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This is a list of poets. It lists notable poets.
Alphabetical list
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Ab-Ak
- Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
- Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
- Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
- Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
- Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
- Lucius Afranius (poet) (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
- Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
- James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
- Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
- Ai (born 1947), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
- Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
- Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
- Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
- Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
Al-Am
- Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
- Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
- Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
- Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
- Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901)
- Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
- Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
- James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
- William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
- Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
- Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
- Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
- Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
- Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
- Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
- A. R. Ammons(1926–2001) American author and poet
An-Ap
- Anacreon (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet
- Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
- Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet (1805–1875)
- Jon Anderson, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist
- Mário de Andrade, (1893-1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
- Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
- Antler (poet), (1946-)
- Brother Antoninus
- Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
- Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
- Apollonius of Rhodes (270-after 245 BC)
Ar-Au
- Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
- Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
- Hugh Antoine d\'Arcy (1843-1925)
- Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
- Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
- Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
- Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
- Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
- Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831)
- Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859)
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
- Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
- Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
- John Ashbery, (born 1927)
- Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
- Farid al-Din Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
- Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
- Ausiàs March, (1397-1459)
- Ausonius, (c. 310-395)
Av-Ay
B
Ba
Bab-Bal
- Ken Babstock, Canadian
- Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
- Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
- Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
- George Bacovia, Romanian poet
- Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
- Julio Baghy
- Bai Juyi
- Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
- Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
- Jesse Ball American poet
Bar-Bax
Be
- Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
- Joshua Beckman
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
- Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
- Marvin Bell, (1937-?)
- Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
- Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
- Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
- Hilaire Belloc
- Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
- Gottfried Ben
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
- William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
- Ilhan Berk
- Daniel Berrigan
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
- Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson\'s Waterfall)
Bi-Bl
- Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
- Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
- Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
- Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
- William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
- Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
- Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
- Michael Blumenthal
- Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
Bo
Br
Bra-Bri
- Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
- Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
- Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
- Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
- André Breton, (1896-1966)
- Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
- Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
- Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
Bro-Bry
- James Brock, (born 1958)
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
- Wladyslaw Broniewski
- William Bronk, (died 1999)
- Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
- Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
- Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
- Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
- Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
- Flora Brovina
- Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
- George Mackay Brown
- William Browne, (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
- William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
- Bryher
- Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
Bu-By
- Georg Büchner
- Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
- Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994) poet, novelist
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
- William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
- Edwin G. Burrows
- Andrzej Bursa
- Raegan Butcher
- Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
- Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
- Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
- Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
C
Ca
Cab-Cap
- Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
- Caedmon (old English)
- Cali Xuseen Xirsi
- Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
- Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
- Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
- Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
- Luís de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
- Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
- Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
- Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
- Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
- Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844)
- Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980)
- Ivan Cankar, (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893-1973)
- Edip Cansever
- Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi, (192-232)
Car-Cav
- Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
- Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
- Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
- Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
- Hayden Carruth
- Anne Carson, (born 1950)
- Jared Carter (born 1939)
- William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
- Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
- Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
- Charles Causley
- C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)
Ce-Ci
- Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
- Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
- Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
- John Chalkhill
- Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674)
- Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
- George Chapman, (1560-1634)
- René Char, (1907-1998)
- Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
- Billy Childish
- Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
- Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
- Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
- Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
- Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
- John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
Cl
Co
Coc-Cor
- Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
- Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
- Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
- Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
- William Collins, (1721-1759)
- William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
- Robert Conquest, historian and poet
- Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
- Clark Coolidge
- Wendy Cope
- Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
- Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
- Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
- Jayne Cortez
Cot-Cow
Cr-Cz
- George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
- Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
- Richard Crashaw, (1613-1649)
- Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
- Octave Crémazie
- Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
- Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
- Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- Necati Cumalı
- e e cummings, (1894-1962)
- Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
- Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
- Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
D
Da
- Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
- Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
- David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual Poet
- Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
- Gabriele D\'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
- Jia Dao
- Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
- Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
- Jibanananda Das,(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author
- René Daumal, (1908-1944)
- Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
- Alan Davies, American poet
- W. H. Davies
- William Davenant, (1606-1668)
- Donald Davidson, (1893-1968)
- John Davies, (1569-1626), historian
- Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
- Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
- Denis Davydov, (1784-1839)
- Cecil Day-Lewis
De
- James Deahl
- Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
- Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
- Walter de la Mare, author, poet
- Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651-1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
- Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
- François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
- Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
- Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
- Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
- Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
- Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
- Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Aubrey de Vere
- Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet
Di-Do
- Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
- Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
- Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
- Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
- James Dickey, (1923-1997)
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
- Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
- Antonia Donatiello, (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
- John Donne, (1572-1631)
- Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
- Gavin Douglas
- Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)
Dr
- Jane Draycott
- Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
- Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
- John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
- William Drummond, (1585-1649)
- William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
- John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright
Du-Dy
- Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
- W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
- Du Fu, the Poet Saint
- Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
- Alan Dugan
- Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906)
- William Dunbar, (1465-1520)
- Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
- Stephen Dunn
- Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
- Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
- Stuart Dybek
- Bob Dylan, born 1941
E
Ea-Er
- Richard Eberhart
- Russell Edson
- Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
- Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
- Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
- Ana Elsner, multi-lingual American poet
- Paul Eluard, French poet
- Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
- Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
- Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- William Empson, (1906-1984)
- Yunus Emre
- Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
- R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
- Paul Engle
- Ennius
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
- Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
- Haydar Ergülen
- Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
- Mehmet Erte
Es-Ew
F
Fe-Fo
- Fenggan
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
- Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
- Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
- Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
- John Fletcher, (1579-1625)
- John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
- F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
- Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898)
- John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian poet
- Carolyn Forché, born 1950
- Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
- John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
- John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
- Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
- Hristo Fotev, (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
Fr-Fu
- Janet Frame, (born 1924)
- Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
- Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
- Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900
- Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
- Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
- Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
- Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
- Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
- Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
- Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
G
Ga-Gl
- Asadulla Khan Ghalib Urdu & Persian Poet (1796-1869)
- Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808-1876)
- Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
- Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
- George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
- David Gascoyne (October 10, 1916 - November 25, 2001)
- Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
- John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
- Stefan George, (1868-1933)
- Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
- Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
- Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
- Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
- Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
- Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
- Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Go
Gr
Gra-Gri
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Richard Graves, (1715-1804), British poet and essayist
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
- Robert Greene, (1558-1592)
- Horace Gregory
- Eamon Grennan
- Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
- Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
- Franz Grillparzer
- Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
Gro-Gy
- Stanisław Grochowiak
- Philip Gross
- Ghulam rasool dadda, (1921-1999)
- Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
- Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
- Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
- Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
- Guido Guinizelli
- Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
- Gül Baba
- Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
- Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
- Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
- Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
- Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)
H
Ha
He
- Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
- John Heath-Stubbs
- Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
- Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
- Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
- Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
- William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
- Adrian Henri
- George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803)
- Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
- Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
- Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
- Hesiod, ancient Greek poet
- Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
- Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
- Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
- Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)
Hi-Hr
- William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
- Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
- Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
- Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
- Nazım Hikmet
- Ellen Hinsey, poet
- H.L. Hix, American poet
- Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
- James Hogg, (1770-1835)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
- John Hollander, (born 1929)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
- Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Thomas Hood, (1798-1845)
- A. D. Hope (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus
- George Moses Horton
- Joan Houlihan
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
- Richard Howard
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
Hu
- Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
- Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
- Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
- Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
- Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
- James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
- Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)
I
J
Ja-Ju
- Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
- Clive James
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
- Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Jia Dao
- John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
- Edmund John
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
- Lionel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)
- David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
- Anthony Joseph
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
- James Joyce, (1882-1941)
- Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
- Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
- Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
- Juvenal (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist
K
Ka-Kh
- Kábir,
- Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
- Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
- Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
- Orhan Veli Kanik
- Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
- Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
- Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
- Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
- John Keats, (1795-1821)
- Weldon Kees
- Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
- X. J. Kennedy
- Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
- Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Khushal Khan Khattak
- Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
- Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
- Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
- Khalid Yazdani (born 1953)
Ki-Kn
Ko
Kob-Ky
L
La
Le
- Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Jan Lechon
- Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
- Dennis Lee, writer of children\'s poetry
- Eino Leino (1878-1926), Finnish
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), poet, novelist
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
- Boleslaw Lesmian
- Rika Lesser
- Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
- Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
- Philip Levine
- Larry Levis
- D. A. Levy (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
- William Levy
- Saunders Lewis (1893-1985)
- Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)
Li
- Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
- José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
- Tim Liardet
- Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Tim Lilburn
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
- Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
- Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
- Federico García Lorca
- Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
- Amy Lowell, (1874-1925), American
- James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891), American
- Robert Lowell, (1917-1977), American
- Mina Loy (Dada)
- Lu You
- Gherasim Luca
- Lucilius
- Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
- Lucan, (39-65), Roman
- Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
- Luo Binwang
- Mario Luzi
- John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
- John Lyly, (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)
M
Ma
Mac-Mak
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
- George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
- Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
- Compton Mackenzie
- Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
- Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- John Gillespie Magee, Jr., (1922-1941) (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
- Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
- Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), general and poet
- G. D. Madgulkar (1919-Unknown) Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
Mal-Mar
- Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
- David Mallet
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
- Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
- James Clarence Mangan
- Bill Manhire (born 1946)
- Manilius
- Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
- Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
- Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, (1895-1988)
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
- Chris Mansell (1953-)
- Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
- Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
- Marie de France, (fl. 12th century)
- Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
- Edwin Markham
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
- Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
- Martial (40-ca. 102), Roman epigrammist
- Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
- Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)
Mas-Maz
Mc
- Dermot McCarthy, (born 1948), Canadian poet and academic
- Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders Fields
- Bryant H. McGill
- William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902), reputed to be the worst poet in the history of the English language
- Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
- Campbell McGrath
- Wendy McGrath
- Thomas McGrath, (1916-1990)
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
- James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Claude McKay
- Don McKay
- Rod McKuen
- James McMichael (born 1939)
Me
