian poet and novelist • Basil Bunting (1900–1985), English modernist poet • Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), English writer, poet and playwright • Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet and lyricist • Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), US poet • John Burnside (1955–2024), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes • William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), US novelist, poet and essayist • Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and writer • Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter • Raegan Butcher (born 1969), US poet and singer • Ray Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, composer and musician • Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian language poet • Anthony Butts (born 1969), US poet • W. E. Butts (1944–2013), US poet, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, 2009–2013 • Rachel Quick Buttz (1847–1923), US memoirist and poet • Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944–2017), US poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005–2009 • Witter Bynner (also Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968), US poet, writer and scholar • George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and literary figure ==C==
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Cab–Cav , one of the best-known poets of the 16th century • Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet • Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in Welsh • Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name • Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic • Scott Cairns (born 1954), US poet, memoirist and essayist • Alison Calder (born 1969), Canadian poet and educator • Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator • Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), Spanish dramatist, poet and writer of Spanish Golden Age • Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet Tatar poet • Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist • Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist and biographer • Callimachus (c. 305 – c. 240 BCE), Hellenistic poet, critic and scholar at Library of Alexandria • Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musician • Carmen Camacho (writer) (born 1976), Spanish writer, poet, columnist • Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poet • Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580), early Portuguese poet • Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, born 1952), Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actor • David Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot • Nicholas Campbell (b.1949), American poet. • Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist • Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet • Jan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist • Remco Campert (1929–2022), Dutch poet and novelist • Thomas Campion (1567–1619), English composer, poet and physician • Matilde Camus (1919–2012), Spanish poet and researcher • Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), US poet and lawyer • Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), Slovene playwright, essayist and poet • May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poet • Edip Cansever (1928–1986), Turkish poet • Cao Cao (155–220), Chinese poet and warlord • Cao Pi (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet and first emperor of state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao • Cao Zhi (192–232), Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao • Vahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poet • Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priest • Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet and teacher • Thomas Carew (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet • Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter • Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), English didactic poet • Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-US poet associated with Confederation Poets • Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyer • Jim Carroll (1949–2009), US author, poet and punk musician • Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician and photographer • Hayden Carruth (1921–2008), US poet and literary critic • Ann Elizabeth Carson (1929–2023), Canadian poet, artist and feminist • Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translator • Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet and bluestocking • Jared Carter (born 1939), US poet and editor • William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman • Neal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement • Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), US poet and professor • Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Galician poet • Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE), Latin poet under the Roman Republic • Charles Causley (1917–2003), Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer • C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant • Guido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florentine poet and friend of Dante Alighieri • Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician and actor • Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, aristocrat and scientist Ce–Cl • Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator • Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), French poet and author • Thomas Centolella (living), US poet • Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poet • Luis Cernuda (1903–1963), Spanish poet and literary critic • Dobriša Cesarić (1902–1980), Croatian poet and translator • Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), French poet, author and politician from Martinique • Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Portuguese surrealist poet • Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Cuban poet • Ashok Chakradhar (born 1951), Hindi author and poet • John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet • Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and critic • Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), US cowboy poet and columnist • George Chapman (1559–1634), English dramatist, translator and poet • Fred Chappell (1936–2024), US author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1997–2002 • René Char (1907–1998), French poet • Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465), poet • Craig Charles (born 1964), English writer, poet and comedian • Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of medieval poetry • Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, philosopher and alchemist • Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing in Hindi • Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), US writer, poet and Franciscan priest • Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist • Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leone poet and novelist • Andrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-US poet and children's author • Kelly Cherry (1940–2022), US author and poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2010–2012 • G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and poet • Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn (857–901), Korean (Silla) poet • Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), female Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period • Henri Chopin (1922–2008), avant-garde poet and musician • Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240 – c. 1305), French writer • Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poet • Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter and printer • Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satirist • John Ciardi (1916–1986), Italian-US poet, translator and etymologist • Colley Cibber (1671–1757), English playwright and UK Poet Laureate • Jovan Ćirilov (1931–2014), Serbian drama expert, writer and poet • Carson Cistulli (born 1979), US poet, essayist and English professor • Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, poet and playwright • Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), US poet and author • Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer • John Clanvowe (c. 1341–1391), Anglo-Welsh poet and diplomat • John Clare (1793–1864), English poet • Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright • Austin Clarke (1896–1974), Irish poet • George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Canadian poet and academic • Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet and playwright in English • Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat • Claudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius • Matthias Claudius (Asmus, 1740–1815), German poet • Hugo Claus (1929–2008), Belgian author, poet and film director • Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), US humorist, poet and author • Jack Clemo (1916–1994), English Christian poet • Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US author of fiction, prose poems and literary criticism • Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland, 1979-1985 • Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist and assistant to Florence Nightingale Coa–Con • Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), US poet and story writer • Robbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poet • Alison Cockburn (1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialite • Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer • Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author • Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist • Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poet • Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayist • Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, essayist and poet • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet • Edward Coletti (born 1944), Italian-US poet • Billy Collins (born 1941), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001–2003 • William Collins (1721–1759), English poet • William Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poet • Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright • Paul Conneally (born 1959), English poet, artist and musician • Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Anglo-US historian and poet • Henry Constable (1562–1613), English poet • David Constantine (born 1944), English poet and translator Coo–Cz • Clark Coolidge (born 1939), US poet • Matthew Cooperman (born 1964), US poet, critic and editor • Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet • Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547), English printer, author and translator • Julia Copus (born 1969), English poet and biographer • Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet in Guernésiais • Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet • Cid Corman (1924–2004), US poet, translator and editor • Alfred Corn (born 1943), US poet and essayist • Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet • F. M. Cornford (1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances Cornford • Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright • Gregory Corso (1930–2001), US Beat poet • Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), US poet and performance artist • George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacher • Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translator • Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet • Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989), US novelist, poet and critic • William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnist • George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet, naturalist and clergyman • Hart Crane (1899–1932), US modernist poet • Stephen Crane (1871–1900), US novelist, short story writer and poet • Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), English Metaphysical poet • Robert Creeley (1926–2005), US poet • Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), French Canadian poet • Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), English poet • Charles Cros (1842–1888), French poet and inventor • Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and poet • Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), English poet • György Csanády (1895–1952), Hungarian poet and journalist • Sándor Csoóri (1930–2016), Hungarian poet, essayist and politician • Cui Hao (c. 704–754), Tang dynasty Chinese poet • Countee Cullen (1903–1946), US poet • Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist and poet • E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), US poet, essayist and playwright • Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and author • James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), US poet, literary critic and teacher • Allen Curnow (1911–2001), New Zealand poet and journalist • Ivor Cutler (1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist • Józef Czechowicz (1903–1939), Polish poet • Gergely Czuczor (1800–1866), Hungarian poet, monk and academic • Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), Polish poet, playwright and painter ==D==
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Da–Dh • Dalpatram (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi) (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati language poet • Abraham ben Daniel (1511-1578), Italian poet and rabbi • Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvador poet • Daqiqi (died 977), Persian poet • Ruby Dhal (born 1994), British-Afghan poet • Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020), Indonesian poet • Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historian • David Daniels (1933–2008), US visual poet • Jeffrey Daniels (living), African-US poet • Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet in Old French • Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist • Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet and writer • Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet initiating modernismo • Keki Daruwalla (1937–2024), Indian poet and fiction writer in English • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English poet and herbalist • Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet and author • Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges • Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali poet and author • Petter Dass (died 1707), Norwegian poet • Mina Dastgheib (born 1943), Iranian poet, Persian poet • René Daumal (1908–1944), French para-surrealist writer and poet • Jean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet, scholar and La Pléiade member , poet laureate of Jamaica • Kwame Dawes (1962-), Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and poet laureate of Jamaica • William Davenant (1606–1668), English poet and playwright • Guy Davenport (1927–2005), US writer, translator and illustrator • Donald Davidson (1893–1968), US poet, essayist and critic • John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelist • Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), US poet • Donald Davie (1922–1995), English poet and critic • Alan Davies (born 1951), US poet, critic and editor • Hilary Davies (born 1954), English poet and critic • Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist and communist • Sir John Davies (1569–1626), English poet, lawyer and politician • W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writer • Jon Davis, US poet • Edward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish-US poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison • Peter Davison (1928–2004), US poet, essayist and editor; son of poet Edward Davison • Denis Davydov (1784–1839), Russian soldier-poet of Napoleonic Wars • Dayaram (1777–1853), Gujarati language poet • Gábor Dayka (1769–1796), Hungarian poet • Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate, 1968–1972 • James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisher • Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian poet and novelist • John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist • Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian critic, poet and essayist • Jean Louis De Esque (1879–1956), US poet and author • Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015), US poet • Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), Polish poet, translator and painter • Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poet • Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet • Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist • Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of Parnassian movement • Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet in English and Shetland dialect • François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic and translator • Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poet • Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translator • Sir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtier • Tory Dent (1958–2005), US poet, critic and commentator • Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poet • Regina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writer • Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopher • Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-US poet • Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet • Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist • Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), US poet, critic and novelist • Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright and poet • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet praised also for lost plays • Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet, playwright and novelist • Lakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayist • Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist • Imtiaz Dharker (born 1954), Pakistan-born British poet, artist and filmmaker • Dhurjati (c. 15th – 16th cc.), Telugu language poet Di–Dr • Souéloum Diagho (living), Tuareg poet • Zoraida Díaz (1991–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist • Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto • Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), US poet • James Dickey (1923–1997), US poet and novelist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1966-1968 • Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), US poet • Matthew Dickman (born 1975), US poet, twin of Michael Dickman • Michael Dickman (born 1975), US poet • Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and politician • Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic • Diane di Prima (1934–2020), US poet • Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet • Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet • Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), US poet, novelist • Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), US poet • Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist • Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), US author, novelist and poet • Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian playwright, poet and politician • Hendrik Doeff (1777–1835), Dutch lexicographer and poet (in Japanese) and Commissioner in the Dejima trading post • Gojko Đogo (born 1940), Serbian poet • Pete Doherty (born 1979), English musician, songwriter and poet • Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet • Joe Dolce (born 1947), Australian songwriter, poet and essayist • María Magdalena Domínguez (1922–2021), Spanish poet • John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist and Anglican cleric • H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), US Imagist poet • Ap Chuni Dorji, Bhutanese poet • Edward Dorn (1929–1999), US poet and teacher • Tishani Doshi (born 1975), Indian English poet and journalist • Mark Doty (born 1953), US poet and memoirist • Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and children's writer • Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer and traveler • Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), US poet and author • Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translator • Keith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poet • Rita Dove (born 1952), US poet and author; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 • Freda Downie (1929-1993), English poet • Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist and short-story writer • Jane Draycott (living), English poet • Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet of Elizabethan era • Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet • John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet • William Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poet • William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poet • Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poet • John Dryden (1631–1700), English poet, critic and playwright • Toru Dutt (1856–1877), Indian poet and translator writing in French and English Du–Dy • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poet • Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet, critic and La Pléiade member • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), US writer and activist • Norman Dubie (born 1945), US poet • Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat • Du Fu (712–770), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty • Du Mu (803–852), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty • Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; UK Poet Laureate • Alan Dugan (1923–2003), US poet • Sasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright and translator • Richard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poet • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-US poet, novelist and playwright • William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scots makar • Robert Duncan (1919–1988), US poet • Camille Dungy (born 1972), US poet, academic and essayist • Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic and critic • Stephen Dunn (1939–2021), US poet • Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writer • Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poet • Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), English novelist, poet and dramatist • Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatist • Stuart Dybek (born 1942), US poet, writer • Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English courtier and poet • Bob Dylan (born 1941), Nobel Prize-winning US singer-songwriter and writer ==E==
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• Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poet • Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1959–1961 • Houshang Ebtehaj (1928–2022), Iranian poet, Persian poet • Russell Edson (1935–2014), US poet, novelist and illustrator • Terry Ehret (born 1955), US poet • Max Ehrmann (1872–1945), US writer, poet, and attorney • Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and novelist • Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poet • George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, journalist and translator • T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), Nobel Prize-winning US/English poet, playwright and critic • Ebenezer Elliott ("Corn Law rhymer", 1781–1849), English poet • E. S. Elliott (1836–1897), English poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editor • Julia Anne Elliott (1809–1841), English poet and hymnwriter • Royston Ellis (1941–2023), English poet • Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet • Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996), Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet • Claudia Emerson (1957–2014), US poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2008–2010 • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US essayist, lecturer and poet • Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet, essayist and translator • Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian poet, novelist and journalist • William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet • Yunus Emre (c. 1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic • Michael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy and children's writer and poet • Leszek Engelking (1955–2022), Polish, poet, fiction writer and translator • Paul Engle (1908–1991), US poet, novelist and playwright • Ennius (c. 239 – c. 169 BCE), father of Latin poetry in Rome • D. J. Enright (1920–2002), English poet, novelist and critic • Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022), German writer, poet and translator • János Erdélyi (1814–1868), Hungarian poet and philosopher • Louise Erdrich (born 1954), US novelist, poet and children's writer featuring Native US heritage • Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poet • Max Ernst (1891–1976), German poet and artist • Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Telugu poet • Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220), German Minnesinger poet and knight • Clayton Eshleman (1935–2022), US poet, translator and editor • Molla Babor Eshqi (1792–1863), Central Asia poet • Martín Espada (born 1957), US poet and teacher • Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet • Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalan poet in Spain • Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), US poet • Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish US poet • Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet • Maggie Estep (born 1963), US slam poet and musician • Euripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian • Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelist • Mari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poet • William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), US poet and critic • Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet • Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007), South African/Dutch poet; poetry in Afrikaans ==F==
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Fa–Fn • Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymnist and theologian • Kinga Fabó (1953–2021), Hungarian poet and essayist • Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), Indian/Pakistani poet • Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (11th c.), Persian poet • Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poet • Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist • Ferenc Faludi (1704–1779), Hungarian poet • György Faludy (1910–2006), Hungarian poet and translator • U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), English poet • Ahmad Faraz (1931–2008), Pakistani Urdu poet and scriptwriter • Patricia Fargnoli (1937–2021), US poet and psychotherapist • Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright and poet • J. P. Farrell (born 1968), US poet and musician • Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Iranian poet, Persian poet • Farrukhi Sistani (1000–1040), Persian poet • Joseph Fasano (born 1982), American poet and novelist • Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poet, novelist and playwright • Károly Fellinger (born 1963), Hungarian poet in Slovakia • Fenggan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese Zen monk poet under the Tang dynasty • Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translator • James Fenton (1931–2021), Northern Irish linguist and poet in Ulster Scots • James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist and literary critic • Ferdowsi (935–1020), Persian poet • Teréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poet • Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scottish poet • Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), US poet, painter and activist • Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and poet • Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006), Polish poet, writer and translator • Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist, dramatist and poet • Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine poet and musician • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English nature poet • Annie Finch (born 1956), US poet, librettist and translator • Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer and gardener • Roy Fisher (1930–2017), English poet and jazz pianist • Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), US poet, critic and translator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1984–1985 • Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child poet and diarist • Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet, diplomat and MP • Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet • John Fletcher (1579–1625), English playwright and poet • John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), US Imagist poet • Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother of Giles the younger • F. S. Flint (1885–1960), English poet and translator Fo–Fu • Alice B. Fogel (born 1954), US poet, writer and professor • Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author and poet • Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poet and realist writer • John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet • Carolyn Forché (born 1950), US poet, editor and translator • Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet and critic • John Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poet • John M. Ford (1957–2006), US SF and fantasy writer, game designer and poet • Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poet and critical theorist • Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet • William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer and translator • Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand author • Anatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist and novelist • Robert Francis (1901–1987), US poet • Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan • G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, critic and academic • Gregory Fraser (born 1963), US poet, editor and professor • Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writer • Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician and playwright • Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwright • Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), US poet and fiction writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1985–1986 • Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), English poet • Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator • Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), French chronicler and court poet • Robert Frost (1874–1963), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1958–1959 • Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), US poet and teacher • John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller • Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet • Alice Fulton (born 1952), US poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner • John Furnival (1933–2020), British visual and concrete poet • Milán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright • Fuzûlî (c. 1483–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet ==G==
