This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets .
A Ab–Ak Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poetAarudhra (1925–1998), Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara SastryChris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poetHenry Abbey (1842–1911), US poetEleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet and fiction writerSiôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeerAria Aber (born 1991), Afghan poet and novelist, resides in the US, writes and publishes primarily in EnglishLascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet and literary criticArthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049), Persian poetSam Abrams (born 1935), US poet, editor and criticSeth Abramson (born 1976), US poetKosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poetDannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh poet in EnglishKathy Acker (1947–1997), US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwrightDiane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalistDuane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwrightHarold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettanteJános Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost Tamás Aczél (1921–1994), Hungarian poetGilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and criticVirginia Hamilton Adair (1919–2004), US poetHelen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographerDraginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serbian poetJohn Adams (1704–1740), US poetLéonie Adams (1899–1988), US poetRyan Adams (born 1974), US singer-songwriter and writerHendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poetFleur Adcock (born 1934), New Zealand poet mainly in EnglandJoseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politicianKim Addonizio (born 1954), US poet and novelistArtur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poetEndre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poetMariska Ady (1888–1977), Hungarian poetAeschylus (525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedianAnastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translatorLucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BCE), Roman comic poetJohn Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writerPatience Agbabi (born 1965), British poet and performerJames Agee (1909–1955), US novelist, screenwriter, and poetDeborah Ager (born 1977), US poet and editorIstván Ágh (born 1938), Hungarian poetKelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), US poetDritëro Agolli (1931–2017), Albanian poetCarlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Spanish poetDelmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poetIshaaq bin Ahmed (1095 – 12th century), Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali Isaaq clan-familyAi (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academicConrad Aiken (1889–1973), US poet and authorAganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poetAkazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historianMark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physicianRachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in GermanMehdi Akhavan-Sales (1929–1990), Iranian poet, Persian poetBella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poetAnna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poetJan Nisar Akhtar (1914–1976), Indian Urdu poetJaved Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriterSalman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian US professor and poet writing in English and UrduAl–Am Amina Al Adwan (born 1935), Jordanian writer, poet and criticMuhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951–2021), Sudanese poetLuigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesmanAlasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), Scottish Gaelic poetAve Alavainu (born 1942), Estonian poetGillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet and crusaderAlcaeus (4th c. BCE), Athenian comic poet in GreekAlcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BCE), Greek writer of verse epigramsAlcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from LesbosAmmiel Alcalay (born 1956), US poet, scholar and criticAlcman (fl. 7th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poetAmos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), US poet and teacherRichard Aldington (1892–1962), English poet and writerVasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poetTudur Aled (c. 1465–1525), Welsh poet writing in WelshClaribel Alegría (1924–2018), Central US poet writing in SpanishVicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901), Slovene symbolist poetSherman Alexie (born 1966), US poet and writerFelipe Alfau (1902–1999), Catalan US novelist and poetAgha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), Indian, Kashmiri and US poetTaha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poetDante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poetAli al-Hujwiri (1009–1072), Persian poetJames Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poetAugust Alle (1899–1952), Estonian poetDick Allen (1939–2017), US poet, critic and academicDonald Allen (1912–2004), US poet, editor and translatorElizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), US author and poetRon Allen (1947–2010), US poet and playwrightArtur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonian poetWilliam Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet and man of lettersWashington Allston (1779–1843), US painter and poetDamaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist and criticAlta (Alta Gerrey; born 1942), US poet and writer Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translatorAlurista (born 1947), Chicano poet and activistAl Alvarez (fl. 1929–2019), English poetJulia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayistBetti Alver (1906–1989), Estonian poetMoniza Alvi (born 1954), Pakistani-British poet and writerGuru Amar Das (1479–1574), Punjabi poet and Sikh guru Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of Third Crusade Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poetIndran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translatorKingsley Amis (1922–1995), English author and poetA. R. Ammons (1926–2001), US author and poetAn–Aq Anacreon (570–488 BCE), Greek lyric poetAlfred Andersch (1914–1980), German writer and publisherMir Anees (or Anis) (1803–1874), Indian poet in UrduGuda Anjaiah (1955–2016), Telugu Indian poet, singer, lyricist and writer from TelanganaAnvari (1117–1157), Persian poetTemsüla Ao (born 1945), Indian Naga poet, short story writer, and ethnographerHans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writerVictor Henry Anderson (1917–2001), US poet, kahuna and teacher of the Feri Tradition Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), Brazilian poetMário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist and criticBernard André (1450–1522), French Augustinian poet: poet laureate to Henry VII of EnglandPeter Andrej (born 1959), Slovenian poet and musicianSophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writerBruce Andrews (born 1948), US poet of languageKevin Andrews (1924–1989), Anglo-Greek philhellene writer and archeologistRon Androla (born 1954), US poetAneirin (fl. 6th c.), Brythonic epic poetGuru Angad (1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poetRalph Angel (1951–2020), US poet and translatorMaya Angelou (1928–2014), US poetJames Stout Angus (1830–1923), Shetland poet mainly in Shetland dialect Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet in ScotsJ. K. Annand (1908–1993), Scottish children's poetMika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poetDavid Antin (1932–2016), US poet and criticAntler (born 1946), US poetSusanne Antonetta (born 1956), US poet and authorBrother Antoninus (1912–1994), US poetRaymond Antrobus (living), BritishChairil Anwar (1922–1949), Indonesian poetJohannes Anyuru (born 1979), Swedish poetGuillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poetApollonius of Rhodes (270 – post–245 BCE), Greek poet and librarian in AlexandriaMaja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poetPhilip Appleman (1926–2020), US poet and professorLajos Áprily (1887–1967), Hungarian poet and translatorPawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Maltese poetAr Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French poet, novelist and editorJános Arany (1817–1882), Hungarian poetArchilochus (c. 680 – c. 645 BCE), Greek lyric poetAllamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Telugu poetWalter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), US dadaist, critic and poetTudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poetLudovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poetAristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BCE), Greek dramatic poetGuru Arjan (1563–1606), Sikh guru and Punjabi poetRae Armantrout (born 1947), US language poetSimon Armitage (born 1963), English poet, playwright and novelistRichard Armour (1906–1989), US poet and authorErnst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German author and poetBettina von Arnim (1785–1859), German writer, composer and visual artistLudwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelistCraig Arnold (1967–2009), US poet and professorMatthew Arnold (1822–1888), English poet and cultural criticArnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld (Poet of Earls, c. 1012 – 1070s), Icelandic skald Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942), Polish poetJean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, painter and poetAntonin Artaud (1896–1948), French playwright, poet and essayistAs–Az John Ashbery W. H. Auden M. K. Asante (born 1982), US author, poet and professorJohn Ashbery (1927–2017), US poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Cliff Ashby (1919–2012), English poet and novelistRenée Ashley , US poet and novelistAnton Aškerc (1856–1912), Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priestAsjadi (10th–11th c.), Persian poetAdam Asnyk (1838–1897), Polish poet and dramatistHerbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poetMina Assadi (born 1942), Iranian poet, Persian poet, author and songwriterVishnu Raj Atreya (1944–2020), Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelistMargaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and essayistW. H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-US poet, essayistImre Augustich (Imre Augustič, 1837–1879), Slovenian/Hungarian poetJoseph Auslander (1897–1965), US poet, anthologist and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala (Bordeaux )Paul Auster (born 1947), US poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translatorJames Avery (1948–2013), US actor, poet and screenwriterMargaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poetKrayem Awad (born 1948), Viennese painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian originGennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poetAyo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970), Nigerian poetPam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poetRobert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poetMaryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, Persian poet, essayist, critic and translatorAzraqi (11th c.), Persian poetJody Azzouni (born 1954), US philosopher and poetB Ba Baba Tahir (11th c.), Persian poetMihály Babits (1883–1941), Hungarian poet and translatorKen Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poetJimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), US poet and writer of Apache/Chicano descentBacchylides (fl. 5th c. BCE), Greek lyric poetBellamy Bach (fl. 1980s), joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poetsHarivansh Rai Bachchan (fl. 20th c.), Hindi poetJoseph M. Bachelor (also Joseph Morris, 1889–1947), US author, poet and educatorSimon Bacher (1823–1991), Hebrew poet in HungaryIngeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and authorSutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian poetGeorge Bacovia (1881–1957), Romanian poetKrzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldierVahshi Bafqi (1532–1583) Persian poetJulio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian Esperanto author and poetMohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886–1951), Persian poetBai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Scottish poet and dramatistJózsef Bajza (1804–1858), Hungarian poet and criticJózef Baka (1706/1707–1788), Polish/Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priestVyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuania -US translator, editor and poetDavid Baker (born 1954), US poetHinemoana Baker (born 1968), New Zealand poet and musicianBâkî (1526–1600), Ottoman-Turkish language poet (pseudonym of Mahmud Abdülbâkî) John Balaban (born 1943), US poet and translatorBálint Balassi (1554–1594), Hungarian poetBéla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian poet and criticEdward Balcerzan (born 1937), Polish poet, critic and translatorStanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet and diplomatJesse Ball (born 1978), US poet and novelistZsófia Balla (born 1949), Hungarian poet from RomaniaAddie L. Ballou (1837–1916), US poet and suffragistKonstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translatorRussell Banks (born 1940), US fiction writer and poetAnne Bannerman (1765–1829), Scottish poetAmiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet and dramatistMarcin Baran (born 1963), Polish poet and journalistStanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translatorPorfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writerAnna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's authorJohn Barbour (c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet, first major writer in Scots Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poetGeorge Barker (1913–1991), English poet and authorLes Barker (born 1947), English poetChristine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African poetColeman Barks (born 1937), US poetMihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c. 1778–1824), Slovenian poet and pastor in HungaryMary Barnard (1909–2001), US poet, biographer and translatorDjuna Barnes (1892–1982), US writerWilliam Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, poet and philologist Catherine Barnett (born 1960), US poet and educatorRichard Barnfield (1574–1620), English poetWillis Barnstone (born 1927), US poet and literary translatorMaria Barrell (died 1803), poet, playwright and writer of periodicalsLaird Barron (born 1970), US poet, authorSándor Barta (1897–1938), Hungarian poet executed in USSRBernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet and Quaker Bertha Hirsch Baruch (fl. late 18th – early 19th c.), US writer, poet and suffragistTodd Bash (born 1965), US avant-garde playwright, poet and writerMatsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poetMichael Basinski (born 1950), US text, visual and sound poetEllen Bass (born 1947), US poetArlo Bates (1850–1918), US author, poet and educatorDavid Bates (1809–1870), US poetJoseph Bathanti (born 1953), US poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet LaureateJános Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poetDawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), US poet, journalist and educatorCharles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translatorCirilo Bautista (1941–2018), Philippines poet, writer and criticCharles Baxter (born 1947), US writer and poetJames K. Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poetBe Jan Beatty (born 1952), US poetFrancis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet and dramatistSamuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poetJoshua Beckman (living), US poetMatija Bećković (born 1939), Serbian writer and poetGustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet and fiction writerThomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physicianPatricia Beer (1919–1999), English poet and criticSapargali Begalin (1895–1983), Kazakh poetAphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration dramatist; early professional female writerFerenc Békássy (1893–1915), Hungarian poetErin Belieu (born 1967), US poetMarvin Bell (1937–2020), US poet and teacher; first Poet Laureate of State of IowaGioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelistGiuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian sonneteer in Romanesco Xuan Bello (born 1965), Asturian poetHilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historianAndrei Bely (1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet and criticStephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), US author, poet and fiction writerWilliam Rose Benét (1886–1950), US poet, writer and editorElizabeth Benger (1775–1827), English poet, biographer and novelistGottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poetGwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-US writer and poetJim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Liverpool punk eraRichard Berengarten (born 1943), English poet, writer and translatorBo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer and criticİlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poetCharles Bernstein (born 1950), US poet and scholarBéroul (12th c.), Norman poet of episodic Tristan Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016), US poet, priest and peace activistTed Berrigan (1934–1983), US poetJames Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican poet based in EnglandWendell Berry (born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmerJohn Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholarDániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poetMary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social workerJohn Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcasterElizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–1830), English poet, writer and entertainerHelen Bevington (1906–2001), US poet, prose writer and educatorL. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet and essayistBh–Bl Źmitrok Biadula William Blake Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and Indian independence activistSujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet in GujaratiŹmitrok Biadula (1886–1941), Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer and independence activistMiron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Polish poet, novelist and playwrightZbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, critic and translatorBiernat of Lublin (c. 1465 – post-1529), Polish poet and fabulistLaurence Binyon (1879–1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholarEarle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatistNevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poetBalázs Birtalan (1969–2016), Hungarian poet and publicistElizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), US poet and short-story writer; US Poet LaureateRam Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), poet and revolutionary writing in Urdu and HindiBill Bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poetSherwin Bitsui (born 1975), US Navajo poetPaul Blackburn (1926–1971), US poetRichard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), US literary critic and poetLucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwrightLewis Blake (born 1946), English poetWilliam Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmakerDon Blanding (1894–1957), US poet, journalist, writer and speakerAdrian Blevins (born 1964), US poetMathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English poet and writerAlexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poetBenjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), US philosopher and poetRobert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English laboring-class poetRoy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poetEdmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and literary criticWilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writerRobert Bly (1926–2021), US poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement Bo–Bri Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965), East German author and poetGiovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poetJean Bodel (1165–1210), Old French poetÁdám Bodor (born 1936), Hungarian poet from RomaniaLouise Bogan (1897–1970), US poet; fourth US Poet LaureateMatteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poetNicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and criticMichelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US poetChristian Bök (born 1966), experimental Canadian poetOsbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464), English poet and friarEavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poetAlan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, biographer and journalistHeinrich Böll (1917–1985), German novelistEdmund Bolton (c. 1575 – c. 1633), English historian and poetNozawa Bonchō (c. 1640–1714), Japanese haikai poetDietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German poet and Lutheran theologianArna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), US poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance Luke Booker (1762–1835), English poet, cleric and antiquaryKurt Boone (born 1959), US poetJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine fiction writer, essayist and poetTadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and journalistHristo Botev (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionaryGordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet and verse dramatistDavid Bottoms (born 1949), US poet; Georgia Poet LaureateCathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winnerTadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translatorMark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenaryKay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and political activistAlison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poetAnne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672), America's first published poetDi Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary criticGiannina Braschi (born 1953), US poet born in Puerto RicoKamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbadian writerRichard Brautigan (1935–1984), US fiction writer and poetBertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet and lyricistGerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwrightRadovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poetChristopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian poet and scholarJoseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990), US poet and writer of fantasy and horror fictionClemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelistAndré Breton (1896–1966), French writer, poet and founder of Surrealism Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet and novelistKen Brewer (1941–2006), US poet and scholar; Utah Poet LaureateBreyten Breytenbach (born 1939), South-African/French writer, poet and painterRobert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United KingdomRobert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and authorBro–By Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), US poet and translatorEve Brodlique (1867–1949), British-born Canadian/American poet, author and journalistJoseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayistWladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldierWilliam Bronk (1918–1999), US poetAnne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë sistersCharlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of three Brontë sistersEmily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poetRupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poetGwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-US poet; US Poet LaureateHans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), Danish poet and Pietist bishopJoan Brossa (1919–1998), Catalan poet, playwright and artistNicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelistOlga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet in United StatesFlora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activistPetrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusian poetGeorge Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatistJames Brown , known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayistSterling Brown (1901–1989), African-US academic writer and poetThomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologianFrances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelistWilliam Browne (1590–1643), English poetElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poetRobert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwrightWilliam Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), US romantic poet and journalistColette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Irish poetBryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet and memoiristValeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, novelist and criticJan Brzechwa (1898–1966), Polish poet and children's writerDugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scottish poet in Scots and Scottish GaelicRobert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatistAugust Buchner (1591–1661), German Baroque poet and professorGeorg Büchner (1813–1837), German writer, poet and dramatistVincent Buckley (1927–1988), Australian poet, essayist and criticDavid Budbill (1940–2016), US poet and playwrightAndrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), US poetTeodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poetCharles Bukowski (1920–1994), US poet, novelist and short story writerIvan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian poet and novelistBasil Bunting (1900–1985), English modernist poetAnthony Burgess (1917–1993), English writer, poet and playwrightRobert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet and lyricistStanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), US poetJohn Burnside (born 1955), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizesWilliam S. Burroughs (1914–1997), US novelist, poet and essayistAndrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and writerYosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painterRaegan Butcher (born 1969), US poet and singerRay Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, composer and musicianIgnazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian language poetAnthony Butts (born 1969), US poetKathryn Stripling Byer (1944–2017), US poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09Witter Bynner (also Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968), US poet, writer and scholarGeorge Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and literary figureC Cab–Cav Luís de Camões , one of the best-known poets of the 16th centuryLydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poetDilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in WelshCædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by nameMaoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in GaelicScott Cairns (born 1954), US poet, memoirist and essayistAlison Calder , Canadian poet and educatorAngus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educatorPedro 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 poetBarry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologistMichael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist and biographerCallimachus (c. 305 – c. 240 BCE), Hellenistic poet, critic and scholar at Library of Alexandria Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musicianNorman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poetLuís de Camões (c. 1524–1580), early Portuguese poetAngus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, born 1952), Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actorDavid Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilotRoy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satiristThomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poetJan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalistRemco Campert (1929–2022), Dutch poet and novelistThomas Campion (1567–1619), English composer, poet and physicianMatilde Camus (1919–2012), Spanish poet and researcherMelville Henry Cane (1879–1980), US poet and lawyerIvan Cankar (1876–1918), Slovene playwright, essayist and poetMay Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poetEdip Cansever (1928–1986), Turkish poetCao Cao (155–220), Chinese poet and warlordCao Pi (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet and first emperor of state of Cao Wei ; second son of Cao CaoCao Zhi (192–232), Chinese poet; third son of Cao CaoVahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poetErnesto Cardenal (1925–2020), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priestGiosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet and teacherThomas Carew (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriterRobert Carliell (died c. 1622), English didactic poetBliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-US poet associated with Confederation Poets Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyerJim Carroll (1949–2009), US author, poet and punk musician Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician and photographerHayden Carruth (1921–2008), US poet and literary criticAnn Elizabeth Carson (born 1929), Canadian poet, artist and feministAnne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translatorElizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet and bluestocking Jared Carter (born 1939), US poet and editorWilliam Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchmanNeal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), US poet and professorRosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Galician poetCatullus (c. 84–54 BCE), Latin poet under the Roman Republic Charles Causley (1917–2003), Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writerC. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servantGuido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florentine poet and friend of Dante AlighieriNick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician and actorMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, aristocrat and scientistCe–Cl Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Jewish poet and translatorBlaise Cendrars (1887–1961), French poet and authorThomas Centolella (living), US poetAnica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poetLuis Cernuda (1903–1963), Spanish poet and literary criticAimé Césaire (1913–2008), French poet, author and politician from Martinique Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Portuguese surrealist poetÚrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Cuban poetAshok Chakradhar (born 1951), Hindi author and poetJohn Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poetJean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and criticArthur Chapman (1873–1935), US cowboy poet and columnistGeorge Chapman (1559–1634), English dramatist, translator and poetFred Chappell (born 1936), US author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002René Char (1907–1998), French poetCharles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465), poetCraig Charles (born 1964), English writer, poet and comedianThomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of medieval poetry Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, philosopher and alchemistSubhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing in HindiReverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), US writer, poet and Franciscan priestSusana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activistSyl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leone poet and novelistAndrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-US poet and children's authorKelly Cherry (born 1940), US author and poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia 2010–2012G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and poetCh'oe Ch'i-wŏn (born 857), Korean (Silla ) poetFukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), female Japanese haiku poet of the Edo periodHenri Chopin (1922–2008), avant-garde poet and musicianJean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240 – c. 1305), French writerChrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poetRalph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter and printerCharles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satiristJohn Ciardi (1916–1986), Italian-US poet, translator and etymologistColley Cibber (1671–1757), English playwright and Poet LaureateJovan Ćirilov (1931–2014), Serbian drama expert, writer and poetCarson Cistulli (born 1979), US poet, essayist and English professorHélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, poet and playwrightAmy Clampitt (1920–1994), US poet and authorKate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writerJohn Clanvowe (c. 1341–1391), Anglo-Welsh poet and diplomatJohn Clare (1793–1864), English poetElizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwrightAustin Clarke (1896–1974), Irish poetGeorge Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Canadian poet and academicGillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet and playwright in EnglishPaul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomatClaudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius Matthias Claudius (Asmus, 1740–1815), German poetHugo Claus (1929–2008), Belgian author, poet and film directorBrian P. Cleary (born 1959), US humorist, poet and authorJack Clemo (1916–1994), English Christian poetMichelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US author of fiction, prose poems and literary criticismLucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of MarylandArthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist and assistant to Florence Nightingale Coa–Con Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), US poet and story writerRobbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poetAlison Cockburn (1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialiteJean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writerJudith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and authorLeonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelistWanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poetHartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayistMary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, essayist and poetSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poetEdward Coletti (born 1944), Italian-US poetBilly Collins (born 1941), US poet; US Poet Laureate 2001–2003William Collins (1721–1759), English poetWilliam Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poetStewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwrightPaul Conneally (born 1959), English poet, artist and musicianRobert Conquest (1917–2015), Anglo-US historian and poetHenry Constable (1562–1613), English poetDavid Constantine (born 1944), English poet and translatorCoo–Cz Clark Coolidge (born 1939), US poetWendy Cope (born 1945), English poetRobert Copland (fl. 1508–1547), English printer, author and translatorJulia Copus (born 1969), English poet and biographerDenys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet in Guernésiais Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poetCid Corman (1924–2004), US poet, translator and editorAlfred Corn (born 1943), US poet and essayistFrances Cornford (1886–1960), English poetF. M. Cornford (1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances CornfordJoe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwrightGregory Corso (1930–2001), US Beat poetJayne Cortez (1936–2012), US poet and performance artistGeorge Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacherCharles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translatorAbraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poetMalcolm Cowley (1898–1989), US novelist , poet and criticWilliam Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnistGeorge Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet, naturalist and clergymanHart Crane (1899–1932), US modernist poetStephen Crane (1871–1900), US novelist, short story writer and poetRichard Crashaw (1613–1649), English Metaphysical poetRobert Creeley (1926–2005), US poetOctave Crémazie (1827–1879), French Canadian poetAnn Batten Cristall (1769–1848), English poetCharles Cros (1842–1888), French poet and inventorAleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and poetAndrew Crozier (1943–2008), English poetGyörgy Csanády (1895–1952), Hungarian poet and journalistSándor Csoóri (1930–2016), Hungarian poet, essayist and politicianCui Hao (c. 704–754), Tang dynasty Chinese poetCountee Cullen (1903–1946), US poetNecati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist and poetE. E. Cummings (1894–1962), US poet, essayist and playwrightAllan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and authorJames Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), US poet, literary critic and teacherAllen Curnow (1911–2001), New Zealand poet and journalistIvor Cutler (1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humoristJózef Czechowicz (1903–1939), Polish poetGergely Czuczor (1800–1866), Hungarian poet, monk and academicTytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), Polish poet, playwright and painterD Da–Dh Dalpatram (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi) (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati language poetAbraham ben Daniel (1511-1578), Italian poet and rabbiRoque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvador poetDaqiqi (died 977), Persian poetRuby Dhal (born 1994), British-Afghan poetSapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020), Indonesian poetSamuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historianDavid Daniels (1933–2008), US visual poetJeffrey Daniels (living), African-US poetThomas d'Angleterre , 12th-century poet in Old French Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatistHugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet and writerRubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet initiating modernismo Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), Indian poet and fiction writer in EnglishErasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English poet and herbalistMahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet and authorElizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet; daughter of Robert BridgesJibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali poet and authorPetter Dass (died 1707), Norwegian poetMina Dastgheib (born 1943), Iranian poet, Persian poetRené Daumal (1908–1944), French para-surrealist writer and poetJean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet, scholar and La Pléiade memberWilliam Davenant (1606–1668), English poet and playwrightGuy Davenport (1927–2005), US writer, translator and illustratorDonald Davidson (1893–1968), US poet, essayist and criticJohn Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelistLucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), US poetDonald Davie (1922–1995), English poet and criticAlan Davies (born 1951), US poet, critic and editorHugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist and communistSir John Davies (1569–1626), English poet, lawyer and politicianW. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writerJon Davis , US poetEdward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish-US poet and critic; father of poet Peter DavisonPeter Davison (1928–2004), US poet, essayist and editor; son of poet Edward DavisonDenis Davydov (1784–1839), Russian soldier-poet of Napoleonic Wars Dayaram (1777–1853), Gujarati language poetGábor Dayka (1769–1796), Hungarian poetCecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate 1968–1972James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisherDulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian poet and novelistJohn F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelistAleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian critic, poet and essayistJean Louis De Esque (1879–1956), US poet and authorMadeline DeFrees (1919–2015), US poetJacek Dehnel (born 1980), Polish poet, translator and painterThomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteerSor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poetBaltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poetWalter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelistLeconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of Parnassian movementChristine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet in English and Shetland dialectFrançois de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic and translatorAlfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poetGérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translatorSir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtierTory Dent (1958–2005), US poet, critic and commentatorÉvariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poetRegina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writerJohan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopherToi Derricotte (born 1941), African-US poetEustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poetLord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanistBabette Deutsch (1895–1982), US poet, critic and novelistFélix 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 playsAlfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet, playwright and novelistLakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayistPhillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artistImtiaz Dharker (born 1954), Pakistan-born British poet, artist and filmmakerDhurjati (c. 15th – 16th cc.), Telugu language poetDi–Dr Souéloum Diagho (living), Tuareg poetZoraida Díaz (1991–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feministPier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), US poetJames Dickey (1923–1997), US poet and novelist; US Poet Laureate Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), US poetMatthew Dickman (born 1975), US poet, twin of Michael DickmanMichael Dickman (born 1975), US poetBlaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and politicianRamdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academicDiane di Prima (1934–2020), US poetPaul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poetVladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poetThomas M. Disch (1940–2008), US poet, novelistTim Dlugos (1950–1990), US poetHenry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayistStephen Dobyns (born 1941), US author, novelist and poetLajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian playwright, poet and politicianHendrik Doeff (1777–1835), Dutch lexicographer and poet (in Japanese) and Commissioner in the Dejima trading postGojko Đogo (born 1940), Serbian poetPete Doherty (born 1979), English musician, songwriter and poetDigby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poetJoe Dolce (born 1947), Australian songwriter, poet and essayistMaría Magdalena Domínguez (1922–2021), Spanish poetJohn Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist and Anglican clericH.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), US Imagist poet Ap Chuni Dorji , Bhutanese poetEdward Dorn (1929–1999), US poet and teacherTishani Doshi (born 1975), Indian English poet and journalistMark Doty (born 1953), US poet and memoiristSarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and children's writerCharles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer and travelerAlice May Douglas (1865–1943), US poet and authorGavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translatorKeith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poetRita Dove (born 1952), US poet and author; US Poet Laureate Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist and short-story writerJane Draycott (living), English poetMichael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet of Elizabethan era Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poetJohn Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatistAnnette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poetWilliam Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poetWilliam Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poetElżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poetJohn Dryden (1631–1700), English poet, critic and playwrightToru Dutt (1856–1877), Indian poet and translator writing in French and EnglishDu–Dy Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poetJoachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet, critic and La Pléiade memberW. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), US writer and activistNorman Dubie (born 1945), US poetJovan Dučić (1871–1943), Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomatDu Fu (712–770), Chinese poet of the Tang dynastyDu Mu (803–852), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynastyCarol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United KingdomAlan Dugan (1923–2003), US poetSasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright and translatorRichard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poetPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-US poet, novelist and playwrightWilliam Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scots makar Robert Duncan (1919–1988), US poetCamille Dungy (born 1972), US poet, academic and essayistDouglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic and criticStephen Dunn (1939–2021), US poetHelen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writerEdward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poetLawrence Durrell (1912–1990), English novelist, poet and dramatistMichael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatistStuart Dybek (born 1942), US poet, writerSir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English courtier and poetBob Dylan (born 1941), US singer-songwriter and writerE Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poetRichard Eberhart (1904–2005), US poetHoushang Ebtehaj (1928–2022), Iranian poet, Persian poetRussell Edson (1935–2014), US poet, novelist and illustratorTerry Ehret (born 1955), US poetMax Ehrmann (1872–1945), US writer, poet, and attorneyJoseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and novelistKristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poetGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, journalist and translatorT. S. Eliot (1888–1965), US/English publisher, playwright and criticEbenezer Elliott ("Corn Law rhymer", 1781–1849), English poetE. S. Elliott (1836–1897), English poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editorJulia Anne Elliott (1809–1841), English poet and hymnwriterRoyston Ellis (born 1941), English poetPaul Éluard (1895–1952), French poetOdysseus Elytis (1911–1996), Greek poetClaudia Emerson (1957–2014), US poet; Poet Laureate of VirginiaRalph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US essayist, lecturer and poetGevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet, essayist and translatorMihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian poet, novelist and journalistWilliam Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poetYunus Emre (c. 1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poet and Sufi mysticMichael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy and children's writer and poetLeszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish, poet, fiction writer and translatorPaul Engle (1908–1991), US poet, novelist and playwrightEnnius (c. 239 – c. 169 BCE), father of Latin poetry in RomeD. J. Enright (1920–2002), English poet, novelist and criticHans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German writer, poet and translatorJános Erdélyi (1814–1868), Hungarian poet and philosopherLouise Erdrich (born 1954), US novelist, poet and children's writer featuring Native US heritageHaydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poetMax Ernst (1891–1976), German poet and artistErrapragada Erranna , 14th-century Telugu poetWolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220), German Minnesinger poet and knightClayton Eshleman (1935–2022), US poet, translator and editorMartín Espada (born 1957), US poet and teacherFlorbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poetSalvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalan poet in SpainJill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), US poetAlter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish US poetClaude Esteban (1935–2006), French poetMaggie Estep (born 1963), US slam poet and musicianEuripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedianMargiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelistMari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poetWilliam Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), US poet and criticGavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poetElisabeth Eybers (1915–2007), South African/Dutch poet; poetry in AfrikaansF Fa–Fn Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymnist and theologianKinga Fabó (1953–2021), Hungarian poet and essayistFaiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), Indian/Pakistani poetFakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (11th c.), Persian poetPadraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poetChristian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologistFerenc Faludi (1704–1779), Hungarian poetGyörgy Faludy (1910–2006), Hungarian poet and translatorU. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), English poetAhmad Faraz (1931–2008), Pakistani Urdu poet and scriptwriterEleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright and poetJ. P. Farrell (born 1968), US poet and musicianForough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Iranian poet, Persian poetFarrukhi Sistani (1000–1040), Persian poetJoseph Fasano (born 1982), American poet and novelistElaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poet, novelist and playwrightKároly Fellinger (born 1963), Hungarian poet in SlovakiaFenggan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese Zen monk poet under the Tang dynasty Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translatorJames Fenton (1931–2021), Northern Irish linguist and poet in Ulster ScotsJames Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist and literary criticFerdowsi (935–1020), Persian poetTeréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poetRobert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scottish poetLawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), US poet, painter and activistLeandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and poetJerzy Ficowski (1924–2006), Polish poet, writer and translatorHenry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist, dramatist and poetJuan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine poet and musicianAnne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English nature poetAnnie Finch (born 1956), US poet, librettist and translatorIan Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer and gardenerRoy Fisher (1930–2017), English poet and jazz pianistEdward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), US poet, critic and translatorMarjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child poet and diaristGiles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet, diplomat and MPGiles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poetJohn Fletcher (1579–1625), English playwright and poetJohn Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), US Imagist poetPhineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother of Giles the youngerF. S. Flint (1885–1960), English poet and translatorFo–Fu Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author and poetTheodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poet and realist writerJohn Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poetCarolyn Forché (born 1950), US poet, editor and translatorFord Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet and criticJohn Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poetJohn M. Ford (1957–2006), US SF and fantasy writer, game designer and poetVeronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poet and critical theoristUgo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poetWilliam Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer and translatorJanet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand authorAnatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist and novelistRobert Francis (1901–1987), US poetVeronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesanG S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, critic and academicGregory Fraser (born 1963), US poet, editor and professorNaim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writerLouis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician and playwrightAleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwrightGrace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), US poet and fiction writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–1986Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), English poetErich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer and translatorJean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), French chronicler and court poetRobert Frost (1874–1963), US poetGene Frumkin (1928–2007), US poet and teacherJohn Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy FullerRoy Fuller (1912–1991), English poetAlice Fulton (born 1952), US poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winnerJohn Furnival (1933–2020), British visual and concrete poetMilán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and playwrightFuzûlî (c. 1483–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poetG Ga–Go Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), Polish poetKonstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), Polish poet and stage writerKarina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poetJames Galvin (born 1951), US poetEtienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, essayist and inventorJános Garay (1812–1853), Hungarian poet and journalistRobert Garioch (wrote as Robert Garioch Sutherland, 1909–1981), Scottish poet and translatorHamlin Garland (1860–1940), US novelist, poet and essayistRaymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and editorRichard Garnett (1835–1906), English scholar, biographer and poetJean Garrigue (1914–1972), US poetSamuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poetGeorge Gascoigne (1535–1577), English poet, soldier and would-be courtierDavid Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet of the Surrealist movementThéophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, dramatist and novelistJohn Gay (1685–1732), English poet and dramatistYehonatan Geffen (born 1947), Israeli author, poet and playwrightTheodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss ) (1904–1991), US writer, poet and cartoonistJuan Gelman (1930–2014), Argentinian poet, writer and translatorStefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translatorDan Gerber (born 1940), US poetÁgnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian poet, novelist and translatorPaul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymnistCezary Geroń (1960–1998), Polish poet, journalist and translatorMirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), Indian poet in Urdu and PersianCharles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), US children's author, poet and feature writerReginald Gibbons (born 1947), US poet, fiction writer and criticKhalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-US artist, poet and writerWilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English poetRyan Giggs (born 1973), Welsh poet, footballer and homewreckerJack Gilbert (1925–2012), US poetW. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poetZuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poetAllen Ginsberg (1926–1997), US Beat Generation poetDana Gioia (born 1950), US writer, critic and poetNikki Giovanni (born 1943), US poet, writer and educatorZinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright and religious thinkerGiglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar and poetGiuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poetDenis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poet and publisherLouise Glück (born 1943), US poet; US Poet Laureate Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian poet in Punjabi , Urdu, etc.Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelistGérald Godin (1938–1994), Canadian poet in FrenchPatricia Goedicke (1931–2006), US poetJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist and politicianOctavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright and translatorLeah Goldberg (1911–1970), Hebrew-language poet, playwright and writerRumer Godden (1907–1998), English children's writer and poetZiya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer and poetOliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poetPavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwrightGeorge Gomri (born 1934), Hungarian poet and journalist (also in English)Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poetLorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poetPaul Goodman (1911–1972), US novelist, playwright and poetBarnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet and translatorAdam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet and politicianGábor Görgey (born 1929), Hungarian poet and politicianSergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poetHedwig Gorski (born 1949), US performance poet and artistHerman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialistSir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author and criticRemy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French poet, novelist and criticJohn Gower (c. 1330–1408), English poet and friend of ChaucerGr–Gy Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, priest and poetJames Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier and poetJorie Graham (born 1950), US poet and first female Boylston Professor at Harvard W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poetMark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographerAlex Grant (living), Scottish US poet and teacherGünter Grass (1927–2015), German novelist, poet and playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature Richard Graves (1715–1804), English poet and essayistRobert Graves (1895–1985), English author and scholarSir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer and poetThomas Gray (1716–1771), English poetRobert Greene (1558–1592), English author and poetDora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poetLinda Gregg (1942–2019), US poetHorace Gregory (1898–1982), US poet, translator and criticEamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poetFulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628), English poet, dramatist and statesmanSusan Griffin (born 1943), US poet and writerAnn Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnistBill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholarJane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historianRachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978), US poet, photographer and visual artistMariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, short-story writer and scholarGeoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), English poet and criticFranz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet and dramatistNicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and dramatistAngelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), African-US playwright and poetCharlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-US poetRufus W. Griswold (1815–1857), US anthologist, poet and criticStanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatistNikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Serbian writer, poet and bishopStanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatistPhilip Gross (born 1952), English poet, novelist and playwrightIgo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translatorN. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, pastor and historianWioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writerBarbara Guest (1920–2006), US poet and prose stylistEdgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born US poetPaul Guest (living), US poet and memoiristBimal Guha (born 1952), Bangladesh poet writing in BengaliGuillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240), French scholar and poetJorge Guillén (1893–1984), Spanish poetNicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban poet, activist and writerGuido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poetGuiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvèreMalcolm Guite (born 1957)Gül Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poetNikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeism Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poetThom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-US poetLee Gurga (born 1949), US haiku poetIvor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poetLars Gustafsson (1936–2016), Swedish poet, novelist and scholarPedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poetBeth Gylys (born 1964), US poet and professorIstván Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poetGéza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poetBrion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer and sound poet Gabor G. Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-US poet and translator (also in English)H Ha Ha Seung Moo Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholarMarilyn Hacker (born 1942), US poet, translator and criticHadraawi (born 1943), Somaliland poet and songwriterHafez (1315–1390), Persian poetHai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poetJohn Haines (1924–2011), US poet and educatorDonald Hall (1928–2018), US poet, writer and critic; US Poet LaureateArthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet and academicHan Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet of the Tang dynastyHanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of the Tang dynastyThomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poetCharles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poetSir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayistJim Harrison (1937–2016), US poet, novelist and essayistTony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwrightCarla Harryman (born 1952), US poet, essayist and playwrightDavid Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriterPaul Hartal (born 1936), Hungarian-born Canadian poet, painter and criticPeter Härtling (1933–2017), German writer and poetMichael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet writing in English and IrishJulia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet, writer and translatorGwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettistAlamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani originAhmet Haşim (c. 1884–1933), Turkish poetRobert Hass (born 1941), US poet; former Poet LaureateMohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), emir of the Dervish movement , of which Diiriye Guure was sultan[1] Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian poetGerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist, poet and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature , 1912Stephen Hawes (died 1523), English poetRobert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), English poet, antiquarian and Anglican priestGeorge Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scottish poet and translator in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and EnglishGilbert Hay (fl. 15th c.), Scottish poet and translator in Middle ScotsRobert Hayden (1913–1980), US poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet LaureateWilliam Hayley (1745–1820), English writerTony Haynes (born 1960), US poet, songwriter and lyricistHa Seung-moo (born October 13, 1963), Korean poet, professor and theologianHe Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator; 1995 Nobel Prize in LiteratureJosephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921), US teacher and poetJohn Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translatorAnne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelistAnthony Hecht (1923–2004), US poetJennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), US poet, historian and philosopherAllison Hedge Coke (born 1958), US poet, writer and performerMarkus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translatorIlona Hegedűs (living), poetJohn Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian and songwriterHeinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, essayist and literary criticLyn Hejinian (born 1941), US poet, essayist and translatorAcharya Hemachandra (1089–1172), Jain scholar, poet and polymathFelicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poetMarian Hemar (1901–1972), Polish poet, songwriter and playwrightEssex Hemphill (1957–1995), US poet and activistHamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter and catalyst for folk revival in ScotlandWilliam Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, critic and editorAdrian Henri (1932–2000), English poet and painterRobert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poetEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, historian, poet and philosopher; brother of George HerbertGeorge Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poetMary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (née Sidney), early English woman in literatureZbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist and dramatistDavid Herbison (1800–1880), Irish poet, writing in Ulster Scots dialect and EnglishJohann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian and literary criticMiguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright of Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movementsHerodas or Herondas (3rd c. BCE), Greek poet and author of humorous dramatic scenes in verseAntoine Héroet (died 1568), French poetRobert Herrick (1591–1674), English poetThomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish-born English poet and criticHesiod (fl. 750–650 BCE), Ancient Greek poetPhoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poetHermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist and painterDorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwrightJohn Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Irish poetWilliam Heyen (born 1940), US poet, literary critic, novelistThomas Heywood (c. 1570s – 1641), English playwright, actor and authorHi–Hy Dick Higgins (1938–1998), English poet and publisherScott Hightower (born 1952), US poet and teacherNâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright and novelistGeoffrey Hill (1932–2016), English poet and professorSelima Hill (born 1945), English poetHilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelistEllen Hinsey (born 1960), US poetHipponax (6th c. BCE), of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poetHirato Renkichi (1893–1922), Japanese avant-garde poetRozalie Hirs (born 1965), Dutch poetJane Hirshfield (born 1953), US poetGeorge Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), US poet, playwright and painterH. L. Hix (born 1960), US poet and academicMarian Hluszkewycz (1877–1935), Russian poetThomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368 – 1426), English poet and clerkMichael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet and translator in EnglishHugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, poet and dramatistJames Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet and novelistDavid Holbrook (1923–2011), English writer, poet and academicFriedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German lyric poetMargaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and novelistBarbara Holland (1933–2010), US authorJohn Hollander (1929–2013), Jewish-US poet and literary criticMatthew Hollis (born 1971), English poetOliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), US poet, professor and authorHomer (fl. 8th c. BCE), Greek epic poetThomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian satirical poet and essayistGerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and Jesuit priestHorace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BCE), Roman lyric poetGeorge Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-US poetJoan Houlihan , US poetA. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet and classicistLibby Houston (living), English poet, botanist and rock climberHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English Renaissance poetRichard Howard (1929–2022), US poet, critic and essayistFanny Howe (born 1940), US poet and fiction writerSusan Howe (born 1937), US poet, scholar and essayistHrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and first known female dramatist, from Lower Saxony Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), Bangladeshi poet in BengaliJohn Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet in WelshLangston Hughes (1902–1967), US poet, novelist and playwrightTed Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United KingdomRichard Hugo (1923–1982), US poetVictor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist and dramatistVicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poetLynda Hull (1954–1994), US poetKeri Hulme (1947–2021), New Zealand poet and fiction writerThomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917), English critic and poetAlexander Hume (1560–1609), Scottish poetLeigh Hunt (1784–1859), English critic, essayist and poetSam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poetHồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poetAldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, poet and travel writerAbby B. Hyde (1799–1872), American hymnwriterHelen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), US poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–1983I Khadijah Ibrahiim (fl. 2022), British poet[2] Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director and poetIbycus (fl. late 6th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poetIkkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poetVojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poetGyula Illyés (1902–1983), Hungarian poet and novelistMaria Ilnicka (1825 or 1827–1897), Polish poet, novelist and translatorTonya Ingram (1991–2022), US poetSir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Indian poet in Urdu and PersianAvetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poetSabit Ince (born 1954), Turkish lyric poetInge Israel (1927–2019), Canadian poet and playwrightWacław Iwaniuk (1912–2001), Polish poet and journalistJarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Eleuter, 1894–1980), Polish poet, dramatist and translatorSergey Izgiyaev (1922–1972), Russian poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descentJ FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poetViolet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet in ScotsRolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet and writerAda Jafarey (1924–2015), Pakistani poet in UrduRichard Jago (1715–1781), English poetĐura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter and dramatistJames I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots and of England and IrelandChristine James (born 1954), Welsh poet and academicClive James (1939–2019), Australian author, poet and memoiristErnst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet and translatorKlemens Janicki (1516–1543), Polish poet in LatinJanus Pannonius (1434–1472), Hungarian/Slavonian poet in LatinPatricia Janus (1932–2006), US poet and artistMark F. Jarman (born 1952), US poet and criticRandall Jarrell (1914–1965), US poet, children's author and novelist; US Poet Laureate Bruno Jasieński (1901–1938), Polish poet, novelist and playwrightMieczysław Jastrun (1903–1983), Polish poet and essayistLászló Jávor (1903–1992), Hungarian poetRobinson Jeffers (1887–1962), US poetVojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet and writerRod Jellema (1927–2018), US poet, teacher and translatorSimon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writerElizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poetJia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet active under the Tang dynasty John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poetEdmund John (1883–1917), English poetGeorgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), US poetHelene Johnson (1906–1995), African-US poetJames Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), US author, poet and folkloristLionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist and criticEmily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk : Tekahionwake ) (1861–1913), Canadian writer, performer and poet marking First Nations heritageSamuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist and lexicographer George Benson Johnston (1913–2004), Canadian poet, translator and academicAnna Jókai (1932–2017), Hungarian poet and prose writerDavid Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poetEdward Smyth Jones (1881–1968), African-American poetRichard Jones (living), English US poetBen Jonson (1573–1637), English poet and dramatistJune Jordan (1936–2002), US poet and educatorAnthony Joseph (born 1966), British/Trinidadian poet, novelist and musicianJenny Joseph (1932–2018), English poetJovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet, physicianJames Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poetAttila József (1905–1937), Hungarian poetFrank Judge (1946–2021), US editor, poet and film criticFerenc Juhász (1928–2015), Hungarian poetGyula Juhász (1883–1937), Hungarian poetJamal Jumá , Iraqi poet and researcherDonald Justice (1925–2004), US poetJuvenal (fl. 1st c. – 2nd c. CE), Roman poet and satiristJumoke Verissimo (born 1979), Nigerian poetJaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in EnglishK Ka–Kh Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet and diplomatKabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and sant of IndiaMargit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and novelistKālidāsa (fl. c. 4th c.), Sanskrit poetKambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil poetAnna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, translator and criticKannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author and lyricistJim Kacian (born 1953), US haiku poet and editorUuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author and translatorChester Kallman (1921–1975), US poet, librettist and translatorLászló Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translatorKálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian and Esperanto poetAnna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer and criticIlya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-US poet, critic and translatorOrhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poetSándor Kányádi (1929–2018), Hungarian poet and translator from RomaniaJaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Estonian poet, philosopher and criticAdeena Karasick (born 1965), Canadian/US poet, media artist and essayistVim Karenine (born 1933), US poet, essayist and novelistGyörgy Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and criticFranciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), Polish poetMary Karr (born 1955), US poet, essayist and memoiristSiavash Kasrai (1927–1996), Iranian poet, Persian poetJulia Kasdorf (born 1962), US poetLaura Kasischke (born 1961), US poet and fiction writerJan Kasprowicz (1860–1926), Polish poet, playwright and criticLajos Kassák (1887–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and painterErich Kästner (1899–1974), German author, poet and satiristJózsef Katona (1791–1830), Hungarian playwright and poetBob Kaufman (1925–1986), US beat poet and surrealistShirley Kaufman (1923–2016), US poet and translatorRupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadian poet and photographerPatrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), Irish poet and novelistNikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poetKazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionaryJohn Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poetWeldon Kees (1914–1955), US poet, novelist and criticIsabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelistArthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), rhymer on Welsh historyMiranda Kennedy (born 1975), US poetRann Kennedy (1772–1851), English poetWalter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish makar X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), US poet, anthologist and children's writerJane Kenyon (1947–1995), US poet and translatorGéza Képes (1909–1989), Hungarian poet and translatorKhwaju Kermani (1290–1349), Persian poetJack Kerouac (1922–1969), US novelist and poetSidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War IIKeorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poetMimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poetDilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poetKhushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior and tribal chiefOmar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and poetKhaqani (1120–1199), Persian poetKherdian, David (born 1931), Armenian-American writer, poet, and editorVladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary criticTalib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian poet and humorist in UrduAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), Sufi poet, scholar and musicianKi–Ky Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poetSøren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and poetEmelihter Kihleng , Pohnpeian poet and academicAndrzej Tadeusz Kijowski (born 1954), Polish poet and politicianTakarai Kikaku (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), US writer and poetEdward King (1612–1637), Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishopWilliam King (1663–1712), English poetThomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymnistGottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionaryGalway Kinnell (1927–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist and essayistThomas Kinsella (1928–2021), Irish poet, translator and editorRudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English fiction writer and poetEasterine Kire (born 1959), Naga poet and novelistDanilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian fiction writer and poetNecip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist and playwrightAtala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poetIya Kiva (born 1984), Ukrainian poetEila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poetCarolyn Kizer (1925–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and fiction writerAugust Kleinzahler (born 1949), US poetFriedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poetFranciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet and JesuitEtheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-US poetKobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poetJan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poetKenneth