The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Henry Abbey (1842–1911)
• Sam Abrams (born 1935)
• Seth Abramson (born 1976)
• Kathy Acker (1947–1997)
• Diane Ackerman (born 1956)
• Duane Ackerson (born 1942)
• Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968)
• Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004)
• Helen Adam (1909–1993)
• John Adams (poet) (1704–1740)
• Léonie Adams (1899–1988)
• Kim Addonizio (born 1954)
• Herbert Agar (1897–1980)
• James Agee (1909–1955)
• Ai (poet) (born 1947)
• Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
• Salman Akhtar (born 1946)
• Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956)
• Bronson Alcott
• Sherman Alexie (born 1966)
• Felipe Alfau (1902–1999)
• Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949)
• William Allegrezza (born 1974)
• Dick Allen (born 1939)
• Donald Allen (1912–2004)
• Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832 – 1911)
• Ron Allen (born 1947)
• Washington Allston (1779 – 1843)
• Alurista (born 1947)
• Julia Álvarez (born 1950)
• Alta (Alta Gerrey) (born 1942)
• Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960)
• A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)
• Victor Anderson (1917-2001)
• Bruce Andrews (born 1948)
• Kevin Andrews (writer) (1924 – 1989)
• Ron Androla (born 1954)
• Ralph Angel (born 1951)
• Maya Angelou (born 1928)
• David Antin (born 1932)
• Antler (born 1946)
• "Brother Antoninus" — William Everson (1912–1994)
• Susanne Antonetta (born 1956)
• Philip Appleman (born 1926)
• Adrian Arancibia (born 1971)
• Rae Armantrout (born 1947)
• Richard Armour (poet) (1906–1989)
• Craig Arnold (born 1967)
• Robert P. Arthur (born 1943)
• M. K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982)
• John Ashbery (born 1927)
• Augusta Emma Stetson (1842-1928)
• Joseph Auslander (1897-1965)
• Paul Benjamin Auster (born 1947)
• James L. Avery, Sr. (born 1948)
• Jody Azzouni (born 1954)

[edit] B

• Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952)
• Bellamy Bach (pseudonym used by a group of writers)
• Joseph M. Bachelor (1889 - 1947)
• Mahnaz Badihian
• Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940)
• David Baker (born 1954)
• Jesse Ball (born 1978)
• Russell Banks
• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (born 1934)
• Coleman Barks
• Mary Barnard
• Djuna Barnes
• Tim Barnes
• Catherine Barnett
• Candy Barr
• Laird Barron
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch
• Todd Bash
• Arlo Bates
• David Bates (poet)
• Eric Baus
• Charles Baxter (author)
• Abel Beach
• Ray Young Bear
• Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin
• George Beck
• Julian Beck
• Larry Beckett
• Joshua Beckman
• Ethel Lynn Beers
• Marvin Bell
• Stephen Vincent Benét
• William Rose Benét
• Park Benjamin (poet)
• Nelson Bentley
• Bill Berkson
• David Berman (singer)
• Charles Bernstein (born 1950)
• Steven Jesse Bernstein (1950–1991)
• Anselm Berrigan
• Ted Berrigan (1934–1983)
• Wendell Berry (born 1934)
• John Berryman (1914–1972)
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
• Lorraine Bethel
• Helen Bevington
• Frank Bidart (born 1939)
• Ambrose Bierce
• Linda Bierds
• David Biespiel
• Bill Keith
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
• Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958)
• John Peale Bishop
• Baxter Black
• Paul Blackburn (1926–1971)
• Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet)
• Nicole Blackman
• Kimberly M. Blaeser
• Don Blanding
• Robin Blaser
• Anthony Bleecker
• Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919)
• Henry Ames Blood
• Roberts Blossom
• Robert Bly (born 1926)
• Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672)
• D. A. Blyler
• Maxwell Bodenheim
• Jean Boese
• Louise Bogan
• Katherine Bond
• Arna Bontemps
• Bruce Boston
• Jenny Boully
• Kay Boyle
• William Brandon (author)
• Beth Brant
• Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)
• Kate Braverman
• Donari Braxton
• Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
• Ken Brewer (1941–2006)
• Martha Wadsworth Brewster
• Kim Bridgeford
• Sarah Brinklow
• John Malcolm Brinnin (1916–1999)
• James Brock (born 1958)
• Joseph Brodsky (1940 – 1996),
• Louis Daniel Brodsky (born 1941)
• David Bromige (1933 - )
• William Bronk (1918–1999)
• Charles Timothy Brooks
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
• Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?–1845)
• "Brother Antoninus" — William Everson (1912–1994)
• Alice Brown (writer)
• Rita Mae Brown
• Francis Fisher Browne
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
• Jack Buck
• Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
• David R. Bunch
• Henry Cuyler Bunner
• José Antonio Burciaga
• Stanley Burnshaw
• Amelia Josephine Burr
• William S. Burroughs (1914–1997)
• Maxwell Struthers Burt
• Raegan Butcher
• Ray Buttigieg (born 1955)
• W. E. Butts
• Witter Bynner
• Gilbert Byron