- Meng Houran
- Norman MacCaig
- Mei Yaochen
- Meng Haoran
- George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
- James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
- W.S. Merwin, (The Miner\'s Pale Children)
- Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
- Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)
- Henry Meyer, (1840-1925)
Mi-Ml
- Henri Michaux, poet and painter
- Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
- Veronica Micle (1850-1889)
- Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
- Josephine Miles
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
- Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Tim Miller, poet and publisher
- Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
- Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (1911-2004)
- Alice Duer Miller
- Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
- John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
- Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Adrian Mitchell
- S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
- Ndre Mjeda
Mo
- Harold Monro
- Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
- Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
- Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
- Dom Moraes
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
- Merrill Moore, (1903-1957), Sonneteer
- Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
- Frederick Morgan
- John Morgan, (1688-1733)
- Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
- William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
- Jim Morrison (poet, songwriter)
- Stephen Morse (1945 - ), (American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
- Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), bucolic poet
- Howard Moss
- Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
- Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
Mu
- Erich Mühsam, (1878-1934), German poet and revolutionary
- Paul Muldoon, (born 1951)
- Laura Mullen, American poet
- Sheila Murphy, U.S. poet
- Joan Murray, (born 1945), U.S. poet.
- Les Murray, (born 1938)
- Anthony Munday, (1553-1633)
- Richard Murphy, poet, member of Aosdána
- Susan Musgrave, Poet.
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani poet and scholar
N
Na-Nj
- Ogden Nash, (1902-1971), : Santa Claus
- Thomas Nashe, (1567-1601)
- Nedîm, (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
- John Neihardt, (1881-1973)
- Émile Nelligan, (1879-1941), Quebec poet
- Howard Nemerov, (born 1920), (Guide to the Ruins)
- Pablo Neruda, (Residence on Earth 1946), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
- Nesîmî, (d. 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
- Neşâtî, (d. 1674), Ottoman poet
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
- John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
- Nezami (1141–1209)
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )
- B. P. Nichol, (1944-1988)
- John Gambril Nicholson (6 October 1866 - 1 July 1931)
- Lorine Niedecker (May 12, 1903 - December 31, 1970)
- Miloš Đoka Nikolić (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla)
- Petar Petrovic Njegos, (1813-1851), Serb poet & ruler
No-Ny
O
P
Pa
- Ruth Padel (born 8 May 1946)
- Ron Padgett
- Grace Paley
- Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897)
- Santeri Palin, (1983-), Finnish poet
- Palladas
- Michael Palmer, (1943-)
- Daniele Pantano, (1976-)
- Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
- Thomas Parnell, (1670-1718)
- Nicanor Parra, Chile
- Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
- Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), novelist
- Kenneth Patchen, (1911-1972)
- Andrew Barton Paterson (banjo)
- Don Paterson
- Coventry Patmore
- Brian Patten
- Octavio Paz, (1914-1998), Mexican poet
Pe-Pl
- Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866), English poet, novelist
- Patrick Pearse, poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
- Charles Péguy, 20th century poet
- Kathleen Peirce, (born 1956)
- Sam Pereira
- Persius (34-62), Roman poet
- Fernando Pessoa, (1888-1935)
- Robert Peters, (1924-) American poet
- Pascale Petit
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), (1304-1374)
- Ambrose Philips
- Pindar (522-443 BC), Theban lyric poet
- Robert Pinsky (former US poet laureate)
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963), (The Colossue)
- Shmuel Plavnik(1886-1941), Belarusian poet and writer
Po-Pu
- Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), US mystery writer and poet
- Marie Ponsot, (born 1921)
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), English poet
- Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet
- Ezra Pound, (1885-1972), (The Pisan Cantos)(Imagist movement leader)
- Halina Poswiatowska
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- E.J. Pratt
- France Prešeren, (1800-1849), Slovene
- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977), French poet
- Robert Priest
- Richard Price (poet) (born 1966)
- Matthew Prior, (1664-1721)
- Bryan Waller Proctor
- Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45-15 BCE), Latin Poet
- Kevin Prufer (born 1969)
- Luigi Pulci
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837), Russian poet
Q
R
Ra-Re
- Dalia Rabikovich, (born 1936)
- Shamsur Rahman, 20th century modern poet from Bangladesh
- Kathleen Raine, (1908-2003)
- Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
- Dudley Randall
- Thomas Randolph, (1605-1635)
- Agnes Rapai, (1952- Hungarian poet
- John Crowe Ransom, (1888-1974)
- Tom Raworth
- Man Ray, (1890-1976), (Dada)
- Wayne Ray, 1950 -
- Angela Readman
- Henry Reed, (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- Abraham Regelson, (1896-1981)
- Christopher Reid (In the Echoey Tunnel)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff
- Pi Rixiu
Ri
Ro
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
- Mary Robinson, (1990-1997), Irish poet
- Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, (1647-1680)
- Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
- Pierre de Ronsard, (1524-1585)
- Peter Rosegger, (died 1918)
- Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg, (1890-1918)
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), English poet
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828-1882), English poet
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands, (1565-1630)
- Tadeusz Różewicz
Ru
S
Sa
- Umberto Saba
- Sa\'di
- Ali Ahmad Said, (1930- )
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (ca. 1491-1558)
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967)
- Sonia Sanchez
- Michal Šanda, (1965- ), Czech poet
- Sappho, ancient Greek poet
- Ann Sansom, contemporary English poet
- William Saroyan, (1908-1981), an American author of Armenian descent
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), British war poet
- Subagio Sastrowardoyo, (1924-1995), Indonesian poet
Sc-Se
- Maurice Scève, (c. 1500-1564)
- Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805), poet, playwright
- Arno Schmidt, (1914-1979)
- Arthur Schnitzler, (1862-1931), writer
- Delmore Schwartz (In Dreams Begin Responsibilities)
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), inventor of historical novel
- Gil Scott-Heron, (born 1949)
- Johannes Secundus, (1511-1536), Neo-Latin poet
- Jaroslav Seifert, (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize)
- Seneca, (c. 54 BC-AD 39)
- Léopold Senghor, (1906-2001)
- Robert W. Service, poet of the Yukon
- Vikram Seth
- Anne Sexton, (1928-1974)
Sh-Si
- Thomas Shadwell
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), English poet
- Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996), Artist and black activist
- Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott
- Karl Shapiro
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822)
- William Shenstone
- Bhupi Sherchan, Nepal poet
- Taras Shevchenko
- James Shirley, (1596-1666)
- Avraham Shlonsky
- Sir Philip Sidney, (born 1554)
- Eli Siegel, (1902-1978)
- Ron Silliman (born 1946)
- Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999)
- Charles Simic
- Louis Simpson, (born 1923)
- Lemn Sissay
- Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964)
- Marilyn Singer
Sk-Sn
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