In its first few decades,
Poet Lore published the works of such renowned writers as
Rabindranath Tagore,
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Paul Verlaine,
Frederick Mistral,
Stephane Mallarmé,
Anton Chekhov,
Maxim Gorky,
Jose Echegaray,
Hermann Hesse,
Henrik Ibsen,
August Strindberg,
Emma Lazarus, and
Sara Teasdale. Award-winning American poets whose early work (in some cases their first published poems) appeared in the pages of
Poet Lore include
Mary Oliver,
Linda Pastan,
Colette Inez,
R. T. Smith,
D. Nurkse,
John Balaban,
Carolyn Forché,
Alice Fulton,
Dana Gioia,
Pablo Medina,
Seán Mac Falls,
Kim Addonizio,
David Baker,
Carl Phillips,
Natasha Trethewey,
Terrance Hayes,
Dede Wilson, and
Reginald Dwayne Betts. ==Bibliography==