[edit] C

• James Edwin Campbell (poet)
• Mary Baine Campbell
• Melville Henry Cane
• Skipwith Cannell
• Joe Cardarelli
• Jim Carroll
• Hayden Carruth
• Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904)
• Jared Carter
• Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
• Phoebe Cary
• Sandra M. Castillo
• Ana Castillo
• Madison Cawein
• Joseph Ceravolo
• Richard Wayne Chambliss, Jr.
• William Ellery Channing (1818–1901)
• Arthur Chapman (1874–1935)
• John Jay Chapman
• Fred Chappell
• Alexander Chee
• Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945)
• Maxine Chernoff
• Bob Cherry
• Chrystos
• Angélico Chávez
• James Wm. Chichetto
• John Ciardi (1916-1986)
• Noah Cicero
• Sandra Cisneros
• Amy Clampitt
• Tom Clark (poet)
• John Clarke (poet)
• Pearl Cleage
• Shihan van Clief(born 1975)
• Lucille Clifton
• Joshua Clover
• Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
• Stanton A. Coblentz
• Andrei Codrescu
• Robert P. T. Coffin
• Ira Cohen
• Nan Cohen
• Jim Cohn
• Henri Cole
• Norma Cole
• Wanda Coleman
• Billy Collins (born 1941)
• Betsy Colquitt (born 1927)
• Shanna Compton (born 1970)
• Hilda Conkling
• Evan S. Connell
• Leo Connellan (1928–2001)
• Gillian Conoley
• J. Gordon Coogler
• Rose Terry Cooke
• Ina Coolbrith
• Clark Coolidge
• Dennis Cooper
• Jake Copass
• William Corbett
• Billy Corgan
• Cid Corman (1924–2004)
• Alfred Corn
• Gregory Corso (1930–2001)
• Jayne Cortez
• Joe Cottonwood
• Henri Coulette
• John Cournos
• Elise Cowen
• Louis O. Coxe
• Christopher Pearse Cranch
• Hart Crane, (1899–1932)
• Stephen Crane, (1871–1900)
• Adelaide Crapsey
• Gary William Crawford
• Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
• Judson Crews (born 1917)
• Harry Crosby (1898–1929)
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
• E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
• J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985)
• Bloodgood Cutter