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Ga–Go • Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), Polish poet • Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), Polish poet and stage writer • Dumitru Găleșanu (born 1955), Romanian poet, writer, illustrator and jurist • Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet • James Galvin (born 1951), US poet • Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, essayist and inventor • János Garay (1812–1853), Hungarian poet and journalist • Isabella Gardner (1915–1981), American poet and actress • Robert Garioch (wrote as Robert Garioch Sutherland, 1909–1981), Scottish poet and translator • Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), US novelist, poet and essayist • Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and editor • Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English scholar, biographer and poet • Jean Garrigue (1914–1972), US poet • Samuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poet • George Gascoigne (1535–1577), English poet, soldier and would-be courtier • David Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet of the Surrealist movement • Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, dramatist and novelist • John Gay (1685–1732), English poet and dramatist • Yehonatan Geffen (1947–2023), Israeli author, poet and playwright • Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991), US writer, poet and cartoonist • Juan Gelman (1930–2014), Argentinian poet, writer and translator • Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translator • Dan Gerber (born 1940), US poet • Ágnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian poet, novelist and translator • Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymnist • Cezary Geroń (1960–1998), Polish poet, journalist and translator • Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), Indian poet in Urdu and Persian • Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), US children's author, poet and feature writer • Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), US poet, fiction writer and critic • Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-US artist, poet and writer • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English poet • Ryan Giggs (born 1973), Welsh poet, footballer and homewrecker • Jack Gilbert (1925–2012), US poet • W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poet • Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poet • Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), US Beat Generation poet • Dana Gioia (born 1950), US writer, critic and poet • Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024), US poet, writer and educator • Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright and religious thinker • Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar and poet • Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poet • Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919), Nobel Prize-winning Danish poet • Denis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poet and publisher • Louise Glück (1943–2023), Nobel Prize-winning US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2003-2004 • Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian poet in Punjabi, Urdu, etc. • Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelist • Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Canadian poet in French • Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), US poet • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist and politician • Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright and translator • Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Hebrew-language poet, playwright and writer • Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English children's writer and poet • Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer and poet • Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet • Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright • George Gomri (born 1934), Hungarian poet and journalist (also in English) • Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poet • Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet • Paul Goodman (1911–1972), US novelist, playwright and poet • Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet and translator • Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet and politician • Gábor Görgey (1929–2022), Hungarian poet and politician • Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poet • Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), US performance poet and artist • Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist • Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author and critic • Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French poet, novelist and critic • John Gower (c. 1330–1408), English poet and friend of Chaucer Gr–Gy • Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet • James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier and poet • Jorie Graham (born 1950), US poet and first female Boylston Professor at Harvard • W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poet • Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographer • Alex Grant (living), Scottish US poet and teacher • Günter Grass (1927–2015), German novelist, poet and playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature • Richard Graves (1715–1804), English poet and essayist • Robert Graves (1895–1985), English author and scholar • Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer and poet • Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet • Jaki Shelton Green, American poet, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2018–present • Robert Greene (1558–1592), English author and poet • Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet • Linda Gregg (1942–2019), US poet • Horace Gregory (1898–1982), US poet, translator and critic • Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet • Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628), English poet, dramatist and statesman • Susan Griffin (born 1943), US poet and writer • Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnist • Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar • Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historian • Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978), US poet, photographer and visual artist • Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, short-story writer and scholar • Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), English poet and critic • Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet and dramatist • Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and dramatist • Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), African-US playwright and poet • Charlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-US poet • Rufus W. Griswold (1815–1857), US anthologist, poet and critic • Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist • Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Serbian writer, poet and bishop • Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist • Philip Gross (born 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright • Igo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translator • N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, pastor and historian • Wioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writer • Barbara Guest (1920–2006), US poet and prose stylist • Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born US poet • Paul Guest (living), US poet and memoirist • Bimal Guha (born 1952), Bangladesh poet writing in Bengali • Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240), French scholar and poet • Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), Spanish poet • Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban poet, activist and writer • Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poet • Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvère • Malcolm Guite (born 1957) • Gül Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet • Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeism • Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poet • Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-US poet • Lee Gurga (born 1949), US haiku poet • Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet • Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016), Swedish poet, novelist and scholar • Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet • Beth Gylys (born 1964), US poet and professor • István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poet • Géza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poet • Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer and sound poet • Gabor G. Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-US poet and translator (also in English) ==H==
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Ha • Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar • Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), US poet, translator and critic • Hadraawi (1943–2022), Somaliland poet and songwriter • Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet • Hai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poet • John Haines (1924–2011), US poet and educator • Donald Hall (1928–2018), US poet, writer and critic; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006-2007 • Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson • Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet and academic • Jupiter Hammon (1711–c.1806), American poet, the first African American man published in North America • Han Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet of the Tang dynasty • Hanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty • Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet • Joy Harjo (1951-), American poet, musician, playwright, and author; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2019-2022 • Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet • Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist • Jim Harrison (1937–2016), US poet, novelist and essayist • Tony Harrison (1937–2025), English poet and playwright • Carla Harryman (born 1952), US poet, essayist and playwright • David Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriter • Paul Hartal (born 1936), Hungarian-born Canadian poet, painter and critic • Peter Härtling (1933–2017), German writer and poet • Michael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet writing in English and Irish • Julia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet, writer and translator • Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist • Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani origin • Ahmet Haşim (c. 1884–1933), Turkish poet • Robert Hass (born 1941), US poet; U.S Poet Laureate, 1995-1997 • Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), emir of the Dervish movement, of which Diiriye Guure was sultan • Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian poet • Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist, poet and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1912 • Stephen Hawes (died 1523), English poet • Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), English poet, antiquarian and Anglican priest • George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scottish poet and translator in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English • Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th c.), Scottish poet and translator in Middle Scots • Robert Hayden (1913–1980), US poet, essayist and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1976-1978 • William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer • Tony Haynes (born 1960), US poet, songwriter and lyricist • Ha Seung-moo(born October 13, 1963), Korean poet, professor and theologian He • Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, playwright and translator; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature • Josephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921), US teacher and poet • John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translator • Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelist • Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1982–1984 • Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), US poet, historian and philosopher • Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), US poet, writer and performer • Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator • Ilona Hegedűs (living), poet • John Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian and songwriter • Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, essayist and literary critic • Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024), US poet, essayist and translator • Acharya Hemachandra (1089–1172), Jain scholar, poet and polymath • Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poet • Marian Hemar (1901–1972), Polish poet, songwriter and playwright • Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), US poet and activist • Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter and catalyst for folk revival in Scotland • William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, critic and editor • Adrian Henri (1932–2000), English poet and painter • Robert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poet • Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, historian, poet and philosopher; brother of George Herbert • George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet • Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (née Sidney), early English woman in literature • Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist • David Herbison (1800–1880), Irish poet, writing in Ulster Scots dialect and English • Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian and literary critic • Miguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright of Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements • Herodas or Herondas (3rd c. BCE), Greek poet and author of humorous dramatic scenes in verse • Antoine Héroet (died 1568), French poet • Juan Felipe Herrera (1948-); American poet, performer, writer, toonist, teacher, and activist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2015–2017 • Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet • Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish-born English poet and critic • Hesiod (fl. 750–650 BCE), Ancient Greek poet • Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet • Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter • Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright • John Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Irish poet • William Heyen (born 1940), US poet, literary critic, novelist • Thomas Heywood (c. 1570s – 1641), English playwright, actor and author Hi–Hy • Dick Higgins (1938–1998), English poet and publisher • Scott Hightower (born 1952), US poet and teacher • Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright and novelist • Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), English poet and professor • Selima Hill (born 1945), English poet • Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist • Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), US poet • Hipponax (6th c. BCE), of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poet • Hirato Renkichi (1893–1922), Japanese avant-garde poet • Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), Dutch poet • Jane Hirshfield (born 1953), US poet • George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), US poet, playwright and painter • H. L. Hix (born 1960), US poet and academic • Marian Hluszkewycz (1877–1935), Russian poet • Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368 – 1426), English poet and clerk • Daniel Hoffman (1923–2013), American poet, essayist, and academic; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1973–1974 • Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet and translator in English • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, poet and dramatist • James Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet and novelist • David Holbrook (1923–2011), English writer, poet and academic • Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German lyric poet • Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and novelist • Barbara Holland (1933–2010), US author • John Hollander (1929–2013), Jewish-US poet and literary critic • Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet • Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), US poet, professor and author • Homer (fl. 8th c. BCE), Greek epic poet • Thomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood • A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian satirical poet and essayist • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and Jesuit priest • Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BCE), Roman lyric poet • George Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-US poet • Joan Houlihan, US poet • A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet and classicist • Libby Houston (born 1941), English poet, botanist and rock climber • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English Renaissance poet • Richard Howard (1929–2022), US poet, critic and essayist • Fanny Howe (1940–2025), US poet and fiction writer • Susan Howe (born 1937), US poet, scholar and essayist • Hrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and first known female dramatist, from Lower Saxony • Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), Bangladeshi poet in Bengali • John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet in Welsh • Langston Hughes (1902–1967), US poet, novelist and playwright • Ted Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; UK Poet Laureate • Richard Hugo (1923–1982), US poet • Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist and dramatist • Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poet • Lynda Hull (1954–1994), US poet • Keri Hulme (1947–2021), New Zealand poet and fiction writer • Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917), English critic and poet • Alexander Hume (1560–1609), Scottish poet • Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), English critic, essayist and poet • Sam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poet • Cynthia Huntington US poet, professor, memoirist • Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet • Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, poet and travel writer • Hwang Myung (1931–1998), Korean poet • Abby B. Hyde (1799–1872), American hymnwriter • Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), US poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1974–1983 ==I==
