List of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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Ab–Ak

Aarudhra,, Indian Telugu poet
Jonathan Aaron, American poet
Chris Abani, Nigerian poet
Henry Abbey, American poet
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, American poet, novelist and short story writer
Siôn Abel, Welsh balladeer
Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic
Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate
Sam Abrams, American poet
Seth Abramson, American poet, editor and critic
Kosta Abrašević, Serbian poet
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet in English
Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright
Diane Ackerman, American author, poet, and naturalist
Duane Ackerson, American writer of speculative poetry and fiction
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
Harold Acton, English writer, scholar and dilettante
János Aczél, Hungarian poet and provost
Tamás Aczél, Hungarian poet
Gilbert Adair, Scottish novelist, poet and critic
Virginia Hamilton Adair, American poet
Helen Adam, Scottish-American poet, collagist and photographer
Draginja Adamović, Serbian poet
John Adams, American poet
Léonie Adams, American poet
Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and writer
Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet
Fleur Adcock, poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of life in England
Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, writer and politician
Kim Addonizio American poet, novelist
Artur Adson, Estonian poet
Endre Ady, Hungarian poet
Mariska Ady, Hungarian poet
Aeschylus, Athenian tragedian
Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet
John Agard, Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter and poet
Deborah Ager, American poet, editor
István Ágh, Hungarian poet
Kelli Russell Agodon, American poet
Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet
Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet
Ai, American poet
Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
Conrad Aiken, American poet and author
Aganice Ainianos, Greek poet
Akazome Emon, Japanese poet and historian
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician
Rachel Akerman, Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
Jan Nisar Akhtar, Indian Urdu poet
Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
Salman Akhtar, Indian American professor and poet writing in English and Urdu
Al–Am
Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish poet in Gaelic
Ave Alavainu, Estonian poet
Gillebríghde Albanach, Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader
Alcaeus, Athenian comic poet in Greek
Alcaeus of Messene, Greek writer of verse epigrams
Alcaeus of Mytilene, Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi, Indian Telugu poet
Guru Amar Das, Punjabi poet and Sikh guru
Ammiel Alcalay, American poet, scholar and critic
Alcman, Ancient Greek lyric poet
Amos Bronson Alcott, American poet and teacher
Richard Aldington, English poet and writer
Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet
Tudur Aled, Welsh poet writing in Welsh
Claribel Alegría, Central American poet writing in Spanish
Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977
Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovene symbolist poet
Sherman Alexie, American poet and writer
Felipe Alfau, Catalan American novelist and poet
Agha Shahid Ali Indian, Kashmiri and American poet
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
James Alexander Allan, Australian poet
August Alle, Estonian poet
William Allegrezza, American poet, professor and editor
Dick Allen, American poet, critic and academic
Donald Allen, American poet, editor and translator
Elizabeth Akers Allen, American author and poet
Ron Allen, American poet and playwright
Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet
William Allingham, Irish poet and man of letters
Washington Allston, American painter and poet
Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet, philologist and critic
Alta, American poet and writer
Natan Alterman, Israeli poet, journalist and translator
Alurista, Chicano poet and activist
Al Alvarez, English poet
Julia Alvarez, Dominican-American poet, novelist and essayist
Betti Alver, Estonian poet
Moniza Alvi, Pakistani-British poet and writer
Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet
Ambroise, Norman-French poet of Third Crusade
Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
Indran Amirthanayagam, Sri Lankan American poet, essayist and translator
Kingsley Amis, English author and poet
A. R. Ammons, American author and poet
An–Aq
Anacreon, Greek lyric poet
Alfred Andersch, German writer and publisher
Guda Anjaiah, Telugu Indian poet, singer, lyricist, and writer from the state of Telangana
Ana Paula Arendt, Brazilian classical poet
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet and children's writer
Victor Henry Anderson, American poet, kahuna, and teacher of the Feri Tradition
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian poet, novelist and critic
Bernard André, French Augustinian poet, poet laureate to Henry VII of England
Peter Andrej, Slovenian poet and musician
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and writer
Bruce Andrews, American Language poet
Kevin Andrews, Anglo-Greek philhellene writer and archeologist
Ron Androla, American poet
Guru Angad, Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Aneirin, Brythonic epic poet
Ralph Angel, American poet and translator
Maya Angelou, American poet
James Stout Angus, Shetland poet writing mainly in Shetland dialect
Marion Angus, Scottish poet writing in Scots
J. K. Annand, Scots poet best known for children's poems
Mika Antić, Serbian poet
David Antin, American poet and critic
Antler, American poet
Susanne Antonetta, American poet and author
Brother Antoninus, American poet
Chairil Anwar, Indonesian poet
Johannes Anyuru, Swedish poet
Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
Apollonius of Rhodes, poet and librarian at Library of Alexandria
Maja Apostoloska, Macedonian poet
Philip Appleman, American poet and professor
Lajos Áprily, Hungarian poet and translator
Pawlu Aquilina, Maltese poet
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Louis Aragon, French poet, novelist and editor
János Arany, Hungarian poet
Archilochus, ancient Greek lyric poet
Walter Conrad Arensberg, American Dadaist, critic and poet
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian poet
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet
Aristophanes, Greek dramatic poet
Guru Arjan, Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Rae Armantrout, American Language poet
Simon Armitage, English poet, playwright, and novelist
Richard Armour, American poet and author
Ernst Moritz Arndt, German author and poet
Bettina von Arnim, German writer, composer and visual artist
Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist
Craig Arnold, American poet and professor
Matthew Arnold, English poet and cultural critic
Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld, Icelandic skald
Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, Polish poet
Antonin Artaud, French playwright, poet and essayist
As–Az
M. K. Asante, American author, poet and professor
John Ashbery, American poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Cliff Ashby, English poet and novelist
Renée Ashley, American poet and novelist.
Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest
Adam Asnyk, Polish poet and dramatist
Herbert Asquith, English poet
Mina Assadi, Iranian poet, author and songwriter
Vishnu Raj Atreya, Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelist
Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet, essayist
Imre Augustich, Slovenian/Hungarian poet
Joseph Auslander, American poet, anthologist and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941
Ausonius, Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala
Paul Auster, American poet, playwright, and essayist
James Avery, American actor, poet, and screenwriter
Margaret Avison, Canadian poet
Krayem Awad, Vienna painter, sculptor, and poet of Syrian origin
Gennady Aygi, Russian poet
Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Nigerian poet
Pam Ayres, English humorous poet
Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
Maryam Jafari Azarmani, Iranian poet, essayist, critic, translator
Jody Azzouni, American philosopher and poet
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Bab–Ban

Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and translator
Ken Babstock, Canadian poet
Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and writer of Apache/Chicano descent
Bacchylides, Ancient Greek lyric poet
Bellamy Bach, pseudonym of group of fiction and poetry writers
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
Joseph M. Bachelor, American author, poet and educator
Simon Bacher, Hebrew poet in Hungary
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Indonesian poet
George Bacovia, Romanian poet
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet and soldier
Julio Baghy, Hungarian actor and Esperanto author and poet
Bai Juyi, Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and dramatist
József Bajza, Hungarian poet and critic
Józef Baka, Polish-Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priest
Vyt Bakaitis, Lithuanian-American translator, editor and poet
David Baker, American poet
Bâkî, Ottoman poet
John Balaban, American poet and translator
Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet
Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic
Edward Balcerzan, Polish poet, critic and translator
Stanisław Baliński, Polish poet and diplomat
Jesse Ball, American poet and novelist
Zsófia Balla, Hungarian poet from Romania
Addie L. Ballou, American poet and suffragist
Konstantin Balmont, Russian symbolist poet and translator
Russell Banks, American fiction writer and poet
Anne Bannerman, Scottish poet
Amiri Baraka , American writer, poet and dramatist
Marcin Baran, Polish poet and journalist
Stanisław Barańczak, Polish poet, critic and translator
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author
Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer
John Barbour, Scottish poet, the first major named literary figure to write in Scots
Alexander Barclay, English/Scottish poet
George Barker, English poet and author
Les Barker, English poet
Coleman Barks, American poet
Mihály Barla, Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary
Mary Barnard, American poet, biographer and translator
Djuna Barnes, American writer
William Barnes, English writer, poet and philologist
Catherine Barnett, American poet and educator
Richard Barnfield, English poet
Willis Barnstone, American poet and literary translator
Laird Barron, American poet, author
Sándor Barta, Hungarian poet executed in the Soviet Union
Bernard Barton, English poet and Quaker
Bertha Hirsch Baruch, American writer, poet and suffragist
Todd Bash, American avant-garde playwright, poet and writer
Matsuo Bashō, Japanese renku and haiku poet
Michael Basinski, American text, visual and sound poet
Ellen Bass, American poet
Arlo Bates, American author, poet and educator
David Bates, American poet
Joseph Bathanti, American poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate
János Batsányi, Hungarian poet
Dawn-Michelle Baude, American poet, journalist and educator
Charles Baudelaire, French poet, essayist and translator
Eric Baus, American poet
Cirilo Bautista, Filipino poet, writer and critic
Charles Baxter, American writer and poet
James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet
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Jan Beatty, American poet
Francis Beaumont, English poet and dramatist
Samuel Beckett, Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet
Joshua Beckman, American poet
Matija Bećković, Serbian writer and poet
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and short-story writer
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, dramatist and physician
Patricia Beer, English poet and critic
Aphra Behn, English Restoration dramatist, among the first professional female writers
Ferenc Békássy, Hungarian poet
Erin Belieu, American poet
Marvin Bell, American poet and teacher, first Poet Laureate of State of Iowa
Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan poet and novelist
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Italian poet known for sonnets in Romanesco
Xuan Bello, Asturian language poet
Hilaire Belloc, Anglo-French writer and historian
Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet and critic
Stephen Vincent Benét, American author, poet and fiction writer
William Rose Benét, American poet, writer and editor
Elizabeth Benger, English poet, biographer and novelist
Gottfried Benn, German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet
Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African-American writer and poet
Jim Bennett, English poet known for work in Liverpool punk era
Richard Berengarten English poet, writer and translator
Bo Bergman, Swedish writer, critic and Swedish Academy member
İlhan Berk, Turkish poet
Charles Bernstein,, American poet and scholar
Béroul, Norman poet of the episodic Tristan
Daniel Berrigan, American poet, priest and peace activist
Ted Berrigan, American poet
James Berry, Jamaican poet based in England
Wendell Berry, American man of letters, critic and farmer
John Berryman, American poet and scholar
Dániel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet
Mary Ursula Bethell, New Zealand poet and social worker
John Betjeman, English poet, writer and broadcaster
Elizabeth Beverley, English poet, writer and entertainer
Helen Bevington, American poet, prose writer and educator
L. S. Bevington, English anarchist poet and essayist
Bh–Bl
Subramanya Bharathi, Tamil writer, poet and Indian independence activist
Sujata Bhatt, Indian poet in Gujarati
Źmitrok Biadula, Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer and independence activist
Miron Białoszewski, Polish poet, novelist and playwright
Zbigniew Bieńkowski, Polish poet, critic and translator