[edit] D

• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
• H.D.
• Steve Dalachinsky
• Enid Dame
• S. Foster Damon
• Jim Daniels (born 1956)
• Tina Darragh
• Robert von Dassanowsky
• Guy Davenport
• Donald Davidson (poet)
• Gustav Davidson
• Michael Davidson (born 1944)
• Alan Davies (poet)
• Dale Davis (poet)
• Gwen Davis
• Clarence Day
• Jaime de Angulo
• Caridad de la Luz
• Philip F. Deaver
• Edwin Denby (poet)
• Richard Denner
• Reuel Denney
• Carl Dennis
• Tory Dent
• Babette Deutsch
• Jennifer K Dick
• Ray DiPalma
• George Dickerson
• James Dickey (1923–1997)
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
• Roger Dickinson-Brown (born 1944)
• R. H. W. Dillard (born 1937)
• George Dillon
• Ray DiPalma (born 1943)
• Diane Di Prima (born 1934)
• Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)
• Patricia Dobler
• Stephen Dobyns (1941)
• Owen Dodson
• John Dolan (writer)
• Nathan Haskell Dole
• Sonya Dorman
• Ed Dorn (1929–1999)
• Julia Caroline Dorr
• Mark Doty
• Franz Douskey
• Rita Dove (1952)
• Kirby Doyle
• Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820)
• Will Allen Dromgoole
• Celia Dropkin
• Norman Dubie
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Bruce Ducker
• Peter Kane Dufault
• Alan Dugan (born 1923–2003)
• Henry Dumas
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
• Robert Duncan (1919–1988)
• Jim Dunlap
• Stephen Dunn
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Job Durfee
• Stuart Dybek (born 1942)
• Bob Dylan (born 1941)

[edit] E

• Cornelius Eady
• Pliny Earle (physician)
• Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)
• David Edelstadt
• Russell Edson
• Kari edwards
• Max Ehrmann
• Larry Eigner (1927–1996)
• Loren Eiseley
• Che Elias
• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
• James Emanuel
• Lynn Emanuel
• Claudia Emerson
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
• Paul Engle
• Theodore Enslin (born 1925)
• Daniel Mark Epstein
• Clayton Eshleman (born 1935)
• Martín Espada
• Willard R. Espy
• Maggie Estep
• David Allan Evans
• Mari Evans
• William Everson — Brother Antoninus (1912–1994)

[edit] F

• Ruth Fainlight
• B.H. Fairchild
• William Clark Falkner
• Roger Fanning
• Norma Farber
• Patricia Fargnoli
• John Chipman Farrar
• Jessie Redmon Fauset
• Kenneth Fearing
• Frederick Feirstein
• Irving Feldman (born 1928)
• Paul Fericano
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)
• Eugene Field
• Rachel Field
• James Thomas Fields
• Fireside Poets
• Annie Finch
• Ann Fisher-Wirth
• Bob Flanagan
• John Gould Fletcher
• Roland Flint
• Nick Flynn
• Jack Foley (poet)
• Carolyn Forché (born 1950)
• John M. Ford
• Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911)
• FrancEye (Frances Dean Smith)
• Robert Frazier
• Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
• Robert Frost (1874–1963)
• Gwen Frostic
• Gene Frumkin (born 1928)
• Nan Fry
• Alice Fulton (born 1952)

[edit] G

• James Galvin (poet) (born1951)
• Forrest Gander (born 1956
• Deborah Garrison (born 1965)
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
• Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
• Jack Gilbert
• Strickland Gillilan (1869–1954)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
• Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941)
• Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)
• Peter Gizzi (born 1959)
• Jesse Glass (born 1954)
• Louise Glück (born 1943)
• Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961)
• Laurence Goldstein
• Rodolfo Gonzales
• Rigoberto González
• Elaine Goodale
• Kevin Goodan
• Alice Goodman
• Paul Goodman (writer)
• Hedwig Gorski (born 1949)
• Janice Gould
• David Graham (American poet)
• Jorie Graham
• Judy Grahn
• Linda Gregerson
• Linda Gregg
• Debora Greger
• Horace Gregory
• Robert Grenier (poet)
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimké
• Lee Groban
• Allen Grossman
• Barbara Guest (1920–2006)
• Edgar Guest (1891–1959)
• Louise Imogen Guiney
• Arthur Guiterman
• R. S. Gwynn
• Brion Gysin (1916–1986)