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• Khadijah Ibrahiim (fl. 2022), British poet • Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director and poet • Ibycus (fl. late 6th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet • Ikkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet • Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet • Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), Hungarian poet and novelist • Maria Ilnicka (1825 or 1827–1897), Polish poet, novelist and translator • Lawson Fusao Inada (born 1938), US poet • Sabit Ince (born 1954), Turkish lyric poet • Tonya Ingram (1991–2022), US poet • Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Indian poet in Urdu and Persian • Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poet • Inge Israel (1927–2019), Canadian poet and playwright • Wacław Iwaniuk (1912–2001), Polish poet and journalist • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Eleuter, 1894–1980), Polish poet, dramatist and translator • Sergey Izgiyaev (1922–1972), Russian poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descent ==J==
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• FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet • Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet in Scots • Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003), Canadian-born American poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1971-1973 • Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet and writer • Ada Jafarey (1924–2015), Pakistani poet in Urdu • Richard Jago (1715–1781), English poet • Đura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter and dramatist • James I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair • James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots and of England and Ireland • Christine James (born 1954), Welsh poet and academic • Clive James (1939–2019), Australian author, poet and memoirist • Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet and translator • Klemens Janicki (1516–1543), Polish poet in Latin • Janus Pannonius (1434–1472), Hungarian/Slavonian poet in Latin • Patricia Janus (1932–2006), US poet and artist • Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), US poet and critic • Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), US poet, children's author and novelist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1956-1958 • Bruno Jasieński (1901–1938), Polish poet, novelist and playwright • Mieczysław Jastrun (1903–1983), Polish poet and essayist • László Jávor (1903–1992), Hungarian poet • Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), US poet • Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet and writer • Rod Jellema (1927–2018), US poet, teacher and translator • Simon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writer • Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poet • Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950) Nobel Prize-winning poet and author • Jia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet active under the Tang dynasty • Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) Nobel Prize-winning Spanish poet and writer • John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet • Edmund John (1883–1917), English poet • Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), US poet • Helene Johnson (1906–1995), African-US poet • James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), US author, poet and folklorist • Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 1952), Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet • Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist and critic • Emily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk: Tekahionwake) (1861–1913), Canadian writer, performer and poet marking First Nations heritage • Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist and lexicographer • George Benson Johnston (1913–2004), Canadian poet, translator and academic • Anna Jókai (1932–2017), Hungarian poet and prose writer • David Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poet • Edward Smyth Jones (1881–1968), African-American poet • Richard Jones (living), English US poet • Ben Jonson (1573–1637), English poet and dramatist • June Jordan (1936–2002), US poet and educator • Anthony Joseph (born 1966), British/Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician • Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), English poet • Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet, physician • James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet • Attila József (1905–1937), Hungarian poet • Frank Judge (1946–2021), US editor, poet and film critic • Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), Hungarian poet • Gyula Juhász (1883–1937), Hungarian poet • Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher • Donald Justice (1925–2004), US poet • Juvenal (fl. 1st c. – 2nd c. CE), Roman poet and satirist • Jumoke Verissimo (born 1979), Nigerian poet • Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English ==K==
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Ka–Kh • Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet and diplomat • Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and sant of India • Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and novelist • Kālidāsa (fl. c. 4th c.), Sanskrit poet • Kambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil poet • Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, translator and critic • Kannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author and lyricist • Jim Kacian (born 1953), US haiku poet and editor • Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author and translator • Chester Kallman (1921–1975), US poet, librettist and translator • László Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translator • Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian and Esperanto poet • Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer and critic • Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-US poet, critic and translator • Orhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poet • Sándor Kányádi (1929–2018), Hungarian poet and translator from Romania • Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Estonian poet, philosopher and critic • Adeena Karasick (born 1965), Canadian/US poet, media artist and essayist • Vim Karenine (born 1933), US poet, essayist and novelist • Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931), Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet • György Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and critic • Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), Polish poet • Mary Karr (born 1955), US poet, essayist and memoirist • Siavash Kasrai (1927–1996), Iranian poet, Persian poet • Julia Kasdorf (born 1962), US poet • Laura Kasischke (born 1961), US poet and fiction writer • Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1926), Polish poet, playwright and critic • Lajos Kassák (1887–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and painter • Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German author, poet and satirist • József Katona (1791–1830), Hungarian playwright and poet • Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), US beat poet and surrealist • Shirley Kaufman (1923–2016), US poet and translator • Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadian poet and photographer • Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), Irish poet and novelist • Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poet • Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary • John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet • Weldon Kees (1914–1955), US poet, novelist and critic • Hans Keilson (1909-2011), German-Dutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst and child psychologist • Isabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelist • Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), rhymer on Welsh history • Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), US poet • Rann Kennedy (1772–1851), English poet • Walter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish makar • X. J. Kennedy (1929–2026), US poet, anthologist and children's writer • Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), US poet and translator • Géza Képes (1909–1989), Hungarian poet and translator • Khwaju Kermani (1290–1349), Persian poet • Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), US novelist and poet • Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War II • Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poet • Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet • Dilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poet • Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior and tribal chief • Omar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet • Khaqani (1120–1199), Persian poet • Kherdian, David (born 1931), Armenian-American writer, poet, and editor • Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary critic • Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian poet and humorist in Urdu • Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), Sufi poet, scholar and musician Ki–Ky • Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet • Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and poet • Emelihter Kihleng, Pohnpeian poet and academic • Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski (born 1954), Polish poet and politician • Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō • Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), US writer and poet • Edward King (1612–1637), Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas • Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishop • William King (1663–1712), English poet • Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymnist • Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionary • Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 • John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist and essayist • Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021), Irish poet, translator and editor • Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English fiction writer and poet • Easterine Kire (born 1959), Naga poet and novelist • Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian fiction writer and poet • Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist and playwright • Atala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poet • Iya Kiva (born 1984), Ukrainian poet • Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet • Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985 • Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and fiction writer • August Kleinzahler (born 1949), US poet • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poet • Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet and Jesuit • Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-US poet • Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet • Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poet • Kenneth Koch (1925–2002), US poet, playwright and professor • Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish poet • Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writer • István Koháry (1649–1731), Hungarian poet • Ferenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), Hungarian poet • Aladár Komját (1891–1937), Hungarian poet • Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947), US poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994 • Béla Kondor (1931–1972), Hungarian poet, prose writer and painter • Faik Konitza (1875–1942), Albanian poet • Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish poet and athlete • Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish poet, novelist and children's writer • Ted Kooser (born 1939), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004–2006 • Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876–1901), Polish poet and translator • Julian Kornhauser (born 1946), Polish poet, novelist and critic • Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish expressionist poet • József Kossics (Jožef Košič, 1788–1867), Hungarian/Slovenian poet and priest • Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serbian poet, writer and polyglot • Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936), Hungarian poet and prose writer • Gopi Kottoor (born 1956), Indian poet, playwright and editor • Urszula Kozioł (1931–2025), Polish poet • Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovenian poet, translator and anthropologist • Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), Polish poet and novelist • Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859), Polish poet • Zlatko Krasni (1951–2008), Serbian poet • Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), US poet and children's book author • Krayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor and poet • Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), US writer; Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2006–2008 • Katarzyna Krenz (born 1953), poet, novelist and painter • Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian/Yugoslav poet and novelist • Antjie Krog (born 1952), South African poet, academic and writer • Józef Krupiński (1930–1998), Polish poet • Ryszard Krynicki (born 1943), Polish poet and translator • Marilyn Krysl (1942–2024), US poet and fiction writer • Andrzej Krzycki (1482–1537), Polish poet and archbishop • Žofia Kubini (fl. 17th c.), Hungarian poet in early Czech • Paweł Kubisz (1907–1968), Polish poet and journalist • Péter Kuczka (1923–1999), Hungarian poet and critic • Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian/Irish novelist, poet and translator • Endre Kukorelly (born 1951), Hungarian poet and journalist • Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1981–82 • Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1974-1976 and 2000-2001 • Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarus poet • Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), US counterculture poet and author • Jalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writer • Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, 1938–2023), Japanese haiku poet • Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet • Kusumagraj (1912–1999), Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist • Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), Turkish writer and poet • Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), US poet • Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English poet ==L==