Biernat of Lublin, Polish poet and fabulist
Laurence Binyon, English poet, dramatist and art scholar
Earle Birney, Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatist
Nevin Birsa, Slovene poet
Balázs Birtalan, Hungarian poet and publicist
Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
Ram Prasad Bismil, poet and revolutionary writing in Urdu and Hindi
bill bissett, Canadian anti-conventional poet
Sherwin Bitsui, American Navajo poet
Paul Blackburn American poet
Richard Palmer Blackmur, American literary critic and poet
Lucian Blaga, Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright
Lewis Blake, English poet
William Blake, English painter, poet and printmaker
Don Blanding, American poet, journalist, writer and speaker
Adrian Blevins, American poet
Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet and writer
Alexander Blok, Russian lyrical poet
Benjamin Paul Blood, American philosopher and poet
Robert Bloomfield, English laboring-class poet
Roy Blumenthal, South African poet
Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and literary critic
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer
Robert Bly, American poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement
Bo–Bri
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet
Jean Bodel, Old French poet
Ádám Bodor, Hungarian poet from Romania
Louise Bogan, American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian Renaissance poet
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic
Michelle Boisseau, American poet
Eavan Boland, Irish poet
Alan Bold, Scottish poet, biographer, and journalist
Christian Bök, experimental Canadian poet
Heinrich Böll, German novelist
Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet
Nozawa Bonchō, Japanese haikai poet
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German poet and Lutheran theologian
Arna Wendell Bontemps, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
Luke Booker, English poet, cleric and antiquary
Kurt Boone, American poet
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet
Tadeusz Borowski, Polish writer and journalist
Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
Gordon Bottomley, English poet and verse dramatist
David Bottoms, American poet; Georgia Poet Laureate
Cathy Smith Bowers, American poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
Edgar Bowers, American poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Polish poet, critic and translator
Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and mercenary
Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and political activist
Alison Brackenbury, English poet from Lincolnshire
Anne Bradstreet America's first published poet
Di Brandt, Canadian poet and literary critic
Giannina Braschi, American poet born in Puerto Rico
Kamau Brathwaite, Barbadian writer
Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet and short story writer
Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, poet and lyricist
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright
Radovan Brenkus, Slovak writer and poet
Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar
Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet and writer of fantasy and horror fiction
Clemens Brentano, German poet and novelist
André Breton, French writer, poet and founder of Surrealism
Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist
Ken Brewer, American poet and scholar; Utah Poet Laureate
Robert Bridges, English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Robert Bringhurst, Canadian poet, typographer and author
Bro–By
Geoffrey Brock, American poet and translator
Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet and essayist
Wladyslaw Broniewski, Polish poet and soldier
William Bronk, American poet
Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet, youngest of the three Brontë sisters
Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, eldest of the three Brontë sisters
Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet
Rupert Brooke, English poet
Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
Hans Adolph Brorson, Danish poet and Pietist bishop
Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright and artist
Nicole Brossard, French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
Olga Broumas, Greek poet living in United States
Flora Brovina, Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist
Petrus Brovka , Soviet Belarusian poet
George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
James Brown known as J. B. Selkirk, Scottish poet and essayist
Sterling Brown, African-American academic writer and poet
Thomas Edward Brown, Manx poet, scholar and theologian
Frances Browne, Irish poet and novelist
William Browne, English poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
Robert Browning, English poet and playwright
William Cullen Bryant, American romantic poet and journalist
Colette Bryce, Northern Irish poet
Bryher , English novelist, poet and memoirist
Valeri Bryusov, Russian poet, novelist and critic
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and children's writer
Dugald Buchanan , Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic
Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Georg Büchner, German writer, poet and dramatist
August Buchner, German Baroque poet and professor
Vincent Buckley, Australian poet, essayist and critic
David Budbill, American poet, and playwright
Andrea Hollander Budy, American poet
Teodor Bujnicki, Polish poet
Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist and short story writer
Ivan Bunin Russian poet and novelist
Basil Bunting, English modernist poet
Anthony Burgess, English writer, poet and playwright
Robert Burns, Scottish poet and a lyricist
Stanley Burnshaw, American poet
John Burnside, Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes
William S. Burroughs, American novelist, poet and essayist
Andrzej Bursa, Polish poet and writer
Yosa Buson, Japanese haikai poet and painter
Raegan Butcher, American poet and singer
Ray Buttigieg, poet, composer and musician
Ignazio Buttitta, Sicilian language poet
Anthony Butts,, American poet
Kathryn Stripling Byer, American poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09
Witter Bynner, American poet, writer and scholar
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, English poet and literary figure
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Cab–Cav

Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and poet
Dilys Cadwaladr, Welsh poet and fiction writer writing in Welsh
Cædmon, earliest Northumbrian poet known by name
Maoilios Caimbeul, Scots poet and children's writer
Scott Cairns, American poet, memoirist and essayist
Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator
Angus Calder, Scots poet, academic and educator
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, dramatist, poet and writer of Spanish Golden Age
Musa Cälil, Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
Barry Callaghan, Canadian author, poet and anthologist
Michael Feeney Callan, Irish poet, novelist and biographer
Callimachus, Hellenistic poet, critic and scholar at Library of Alexandria
Robert Calvert, South African writer, poet and musician
Norman Cameron, Scottish poet
Luís de Camões, early Portuguese poet
Angus Peter Campbell, Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actor
David Campbell, Australian poet and wartime pilot, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in New Guinea
Roy Campbell, South African poet and satirist
Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet
Jan Campert, Dutch poet and journalist
Remco Campert, son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist
Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician
Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
Melville Henry Cane, American poet and lawyer
Ivan Cankar, Slovene playwright, essayist and poet
May Wedderburn Cannan, English poet
Edip Cansever, Turkish poet
Cao Cao, Chinese poet and warlord
Cao Pi , Chinese poet and first emperor of state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao
Cao Zhi, Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao
Vahni Capildeo, Trinidadian poet
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priest
Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and teacher
Thomas Carew, English Cavalier poet
Henry Carey, English poet, dramatist and songwriter
Robert Carliell, English didactic poet
Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet associated with Confederation Poets
Fern G. Z. Carr, Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyer
Jim Carroll, American author, poet and punk musician
Lewis Carroll , English writer, mathematician and photographer
Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
Ann Elizabeth Carson, Canadian poet, artist and feminist
Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist and translator
Elizabeth Carter, English poet and bluestocking
Jared Carter, American poet and editor
William Cartwright, English dramatist and churchman
Neal Cassady, figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement
Cyrus Cassells, American poet and professor
Catullus, Latin poet under the Roman Republic
Charles Causley, Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer
C. P. Cavafy, Greek poet, journalist and civil servant
Guido Cavalcanti, Florentine poet and friend of Dante Alighieri
Nick Cave, Australian writer, musician and actor
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English writer, aristocrat and scientist
Ce–Cl
Paul Celan, Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator
Thomas Centolella, American poet
Blaise Cendrars, French poet and author
Anica Černej, Slovene author and poet
Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and literary critic
Aimé Césaire, French poet, author and politician from Martinique
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Portuguese surrealist poet
Úrsula Céspedes, Cuban poet
Ashok Chakradhar, Hindi author and poet
John Chalkhill, English poet
Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic in Grand Siècle
Arthur Chapman, American cowboy poet and columnist
George Chapman, English dramatist, translator and poet
Fred Chappell, American author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002
René Char, French poet
Charles, Duke of Orléans, poet
Craig Charles, English writer, poet and comedian
Thomas Chatterton, English poet and forger of medieval poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, philosopher and alchemist
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Indian poet writing in Hindi
Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez, American writer, poet and Franciscan priest
Susana Chávez, Mexican poet and human rights activist
Syl Cheney-Coker, Sierra Leonean poet and novelist
Andrea Cheng, Hungarian-American poet and children's author
Kelly Cherry, American author and poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia 2010–2012
G. K. Chesterton,, English writer and poet
Choe Chiwon, Korean poet
Fukuda Chiyo-ni, female Japanese haiku poet of Edo period
Henri Chopin, avant-garde poet and musician
Jean Chopinel , French writer
Chrétien de Troyes, French poet and trouvère
Ralph Chubb, poet, painter and printer
Charles Churchill, English poet and satirist
John Ciardi, Italian-American poet, translator and etymologist
Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate
Jovan Ćirilov, Serbian drama expert, writer and poet
Carson Cistulli, American poet, essayist and English professor
Hélène Cixous, French feminist writer, poet and playwright
Amy Clampitt, American poet and author
Kate Clanchy, Scottish poet and writer
John Clanvowe, Anglo-Welsh poet and diplomat
John Clare, English poet
Elizabeth Clark, Scottish poet and playwright
Austin Clarke, Irish poet
George Elliott Clarke, Canadian poet and university professor
Gillian Clarke,, Welsh poet and playwright writing in English
Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist and diplomat
Claudian, Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius
Matthias Claudius, German poet
Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, poet, and author
Jack Clemo, English Christian poet
Michelle Cliff, Jamaican-American author of short stories, prose poems and literary criticism
Lucille Clifton, educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland
Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, educationalist, and assistant to Florence Nightingale
Coa–Con
Grace Stone Coates, American poet and story writer
Robbie Coburn, Australian poet
Alison Cockburn, Scottish poet, wit, and socialite
Jean Cocteau, French writer
Judith Ortiz Cofer,, Puerto Rican poet and author
Leonard Cohen,, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
Wanda Coleman, African-American poet
Hartley Coleridge, English poet, biographer and essayist
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, English novelist, essayist, and poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
Edward Coletti,, Italian-American poet
Billy Collins, American poet; United States Poet Laureate 2001–2003
William Collins, English poet
William Congreve, English playwright and poet
Stewart Conn, Scottish poet and playwright
Paul Conneally,, English poet, artist and musician
Robert Conquest, Anglo-American historian and poet
Henry Constable, English poet
David Constantine, English poet and translator.