[edit] H

• Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)
• Hermann Hagedorn
• Jessica Hagedorn
• Richard Hague
• Kimiko Hahn (born 1955)
• Donald Hall
• Irma P. Hall
• Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
• Barbara Hamby
• Jupiter Hammon
• Jeff Hardy
• William Harmon
• Jeff Harrison
• Jim Harrison (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman (born 1952)
• Robert Hass
• Katherine Hastings
• Julian Hawthorne
• Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
• Terrance Hayes
• Paul Hamilton Hayne
• William Shakespeare Hays
• Trebor Healey
• Eloise Klein Healy
• Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Allison Hedge Coke
• Lyn Hejinian (born 1941)
• Michael Heller
• Essex Hemphill
• Alice Corbin Henderson
• Nancy A. Henry
• Oliver Herford
• William Heyen
• Bob Hicok
• Dick Higgins
• Scott Hightower (born 1952)
• Conrad Hilberry (born 1928)
• Donora Hillard (born 1982)
• Robert Hillyer
• Ellen Hinsey
• Edward Hirsch
• Jane Hirshfield (born 1953)
• Jack Hirschman
• H.L. Hix
• Allen Hoey (born 1952)
• Linda Hogan (born 1947)
• Tony Hoagland
• Daniel Hoffman
• Roald Hoffmann
• John Hollander (born 1929)
• Bill Holm (poet)
• Bob Holman
• M. Carl Holman
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
• Dennis Holt (born 1942)
• Garrett Hongo
• Edwin Honig (born 1919)
• George Moses Horton
• Joan Houlihan
• Richard Howard (born 1929)
• Fanny Howe (born 1940)
• Julia Ward Howe
• Marie Howe
• Susan Howe
• Susan Howe (born 1937)
• Helen Hoyt
• Thomas Hubbard (born 1938)
• Detrick Hughes (born 1966)
• Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
• Richard Hugo (1923–1982)
• Constance Hunting (1925–2006)
• Cynthia Huntington
• Siri Hustvedt

[edit] I-J

• David Ignatow (1914–1997)
• Arthur Crew Inman
• P. Inman
• Josephine Jacobsen
• Afdhere Jama
• James Cummins
• J. J. Jameson
• Patricia Janus
• Joseph Jarman
• Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)
• Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
• Robinson Jeffers, (1887–1962)
• Ted Joans
• Orrick Glenday Johns
• Denis Johnson
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Helene Johnson
• Josephine Winslow Johnson
• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
• Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937)
• Kathryn Johnston (2007–2010)
• Sarah Jones (stage)
• June Jordan
• Pierre Joris
• Andrew Joron
• Lawrence Joseph
• Matthew Josephson
• Frank Judge
• Donald Justice

[edit] K

• Sheema Kalbasi
• Chester Kallman
• Ilya Kaminsky
• Lenore Kandel
• Mary Karr
• Julia Kasdorf
• Janet Kauffman (born 1945)
• Herbert Kaufman
• W. B. Keckler
• John Keene (writer)
• Weldon Kees (1914–1955)
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951)
• Jamie Kennedy (poet)
• Richard Kenney
• Maurice Kenney
• Jane Kenyon
• Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
• Sophie Kerr
• Francis Scott Key
• Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
• Alicia Keys
• Bill Keith
• D. Kildare
• Aline Murray Kilmer
• Joyce Kilmer
• Val Kilmer
• H.T. Kirby-Smith
• Suji Kwock Kim
• Kimiko Hahn
• Haven Kimmel
• Amy King
• Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
• Susan Kinsolving
• Mary Kinzie
• David Kirby (poet)
• Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996)
• Carolyn Kizer
• August Kleinzahler (born 1949)
• William Kloefkorn
• Etheridge Knight(1933–1991)
• Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)
• Ruth Ellen Kocher
• Wayne Koestenbaum
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948)
• Ted Kooser
• Alfred Kreymborg
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
• Laurie Kutchins
• Joanne Kyger (born 1934)