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La • Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist • Ilmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poet • Pierre Labrie (born 1972), Canadian poet in French • László Ladányi (1907–1992), Hungarian-Israeli poet and writer • Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), Franco-Uruguayan poet • Abolqasem Lahouti (1887–1957), Persian poet • Jarkko Laine (1947–2006), Finnish poet, writer and playwright • Ivan V. Lalić (1931–1996), Serbian poet • Philip Lamantia (1927–2005), US poet and lecturer • Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), US poet and hip-hop artist • Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician • Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poet • Peter Lampe (born 1954), German scholar, writer and poet • Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802–1838), English poet and novelist • Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English writer and poet • Antoni Lange (1863–1929), Polish poet, philosopher and translator • William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386), probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman • Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), English poet • Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (c. 1510–1556), Hungarian poet and historian • Laozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th c. BCE), Chinese philosopher and poet • Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet • Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), US poet • Bruce Larkin (born 1957), US children's author and poet • Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelist • Claudia Lars (1899–1974), Salvadoran poet • Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright • Lasus of Hermione (6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Hermione in Argolid • Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist • James Laughlin (1914–1997), US poet and publisher • Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), US poet, essayist and professor • Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan/French poet • Dorianne Laux (born 1952), US poet • Christine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelist • D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet and critic • Henry Lawson (1867–1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson • Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet and feminist • Robert Lax (1915–2000), US poet • Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepalese poet and scholar • Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942), Polish poet Le • Edward Lear (1812–1888), English poet, artist and illustrator • Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist • Joanna Lech (born 1984), Polish poet and novelist • Jan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish poet, critic and diplomat • Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poet • David Lee (born 1966), US poet • Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor and critic • David Lehman (born 1948), US poet and editor • Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translator • Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist • Brad Leithauser (born 1953), US poet, novelist and essayist • Alexander Lenard (1910–1972), Hungarian writer and poet • Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright • Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet • Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957), Polish poet and translator • Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804), Scottish poet and novelist • John Leonard (born 1965), Australian poet • Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet, essayist and philologist • Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Russian writer, poet and painter • Ben Lerner (born 1979), US poet, novelist and critic • Bolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet and artist • Rika Lesser (born 1953), US poet and translator • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher and dramatist • Denise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born US poet • Dana Levin (born 1965), US poet and teacher • Philip Levine (1928–2015), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2011–2012 • Larry Levis (1946–1996), US poet • D. A. Levy (1942–1968), US poet, artist and publisher • William Levy (1939–2019), US poet, fiction writer and editor • Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poet • Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in English • C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Northern Irish novelist, poet and essayist • Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet; inaugural National Poet of Wales • J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), US children's poet • Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist and critic • Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and author Li–Ly • Li Houzhu (937–978), Chinese poet and ruler of Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975 CE) • José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), Cuban writer and poet • Tim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic and professor • Li Bai (701–762), Chinese Tang dynasty poet • Jerzy Liebert (1904–1931), Polish poet • Li Jiao, poet under the Tang and Zhou dynasties • Li Qingzhao (1084–1151), Chinese Song dynasty writer and poet • Li Shangyin (813–858), Chinese late Tang-dynasty poet • Tim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayist • Ada Limón (1976–), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2022–present • Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), US author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh • Jack Lindeman (fl. late 20th c.), US poet and critic • Sarah Lindsay (born 1958), US poet • Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet • Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), US poet • Ewa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poet • László Listi (1628–1662), Hungarian poet • Alun Llywelyn-Williams (1913–1988), Welsh poet and critic • Józef Łobodowski (1909–1988), Polish poet and political thinker • Terry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist and academic • Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and writer • Iain Lom (c. 1624 – c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poet • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), US poet and educator • Michael Longley (1939–2025), Northern Irish poet • Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and stage director • Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-US writer, poet and librarian • Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poet • Amy Lowell (1874–1925), US poet • James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), US poet, critic and diplomat • Robert Lowell (1917–1977), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1947–1948 • Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), US poet and abolitionist • Tom Lowenstein (1941–2025), English poet, ethnographer, cultural historian and translator • Solomon Löwisohn (1788–1821), Hungarian Jewish poet and historian in Hebrew and German • Mina Loy (1882–1966), English poet, playwright and novelist • Lu You (1125–1209), Chinese Song dynasty poet • Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1642–1702), Polish poet, writer and politician • Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), Romanian poet and surrealist • Lucan (39–65 CE), Roman poet • Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), English writer, poet and broadcaster • Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Roman satirist • Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st c. CE), poet and Procurator of Sicily • Lucretius (c. 99 BCE – c. 55 BCE), Roman poet and philosopher • Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), US author, journalist and explorer • Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian poet and politician • Luo Binwang (640–684), Chinese Tang-dynasty writer and poet • Thomas Lux (1946–2017), US poet • Mario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poet • John Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poet • John Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet and dramatist • Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet • Sandford Lyne (1945–2007), US poet, educator and editor • George Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman and arts patron ==M==
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Ma • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet and historian • George MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelist • Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scottish poet • Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), Canadian poet and writer • Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scottish poet • George MacDonald (1824–1905), Scottish poet and novelist • Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scottish Gaelic poet • Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian writer and poet • Antonio Machado (1875–1939), Spanish poet • Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh author and mystic • Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist and poet • Archibald MacLeish (1892–1987), US modernist poet and writer • Aonghas MacNeacail (1942–2022), writer in Scottish Gaelic • Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Irish poet and playwright • Hector Macneill (1746–1818), Scottish poet and songwriter • Valerie Macon (born 1950), US poet and civil servant • James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish writer and poet • Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi and Hindi poet and playwright • Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-US writer, poet and educator • Viggo Madsen (1943–2025), Danish poet and writer • John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922–1941), US poet and aviator • Eric Magrane (born 1975), US poet and geographer • Jayanta Mahapatra (1928–2023), Indian English poet • Derek Mahon (1941–2020), Northern Irish poet • Mahsati (13th c.), Persian poet • Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene poet and activist • János Majláth (1786–1855), Hungarian historian and poet • Clarence Major (born 1936), US poet, painter and novelist • Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professor • Antoni Malczewski (1793–1826), Polish poet • Marcin Malek (born 1975), Polish poet, writer and playwright • Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan) (1898–1982), Indian Urdu poet • Madayyagari Mallana (fl. 15th c.), Telugu poet • Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and critic • David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet • Thomas Malory (1405–1471), English author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' • David Malouf (1934–2026), Australian poet and writer • Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer • Osip Mandelstam (also Mandelshtam, 1891–1938), Russian poet • James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), Irish poet • Bill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet and fiction writer; New Zealand Poet Laureate • Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st c. CE), Roman poet and astrologer • Maurice Manning (born 1966), US poet • Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and author • Robert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and monk in Middle English, French and Latin • Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher • Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), Polish poet and blogger • Manuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th c.), royal poet in Persia • Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist • Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian/US poet and novelist • Ausiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knight • Morton Marcus (1936–2009), US poet and author • Mareez (1917–1983), Indian poet in Gujarati • Paul Mariani (born 1940), US poet and academic • Marie de France (fl. 12th c.), poet probably French-born and resident in England • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet and editor • Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), Italian poet • E. A. Markham (1939–2008), Montserrat poet, playwright and novelist • Edwin Markham (1852–1940), US poet • Đorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Serbian poet • Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet and translator • Clément Marot (1496–1544), French Renaissance poet • Don Marquis (1878–1937), US novelist, poet and playwright • Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and cleric • John Marston (1576–1634), English playwright, poet and satirist • José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer • Martial (40 – c. 102 CE), Roman epigrammatist • Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist • Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish sailor, author and poet • Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), English metaphysical poet and politician • John Masefield (1878–1967), English poet and writer; UK Poet Laureate, 1930–1967 • Masud Sa'd Salman (1046–1121), Persian poet • Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950), US poet, biographer and dramatist • Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.), Welsh poet in Welsh • János Mattis-Teutsch (1884–1960), Hungarian-Romanian poet and artist • Glyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright and librettist • Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian/Soviet poet and playwright • Karl May (1842–1912), German writer, poet and musician • Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022), US poet and prose writer • Ben Mazer (born 1964), US poet and editor Mc–Me • James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian poet and critic • Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/US poet and critic • J. D. McClatchy (1945–2018), US poet and critic • Michael McClure (1932–2020), US poet, playwright and novelist • John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician and artist • Walt McDonald (1934–2022), US poet; Poet Laureate of Texas, 2001 • Dermit McEncroe (fl. early 18th c.), Irish doctor and poet • Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet and comedian • William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), Scottish writer of doggerel • Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and poet • Campbell McGrath (born 1962), US poet • Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet and novelist • Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), US poet • Heather McHugh (born 1948), US poet, translator and educator • Duncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish poet in Scottish Gaelic • James McIntyre (1827–1906), Canadian writer of doggerel • Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-US writer and poet • Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor and educator • Rod McKuen (1933–2015), US poet, composer and singer • James McMichael (born 1939), US poet • Ian McMillan (born 1956), English poet, playwright and broadcaster • Meera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic poet and Krishna devotee • Narsinh Mehta (c. 1414 – c. 1481), Indian poet-saint of Gujarat • Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese Song dynasty poet • Peter Meinke (born 1932), US poet and fiction writer • Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian poet • Herman Melville (1819–1891), US fiction writer and poet • Meng Haoran (689 or 691–740), Chinese Tang dynasty poet • George Meredith (1828–1909), English poet and novelist • Bert Meyers (1928-1979) American Poet. • William Morris Meredith Jr. (1919–2007), American poet and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1978-1980 • Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet • Alda Merini (1931–2009), Italian writer and poet • Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), US poet writing mainly in French • James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry • Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk • W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010-2011 • Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer • Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet • Henry Meyer (1840–1925), US poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch • Ferenc Mező (1885–1961), Hungarian poet Mi–Mo • Henri Michaux (1899–1984), Belgian/French poet, writer and painter • Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564), Italian poet and sculptor • Tadeusz Miciński (1873–1918), Polish poet and playwright • Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet, essayist and publicist • Veronica Micle (1850–1889), Austrian/Romanian poet • Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translator • Christopher Middleton (c. 1690–1770), Royal Navy officer and navigator • Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), English poet • Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), English poet and playwright • Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German writer and poet • Josephine Miles (1911–1985), US poet and critic • Jennifer Militello, US poet and professor • Branko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poet • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), US lyric poet, playwright and feminist • Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), US writer and poet • Grazyna Miller (1957–2009), Italian/Polish poet and translator • Jace Miller, US poet • Jane Miller (born 1949), US poet • Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), US poet • Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), US poet • Thomas Miller (1807–1874), English poet • Vassar Miller (1924–1998), US writer and poet • Spike Milligan (1918–2002), Irish comedian, poet and musician • Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet; 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature • John Milton (1608–1674), English poet and polemicist • Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet • Marijane Minaberri (1926–2017), French/Basque poet and radio broadcaster • Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist and novelist • Matthew Minicucci (born 1981), US poet and teacher • Mir Taqi Mir (1725–1810), Indian poet in Urdu • Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) Nobel Prize-winning Occitan poet, writer, and lexicographer • Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and feminist • Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwright • Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), US physician and writer • Stephen Mitchell (born 1943), US poet, translator and anthologist • Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), US poet • Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg poet • Stanisław Młodożeniec (1895–1959), poet • Anis Mojgani (born 1977), US spoken-word poet and visual artist • Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwright • Atukuri Molla (1440–1530), Indian Telugu poet • Aja Monet, Black American poet • Harold Monro (1879–1932), English poet • Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), US scholar, critic and poet • John Montague (1929–2016), Irish poet • Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesman • Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, writer and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature • Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar • Alan Moore (born 1960), Irish writer and poet • Marianne Moore (1887–1972), US poet and writer • Merrill Moore (1903–1957), US psychiatrist and poet • Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer and songwriter • Dom Moraes (1938–2004), Goan writer, poet and columnist • Kelly Ana Morey (1968–2025), New Zealand novelist and poet • Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translator • J. O. Morgan (born 1978), Scottish poet • John Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet • Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German author and poet • Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), German poet • William Morris (1834–1896), English writer, poet and designer • Jim Morrison (1943–1971), US songwriter and poet • Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693), Polish poet • Zbigniew Morsztyn (c. 1628–1689), Polish poet • Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarus poet • Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), US poet, actor and musician • Moschus (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet • Howard Moss (1922–1987), US poet, dramatist and critic • Andrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist and biographer; UK Poet Laureate, 1999–2009 • Paul Scott Mowrer (1887–1971), US newspaper correspondent, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, 1968–1971 • Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer and critic Mu–My • Micere Githae Mugo (1942–2023), Kenyan playwright, author and poet • Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish essayist, poet and, playwright • Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist and translator • Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet • Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer • Laura Mullen (born 1958), US poet • Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writer • Jens Mungard (1885-1940), Frisian poet en linguist, wrote in Söl'ring (Sylt Frisian) • George Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian archeologist, historian and poet • Sheila Murphy (born 1951), US text and visual poet • George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet • Joan Murray (born 1945), US poet, writer and playwright • Les Murray (1938–2019), Australian poet, anthologist and critic • Richard Murphy (1927–2018), Irish poet • Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer • Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot • Nikola Musulin (fl. 19th c.), Serbian poet • Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poet • Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), Tanzanian poet, author and Christian minister • Lam Quang My (1944–2023), Vietnamese poet in Polish and Vietnamese ==N==
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• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist and poet in Russian and English • Daniel Naborowski (1573–1640), Polish poet • Cecilia del Nacimiento (1570–1646), Spanish nun, mystic, writer, and poet • Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991), Hungarian poet and translator • Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet • Lajos Parti Nagy (born 1953), Hungarian poet, playwright and critic • László Nagy (1925–1978), Hungarian poet and translator • Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet • Nannaya (c. 11th c.), earliest known Telugu author • Philip Nanton (living), Vincentian poet • Adam Naruszewicz (1733–1796), Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatist • Ogden Nash (1902–1971), US poet known for light verse • Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), English playwright, poet and satirist • Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088), Persian poet • Imadaddin Nasimi (died c. 1417), Azerbaijani poet • Momčilo Nastasijević (1894–1938), Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist • Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist and poet • Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist and children's writer • Nedîm (c. 1681–1730), Ottoman poet • John Neal (1793–1876), US writer, critic, activist and poet • Henry Neele (1798–1828), English poet and scholar • Walela Nehanda, Black American poet • John Neihardt (1881–1973), US poet, historian and ethnographer • Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet • Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), US poet, translator and children's writer • Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1963–1964 and 1988–1990 • István Péter Németh (born 1960), Hungarian poet and literary historian • Condetto Nénékhaly-Camara (1930–1972), Guinean poet and playwright • Jan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech journalist, writer and poet • Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971 • Neşâtî (died 1674), Ottoman Sufi poet • Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938), English historian and poet • John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer, poet and hymnist • Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian US poet • Nguyễn Du (1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in ancient Chữ Nôm script • B. P. Nichol (bpNichol, 1944–1988), Canadian poet • Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), poet and king of Montenegro • Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet • Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), English poet • Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), US poet • Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758–1841), Polish poet, playwright and statesman • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet and philologist • Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911–1938), Albanian poet and writer • Nizami Aruzi (1110–1161), Persian poets • Nisami (1141–1209), Persian poet • Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221), Persian poet • Nishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet • Moeen Nizami (born 1965), Pakistani poet, scholar and writer • Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813–1851), Serbian poet, playwright and prince-bishop • Yamilka Noa (born 1980), Cuban–Costa Rican poet • Gábor Nógrádi (born 1947), Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelist • Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and author • Fan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian/US writer, diplomat and historian • Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer and professor • Cees Nooteboom (1933–2026), Dutch poet, essayist and writer • Henry Normal (born 1956), British poet, writer, film & TV producer • Harry Northup (born 1940), US actor and poet • Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer, feminist and reformer • Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist and artist • Alice Notley (1945–2025), US poet • Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801), German poet and novelist • Franciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet and conservationist • Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poet • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poet • Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter • Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-US poet, songwriter and novelist • Robert Nye (1939–2016), English poet, novelist and children's writer • Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic ==O==
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• Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian philosopher, writer and poet • Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic and playwright • D. Michael O'Connor aka Damond Jiniya(Born 1974), North American singer, writer and poet • Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and poet • Antoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885), Polish poet • Ron Offen (1930–2010), US poet, playwright and producer • Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012), Irish poet • Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), US writer, poet and art critic • Hisashi Okuyama (born 1941), Japanese poet • Porsha Olayiwola (born 1988), US poet • Sharon Olds (born 1942), US poet • Mary Oliver (1935–2015), US poet • Charles Olson (1910–1970), US modernist poet • Saishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poet • Onomacritus (c. 530–480 BCE), Attic poet, priest and seer • George Oppen (1908–1984), US poet • Artur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poet • Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), US poet and painter • Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poet • Władysław Orkan (1875–1930), Polish poet • Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), US poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg • Gregory Orr (born 1947), US poet • Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer and screenplay author • Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet • Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese Song dynasty historian, essayist and poet • Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE), Roman poet • Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldier • İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar ==P==
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Pa • Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author and critic • Ron Padgett (born 1942), US poet, writer and translator • Padmanābha (15th c.), Dingal (Old Gujarati) poet and historian • Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor • Grace Paley (1922–2007), US short story writer and poet • Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poet • Palladas (), Greek poet • Michael Palmer (born 1943), US poet and translator • Alexandros Panagoulis (1939–1976), Greek politician and poet • Sima Pandurović (1883–1960), Serbian poet • Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Indian poet in Hindi • William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist in Welsh • Park Yong-rae (1925–1980), Korean poet • Andrew Park (1807–1863), Scottish poet • Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), US poet, fiction writer and satirist • Amy Parkinson (1855–1938), British-born Canadian poet • Thomas Parnell (1679–1718), Irish poet and clergyman • Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean mathematician and poet • Henry Parrot (), English epigrammatist • Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), Italian poet • Ámbar Past (born 1949), Mexican poet, visual artist • Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist and translator • Leon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satirist • Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (1954–2022), Puerto Rican poet and fiction and literature writer • Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972), US poet and novelist • Ravji Patel (1939–1968), Indian poet • Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author • Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician • Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), English poet and critic • Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet • Lekhnath Paudyal (1885–1966), Nepalese poet • Paul I, Prince Esterházy (1635–1713), Austro-Hungarian poet • Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist and critic • Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet and dramatist • Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer, poet and diplomat Pe–Pl • Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet and novelist • Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish poet and writer • James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), US poet and publisher • Allasani Peddana (fl. 15th/16th cc.), Telugu poet • Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist and editor • Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), US poet • Gabino Coria Peñaloza (1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricist • Sam Pereira (living), US poet • Lucia Perillo (1958–2016), US poet • Persius (34–62 CE), Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin • Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic • Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist • Robert Peters (1924–2014), US poet, scholar and playwright • Pascale Petit (born 1953), French-Welsh poet and artist • Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet • Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and prose writer • Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist • Veljko Petrović (1884–1967), Serbian poet, prose writer and theorist • Mirko Petrović-Njegoš (1820–1867), Serbian and Montenegrin poet, soldier and diplomat • Mario Petrucci (born 1958), British poet, author, translator, scientist and ecologist of Italian origin • Adaliza Cutter Phelps (1823–1852), US poet • Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), English poet and politician • Katherine Philips (1632–1664), Anglo-Welsh poet • Savitribai Phule (1831–1897), Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra • Pi Rixiu (c. 834–883), Tang dynasty poet • Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and film maker • Pindar (522–443 BCE), Theban lyric poet in Greek • Robert Pinsky (born 1940), US poet, critic and translator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1997–2000 • Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet • Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet and philosopher • Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), US poet and novelist • William Plomer (1903–1973), South African novelist, poet and editor in English Po–Pu • Jacek Podsiadło (born 1964), Polish poet, translator and essayist • Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), US author, poet and critic • Suman Pokhrel (born 1967), Nepalese poet, playwright and artist • Wincenty Pol (1807–1872), Polish poet and geographer • Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English poet • Edward Pollock (1823–1858), US poet • John Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet and clergyman • Marie Ponsot (1921–2019), US poet, critic and essayist • Vasko Popa (1922–1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descent • Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet • Antonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian Argentinian poet • Judith Pordon (born 1954), US poet, writer and editor • Jenny Lind Porter (1927–2020), Texas Poet Laureate (1964–1965) • Peter Porter (1929–2010), Australian poet based in England • Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writer • Roma Potiki (born 1958), New Zealand poet and playwright • Wacław Potocki (1621–1696), Polish poet and moralist • Ezra Pound (1885–1972), US expatriate poet and critic • Alishetty Prabhakar (1952–1993), Telugu poet • Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972), Indian poet, translator and activist • Adélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet • Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English politician and poet • Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Indian poet in Hindi • E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poet • Petar Preradović (1818–1872), Croatian poet, writer and general • France Prešeren (1800–1849), Carniolan Romantic poet • Jacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet and screenwriter • Richard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist and translator • Robert Priest (born 1951), English-born Canadian poet, children's author and singer-songwriter • F. T. Prince (1912–2003), English poet and academic • Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat • Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet • Sextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin elegiac poet • Kevin Prufer (born 1969), US poet, academic and essayist • J. H. Prynne (1936–2026), English poet • Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940), Polish poet, novelist and playwright • Zenon Przesmycki (Miriam, 1861–1944), Polish poet, translator and critic • Jeremi Przybora (1915–2004), Polish poet, writer and singer • Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet known for Morgante • Lady Hester Pulter (1605–1678), English poet • Ben Purkert (living), American poet, novelist and creative writing instructor • Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist and playwright ==Q==