Coo–Cz
Clark Coolidge, American poet
Wendy Cope, English poet
Robert Copland, English printer, author and translator
Denys Corbet, Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais
Tristan Corbière, French poet
Cid Corman, American poet, translator and editor
Alfred Corn, American poet and essayist
Frances Cornford, English poet; wife of F. M. Cornford
F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances Cornford
Joe Corrie, Scottish miner, poet and playwright
Gregory Corso, American Beat poet
Jayne Cortez, American poet and performance artist
George Coșbuc, Romanian poet, translator and teacher
Charles Cotton, English poet, author and translator
Abraham Cowley, English poet
Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet and critic
William Cowper, English poet and hymnist
George Crabbe, English poet, naturalist and clergyman
Hart Crane, American modernist poet
Stephen Crane, American novelist, short story writer, and poet
Richard Crashaw, English Metaphysical poet
Robert Creeley, American poet
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet
Ann Batten Cristall, English poet
Charles Cros, French poet and inventor
Aleister Crowley, English occultist and poet
Andrew Crozier, English poet
György Csanády, Hungarian poet and journalist
Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, essayist and politician
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
Countee Cullen, American poet
Necati Cumalı, Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist, and poet
E. E. Cummings, American poet, essayist and playwright
Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author
James Vincent Cunningham, American poet, literary critic, and teacher
Allen Curnow, New Zealand poet and journalist
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, songwriter, and humorist
Józef Czechowicz, Polish poet
Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian poet, monk and academic
Tytus Czyżewski, Polish poet, playwright and painter
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Da–Dh

Dalpatram,, Indian Gujarati language poet
Roque Dalton, Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian poet
Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian
David Daniels, American visual poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American poet
Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet writing in Old French
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, French-born poet, writer and film executive
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet who initiated modernismo
Keki Daruwalla, Indian poet and short story writer in English
Erasmus Darwin, English poet and herbalist
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author
Elizabeth Daryush, English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges
Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet and author
Petter Dass, Norwegian poet
René Daumal, French para-surrealist writer and poet
Jean Daurat, French poet, scholar and 'La Pléiade'' member
William Davenant, English poet and playwright
Guy Davenport, American writer, translator and illustrator
Donald Davidson American poet, essayist and critic
John Davidson, Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelist
Lucretia Maria Davidson, American poet
Donald Davie, English poet and critic
Alan Davies, American poet, critic and editor
Hugh Sykes Davies, English poet, novelist and communist
Sir John Davies, English poet, lawyer and politician
W. H. Davies, Welsh poet and writer
Jon Davis, American poet
Edward Davison, Scottish-American poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
Peter Davison,, American poet, essayist and editor; son of poet Edward Davison
Denis Davydov, Russian soldier-poet of Napoleonic Wars
Dayaram, Gujarati language poet
Gábor Dayka, Hungarian poet
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate 1968–1972
James Deahl, Canadian poet and publisher
Aurora de Albornoz, Spanish poet
Dulcie Deamer, Australian poet and novelist
John F. Deane, Irish poet and novelist
Aleš Debeljak, Slovenian critic, poet and essayist
Jean Louis De Esque, American poet and author
Madeline DeFrees, American poet
Jacek Dehnel, Polish poet, translator and painter
Thomas Dekker, English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet
Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet
Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist
Leconte de Lisle, French poet of Parnassian movement
Christine De Luca, Scottish poet, writing in English and Shetland dialect
François de Malherbe, French poet, critic, and translator
Alfred de Musset, French poet
Gérard de Nerval, French poet, essayist and translator
Sir John Denham, English poet and courtier
Tory Dent, American poet, critic and commentator
Évariste de Parny, French poet
Regina Derieva, Russian poet and writer
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw, Dutch poet and philosopher
Toi Derricotte, African-American poet
Eustache Deschamps, medieval French poet
Lord de Tabley, poet and botanist
Babette Deutsch, American poet, critic and novelist
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, Spanish playwright and poet
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet praised also for lost plays
Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright and novelist
Lakshmi Prasad Devkota, Nepali poet and essayist
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, South African poet and performance artist
Imtiaz Dharker, Pakistan-born British poet, artist and filmmaker
Dhurjati, Telugu language poet
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Souéloum Diagho, Tuareg poet
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Italian-Canadian poet; second Poet Laureate of Toronto
Jennifer K Dick,, American poet
James Dickey, American poet and novelist, 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
Emily Dickinson, American poet
Matthew Dickman, American poet, twin of Michael Dickman
Michael Dickman, American poet, twin of Matthew Dickman
Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and politician
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic
Diane di Prima, American poet
Paul Dirmeikis, French poet
Vladislav Petković Dis, Serbian poet
Thomas M. Disch, American poet, novelist
Tim Dlugos, American poet
Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist
Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, and poet
Lajos Dóczi, Hungarian poet and journalist
Gojko Đogo, Serbian poet
Pete Doherty,, English musician, songwriter, and poet
Digby Mackworth Dolben, English poet
Joe Dolce,, Australian songwriter, poet, and essayist
John Donne, English poet, satirist and Anglican cleric
H.D., Hilda Doolittle, American Imagist poet
Edward Dorn, American poet and teacher
Mark Doty, American poet and memoirist
Sarah Doudney, English poet and children's writer
Charles Montagu Doughty, English poet, writer, and traveller
Alice May Douglas,, American poet and author
Gavin Douglas, Scottish bishop, makar, and translator
Keith Douglas, English war poet
Rita Dove, American poet and author; US Poet Laureate
Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short-story writer
Lajos Dóczi, Hungarian playwright, poet and politician
Jane Draycott, English poet
Michael Drayton, English poet of Elizabethan era
Aleksander Stavre Drenova, Albanian poet
John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German poet
William Drummond, Scottish poet
William Henry Drummond, Irish-born Canadian poet
Elżbieta Drużbacka, Polish poet
John Dryden, English Restoration English poet, critic and playwright
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French Huguenot poet
Joachim du Bellay, French poet, critic and La Pléiade member
W. E. B. Du Bois, American writer and activist
Norman Dubie, American poet
Jovan Dučić, Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat
Du Fu, Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty
Du Mu, Chinese poet of late Tang Dynasty
Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Alan Dugan, American poet
Sasha Dugdale, English poet, playwright and translator
Richard Duke, English clergyman and poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet, novelist and playwright
William Dunbar, Scots makar
Robert Duncan, American poet
Camille Dungy, American poet, academic and essayist
Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, academic and critic
Stephen Dunn, American poet
Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, poet and dramatist
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet and dramatist
Stuart Dybek, American poet, writer
Sir Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet.
Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, writer and Nobel prizewinner
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Joan Adeney Easdale, English poet
Richard Eberhart, American poet
Russell Edson, American poet, novelist, and illustrator
Terry Ehret, American poet
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and novelist
Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Icelandic poet
George Eliot , English novelist, journalist, and translator
T. S. Eliot, American-English publisher, playwright, and critic
Ebenezer Elliott, English poet
Royston Ellis, English poet
Paul Éluard, French poet
Odysseus Elytis Greek poet
Claudia Emerson, American poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet
Gevorg Emin, Armenian poet, essayist, and translator
Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist
William Empson, English literary critic and poet
Yunus Emre, Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
Michael Ende, German author of fantasy, poetry and children's literature
Leszek Engelking, Polish, poet, fiction writer and translator
Paul Engle, American poet, novelist and playwright
Ennius, considered father of Latin poetry in Rome
D J Enright, English poet, novelist and critic
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer, poet and translator
János Erdélyi, Hungarian poet and philosopher
Louise Erdrich, American novelist, poet, and children's book writer, featuring Native American heritage
Haydar Ergülen, Turkish poet
Max Ernst, German poet and artist
Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Telugu poet
Wolfram von Eschenbach, German Minnesinger poet and knight
Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator and editor
Martín Espada, American poet and teacher
Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet
Salvador Espriu, Catalan poet
Jill Alexander Essbaum, American poet
Alter Esselin, Yiddish American poet and carpenter
Claude Esteban, French poet
Maggie Estep, American slam poet and musician
Jerry Estrin, American poet and editor
Euripides, Athenian tragedian
Margiad Evans, English poet and novelist
Mari Evans, African-American poet
William Everson , American poet and critic
Gavin Ewart, English poet
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Frederick William Faber, English poet, hymn writer, and theologian
Kinga Fabó, Hungarian poet and essayist
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Indian/Pakistani poet
Padraic Fallon, Irish poet
Christian Falster, Danish poet and philologist
Ferenc Faludi, Hungarian poet
György Faludy, Hungarian poet and translator
U. A. Fanthorpe, CBE, English poet
Eleanor Farjeon, English children's writer, playwright and poet
J. P. Farrell, American poet and musician
Elaine Feinstein, English poet, novelist, and playwright
Károly Fellinger Hungarian poet in Slovakia
Fenggan, Chinese Zen monk poet under the Tang Dynasty
Elijah Fenton, English poet, biographer and translator
James Fenton, Northern Irish linguist and poet writing in Ulster Scots
James Martin Fenton, English poet, journalist, and literary critic
Ferdowsi, Persian poet
Teréz Ferenczy, Hungarian poet
Robert Fergusson, Scots poet who influenced Robert Burns
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter, and activist
Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator, and poet
Jerzy Ficowski, Polish poet, writer and translator
Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, and poet
Juan de Dios Filiberto, Argentine poet and musician
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, English nature poet
Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, and translator
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, and gardener
Roy Fisher, English poet and jazz pianist
Edward Fitzgerald, English poet and translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator
Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child poet and diarist
Giles Fletcher the Elder, English poet, diplomat and MP
Giles Fletcher the Younger, English poet
John Fletcher, Jacobean era English playwright and poet
John Gould Fletcher, Imagist poet
Phineas Fletcher, English poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother of Giles the younger
F. S. Flint, English poet and translator
Fo–Fu
Jean Follain, French author, poet, and corporate lawyer
Theodor Fontane, German novelist, poet, and realist writer
John Forbes, Australian poet
Carolyn Forché, American poet, editor, and translator
Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic
John Ford, English playwright and poet
John M. Ford, American SF and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet
Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Scots poet and critical theorist
Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer, revolutionary, and poet
William Fowler, Scottish poet, writer, and translator
Janet Frame, New Zealand author
Anatole France, French poet, journalist and novelist
Robert Francis, American poet
Veronica Franco, Italian poet and courtesan
G S Fraser, Scots poet, critic and academic
Gregory Fraser, American poet, editor, and professor
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer; seen as national poet of Albania
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, politician and playwright
Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet and playwright
Grace Beacham Freeman, American poet and short story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–86
Nicholas Freeston, English poet
Erich Fried, Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator
Jean Froissart, French chronicler and court poet
Robert Frost, American poet; four times Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
Gene Frumkin, American poet and teacher
John Fuller, English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller
Roy Fuller, English poet
Alice Fulton,, American poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
John Furnival, British visual and concrete poet
Milán Füst, Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright
Fuzûlî, Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
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Tadeusz Gajcy, Polish poet
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Polish poet and stage writer
Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet
James Galvin, American poet
Etienne-Paulin Gagne, French poet, essayist, and inventor
János Garay, Hungarian poet and journalist
Robert Garioch, Scottish poet and translator
Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, and essayist
Raymond Garlick, Anglo-Welsh poet and first editor of Anglo-Welsh Review
Richard Garnett, English scholar, biographer, and poet