[edit] L

• Christine E. Laine
• Philip Lamantia
• Fran Landesman
• Landis Everson
• Joseph Langland
• Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
• Dorothea Lasky
• George Parsons Lathrop
• Richmond Lattimore
• Sanders Anne Laubenthal
• James Laughlin
• Ann Lauterbach
• Dorianne Laux
• James Lavilla-Havelin
• William P. Lawrence
• John Edward Lawson
• Robert Lax (1915–2000)
• Emma Lazarus
• Kelly Le Fave
• Li-Young Lee
• Malka Lee
• Lemon (poet)
• Aya de Leon
• Ben Lerner
• David Lerner
• Jimmy Lerner
• Rika Lesser
• Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
• Dana Levin
• Philip Levine (born 1928)
• Larry Levis
• D. A. Levy
• William Levy
• Alonzo Lewis
• Charles Lillard
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim
• Tao Lin
• Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
• Amon Liner
• Sara Jane Lippincott
• Jonathan Lamas
• George Cabot Lodge
• Ron Loewinsohn
• John Logan (1923-1987)
• Naomi Long Madgett (born 1923)
• James Longenbach
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
• Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
• Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
• Maria White Lowell
• Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
• Walter Lowenfels
• Mina Loy
• Felipe Luciano
• Lydia Lunch
• Masiela Lusha
• Thomas Lux
• William Whittingham Lyman Jr
• Thomas Lynch (born 1948)

[edit] M

• Jackson Mac Low
• Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
• Percy MacKaye
• Nathaniel Mackey
• Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
• Naomi Long Madgett
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• Taylor Mali
• Frank Richard Maloney
• Tom Mandel (poet)
• Donna M. Marbach
• Djelloul Marbrook
• Joseph Moncure March
• Edwin Markham
• Don Marquis
• David Mason
• Matt Mason
• Steve Mason
• Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950
• Harry Mathews
• William Matthews (1942–1997)
• John Matthias
• Kevin Max
• Bernadette Mayer
• Frances Mayes
• Janet McAdams
• Robert McAlmon
• Jack McCarthy
• J. D. McClatchy
• Michael McClure
• Michael McFee
• Bryant H. McGill (born 1969)
• Karyna McGlynn
• Michael McGovern
• Campbell McGrath
• Thomas McGrath
• Claude McKay (1889–1948)
• Louis McKee
• Rod McKuen
• James McMichael (born 1939)
• Wesley McNair
• Louise McNeill
• Alexander Beaufort Meek
• Abel Meeropol
• David Meltzer
• Herman Melville (born 1819–1890)
• Samuel Menashe (born 1925)
• William Meredith (born 1919)
• Billy Merrell
• Eve Merriam
• James Merrill (1926–1995)
• Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
• Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
• W.S. Merwin (born 1927)
• Tom Meschery
• Sarah Messer (born 1966)
• Henry Meyer (1840-1925)
• Robert Mezey
• William Michaelian (born 1956)
• Diane Middlebrook
• Josephine Miles (1911–1985)
• Joseph Millar
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
• Alice Duer Miller
• Rev. Jen Miller
• Joaquin Miller (1837–1913)
• Leslie Adrienne Miller
• May Miller
• Tim Miller
• Vassar Miller
• Deborah A. Miranda
• John Kearsley Mitchell
• Susan Mitchell
• K. Silem Mohammad
• Anis Mojgani
• Paul Monette
• Mong-Lan
• Marion Montgomery
• José Montoya
• William Vaughn Moody
• Clara Jessup Moore
• Charles Leonard Moore
• Daniel Moore
• Jacqueline S. Moore
• Jessica Care Moore
• Julia A. Moore
• Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
• Pat Mora
• Barbara Moraff
• A. F. Moritz
• Hilda Morley (1916–1998)
• George Frederick Morgan (1922–2004)
• Richard Morris
• Tracie Morris
• Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
• Bradford Morrow
• Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
• Stephen Morse (born 1945)
• John Most (born 1977)
• Jennifer Moxley (born 1964)
• Viggo Mortensen
• Howard Moss
• Thylias Moss
• John Most
• Louise Chandler Moulton
• Anna Cora Mowatt
• Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
• Harryette Mullen
• Charles Muñoz
• Erin Murphy
• Sheila Murphy
• Pauli Murray
• Sheila Murphy