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• Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher • Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar • Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), Indian poet, writer and politician • Aref Qazvini (1882–1934), Iranian poet, lyricist and musician, Persian poet • Qatran Tabrizi (11th c.), Persian poet • Qu Yuan (343–278 BCE), Chinese poet • Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poet • Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature ==R==
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Ra–Re • Rabia Balkhi (10th c.), Persian poet, She is the first known female poet to write in Persian • Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist • Branko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poet • Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), poet from Botswana • Sam Ragan (1915–1996), US poet, journalist and writer • Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnist • Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet • Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic and scholar • Samina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer and broadcaster • Milan Rakić (1876–1938), Serbian poet • Carl Rakosi (1903–2004), US Objectivist poet • Martin Rakovský (c. 1535–1579), Hungarian poet and scholar • Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translator • Maraea Rakuraku (living), New Zealand Māori poet, playwright and short story writer • Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English writer, poet and explorer • Tenali Rama (16th c., CE), Telugu poet • Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu (16th c., CE), Telugu poet • Ramarajabhushanudu (mid 16th c. CE), Telugu poet and musician • Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh guru and Punjabi poet • Simón Darío Ramírez (1930–1992), Venezuelan poet • Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright and publisher • Dudley Randall (1914–2000), African-US poet and publisher • Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatist • John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), US poet, essayist and editor • Addepalli Ramamohana Rao (1936–2016), Telugu poet and literary critic • Ágnes Rapai (born 1952), Hungarian poet, writer and translator • Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet writing in Urdu • Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), US poet and critic • Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet and translator • Tom Raworth (1938–2017), British poet and visual artist • Herbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet and arts critic • Peter Reading (1946–2011), English poet • Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet • James Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright and professor • Malliya Rechana (mid-10th c. CE), Telugu poet • Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poet • Beatrice Redpath (1886–1937), Canadian poet and short story writer • Henry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator and radio dramatist • Ishmael Reed (born 1938), US poet, playwright and novelist • Ennis Rees (1925–2009), US poet, professor and translator • James Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer and writer on song • Abraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author and children's author • Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist and cartoonist • James Reiss (1941–2016), US poet • Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569), Polish poet and prose writer • Robert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet and amateur naturalist • Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960), French poet of Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism • Jacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586–1658), Dutch poet, theologian and church historian • Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), US poet, translator and critical essayist • Sydor Rey (1908–1979), Polish poet and novelist • Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), US Objectivist poet • Raees Warsi (born 1963), Pakistani poet, writer and lyricist writing in Urdu Ri–Ry • Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (1925–2009), Ecuadorian poet • Anne Rice (1941–2021), US fiction writer • Stan Rice (1943–2002), US poet and artist; husband of Anne Rice • Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), US poet, essayist and feminist • John Richardson (1817–1886), English Lake District poet • Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic and journalist • Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born US anarchist poet and editor • Laura Riding (1901–1981), US poet, critic and novelist • Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editor • James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), US writer and poet • John Riley (1937–1978), English poet of British Poetry Revival • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet • Gopal Prasad Rimal (1918–1973), Nepali poet and playwright • Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet of Decadent movement • Alberto Ríos (born 1952), US poet and professor • Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar in Urdu and Persian • Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet • Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editor • Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), US poet • Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist • Peter Robinson (born 1953), English poet • Roland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writer • Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898), Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist • W R Rodgers (1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist and Presbyterian minister • José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971), Panamanian poet and artist • Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), US poet • Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poet • Rognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saint • Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), US poet • Géza Röhrig (born 1967), Hungarian poet and actor • Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980), Slovak writer • David Romtvedt (living), US poet • Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet • Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poet • Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009), US poet, artist and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group • Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), US poet, writer and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group • Michael Rosen (born 1946), UK children's poet and former children's poet laureate • Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet • Susan Rosenbloom (1958–2015) UK choreographer, artistic director, teacher and poet • Barbara Rosiek (1959–2020), Polish poet, writer and psychologist • Alan Ross (1922–2001), English poet, cricket writer and editor • Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), English poet, illustrator and painter • Andrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet • Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist and playwright • Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate, 1715 • Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), English poet and pamphleteer • Susanna Roxman (1946–2015), English poet born in Sweden • Istvan Rozanich (1912–1984), Hungarian poet exiled in Venezuela • Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and writer • Ljubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poet • Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator and academic • Rudaki (858 – 940/41), Persian poet • Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), US poet and political activist • Zygmunt Rumel (1915–1943), Polish poet and partisan • Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist and Sufi mystic • Paul-Eerik Rummo (born 1942), Estonian poet • Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet in Swedish • Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), US poet and comedian • Kay Ryan (1945-), poet and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2008–2010 • Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwright • Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (1935–2022), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist • Ryōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet ==S==
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Sa–Se • Sanai (1080–1131), Persian poet • Umberto Saba (1883–1957), Italian poet and novelist • Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), Mexican poet • Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature • Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638–1706), English poet and courtier • Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), English statesman, poet and dramatist • Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English author, poet and gardener • Saib Tabrizi (1592–1676), Persian poets • Saʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet • Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), US poet, novelist and children's writer • Ali Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist and translator • Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c. 1491–1558), French Renaissance poet • Benjamin Saltman (c.1927-1999), American Jewish poet. • Akim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist seen as first Nanai language writer • Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-US poet associated with Black Arts Movement • Michal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet • Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), US poet, writer and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes • Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples • Ann Sansom, English poet and writing tutor • Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924), Bosnian Serb poet • Taneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet • Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer • Sappho (c. 630–612 – c. 570 BCE), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos • Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet in Latin • William Saroyan (1908–1981), US author of Armenian descent • Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poet • Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, fiction writer and literary critic • Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), US poet and artist • William Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet in Welsh • Mary Stebbins Savage (1850-1915), American poet and writer • Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet • Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), US poet, writer and playwright • Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet • Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), US poet, architect and fiction writer • Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet in French • Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher and playwright • Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator • Dennis Schmitz (1937–2019), US poet • Steven P. Schneider (living), US poet, critic, and university professor • Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatist • Anton Schosser (1801–1849), Austrian dialect poet • Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910–1992), Surinamese poet and community leader, wrote in Sranan Tongo and English • Philip Schultz (born 1945), US poet • James Schuyler (1923–1991), US poet • Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), US poet and fiction writer • Alexander Scott (c. 1520–1582/1583), Scottish poet • Alexander Scott (1920–1989), Scottish poet and playwright • Frederick George Scott (1861–1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. Scott • F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, academic and constitutional expert • Tom Scott (1918–1995), Scottish poet • Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet • Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), US soul musician and jazz poet • George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician • Peter Seaton (1942–2010), US Language poet • Władysław Sebyła (1902–1940), Polish poet • Johannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poet • Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639–1701), English poet, wit and dramatist • George Seferis (pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs) (1900–1971), Greek poet and Nobel laureate • Hugh Seidman (1940–2023), US poet • Rebecca Seiferle (living), US poet • Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature • Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist and journalist • Semonides of Amorgos (c. 7th c. BCE), Greek iambic and elegiac poet • Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist • Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poet • Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet • Anne Sexton (1928–1974), US poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry • John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, fiction and children's writer Sh–Sj • Tendai M. Shaba (born 1989), Malawian poet • Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; UK Poet Laureate, 1689–1692 • Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565–1612), sultan of Golkonda and poet in Persian, Telugu and Urdu • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author • Abdulrahman Adel Al-Shammari (born 1974), Saudi poet • Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906–1988) Iranian poet (both Persian and Azerbaijani poet) • Turan Bahrami Shahriari (1931-2024) Iranian poet and lawyer • Parveen Shakir (1952–1994), Pakistani poet, teacher and civil servant of the government of Pakistan • William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwright • Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), US rapper, actor and black activist • Otep Shamaya (born 1979), US singer-songwriter, actress and poet • Ahmad Shamlou (1925–2000), Iranian poet, Persian poet • Paata Shamugia (born 1983), Georgian poet • Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), US playwright and poet • Jon Beck Shank (1919–1977), US poet and teacher • Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer • Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1946–1947 • Sanu Sharma Nepalese Australian novelist, writer, poet, lyricist • Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), US poet • Luci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poet • Muhannad Al-Shawi (born 1974), Iraqi poet • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet • William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet • Bhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poet • Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artist • Mustafa Sheykhoghlu (1340/1341 – 1410), Turkish poet and translator • Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet and literary critic • Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet • James Shirley (1596–1666), English dramatist • Avraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor • Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet, courtier and soldier • Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-US poet, critic and philosopher • Robert Siegel (1939–2012), US poet and novelist • August Silberstein (1827–1900), Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in German • Jon Silkin (1930–1997), English poet • Hilda Siller (1861–1945), American poet and short story writer • Ron Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetry • Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writer • Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist • Charles Simic (1938–2023), Serbian-US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2007–2008 • Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea • Louis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poet • Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), US poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000 • Burns Singer (1928–1964), US poet raised in Scotland • Marilyn Singer (born 1948), US children's writer and poet • Ervin Šinko (1898–1967), Croatian-Hungarian poet and prose writer • Lemn Sissay (born 1967), English author and broadcaster • Charles Hubert Sisson (1914–2003), English poet and translator • Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic; eldest of three literary Sitwells • Sjón (born 1962), Icelandic author and poet Sk–Sp • Egill Skallagrímsson (c. 910 – c. 990), Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, protagonist of Egil's Saga • John Skelton (1460–1529), English poet • Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-US poet • Ed Skoog (born 1971), US poet • Jan Stanisław Skorupski (born 1938), Polish poet, essayist and esperantist • Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet • Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist and folklorist • Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet and journalist • Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovene bishop, author and culture advocate • Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976), Polish poet, playwright and artist • Michaël Slory (1935–2018), Surinamese poet in Sranan Tongo, also in English, Dutch and Spanish • Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet • Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet • Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet and playwright • Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer • Bruce Smith (born 1946), US poet • Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist • Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), US poet, sculptor and author • Margaret Smith (born 1958), US poet, musician and artist • Patti Smith (born 1946), US singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist • Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist • Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scottish poet in Braid Scots • Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2017–2019 • William Jay Smith (1918–2015), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1968–1970 • Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author • William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), US poet • Gary Snyder (born 1930), US poet, essayist and environmentalist • Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet in Swedish • Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet • David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist and travel writer • Marie-Ange Somdah (born 1959), Burkinabe poet and writer • William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet • Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian • Charles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poet • Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-US author and poet • William Soutar (1898–1943), Scottish poet in English and Braid Scots • Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poet • Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Romantic poet and UK Poet Laureate, 1813–1843 • Anne Southwell (1574-1636), English poet • Robert Southwell (1561–1595), English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionary • Wole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature • Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), English poet, translator and editor • Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist, and essayist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1965–1966 • Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet St–Sz • Edward Stachura (1937–1979), poet, prose writer and translator • Leopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poet • William Stafford (1914–1993), US poet and pacifist; U.S. Poet Laureate 1970–1971 • A. 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Stallings (born 1968), US poet and translator • Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), English academic, poet and literary critic • Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poet • Ann Stanford (1916–1987), US poet • Anna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poet • George Starbuck (1931–1996), US neo-Formalist poet • Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960), Polish poet and novelist • Statius (c. 45–96, CE), Roman poet • Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand novelist, poet and critic • Stesichorus (c. 640–555 BCE), Greek lyric poet • Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovenes physicist, mathematician and poet in Austria • Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poet • Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), US modernist in prose and poetry • Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of fantastic fiction • Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), US poet and advocate • Shelby Stephenson (born 1938), US poet, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2014–2018 • George Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomat • George Sterling (1869–1926), US poet and playwright, author of "A Wine of Wizardry" • Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish poet and art critic • Gerald Stern (1925–2022), US poet • Marinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poet • C. J. Stevens (1927–2021), US writer of poetry, fiction and biography • Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), US modernist poet • Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer • Margo Taft Stever, US poet • Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), US classical scholar and poet • James Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and folklorist • Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet • Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-US poet, writer and philosopher • Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), US poet and philanthropist • Ruth Stone (1915–2011), US poet, author and teacher • Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), US poet and editor • Edward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet linked with Imagism • Theodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poet • Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin US Modernist poet • Mark Strand (1934–2014), Canadian-born US poet, essayist and translator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1990–1991 • Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet and novelist • Joseph Stroud (born 1943), US poet • Jesse Stuart (1907–1984), US writer of fiction and poetry • Jacquie Sturm (born Te Kare Papuni) (1927–2009), New Zealand poet, fiction writer and librarian • Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty writer, poet and artist • Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 CE), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi dynasty • Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Telugu poet • Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of card game cribbage • Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), Islamic poet and Ottoman ruler • Robert Sullivan (born 1967), New Zealand Māori poet, academic and editor • Jovan Sundečić (1825–1900), Serbian poet • Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), Turkish poet and writer • Abhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright and critic • Pingali Surana (16th c.), Telugu poet • Robert Sward (1933–2022), US and Canadian poet and novelist • Cole Swensen (born 1955), US poet, translator and copywriter • Karen Swenson (born 1936), US poet • May Swenson (1913–1989), US poet and playwright • Marcin Świetlicki (born 1961), Polish poet, prose writer and musician • Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and pamphleteer • Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright and novelist • Anna Świrszczyńska (also Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poet • Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet • Arthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and editor • John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet and folklore collector • Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), Polish poet and translator in Russian Empire • Lőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), Hungarian poet and literary translator • Fruzina Szalay (1864–1926), Hungarian poet and translator • Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581), poet in Polish and Latin • Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese US poet • Bertalan Szemere (1812–1869), Hungarian poet and politician • Gyula Szentessy (1870–1905), Hungarian poet • George Szirtes (born 1948), Hungary-born British poet and translator • Janusz Szpotański (1929–2001), Polish poet, satirist and translator • Włodzimierz Szymanowicz (1946–1967), Polish poet and painter • Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator; 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature • Szymon Szymonowic (1558–1629), Polish poet ==T==
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Ta–Te • Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature • Judit Dukai Takách (Malvina, 1795–1836), Hungarian poet • Bogi Takács (born 1983), Hungarian poet and fiction writer in US • Kyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Japanese poet • Taliesin (fl. 6th c.), British poet of post-Roman period • Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915–1983), Tamil poet, editor and critic • Maxim Tank (1912–1996), Belarus poet • Tao Qian (365–427), Chinese poet • Kim Taplin (1943-2024), English poet • Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic • Alain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and critic • Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet • Allen Tate (1899–1979), US poet, essayist and commentator; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1943–1944 • James Tate (1943–2015), US poet • Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet • Tracey Tawhiao (born 1967), New Zealand Maori poet and artist • Apirana Taylor (born 1955), New Zealand poet, novelist and storyteller • Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician and pastor • Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writer • Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatist • Henry S. Taylor (1942–2024), US poet • Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist • Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), US lyric poet • Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet • Telesilla (fl. 510 BCE), Greek poet • Raipiyel Tennakoon (1899–1965), Sri Lankan poet • William Tennant (1784–1848), Scottish scholar and poet • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet; UK Poet Laureate, 1850–1892 • Vahan Terian (1885–1920), Armenian poet, lyricist and public activist • Elaine Terranova (born 1939), US poet • Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-US poet; author of oldest known work by African American • A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), English poet • Neyzen Tevfik (1879–1953), Turkish poet, satirist and performer Th–To • Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), Hungarian poet and politician • Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), US writer and poet • John Thelwall (1764–1834), English poet and essayist • Theocritus (fl. 3rd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet • Antony Theodore (born 1954), German pastor poet and educator • Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet • Nandi Thimmana (15th – 16th cc.), Telugu poet • Thiruvalluvar (around 31 BCE), Tamil poet and philosopher • Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer in English • Edward Thomas (1878–1917), Welsh poet and essayist in English • Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), US poet and critic • R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet in English and Anglican priest • John Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poet • John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), US poet, journalist, editor and publisher • Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and ascetic • James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright • James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poet • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), US author, poet and philosopher • Georg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymn writer • Maria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymn writer • Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), English poet • Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), English poet and writer • Tibullus (c. 54–19 BCE), Latin poet and elegy writer • Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), English conspirator and poet • Thomas Tickell (1685–1740), English poet and man of letters • Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, translator, editor and critic • Tikkana (1205–1288), Telugu poet, translator of Mahabharata • Gary Tillery (born 1947), US writer, poet and artist • Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poet • Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poet • Nick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet and broadcaster • Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), US Modernist poet, educator and columnist • Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), English poet and translator • Jean Toomer (1894–1967), US poet and novelist • Mihály Tompa (1819–1868), Hungarian poet and pastor • Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), Peruvian poet • Kálmán Tóth (1831–1881), Hungarian poet • Krisztina Tóth (born 1967), Hungarian poet and translator • Sándor Tóth (1939–2019), Hungarian poet and journalist • Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), English poetic dramatist • Ann Townsend (born 1962), US poet and essayist Tr–Tz • Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), English poet, clergyman and religious writer • Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian Expressionist poet • Chrysanthemum Tran, Vietnamese-American poet • Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015), Swedish poet, 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature • Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), US poet • Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian writer and poet • Natasha Trethewey (1966-), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 2012–2014 • William S. Tribell (born 1977), US poet • Duško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writer • Calvin Trillin (born 1935), US humorist, poet and novelist • Geeta Tripathee (born 1972), Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist and scholar • Suryakant Tripathi (1896–1961), Indian poet in Hindi and Bengali • Quincy Troupe (born 1939), US poet, editor and professor • Tõnu Trubetsky (Tony Blackplait) (born 1963), Estonian glam punk musician and poet • Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian/Soviet poet • Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer • Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893), English poet and religious writer • Tulsidas (1497/1532–1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher • Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian writer and public activist • Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet, critic and publisher • George Turberville (c. 1540 – c. 1597), English poet • Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson • Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet and mental health worker • Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), English poet and farmer • Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008), New Zealand Māori poet • Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent • Jan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priest • Chase Twichell (born 1950), US poet, professor and publisher • Pontus de Tyard (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priest • Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poet • Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artist ==U==
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