Jean Garrigue, American poet
Samuel Garth, English physician and poet
George Gascoigne, English poet, soldier, and would-be courtier
David Gascoyne, English poet associated with Surrealist movement
Théophile Gautier, French poet, dramatist, and novelist
John Gay, English poet and dramatist
Yehonatan Geffen, Israeli author, poet, and playwright
Theodor Seuss Geisel , American writer, poet, and cartoonist
Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet, writer and translator
Stefan George, German poet, editor and translator
Dan Gerber, American poet
Ágnes Gergely, Hungarian poet, novelist and translator
Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist
Cezary Geroń, Polish poet, journalist and translator
Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib Indian poet writing in Urdu and Persian
Charles Ghigna , American children's author, poet, and feature writer
Reginald Gibbons, American poet, fiction writer, and critic
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, English Georgian poet
Jack Gilbert, American poet
W. S. Gilbert, English poet
Zuzanna Ginczanka, Polish poet
Allen Ginsberg, American poet of Beat Generation
Dana Gioia, American writer, critic, and poet
Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer, and educator
Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet, playwright, and religious thinker
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian scholar and poet
Giuseppe Giusti, Italian poet
Denis Glover, New Zealand poet and publisher
Louise Glück, American poet; US Poet Laureate
Guru Gobind Singh, Indian poet writing in Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit etc.
Cyprian Godebski, Polish poet and novelist
Gérald Godin, Quebec poet in French and politician
Patricia Goedicke, American poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, and politician
Octavian Goga, Romanian poet, playwright and translator
Leah Goldberg, Hebrew-language poet, playwright, and writer
Rumer Godden, English children's writer and poet
Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet
Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer and poet
Pavel Golia, Slovenian poet and playwright
George Gomri, Hungarian poet and journalist
Luis de Góngora, Spanish lyric poet
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
Paul Goodman, American novelist, playwright, and poet
Barnabe Googe or Gooche, English pastoral poet and translator
Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet and politician
Gábor Görgey, Hungarian poet and politician
Sergei Gorodetsky, Russian poet
Hedwig Gorski, American performance poet and artist
Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and socialist
Sir Edmund William Gosse, English poet, author, and critic
Remy de Gourmont, French poet, novelist and critic
John Gower, English poet and friend of Chaucer
Gr–Gy
Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish historian, priest, and poet
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish nobleman, soldier, and poet
Jorie Graham, American poet and first female Boylston Professor at Harvard
W S Graham, Scottish poet
Mark Granier, Irish poet and photographer
Alex Grant, Scottish American poet and teacher
Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, and playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Richard Graves, English poet and essayist
Robert Graves, English author and scholar
Sir Alexander Gray, Scottish translator, writer, and poet
Thomas Gray, English poet
Robert Greene, English author and poet
Dora Greenwell, English poet
Linda Gregg American poet
Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, and critic
Eamon Grennan, Irish poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet, dramatist, and statesman
Susan Griffin, American poet and writer
Ann Griffiths, Welsh poet and hymnist
Bill Griffiths, English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar
Jane Griffiths, English poet and literary historian
Mariela Griffor, Chilean poet, short-story writer, and scholar
Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic
Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer, poet, and dramatist
Nicholas Grimald, English poet and dramatist
Angelina Weld Grimké, African-American playwright and poet
Charlotte Forten Grimké, African-American poet and activist
Rufus W. Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist
Nikanor Grujić, Serbian writer, poet and bishop
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist
Philip Gross, English poet, novelist and playwright
Igo Gruden, Slovene poet and translator
N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish poet, pastor and historian
Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Polish poet and writer
Barbara Guest, American poet and prose stylist
Edgar Guest, English-born American poet
Paul Guest, American quadriplegic poet and memoirist
Bimal Guha, Bangladesh poet writing in Bengali
Guillaume de Lorris, French scholar and poet
Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet
Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, activist, and writer
Guido Guinizelli, Italian poet
Guiot de Provins, French poet and trouvère
Malcolm Guite
Gül Baba, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet
Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet who founded acmeism
Ivan Gundulić , Croatian Baroque poet
Thom Gunn, Anglo-American poet
Lee Gurga, American haiku poet
Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet
Lars Gustafsson, Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Cuban novelist and poet
Beth Gylys, American poet and professor
István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet
Géza Gyóni, Hungarian poet
Brion Gysin, English writer, sound poet, and performance artist
Gabor G. Gyukics, Hungarian-American poet and translator
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Ha

Rafey Habib, Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
Marilyn Hacker, American poet, translator, and critic
Hadraawi, Somali poet and songwriter
Hafez, Persian poet
Hai Zi, Chinese poet
John Haines, American poet and educator
Donald Hall, American poet, writer, and critic; 2006 US Poet Laureate
Arthur Hallam, English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson
Michael Hamburger, English translator, poet, and academic
Han Yu, Chinese essayist and poet under Tang dynasty
Hanshan, Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
Charles Harpur, Australian poet
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris, Guyanese poet, novelist, and essayist
Jim Harrison, American poet, novelist and essayist
Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