[edit] N

• Vladimir Nabokov
• Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
• John Neal
• John Neihardt
• Jill Neimark
• Howard Nemerov
• Arthur Nersesian
• Kenn Nesbitt (born 1962)
• F. A. Nettelbeck (born 1950)
• Jill Neimark
• Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
• Arthur Nersesian
• Kenn Nesbitt
• Celeste Newbrough
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974)
• Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)
• Audrey Niffenegger
• John Frederick Nims
• Lucille Nixon
• Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
• Jessica Nordell
• Charles North
• Jessica Nelson North
• Jim Northrup (writer)
• Alice Notley
• Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952)

[edit] O

• Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
• Geoffrey G. O'Brien
• Ed Ochester
• Blanche Oelrichs
• Ron Offen
• Frank O'Hara (1926–1966)
• Sharon Olds (born 1942)
• Mary Oliver (born 1935)
• Alix Olson
• Charles Olson (1910–1970)
• George Oppen (1908–1984)
• Mary Oppen (1908–1990)
• James Oppenheim
• Joel Oppenheimer
• Peter Oresick
• Alicia Ostriker

[edit] P

• Ron Padgett (born 1942)
• Grace Paley
• Condé Benoist Pallen
• Michael Palmer (born 1943)
• Jay Parini
• Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
• Lee Passarella
• Linda Pastan (born 1932)
• Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
• Josephine Preston Peabody
• Richard Peabody
• Molly Peacock
• Harry Thurston Peck
• Bryan Penberthy
• Rob Penny
• James Gates Percival
• Eleanor Percy Lee
• William Alexander Percy
• Sam Pereira (born 1949)
• Bob Perelman
• Alice N. Persons
• Robert Peters
• Marge Piercy (1936)
• Nick Piombino
• Robert Pinsky (1940)
• Carl Phillips
• Wanda Phipps
• Anthony Piccione
• John Pierpont
• Josephine Pinckney
• Edward Coote Pinkney
• Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
• Lanny Poffo
• Robert Polito
• Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
• Paul Martinez Pompa
• Marie Ponsot (born 1921)
• Carol Potter
• Charles Potts (1943)
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
• Kevin Powell
• Julien de Lallande Poydras
• Jack Prelutsky (1940)
• Elizabeth Prentiss
• Reynolds Price
• Frederic Prokosch
• Kevin Prufer

[edit] Q

• George Quasha (born 1942)

[edit] R

• Burton Raffel
• Sam Ragan
• Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
• Lee Ranaldo
• Dudley Randall (1914–2000)
• James Ryder Randall
• Julia Randall
• Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
• John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
• Sadi Ranson
• Ron Rash
• David Ray (born 1932)
• Wayne Ray (Alabama b. 1950, now in Canada)
• Thomas Buchanan Read
• Spencer Reece
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938)
• Lizette Woodworth Reese
• Naomi Replansky
• Paul Reps
• Carter Revard
• Donald Revell (born 1954)
• Eben E. Rexford
• Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
• Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
• Samuel F. Rhodes
• William Henry Rhodes
• René Ricard
• Cale Young Rice
• Stan Rice
• Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
• Beah Richards
• Laura E. Richards
• Monica Richards
• Lola Ridge (1873–1941)
• Laura Riding
• James Whitcomb Riley
• Alberto Ríos
• Tomás Rivera
• Amélie Louise Rives
• James J. Roberts (born 1947)
• Howard W. Robertson
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
• Edouard Roditi
• Luis J. Rodriguez
• Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
• Pattiann Rogers
• Matthew Rohrer
• Henry Rollins
• Ronald Talney
• Raymond Roseliep
• Franklin Rosemont (born 1943)
• J. Allyn Rosser
• Terry Rossio
• Jerome Rothenberg (born 1934)
• Michael Rothenberg
• Anne Rouse (born 1954)
• Thomas Rowley (1721–1796)
• Gibbons Ruark (born 1941)
• Anne Rouse
• Thomas Rowley (poet)
• Gibbons Ruark
• Mary Ruefle
• Muriel Rukeyser
• Nipsey Russell
• Archibald Rutledge
• Carl Hancock Rux
• Abram Joseph Ryan
• Kay Ryan
• Michael Ryan (poet)