Koch (1925–2002), US poet, playwright and professorJan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish poetPetar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writerIstván Koháry (1649–1731), Hungarian poetFerenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), Hungarian poetAladár Komját (1891–1937), Hungarian poetYusef Komunyakaa (born 1947), US poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994Béla Kondor (1931–1972), Hungarian poet, prose writer and painterFaik Konitza (1875–1942), Albanian poetHalina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish poet and athleteMaria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish poet, novelist and children's writerTed Kooser (born 1939), US poet; US Poet Laureate 2004–2006Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876–1901), Polish poet and translatorJulian Kornhauser (born 1946), Polish poet, novelist and criticApollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish expressionist poetJózsef Kossics (Jožef Košič, 1788–1867), Hungarian/Slovenian poet and priestLaza Kostić (1841–1910), Serbian poet, writer and polyglot Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936), Hungarian poet and prose writerGopi Kottoor (born 1956), Indian poet, playwright and editorUrszula Kozioł (born 1931), Polish poetTaja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovenian poet, translator and anthropologistIgnacy Krasicki (1735–1801), Polish poet and novelistZygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859), Polish poetZlatko Krasni (1951–2008), Serbian poetRuth Krauss (1901–1993), US poet and children's book authorKrayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor and poetCarolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), US writer; Poet Laureate of VirginiaKatarzyna Krenz (born 1953), poet, novelist and painterMiroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian/Yugoslav poet and novelistAntjie Krog (born 1952), South African poet, academic and writerJózef Krupiński (1930–1998), Polish poetRyszard Krynicki (born 1943), Polish poet and translatorMarilyn Krysl (born 1942), US poet and fiction writerAndrzej Krzycki (1482–1537), Polish poet and archbishopYanka Kupala Žofia Kubini (fl. 17th c.), Hungarian poet in early CzechPaweł Kubisz (1907–1968), Polish poet and journalistPéter Kuczka (1923–1999), Hungarian poet and criticAnatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian/Irish novelist, poet and translatorEndre Kukorelly (born 1951), Hungarian poet and journalistMaxine Kumin (1925–2014), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarus poetTuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), US counterculture poet and authorJalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writerMomoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poetMira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poetKusumagraj (1912–1999), Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanistOnat Kutlar (1936–1995), Turkish writer and poetStephen Kuusisto (born 1955), US poetSir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English poetL La Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulistIlmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poetPierre Labrie (born 1972), Canadian poet in FrenchLászló Ladányi (1907–1992), Hungarian-Israeli poet and writerJules Laforgue (1860–1887), Franco-Uruguayan poetAbolqasem Lahouti (1887–1957), Persian poetJarkko Laine (1947–2006), Finnish poet, writer and playwrightIvan V. Lalić (1931–1996), Serbian poetPhilip Lamantia (1927–2005), US poet and lecturerKendrick Lamar (born 1987), US poet and hip-hop artistAlphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politicianCharles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poetPeter Lampe (born 1954), German scholar, writer and poetLetitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802–1838), English poet and novelistWalter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English writer and poetAntoni Lange (1863–1929), Polish poet, philosopher and translatorWilliam Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386), probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), English poetSebestyén Tinódi Lantos (c. 1510–1556), Hungarian poet and historianLaozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th c. BCE), Chinese philosopher and poetAlda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poetRebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), US poetBruce Larkin (born 1957), US children's author and poetPhilip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelistClaudia Lars (1899–1974), Salvadoran poetElse Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwrightLasus of Hermione (6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Hermione in Argolid Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelistJames Laughlin (1914–1997), US poet and publisherAnn Lauterbach (born 1942), US poet, essayist and professorComte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan/French poetDorianne Laux (born 1952), US poetChristine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelistD. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet and criticHenry Lawson (1867–1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa LawsonLouisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet and feministRobert Lax (1915–2000), US poetLaxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepalese poet and scholarHenryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942), Polish poetLe Edward Lear (1812–1888), English poet, artist and illustratorStanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphoristJoanna Lech (born 1984), Polish poet and novelistJan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish poet, critic and diplomatFrancis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poetDavid Lee (born 1966), US poetDennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor and criticDavid Lehman (born 1948), US poet and editorÁgnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translatorEino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalistBrad Leithauser (born 1953), US poet, novelist and essayistAlexander Lenard (1910–1972), Hungarian writer and poetSue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwrightLalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poetKrystyna Lenkowska (born 1957), Polish poet and translatorCharlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804), Scottish poet and novelistJohn Leonard (born 1965), Australian poetGiacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet, essayist and philologistMikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Russian writer, poet and painterBen Lerner (born 1979), US poet, novelist and criticBolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet and artistRika Lesser (born 1953), US poet and translatorGotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher and dramatistDenise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born US poetDana Levin (born 1965), US poet and teacherPhilip Levine (1928–2015), US poet; 2011–2012 US Poet Laureate Larry Levis (1946–1996), US poetD. A. Levy (1942–1968), US poet, artist and publisherWilliam Levy (1939–2019), US poet, fiction writer and editorOswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poetAlun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in EnglishC. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Northern Irish novelist, poet and essayistGwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet; inaugural National Poet of Wales J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), US children's poetSaunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist and criticWyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and authorLi–Ly Li Houzhu (937–978), Chinese poet and ruler of Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975 CE)José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), Cuban writer and poetTim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic and professorLi Bai (701–762), Chinese Tang dynasty poetJerzy Liebert (1904–1931), Polish poetLi Jiao , poet under the Tang and Zhou dynastiesLi Qingzhao (1084–1151), Chinese Song dynasty writer and poetLi Shangyin (813–858), Chinese late Tang-dynasty poetTim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayistAnne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), US author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh Jack Lindeman (fl. late 20th c.), US poet and criticSarah Lindsay (born 1958), US poetRossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poetVachel Lindsay (1879–1931), US poetEwa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poetLászló Listi (1628–1662), Hungarian poetAlun Llywelyn-Williams (1913–1988), Welsh poet and criticJózef Łobodowski (1909–1988), Polish poet and political thinkerTerry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist and academicThomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and writerIain Lom (c. 1624 – c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poetHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), US poet and educatorMichael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poetFederico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and stage directorAudre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-US writer, poet and librarianRichard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poetAmy Lowell (1874–1925), US poetJames Russell Lowell (1819–1891), US poet, critic and diplomatRobert Lowell (1917–1977), US poet; 1947 US Poet Laureate Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), US poet and abolitionistSolomon Löwisohn (1788–1821), Hungarian Jewish poet and historian in Hebrew and GermanMina Loy (1882–1966), English poet, playwright and novelistLu You (1125–1209), Chinese Song dynasty poetStanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1642–1702), Polish poet, writer and politicianGherasim Luca (1913–1994), Romanian poet and surrealistLucan (39–65 CE), Roman poetEdward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), English writer, poet and broadcasterGaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Roman satiristLucilius Junior (fl. 1st c. CE), poet and Procurator of SicilyLucretius (c. 99 BCE – c. 55 BCE), Roman poet and philosopherFitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), US author, journalist and explorerEdith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian poet and politicianLuo Binwang (640–684), Chinese Tang-dynasty writer and poetThomas Lux (1946–2017), US poetMario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poetJohn Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poetJohn Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet and dramatistSir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poetSandford Lyne (1945–2007), US poet, educator and editorGeorge Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman and arts patronM Ma Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet and historianGeorge MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelistNorman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scottish poetElizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), Canadian poet and writerHugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scottish poetGeorge MacDonald (1824–1905), Scottish poet and novelistSorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scottish Gaelic poetGwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian writer and poetAntonio Machado (1875–1939), Spanish poetArthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh author and mysticCompton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist and poetArchibald MacLeish (1892–1987), US modernist poet and writerAonghas MacNeacail (born 1942), writer in Scottish Gaelic Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Irish poet and playwrightHector Macneill (1746–1818), Scottish poet and songwriterJames Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish writer and poetHaki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-US writer, poet and educatorJayanta Mahapatra (born 1928), Indian English poetJohn Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922–1941), US poet and aviatorEric Magrane (born 1975), US poet and geographerDerek Mahon (1941–2020), Northern Irish poetRudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene poet and activistGajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi and Hindi poet and playwrightJános Majláth (1786–1855), Hungarian historian and poetClarence Major (born 1936), US poet, painter and novelistDesanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professorMahsati (13th c.), Persian poetMajeed Amjad (1914–1974), Indian/Pakistani poet in UrduAntoni Malczewski (1793–1826), Polish poetMarcin Malek (born 1975), Polish poet, writer and playwrightJosh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan) (1898–1982), Indian Urdu poetMadayyagari Mallana (fl. 15th c.), Telugu poetStephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and criticDavid Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poetThomas Malory (1405–1471), English author of Le Morte d'Arthur Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writerOsip Mandelstam (also Mandelshtam, 1891–1938), Russian poetJames Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), Irish poetBill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet and fiction writer; New Zealand Poet Laureate Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st c. CE), Roman poet and astrologerMaurice Manning (born 1966), US poetRuth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and authorRobert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and monk in Middle English, French and LatinChris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisherJakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), Polish poet and bloggerManuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th c.), royal poet in PersiaAlessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelistSándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian/US poet and novelistAusiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knightMorton Marcus (1936–2009), US poet and authorMareez (1917–1983), Indian poet in GujaratiPaul Mariani (born 1940), US poet and academicMarie de France (fl. 12th c.), poet probably French-born and resident in EnglandFilippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet and editorGiambattista Marino (1569–1625), Italian poetE. A. Markham (1939–2008), Montserrat poet, playwright and novelistEdwin Markham (1852–1940), US poetĐorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Serbian poetChristopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet and translatorClément Marot (1496–1544), French Renaissance poetDon Marquis (1878–1937), US novelist, poet and playwrightEdward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and clericJohn Marston (1576–1634), English playwright, poet and satiristJosé Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writerMartial (40 – c. 102 CE), Roman epigrammatistCamille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artistHarry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish sailor, author and poetAndrew Marvell (1621–1678), English metaphysical poet and politicianJohn Masefield (1878–1967), English poet and writer; UK Poet Laureate (1930–1967)Masud Sa'd Salman (1046–1121), Persian poetEdgar Lee Masters (1868–1950), US poet, biographer and dramatistDafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.), Welsh poet in WelshJános Mattis-Teutsch (1884–1960), Hungarian-Romanian poet and artistGlyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright and librettistVladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian/Soviet poet and playwrightKarl May (1842–1912), German writer, poet and musicianBernadette Mayer (born 1945), US poet and prose writerBen Mazer (born 1964), US poet and editorMc–Me James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian poet and criticSusan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/US poet and criticJ. D. McClatchy (1945–2018), US poet and criticMichael McClure (1932–2020), US poet, playwright and novelistJohn McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician and artistWalt McDonald (1934–2022), US poet; Poet Laureate of TexasDermit McEncroe (fl. early 18th c.), Irish doctor and poetElvis McGonagall , Scottish poet and comedianWilliam Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), Scottish writer of doggerel Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and poetCampbell McGrath (born 1962), US poetWendy McGrath , Canadian poet and novelistThomas McGrath (1916–1990), US poetHeather McHugh (born 1948), US poet, translator and educatorDuncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish poet in Scottish GaelicJames McIntyre (1827–1906), Canadian writer of doggerelClaude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-US writer and poetDon McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor and educatorRod McKuen (1933–2015), US poet, composer and singerJames McMichael (born 1939), US poetIan McMillan (born 1956), English poet, playwright and broadcasterMeera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic poet and Krishna devoteeNarsinh Mehta (c. 1414 – c. 1481), Indian poet-saint of Gujarat Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese Song dynasty poetPeter Meinke (born 1932), US poet and fiction writerCecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian poetHerman Melville (1819–1891), US fiction writer and poetMeng Haoran (689 or 691–740), Chinese Tang dynasty poetGeorge Meredith (1828–1909), English poet and novelistKersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poetAlda Merini (1931–2009), Italian writer and poetStuart Merrill (1863–1915), US poet writing mainly in FrenchJames Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryThomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monkW. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet LaureateSarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writerCharlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poetHenry Meyer (1840–1925), US poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch Ferenc Mező (1885–1961), Hungarian poetMi–Mo Gabriela Mistral Henri Michaux (1899–1984), Belgian/French poet, writer and painterMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564), Italian poet and sculptorTadeusz Miciński (1873–1918), Polish poet and playwrightAdam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet, essayist and publicistVeronica Micle (1850–1889), Austrian/Romanian poetChristopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translatorChristopher Middleton (c. 1690–1770), Royal Navy officer and navigatorChristopher Middleton (1926–2015), English poetThomas Middleton (1580–1627), English poet and playwrightAgnes Miegel (1879–1964), German writer and poetJosephine Miles (1911–1985), US poet and criticJennifer Militello , US poet and professorBranko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poetEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), US lyric poet, playwright and feministAlice Duer Miller (1874–1942), US writer and poetGrazyna Miller (1957–2009), Italian/Polish poet and translatorJace Miller , US poetJane Miller (born 1949), US poetJoaquin Miller (1837–1913), US poetLeslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), US poetThomas Miller (1807–1874), English poetVassar Miller (1924–1998), US writer and poetSpike Milligan (1918–2002), Irish comedian, poet and musicianCzesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet; 1980 Nobel Prize in LiteratureJohn Milton (1608–1674), English poet and polemicistSima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poetMarijane Minaberri (1926–2017), French/Basque poet and radio broadcasterRobert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist and novelistMatthew Minicucci (born 1981), US poet and teacherMir Taqi Mir (1725–1810), Indian poet in UrduGabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Chilean poet and feminist; 1945 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAdrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwrightSilas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), US physician and writerStephen Mitchell (born 1943), US poet, translator and anthologistWaddie Mitchell (born 1950), US poetNdre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg poetStanisław Młodożeniec (1895–1959), poetAnis Mojgani (born 1977), US spoken-word poet and visual artistMolière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwrightAtukuri Molla (1440–1530), Indian Telugu poetAja Monet , Black American poetHarold Monro (1879–1932), English poetHarriet Monroe (1860–1936), US scholar, critic and poetJohn Montague (1929–2016), Irish poetCharles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesmanEugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, writer and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAlexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makarAlan Moore (born 1960), Irish writer and poetMarianne Moore (1887–1972), US poet and writerMerrill Moore (1903–1957), US psychiatrist and poetThomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer and songwriterDom Moraes (1938–2004), Goan writer, poet and columnistKelly Ana Morey (born 1968), New Zealand novelist and poetEdwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translatorJ. O. Morgan (born 1978), Scottish poetJohn Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poetLorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975), US poet and authorChristian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German author and poetEduard Mörike (1804–1875), German poetWilliam Morris (1834–1896), English writer, poet and designerJim Morrison (1943–1971), US songwriter and poetJan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693), Polish poetZbigniew Morsztyn (c. 1628–1689), Polish poetValzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarus poetViggo Mortensen (born 1958), US poet, actor and musicianMoschus (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poetHoward Moss (1922–1987), US poet, dramatist and criticAndrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1999–2009Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer and criticMu–My Micere Githae Mugo (1942–2023), Kenyan playwright, author and poetErich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish essayist, poet and, playwrightEdwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist and translatorPaul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poetLale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writerLaura Mullen (born 1958), US poetAnthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writerGeorge Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian archeologist, historian and poetSheila Murphy (born 1951), US text and visual poetGeorge Murray (born 1971), Canadian poetJoan Murray (born 1945), US poet, writer and playwrightLes Murray (1938–2019), Australian poet, anthologist and criticRichard Murphy (1927–2018), Irish poetSusan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writerLukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglotNikola Musulin (fl. 19th c.), Serbian poetTogara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poetChristopher Mwashinga (born 1965), Tanzanian poet, author and Christian ministerLam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet in Polish and VietnameseN Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist and poet in Russian and EnglishDaniel Naborowski (1573–1640), Polish poetCecilia del Nacimiento (1570–1646), Spanish nun, mystic, writer, and poetÁgnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991), Hungarian poet and translatorGáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poetLajos Parti Nagy (born 1953), Hungarian poet, playwright and criticLászló Nagy (1925–1978), Hungarian poet and translatorGuru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poetNannaya (c. 11th c.), earliest known Telugu authorPhilip Nanton (living), Vincentian poetAdam Naruszewicz (1733–1796), Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatistOgden Nash (1902–1971), US poet known for light verseThomas Nashe (1567–1601), English playwright, poet and satiristNasir Khusraw (1004–1088), Persian poetImadaddin Nasimi (died c. 1417), Azerbaijani poetMomčilo Nastasijević (1894–1938), Serbian poet, novelist and dramatistNatsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist and poetGellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist and children's writerNedîm (c. 1681–1730), Ottoman poetJohn Neal (1793–1876), US writer, critic, activist and poetHenry Neele (1798–1828), English poet and scholarWalela Nehanda , Black American poetJohn Neihardt (1881–1973), US poet, historian and ethnographerÉmile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poetMarilyn Nelson (born 1946), US poet, translator and children's writerHoward Nemerov (1920–1991), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1963–1964István Péter Németh (born 1960), Hungarian poet and literary historianCondetto Nénékhaly-Camara (1930–1972), Guinean poet and playwrightJan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech journalist, writer and poetPablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971Neşâtî (died 1674), Ottoman Sufi poetHenry John Newbolt (1862–1938), English historian and poetJohn Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer, poet and hymnistAimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian US poetNguyễn Du (1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in ancient Chữ Nôm scriptB. P. Nichol (bpNichol, 1944–1988), Canadian poetNicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), poet and king of Montenegro Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poetNorman Nicholson (1914–1987), English poetLorine Niedecker (1903–1970), US poetJulian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758–1841), Polish poet, playwright and statesmanFriedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet and philologistMillosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911–1938), Albanian poet and writerNizami Aruzi (1110–1161), Persian poetsNisami (1141–1209), Persian poetAttar of Nishapur (1145–1221), Persian poetNishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poetMoeen Nizami (born 1965), Pakistani poet, scholar and writerPetar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813–1851), Serbian poet, playwright and prince-bishopYamilka Noa (born 1980), Cuban–Costa Rican poetGábor Nógrádi (born 1947), Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelistChristopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and authorFan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian/US writer, diplomat and historianOlga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer and professorHenry Normal (born 1956), British poet, writer, film & TV producerHarry Northup (born 1940), US actor and poetCaroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer, feminist and reformerCyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist and artistAlice Notley (born 1945), US poetNovalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801), German poet and novelistFranciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet and conservationistAlfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poetOodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poetJulia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriterNaomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-US poet, songwriter and novelistRobert Nye (1939–2016), English poet, novelist and children's writerNiyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary criticO Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian philosopher, writer and poetSean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic and playwrightD. Michael O'Connor aka Damond Jiniya (Born 1974), North American singer, writer and poet Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and poetAntoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885), Polish poetRon Offen (1930–2010), US poet, playwright and producerDennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012), Irish poetFrank O'Hara (1926–1966), US writer, poet and art criticHisashi Okuyama (born 1941), Japanese poetPorsha Olayiwola (born 1988), US poetSharon Olds (born 1942), US poetMary Oliver (1935–2015), US poetCharles Olson (1910–1970), US modernist poetSaishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poetOnomacritus (c. 530–480 BCE), Attic poet, priest and seerGeorge Oppen (1908–1984), US poetArtur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poetEdward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), US poet and painterZaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poetWładysław Orkan (1875–1930), Polish poetPeter Orlovsky (1933–2010), US poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg Gregory Orr (born 1947), US poetAgnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer and screenplay authorAlice Oswald (born 1966), English poetOuyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese Song dynasty historian, essayist and poetOvid (43 BCE – 17 CE), Roman poet Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldierİsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholarP Pa Dorothy Parker Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author and criticRon Padgett (born 1942), US poet, writer and translatorPadmanābha (15th c.), Dingal (Old Gujarati) poet and historianDan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet and Holocaust survivorGrace Paley (1922–2007), US short story writer and poetFrancis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poetPalladas (fl. 4th c. ), Greek poetMichael Palmer (born 1943), US poet and translatorSima Pandurović (1883–1960), Serbian poetSumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Indian poet in HindiWilliam Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist in WelshPark Yong-rae (1925–1980), Korean poetAndrew Park (1807–1863), Scottish poetDorothy Parker (1893–1967), US poet, fiction writer and satiristAmy Parkinson (1855–1938), British-born Canadian poetThomas Parnell (1679–1718), Irish poet and clergymanNicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean mathematician and poetHenry Parrot (fl. 1600–1626 ), English epigrammatistGiovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), Italian poetÁmbar Past (born 1949), Mexican poet, visual artistBoris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist and translatorLeon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satiristBenito Pastoriza Iyodo (born 1954), Puerto Rican poet and fiction and literature writerKenneth Patchen (1911–1972), US poet and novelistRavji Patel (1939–1968), Indian poetBanjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and authorDon Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musicianCoventry Patmore (1823–1896), English poet and criticBrian Patten (born 1946), English poetLekhnath Paudyal (1885–1966), Nepalese poetPaul I, Prince Esterházy (1635–1713), Austro-Hungarian poetCesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist and criticMaria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet and dramatistOctavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer, poet and diplomatPe–Pl Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet and novelistPatrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish poet and writerJames Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), US poet and publisherAllasani Peddana (fl. 15th/16th cc.), Telugu poetCharles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist and editorKathleen Peirce (born 1956), US poetGabino Coria Peñaloza (1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricistSam Pereira (living), US poetLucia Perillo (1958–2016), US poetPersius (34–62 CE), Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan originFernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, philosopher and criticLenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationistRobert Peters (1924–2014), US poet, scholar and playwrightPascale Petit (born 1953), French-Welsh poet and artistPetrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poetKata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and prose writerMarine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnistVeljko Petrović (1884–1967), Serbian poet, prose writer and theoristMirko Petrović-Njegoš (1820–1867), Serbian and Montenegrin poet, soldier and diplomatMario Petrucci (born 1958), British poet, author, translator, scientist and ecologist of Italian originAmbrose Philips (1674–1749), English poet and politicianKatherine Philips (1632–1664), Anglo-Welsh poetSavitribai Phule (1831–1897), Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra Pi Rixiu (c. 834–883), Tang dynasty poetTom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and film makerPindar (522–443 BCE), Theban lyric poet in GreekRobert Pinsky (born 1940), US poet, critic and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet LaureateRuth Pitter (1897–1992), English poetChristine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet and philosopherSylvia Plath (1932–1963), US poet and novelistWilliam Plomer (1903–1973), South African novelist, poet and editor in EnglishPo–Pu Jacek Podsiadło (born 1964), Polish poet, translator and essayistEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), US author, poet and criticSuman Pokhrel (born 1967), Nepalese poet, playwright and artistWincenty Pol (1807–1872), Polish poet and geographerMargaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English poetEdward Pollock (1823–1858), US poetJohn Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet and clergymanMarie Ponsot (1921–2019), US poet, critic and essayistVasko Popa (1922–1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descentAlexander Pope (1688–1744), English poetAntonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian Argentinian poetJudith Pordon (born 1954), US poet, writer and editorPeter Porter (1929–2010), Australian poet based in EnglandHalina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writerRoma Potiki (born 1958), New Zealand poet and playwrightWacław Potocki (1621–1696), Polish poet and moralistEzra Pound (1885–1972), US expatriate poet and criticAlishetty Prabhakar (1952–1993), Telugu poetTapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972), Indian poet, translator and activistAdélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poetWinthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English politician and poetJaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Indian poet in HindiE. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poetPetar Preradović (1818–1872), Croatian poet, writer and generalFrance Prešeren (1800–1849), Carniolan Romantic poetJacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet and screenwriterRichard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist and translatorRobert Priest (born 1951), English-born Canadian poet, children's author and singer-songwriterF. T. Prince (1912–2003), English poet and academicMatthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomatBryan Procter (1787–1874), English poetSextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin elegiac poetKevin Prufer (born 1969), US poet, academic and essayistJ. H. Prynne (born 1936), English poetKazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940), Polish poet, novelist and playwrightZenon Przesmycki (Miriam, 1861–1944), Polish poet, translator and criticJeremi Przybora (1915–2004), Polish poet, writer and singerLuigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet known for Morgante Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist and playwrightQ Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisherMuhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholarSayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), Indian poet, writer and politicianAref Qazvini (1882–1934), Iranian poet, lyricist and musician, Persian poetQatran Tabrizi (11th c.), Persian poetQu Yuan (343–278 BCE), Chinese poetFrancis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poetSalvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in LiteratureR Ra–Re Rabia Balkhi (10th c.), Persian poet, She is the first known female poet to write in PersianJean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatistBranko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poetLeetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971), poet from BotswanaSam Ragan (1915–1996), US poet, journalist and writerShamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnistCraig Raine (born 1944), English poetKathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic and scholarSamina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer and broadcasterMilan Rakić (1876–1938), Serbian poetCarl Rakosi (1903–2004), US Objectivist poetMartin Rakovský (c. 1535–1579), Hungarian poet and scholarZsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translatorMaraea Rakuraku (living), New Zealand Māori poet, playwright and short story writerSir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English writer, poet and explorerTenali Rama (16th c., CE), Telugu poetAyyalaraju Ramabhadrudu (16th c., CE), Telugu poetRamarajabhushanudu (mid 16th c. CE), Telugu poet and musicianGuru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh guru and Punjabi poetSimón Darío Ramírez (1930–1992), Venezuelan poetAllan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright and publisherDudley Randall (1914–2000), African-US poet and publisherThomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatistJohn Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), US poet, essayist and editorAddepalli Ramamohana Rao (1936–2016), Telugu poet and literary criticÁgnes Rapai (born 1952), Hungarian poet, writer and translatorNoon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet writing in UrduStephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), US poet and criticDahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet and translatorTom Raworth (1938–2017), British poet and visual artistHerbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet and arts criticPeter Reading (1946–2011), English poetAngela Readman (born 1973), English poetJames Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright and professorMalliya Rechana (mid-10th c. CE), Telugu poetPeter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poetBeatrice Redpath (1886–1937), Canadian poet and short story writerHenry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator and radio dramatistIshmael Reed (born 1938), US poet, playwright and novelistEnnis Rees (1925–2009), US poet, professor and translatorJames Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer and writer on songAbraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author and children's authorChristopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist and cartoonistJames Reiss (1941–2016), US poetMikołaj Rej (1505–1569), Polish poet and prose writerRobert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet and amateur naturalistPierre Reverdy (1889–1960), French poet of Surrealism, Dadaism and CubismJacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586–1658), Dutch poet, theologian and church historianKenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), US poet, translator and critical essayistSydor Rey (1908–1979), Polish poet and novelistCharles Reznikoff (1894–1976), US Objectivist poetRaees Warsi (born 1963), Pakistani poet, writer and lyricist writing in UrduRi–Ry Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (1925–2009), Ecuadorian poetAnne Rice (1941–2021), US fiction writerStan Rice (1943–2002), US poet and artist; husband of Anne RiceAdrienne Rich (1929–2012), US poet, essayist and feministJohn Richardson (1817–1886), English Lake District poetEdgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic and journalistLola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born US anarchist poet and editorLaura Riding (1901–1981), US poet, critic and novelistAnne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editorJames Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), US writer and poetJohn Riley (1937–1978), English poet of British Poetry RevivalRainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poetGopal Prasad Rimal (1918–1973), Nepali poet and playwrightArthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet of Decadent movementAlberto Ríos (born 1952), US poet and professorKhawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar in Urdu and PersianEmma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poetMichael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editorEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), US poetMary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelistPeter Robinson (born 1953), English poetRoland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writerGeorges Rodenbach (1855–1898), Belgian Symbolist poet and novelistW R Rodgers (1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist and Presbyterian ministerJosé Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971), Panamanian poet and artistTheodore Roethke (1908–1963), US poetSamuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poetRognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saintMatthew Rohrer (born 1970), US poetGéza Röhrig (born 1967), Hungarian poet and actorRadoslav Rochallyi (born 1980), Slovak writerDavid Romtvedt (living), US poetPierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poetPeter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poetFranklin Rosemont (1943–2009), US poet, artist and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist GroupPenelope Rosemont (born 1942), US poet, writer and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist GroupMichael Rosen (born 1946), UK children's poet and former children's poet laureateIsaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poetBarbara Rosiek (1959–2020), Polish poet, writer and psychologistAlan Ross (1922–2001), English poet, cricket writer and editorChristina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poetDante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), English poet, illustrator and painterAndrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poetRaymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist and playwrightNicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), English poet and pamphleteerSusanna Roxman (1946–2015), English poet born in SwedenIstvan Rozanich (1912–1984), Hungarian poet exiled in VenezuelaTadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and writerLjubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poetFriedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator and academicRudaki (858 – 940/41), Persian poetMuriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), US poet and political activistZygmunt Rumel (1915–1943), Polish poet and partisanJalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist and Sufi mysticPaul-Eerik Rummo (born 1942), Estonian poetJohan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet in SwedishNipsey Russell (1918–2005), US poet and comedianLucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwrightJarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (1935–2022), Polish poet, essayist and dramatistRyōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poetS Sa–Se Nelly Sachs Sanai (1080–1131), Persian poetUmberto Saba (1883–1957), Italian poet and novelistJaime Sabines (1926–1999), Mexican poetNelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in LiteratureCharles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638–1706), English poet and courtierThomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), English statesman, poet and dramatistVita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English author, poet and gardenerSaib Tabrizi (1592–1676), Persian poetsSaʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), Persian poetBenjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), US poet, novelist and children's writerAli Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist and translatorMellin de Saint-Gelais (c. 1491–1558), French Renaissance poetAkim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist seen as first Nanai language writerSonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-US poet associated with Black Arts MovementMichal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poetCarl Sandburg (1878–1967), US poet, writer and editor; three Pulitzer PrizesJacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from NaplesAnn Sansom , English poet and writing tutorAleksa Šantić (1868–1924), Bosnian Serb poetTaneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poetGenrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writerSappho (c. 630–612 – c. 570 BCE), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in EnglishMaciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet in LatinWilliam Saroyan (1908–1981), US author of Armenian descentSiegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poetSubagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, fiction writer and literary criticSatsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), US poet and artistWilliam Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet in WelshRichard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poetLeslie Scalapino (1944–2010), US poet, writer and playwrightMaurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poetHermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), US poet, architect and fiction writerGeorges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet in FrenchFriedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher and playwrightArno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translatorDennis Schmitz (1937–2019), US poetJohanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910–1992), Surinamese poet and community leader, wrote in Sranan Tongo and EnglishArthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatistAnton Schosser (1801–1849), Austrian dialect poetPhilip Schultz (born 1945), US poetJames Schuyler (1923–1991), US poetDelmore Schwartz (1913–1966), US poet and fiction writerAlexander Scott (c. 1520–1582/1583), Scottish poetAlexander Scott (1920–1989), Scottish poet and playwrightFrederick George Scott (1861–1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. ScottF. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, academic and constitutional expertTom Scott (1918–1995), Scottish poetSir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), US soul musician and jazz poetGeorge Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politicianPeter Seaton (1942–2010), US Language poetWładysław Sebyła (1902–1940), Polish poetJohannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poetSir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639–1701), English poet, wit and dramatistGeorge Seferis (pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs) (1900–1971), Greek poet and Nobel laureateHugh Seidman (born 1940), US poetRebecca Seiferle (living), US poetJaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in LiteratureLasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist and journalistSemonides of Amorgos (c. 7th c. BCE), Greek iambic and elegiac poetLéopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theoristRobert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poetVikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poetAnne Sexton (1928–1974), US poet; Confessional poetry , 1967 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryJohn W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, fiction and children's writerSh–Sj Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–1692Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565–1612), sultan of Golkonda and poet in Persian, Telugu and UrduRiaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and authorMohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906–1988) Iranian poet (both Persian and Azerbaijani poet)Parveen Shakir (1952–1994), Pakistani poet, teacher and civil servant of the government of PakistanWilliam Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwrightTupac Shakur (1971–1996), US rapper, actor and black activistOtep Shamaya (born 1979), US singer-songwriter, actress and poetAhmad Shamlou (1925–2000), Iranian poet, Persian poetPaata Shamugia (born 1983), Georgian poetNtozake Shange (1948–2018), US playwright and poetJo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturerKarl Shapiro (1913–2000), US poet; US Poet Laureate, 1946–1947Sanu Sharma Nepalese Australian novelist, writer, poet, lyricistBrenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), US poetLuci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poetPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poetWilliam Shenstone (1714–1763), English poetBhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poetTaras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artistMustafa Sheykhoghlu (1340/1341 – 1410), Turkish poet and translatorMasaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet and literary criticHovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poetJames Shirley (1596–1666), English dramatistAvraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editorSir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet, courtier and soldier Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-US poet, critic and philosopherRobert Siegel (1939–2012), US poet and novelistAugust Silberstein (1827–1900), Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in GermanJon Silkin (1930–1997), English poetHilda Siller (1861–1945), American poet and short story writerRon Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetryShel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writerSimeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalistCharles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-US poet; US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on KeaLouis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poetBennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), US poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000Burns Singer (1928–1964), US poet raised in ScotlandMarilyn Singer (born 1948), US children's writer and poetErvin Šinko (1898–1967), Croatian-Hungarian poet and prose writerLemn Sissay (born 1967), English author and broadcasterCharles Hubert Sisson (1914–2003), English poet and translatorEdith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic; eldest of three literary SitwellsSjón (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 poetSasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-US poetEd Skoog (born 1971), US poetJan Stanisław Skorupski (born 1938), Polish poet, essayist and esperantistPencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poetPetko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist and folkloristKenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet and journalistAnton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovene bishop , author and culture advocateAntoni Słonimski (1895–1976), Polish poet, playwright and artistMichaël Slory (1935–2018), Surinamese poet in Sranan Tongo , also in English, Dutch and SpanishJuliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poetBoris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poetChristopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet and playwrightHristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writerBruce Smith (born 1946), US poetCharlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelistClark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), US poet, sculptor and authorMargaret Smith (born 1958), US poet, musician and artistPatti Smith (born 1946), US singer-songwriter, poet and visual artistStevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelistSydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scottish poet in Braid ScotsTracy K. Smith (born 1972), US poetWilliam Jay Smith (1918–2015), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–1970Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and authorWilliam De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), US poetGary Snyder (born 1930), US poet, essayist and environmentalistEdith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet in SwedishSōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist and travel writerMarie-Ange Somdah (born 1959), Burkinabe poet and writerWilliam Somervile (1675–1742), English poetSophocles (c. 496–406 BCE), Athenian tragedianCharles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poetGary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-US author and poetWilliam Soutar (1898–1943), Scottish poet in English and Braid ScotsCaroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poetRobert Southey (1774–1843), English Romantic poet and UK Poet Laureate, 1813–1843Robert Southwell (1561–1595), English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionaryWole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in LiteratureBernard Spencer (1909–1963), English poet, translator and editorStephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist, and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965–66Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poetSt–Sz Edward Stachura (1937–1979), poet, prose writer and translatorLeopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poetWilliam Stafford (1914–1993), US poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–1971A. E. Stallings (born 1968), US poet and translatorJon Stallworthy (1935–2014), English academic, poet and literary criticHarold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet and novelistNichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poetAnn Stanford (1916–1987), US poetAnna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poetGeorge Starbuck (1931–1996), US neo-Formalist poetAndrzej Stasiuk (born 1960), Polish poet and novelistStatius (c. 45–96, CE), Roman poetChristian Karlson Stead , ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand novelist, poet and criticStesichorus (c. 640–555 BCE), Greek lyric poetJoseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovenes physicist, mathematician and poet in Austria Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poetGertrude Stein (1874–1946), US modernist in prose and poetryEric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of fantastic fictionMattie Stepanek (1990–2004), US poet and advocateGeorge Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomatGeorge Sterling (1869–1926), US poet and playwright, author of "A Wine of Wizardry "Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish poet and art criticGerald Stern (1925–2022), US poetMarinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poetC. J. Stevens (1927–2021), US writer of poetry, fiction and biographyWallace Stevens (1880–1955), US modernist poetRobert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writerMargo Taft Stever , US poetTrumbull Stickney (1874–1904), US classical scholar and poetJames Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and folkloristMilica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poetDejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-US poet, writer and philosopherDonna J. Stone (1933–1994), US poet and philanthropistRuth Stone (1915–2011), US poet, author and teacherLisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), US poet and editorEdward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet linked with ImagismTheodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poetAlfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin US Modernist poetMark Strand (1934–2014), Canadian-born US poet, essayist and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–1991Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet and novelistJoseph Stroud (born 1943), US poetJesse Stuart (1907–1984), US writer of fiction and poetryJacquie Sturm (born Te Kare Papuni) (1927–2009), New Zealand poet, fiction writer and librarianWisława Szymborska Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty writer, poet and artistSu Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 CE), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi dynastyAllamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Telugu poetSir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of card game cribbage Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), Islamic poet and Ottoman rulerRobert Sullivan (born 1967), New Zealand Māori poet, academic and editorJovan Sundečić (1825–1900), Serbian poetCemal Süreya (1931–1990), Turkish poet and writerAbhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright and criticPingali Surana (16th c.), Telugu poetRobert Sward (1933–2022), US and Canadian poet and novelistCole Swensen (born 1955), US poet, translator and copywriterKaren Swenson (born 1936), US poetMay Swenson (1913–1989), US poet and playwrightMarcin Świetlicki (born 1961), Polish poet, prose writer and musicianJonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and pamphleteerAlgernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright and novelistAnna Świrszczyńska (also Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poetJoshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poetArthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and editorJohn Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet and folklore collectorWładysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), Polish poet and translator in Russian EmpireLőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), Hungarian poet and literary translatorFruzina Szalay (1864–1926), Hungarian poet and translatorMikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581), poet in Polish and LatinArthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese US poetBertalan Szemere (1812–1869), Hungarian poet and politicianGyula Szentessy (1870–1905), Hungarian poetGeorge Szirtes (born 1948), Hungary-born British poet and translatorJanusz Szpotański (1929–2001), Polish poet, satirist and translatorWłodzimierz Szymanowicz (1946–1967), Polish poet and painterWisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator; 1996 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSzymon Szymonowic (1558–1629), Polish poetT Ta–Te Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in LiteratureJudit Dukai Takách (Malvina, 1795–1836), Hungarian poetBogi Takács (born 1983), Hungarian poet and fiction writer in USKyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Japanese poetTaliesin (fl. 6th c.), British poet of post-Roman periodMeary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915–1983), Tamil poet, editor and criticMaxim Tank (1912–1996), Belarus poetTao Qian (365–427), Chinese poetJovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist and literary criticAlain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and criticTorquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poetAllen Tate (1899–1979), US poet, essayist and commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–1944James Tate (1943–2015), US poetEmma Tatham (1829–1855), English poetTracey Tawhiao (born 1967), New Zealand Maori poet and artistApirana Taylor (born 1955), New Zealand poet, novelist and storytellerEdward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician and pastorEmily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writerHenry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatistHenry S. Taylor (born 1942), US poetJane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelistSara Teasdale (1884–1933), US lyric poetGuru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poetTelesilla (fl. 510 BCE), Greek poetRaipiyel Tennakoon (1899–1965), Sri Lankan poetWilliam Tennant (1784–1848), Scottish scholar and poetAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850–1892Vahan Terian (1885–1920), Armenian poet, lyricist and public activistElaine Terranova (born 1939), US poetLucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-US poet; author of oldest known work by African AmericanA. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), English poetNeyzen Tevfik (1879–1953), Turkish poet, satirist and performerTh–To Edward Thomas Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), Hungarian poet and politicianErnest Thayer (1863–1940), US writer and poetJohn Thelwall (1764–1834), English poet and essayistTheocritus (fl. 3rd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poetAntony Theodore (born 1954), German pastor poet and educatorJan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poetNandi Thimmana (15th – 16th cc.), Telugu poetThiruvalluvar (around 31 BCE), Tamil poet and philosopherDylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer in EnglishEdward Thomas (1878–1917), Welsh poet and essayist in EnglishLorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), US poet and criticR. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet in English and Anglican priestJohn Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poetJohn Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), US poet, journalist, editor and publisherFrancis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and asceticJames Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwrightJames Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poetHenry David Thoreau (1817–1862), US author, poet and philosopherGeorg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymn writerMaria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymn writerJoseph Thurston (1704–1732), English poetAnthony Thwaite (1930–2021), English poet and writerTibullus (c. 54–19 BCE), Latin poet and elegy writerChidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), English conspirator and poetThomas Tickell (1685–1740), English poet and man of lettersLudwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, translator, editor and criticTikkana (1205–1288), Telugu poet, translator of Mahabharata Gary Tillery (born 1947), US writer, poet and artistAbdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poetEugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poetNick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet and broadcasterMelvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), US Modernist poet, educator and columnistCharles Tomlinson (1927–2015), English poet and translatorJean Toomer (1894–1967), US poet and novelistMihály Tompa (1819–1868), Hungarian poet and pastorÁlvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), Peruvian poetKálmán Tóth (1831–1881), Hungarian poetKrisztina Tóth (born 1967), Hungarian poet and translatorSándor Tóth (1939–2019), Hungarian poet and journalistCyril Tourneur (1575–1626), English poetic dramatistAnn Townsend (born 1962), US poet and essayistTr–Tz Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), English poet, clergyman and religious writerGeorg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian Expressionist poetChrysanthemum Tran , Vietnamese-American poetElizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), US poetRoland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian writer and poetWilliam S. Tribell (born 1977), US poetDuško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writerCalvin Trillin (born 1935), US humorist, poet and novelistGeeta Tripathee (born 1972), Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist and scholarSuryakant Tripathi (1896–1961), Indian poet in Hindi and BengaliQuincy Troupe (born 1939), US poet, editor and professorTõnu Trubetsky (Tony Blackplait) (born 1963), Estonian glam punk musician and poetMarina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian/Soviet poetKurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writerCharlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893), English poet and religious writerTulsidas (1497/1532–1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopherHovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian writer and public activistĞabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet, critic and publisherGeorge Turberville (c. 1540 – c. 1597), English poetCharles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet and mental health workerThomas Tusser (1524–1580), English poet and farmerHone Tuwhare (1922–2008), New Zealand Māori poetJulian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descentJan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priestChase Twichell (born 1950), US poet, professor and publisherPontus de Tyard (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priestFyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poetTristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artistU Kornel Ujejski (1823–1897), Polish poet and political writerErzsi Újvári (1899–1940), Hungarian poetLaura Ulewicz (1930–2007), US beat poetKavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885–1945), Telugu poetJeff Unaegbu (born 1979), Nigerian writer, actor and documentary film makerMiguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish essayist, novelist and poetGiuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), Italian poet, critic and academicAbul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (died 1039/1040) Persian poet Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), US poet, anthologist and critic; US Poet Laureate 1961–1962John Updike (1932–2009), US novelist, poet and criticAllen Upward (1863–1926), Irish-English Imagist poet and teacherUthman Mukhtari (1074–1118), Persian poetAmy Uyematsu (1947–2023), Japanese-US poetV János Vajda (1827–1897), Hungarian poet and journalistPaul Valéry (1871–1945), French Symbolist author and poetAlfonso Vallejo (1943–2021), Spanish artist, playwright and poetCésar Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet, writer and playwrightJean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French-Swiss poet and writerValmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature Cor van den Heuvel (born 1931), US haiku poet, editor and archivistMona Van Duyn (1921–2004), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–1993Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer and fashion designerNikola Vaptsarov (1909–1942), Bulgarian poetVarand (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer and professor of literatureMahadevi Varma (1907–1987), Indian poet writing in HindiDimitris Varos (1949–2017), modern Greek poet, journalist and photographerHenry Vaughan (1621–1695), Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poetThomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556), English poetMeta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), African-American poet, painter and sculptorJoana Vaz (c. 1500 – after 1570), Portuguese poet and courtierVazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili) (1861–1915), Georgian poet and writerReetika Vazirani (1962–2003), US poet and educatorIvan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwrightAttila Végh (born 1962), Hungarian poet and philosopherMaffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458), Italian poet in LatinVemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu poetGavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. 1680–1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet and illuminatorHelen Vendler (born 1933), US poetry critic and professorJacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), Catalan poet in SpainPaul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet associated with Symbolist movementPaul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poetVeturi (1936–2010), Telugu poet and songwriterFrancis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937), French symbolist poetPeter Viereck (1916–2006), US poet, professor and political thinkerGilles Vigneault (born 1928), Canadian Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriterJudit Vihar (born 1944), Hungarian poet and literary historianJose Garcia Villa (1908–1997), Philippines poet, literary critic and painterXavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), Mexican poet and playwrightFrançois Villon (c. 1431–1464), French poet, thief and barroom brawlerVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70–19 BCE), ancient Roman poetRoemer Visscher (1547–1620), Dutch writer and poetMihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805), Hungarian poetMihailo Vitković (1778–1829), Hungarian poet in Serbian and lawyerWalther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230), celebrated Middle High German lyric poetVincent Voiture (1597–1648), French poetVoltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writerJoost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch playwright and poetAndrei Voznesensky (1933–2010), Soviet Russian poetStanko Vraz (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian language poetVyasa , considered author of Mahabharata and some Vedas W Wa–Wh Wace (c. 1110 – post-1174), Norman poet Sidney Wade (born 1951), US poet and professorJohn Wain (1925–1994), English poet, novelist and criticDiane Wakoski (born 1937), US poet linked with deep image , confessional and Beat generation poetsDerek Walcott (1930–2017), Saint Lucia poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAnne Waldman (born 1945), US poetRosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-US poet, translator and publisherArthur Waley (1889–1966), English orientalist and Sinologist, poet and translatorAlice Walker (born 1944), US author, poet and activistMargaret Walker (1915–1998), African-US writerEdmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politicianMartin Walser (born 1927), German writerRobert Walser (1878–1956), German-speaking Swiss writerWan Shenzi (1856–1923), Chinese couplet writerConnie Wanek (born 1952), US poetWang Wei (王維, 701–761), Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician and painterWang Wei (王微, 1597–1647), Chinese priestess and poetEmily Warn , US poetSylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poetRobert Penn Warren (1905–1989), US poet, novelist and criticLewis Warsh (1944–1920), US poet, writer and visual artistThomas Warton (1728–1790), English literary historian, critic and poetAlbert Wass (1908–1998), Hungarian poet and novelist exiled in USAleksander Wat (1900–1967), Polish poet and memoiristVernon Watkins (1906–1967), Welsh poet, translator and painterThomas Watson (1555–1592), English lyric poet in English and LatinSamuel Wagan Watson (born 1972), Australian poetGeorge Watsky (born 1986), US poet and rapperBarrett Watten (born 1948), US poet, editor and educator linked with Language poetsIsaac Watts (1674–1748), English hymnist and logicianTheodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), English critic and poetTom Wayman (born 1945), Canadian poet, author and educatorAdam Ważyk (1905–1982), Polish poet and essayistFrancis Webb (1925–1973), Australian poetJohn Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634), English dramatistRebecca Wee , US poet and professorHannah Weiner (1928–1997), US Language poetSándor Weöres (1913–1989), Hungarian poet and translatorWei Yingwu (737–792), Chinese poetWen Yiduo (1899–1946), Chinese poetMarjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), US poet; South Carolina Poet LaureateCharles Wesley (1707–1788), English Methodist leader and hymnistGilbert West (1703–1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologistPhilip Whalen (1923–2002), US poet, Zen Buddhist and figure in San Francisco Renaissance Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poetJohan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Norwegian-Danish poetMary Whateley (1738–1825), English poet and playwrightPhillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-US poetBilly Edd Wheeler (born 1932), US songwriter, performer and poetE.B. White (1899–1985), US essayist, author and humoristHenry Kirke White (1785–1806), English poetJames L. White (1936–1981), US poet, editor and teacherRobert Whitehall (1624–1685), English poetWalt Whitman (1819–1892), US poet, essayist and humanistIsabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), English poetReed Whittemore (1919–2012), US poet, biographer and criticJohn Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), US poetWi–Wy Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884–1947), English poet raised in AustraliaLes Wicks (born 1955), Australian poet, publisher and editorUlrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translatorJohn Wieners (1934–2002), US lyric poetKazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), Polish poet and journalistRichard Wilbur (1921–2017), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–1988Peter Wild (1940–2009), US poet and historianJane Wilde (1826–1896), Irish poet and nationalistOscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, playwright and poetJohn Wilkinson (born 1953), English poetWilliam IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126), earliest troubadour poet whose work survivesAeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), Anglo-Scottish poet, writer and missionaryEmmett Williams (1925–2007), US poet and visual artistJonathan Williams (1929–2008), US poet, publisher and essayistHeathcote Williams (1941–2017), English poet, political activist and dramatistMiller Williams (1930–2015), US poet, translator and editorOscar Williams (1900–1964), Jewish Ukrainian-US anthologist and poetSaul Williams (born 1972), African-US singer, poet, writer and actorSherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), African-US poet, novelist and social criticWaldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh poet in WelshWilliam Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician linked with modernism and imagismWilliam Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnistClive Wilmer (born 1945), English poetJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English poet, courtier and satiristEleanor Wilner (born 1937), US poet and editorAnne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946), US-born Canadian poet, writer, editorPeter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, 1945–2022), US political and cultural writer, essayist and poetChristian Wiman (born 1966), US poet and editorDavid Wingate (1828–1892), Scottish poetYvor Winters (1900–1968), US poet and literary criticGeorge Wither (1588–1667), English poet, pamphleteer and satiristStanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy, 1885–1939), Polish poet, writer and philosopherStefan Witwicki (1801–1847), Polish poetWoeser (born 1966), Tibetan activist, poet and essayistRafał Wojaczek (1945–1971), Polish poetGrażyna Wojcieszko (born 1957), Polish poet and essayistChrista Wolf (1929–2011), German literary critic, novelist and poetCharles Wolfe (1791–1823), Irish poetHans Wollschläger (1935–2007), German writer, translator and historianSholeh Wolpe (born 1962), Iranian-US poet, literary translator and playwrightMaryla Wolska (Iwo Płomieńczyk, 1873–1930), Polish poetGeorge Woodcock (1912–1995), Canadian poet and writer of biography and historyGregory Woods (born 1953), English poet who grew up in GhanaDorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and diarist; sister of William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poetPhilip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), English poetCarolyn D. Wright (1949–2016), US poetCharles Wright (born 1935), US poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryDavid Wright (1920–1994), South African-born poet and authorFranz Wright (1953–2015), US poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryJames Wright (1927–1980), US poet, father of Franz WrightJay Wright (born 1935), African-US poet, playwright and essayistJudith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet and environmentalistLady Mary Wroth (1587 – c. 1651), English poetThomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English ambassador and lyric poetJózef Wybicki (1747–1822), Polish poet and national-anthem writerElinor Wylie (1885–1928), US poet and novelistHedd Wyn (1887–1917), Welsh poet in WelshEdward Alexander Wyon (1842–1872), English architect and poetStanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), Polish poet, playwright and painterX Y Jūkichi Yagi (1898–1927), Japanese religious poetLeo Yankevich (born 1961), US poet and editorPeyo Yavorov (1878–1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poetRaushan Yazdani (1918–1967), Bengali poet and researcherW. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in LiteratureSergei Yesenin (1895–1925), Russian lyrical poetYevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet Russian poet, dramatist and film directorYi Suhyeong (1435–1528), politician and Confucian scholar, writer, and poetLin Yining (1655 – c. 1730), Chinese poet, painter and composerAkiko Yosano (1878–1942), Japanese poet, feminist and pacifistNima Yooshij (1895–1960), Iranian poet, Persian poetAndrew Young (1885–1971), Scottish poet and clergymanEdward Young (1681–1765), English poetIan Young (born 1945), English/Canadian poetKevin Young (born 1970), US poet and teacherMarguerite Young (1908–1995), US author of poetry, fiction and non-fictionSimpson Charles Younger (1850–1943), baseball player, soldier during the American Civil War, civil rights campaigner, and poetA. W. Yrjänä (Aki Ville Yrjänä; born 1967), Finnish poet, musician and songwriterYuan Mei (1716–1797), Chinese poet, scholar and gastronomeZ Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828), Polish poetAdam Zagajewski (1945–2021), Polish poet, novelist and essayistJózef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886), Polish poetWacław Michał Zaleski (1799–1849), Polish poet, critic and politicianEsperanza Zambrano (1901–1992), Mexican poetAlessio Zanelli (born 1963), Italian poet in EnglishAndrea Zanzotto (1921–2011), Italian poetMatthew Zapruder (born 1967), US poet, translator and professorMarya Zaturenska (1902–1982), US lyric poetKazimiera Zawistowska (1870–1902), Polish poet and translatorAbd al-Wahhab Abu Zayd (living), Saudi poet and translatorPiotr Zbylitowski (1569–1649), Polish poet and courtierKatarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (born 1979), Polish poet and journalistEmil Zegadłowicz (1888–1941), Polish poet, playwright and translatorLudwig Zeller (1927–2019), Chilean poetRobert Zend (1929–1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and artistBenjamin Zephaniah (1958–2023), English writer, dub poet and Rastafarian Hristofor Zhefarovich (c. 1690–1753), Serbian painter, writer and poetCalvin Ziegler (1854–1930), German-US poet in Pennsylvania DutchNarcyza Żmichowska (Gabryella, 1819–1876), Polish poet and novelistRadovan Zogović (1907–1986), Serbian/Montenegrin poetMiklós Zrínyi (1620–1664), Hungarian poet and statesmanZuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609), pre-Islamic Arabian poetLouis Zukofsky (1904–1978), US objectivist poetsJerzy Żuławski (1874–1915), Polish poet, novelist and philosopherJuliusz Żuławski (1910–1999), Polish poet, critic and translatorHuldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Swish poet, hymnist and Reformation leaderEugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975), Polish poet, playwright and novelist in Russia and CanadaReferences ^ Omar, Mohamed (2001). The Scramble in the Horn of Africa . p. 402. This letter is sent by all the Dervishes, the Amir, and all the Dolbahanta to the Ruler of Berbera.... We are a Government, we have a Sultan, an Amir, and Chiefs, and subjects.... (reply) In his last letter the Mullah pretends to speak in the name of the Dervishes, their Amir (himself), and the Dolbahanta tribes. The letter he intended to establish himself as Ruler of the Dolbahanta ^ "Khadijah Ibrahim". First Story . Retrieved 2022-12-19 .