[edit] S

• Michael Salinger
• Mary Jo Salter (born 1954
• Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999)
• Francis Saltus Saltus
• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
• Robert Charles Sands
• Aram Saroyan
• May Sarton
• Minot Judson Savage
• Jeannine Savard
• John Godfrey Saxe
• Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
• Peter Schjeldahl
• Michael Schmidt (poet)
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953 in poetry|1953)
• Dan Schneider
• Pat Schneider
• Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842)
• Susan Polis Schutz
• James Schuyler (1923-1991)
• Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
• Patricia Roth Schwartz
• Armand Schwerner
• Alan Seeger
• Calvin Seerveld
• Frederick Seidel
• Martha Serpas
• Dr. Seuss
• Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
• Tom Sexton
• Mekael Shane
• Ntozake Shange
• Ravi Shankar (1901-2008)
• David Shapiro
• Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
• G. S. Sharat Chandra
• Scott Shaw
• Aaron Shurin
• Eli Siegel
• Lydia Sigourney
• Richard Siken
• Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
• Edward Rowland Sill
• Ron Silliman
• Murray Silverstein
• Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
• Ron Silliman (born 1946)
• Charles Simic
• Jim Simmerman
• William Gilmore Simms
• Marge Simon
• Louis Simpson
• John Sinclair (poet)
• Hal Sirowitz (born 1949)
• Judith Skillman
• Myra Sklarew (born 1934)
• Clark Ashton Smith
• Edwin E. Smith
• Elbert H. Smith
• Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith
• Langdon Smith
• Marc Smith
• Margaret Smith (poet)
• Patti Smith
• R. T. Smith
• Rod Smith
• Rolland Smith
• Tracy K. Smith (born 1972)
• William Jay Smith
• W. D. Snodgrass (born 1926)
• Eliza Roxcy Snow
• Craig Snyder
• Laurel Snyder
• Gary Snyder (born 1930)
• Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005)
• Roberto Solis
• Gilbert Sorrentino
• Juliana Spahr
• Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
• Jack Spicer
• Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
• Kim Stafford
• William Stafford (1914-1993)
• Frank Stanford (1948–1978)
• Henry Throop Stanton
• George Starbuck
• William Force Stead
• Edmund Clarence Stedman
• Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
• Mattie Stepanek
• George Sterling
• Gerald Stern (born 1925)
• C. J. Stevens
• James Thomas Stevens
• Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
• Anne Stevenson
• Susan Stewart (born 1952)
• Trumbull Stickney
• John Stigall
• James Still
• Charles Warren Stoddard
• Ruth Stone
• William Wetmore Story
• Mark Strand (born 1934)
• Joseph Stroud (poet) (born 1943)
• Lucien Stryk
• Jesse Stuart
• A. M. Sullivan
• Sekou Sundiata
• Barton Sutter
• Thomas Burnett Swann
• John Swanwick
• Robert Sward (born 1933))
• Cole Swensen (born )
• May Swenson (1913–1989)

[edit] T

• Eileen Tabios
• John Taggart
• Amber Tamblyn
• Luci Tapahonso
• Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928)
• Allen Tate (1899–1979)
• James Tate (born 1943)
• Bayard Taylor
• Bert Leston Taylor
• Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
• Michelle Tea
• Sara Teasdale
• Michael Teig
• Robbie Q. Telfer
• Todd Temkin (born 1964)
• Lucy Terry
• Steve Tesich
• Celia Thaxter
• Ernest Thayer (1863–1940)
• Scofield Thayer
• William Roscoe Thayer
• Edith Matilda Thomas
• Lewis Thomas
• Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
• Dunstan Thompson
• Lady Gwen Thompson
• Maurice Thompson
• William Irwin Thompson
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
• Tamara Thorne (born 1957)
• Richard Tillinghast (born 1940)
• Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
• Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
• Lee Tonouchi
• Nick Tosches
• Tony Tost
• William Tremblay
• David Trinidad
• Quincy Troupe
• John Trumbull (poet)
• Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
• Lewis Turco (born 1934)
• Brian Turner (American poet)
• Genya Turovskaya
• Chase Twichell
• E. Donald Two-Rivers

[edit] U-V

• David Unger (born 1950)
• Louis Untermeyer (born 1885–1977)
• Charles Upton (born 1948)
• Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979)
• Jean Valentine (born 1934)
• Max Wolf Valerio (born 1957)
• Cor van den Heuvel
• Mark Van Doren (born 1894–1972)
• Mona Van Duyn (born 1921–2004)
• Sheldon Vanauken (born 1914–1996)
• Janine Pommy Vega (born 1942)
• Jones Very (born 1813–1880)
• George Sylvester Viereck (born 1884–1962)
• Peter Viereck (born 1916–2006)
• Nick Virgilio (born 1928–1989)
• Gerald Vizenor (born 1934)
• Judith Vollmer (born 1951)

[edit] W

• Buddy Wakefield
• Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
• Diane Wald
• Anne Waldman
• Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1945)
• Keith Waldrop
• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• Lonie Walker
• Margaret Walker
• BJ Ward (poet)
• Catherine Anne Warfield
• Emily Warn
• Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
• William John Watkins
• Barrett Watten (born 1948)
• Hannah Weiner
• James Welch
• Lew Welch
• Joe Wenderoth
• Theodore Weiss (1916–2003)
• Paul West (poet)
• Philip Whalen
• Mark Whalon
• John Wheatcroft
• Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
• John Hall Wheelock
• John Brooks Wheelwright
• Edward Lucas White
• Gary J. Whitehead (born 1965)
• Ruth Whitman
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
• Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
• Reed Whittemore
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
• Margaret Widdemer
• John Wieners
• Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
• Carlos Wilcox
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Richard Henry Wilde
• Charlotte Wilder
• Charles Willeford
• C. K. Williams
• Jonathan Williams (poet)
• Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
• Paul O. Williams
• Philip Lee Williams (born 1950)
• Sarah Williams
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
• Elizabeth Willis (born 1961)
• Nathaniel Parker Willis
• Edmund Wilson
• Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945)
• Anne Winters
• Yvor Winters
• Sam Witt
• Larry Woiwode
• John Barton Wolgamot
• Nellie Wong
• George Edward Woodberry
• Samuel Woodworth
• Gamel Woolsey
• Bryan Thao Worra
• Patience Worth
• C. D. Wright
• Charles Wright (poet)
• Franz Wright
• James Wright (1927–1980)
• Jay Wright (poet)
• Kirby Wright
• Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960)
• Elinor Wylie

[edit] X-Z

• Emanuel Xavier (born 1971)
• Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961)
• Leo Yankevich
• John Yau (born 1950)
• Al Young (born 1939)
• C. Dale Young (born 1969)
• Dean Young (poet) (born 1955)
• Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
• Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
• Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
• Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
• Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)

[edit] See also

• United States poetry
• List of poets
• List of English language poets
• List of years in poetry
• Academy of American Poets
• List of Jewish American poets

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