Carla Harryman, American poet, essayist, and playwright
David Harsent, English poet and TV scriptwriter
Paul Hartal, Hungarian-born Canadian poet, painter and critic
Peter Härtling, German writer and poet
Michael Hartnett, Irish poet writing in English and Irish
Julia Hartwig, Polish poet, writer and translator
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and librettist
Alamgir Hashmi, English poet of Pakistani origin
Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet
Robert Hass, American poet; former Poet Laureate
Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet
Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, poet and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1912
Stephen Hawes, English poet
Robert Stephen Hawker, English poet, antiquarian, and Anglican priest
George Campbell Hay, Scots poet and translator writing in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, and English
Gilbert Hay, Scottish poet and translator writing in Middle Scots
Robert Hayden, American poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
William Hayley, English writer
Tony Haynes, American poet, songwriter, and lyricist
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Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, playwright, and translator; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
Josephine D. Heard, American teacher and poet
John Heath-Stubbs, English poet and translator
Anne Hébert, Canadian poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht, American poet
Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet, historian, and philosopher
Allison Hedge Coke, American poet, writer, and performer
Markus Hediger, Swiss writer and translator
Ilona Hegedűs, poet
John Hegley, English performance poet, comedian, and songwriter
Heinrich Heine, German poet, essayist, and literary critic
Lyn Hejinian, American poet, essayist, and translator
Acharya Hemachandra, Jain scholar, poet, and polymath
Felicia Hemans, English poet
Marian Hemar, Polish poet, songwriter and playwright
Essex Hemphill, American poet and activist
Hamish Henderson, Scottish poet, songwriter, and catalyst for folk revival in Scotland
William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor
Adrian Henri, English poet and painter
Robert Henryson, Scottish poet
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Anglo-Welsh soldier, historian, poet and religious philosopher; brother of George Herbert
George Herbert, public orator and poet
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, among first English women to achieve a major reputation for literary works
Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet, essayist, and drama writer
Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic
Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright associated with Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements
Herodas or Herondas, Greek poet and author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse
Antoine Héroet,, French poet
Robert Herrick, English poet
Thomas Kibble Hervey, Scottish-born English poet and critic
Hesiod, Ancient Greek poet
Phoebe Hesketh, English poet
Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist, and playwright
John Harold Hewitt, Northern Ireland-born poet
William Heyen, American poet, literary critic, novelist
Thomas Heywood, English playwright, actor, and author
Hi–Hy
Dick Higgins, English poet and publisher
Scott Hightower, American poet and teacher
Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet, playwright, and novelist
Geoffrey Hill, English poet and professor
Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright, and novelist
Ellen Hinsey, American poet
Hipponax, of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poet
Hirato Renkichi, Japanese avant-garde poet
Rozalie Hirs,, Dutch poet
Jane Hirshfield,, American poet
George Parks Hitchcock, American poet, playwright, and painter
H. L. Hix, American poet and academic
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve, English poet and clerk
Michael Hofmann, German-born poet and translator writing in English
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist, poet, and dramatist
James Hogg, Scottish poet and novelist
David Holbrook, English writer, poet, and academic
Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet
Margaret Holford, English poet and novelist
Barbara Holland, American author
John Hollander, Jewish-American poet and literary critic
Matthew Hollis, English poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet, professor, and author
Homer, Greek epic poet
Thomas Hood, English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood
A. D. Hope, Australian satirical poet and essayist
Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest
Horace , Roman lyric poet
George Moses Horton, African-American poet
Joan Houlihan, American poet
A. E. Housman, English poet and classicist
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English Renaissance poet
Richard Howard, American poet, critic, and essayist
Fanny Howe, American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Susan Howe, American poet, scholar, and essayist
Hrotsvitha, poet and playwright from Lower Saxony; first known woman dramatist
Mohammad Nurul Huda, Bangladeshi poet writing in Bengali
John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet writing in Welsh
Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist and playwright
Ted Hughes, English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Richard Hugo, American poet
Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet
Lynda Hull, American poet
Thomas Ernest Hulme, English critic and poet
Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, and poet
Sam Hunt, New Zealand poet
Hồ Xuân Hương, Vietnamese poet
Aldous Huxley, English novelist, poet, and travel writer
Helen von Kolnitz Hyer, American poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–83
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Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, director, and poet
Ibycus, Ancient Greek lyric poet
Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Vojislav Ilić, Serbian poet
Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist
Maria Ilnicka, Polish poet, novelist and translator
Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Indian poet writing in Urdu and Persian
Avetik Isahakyan, Armenian lyric poet
Sabit Ince, Turkish lyric poet
Wacław Iwaniuk, Polish poet and journalist
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and translator
Sergey Izgiyaev, Russian poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descent
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FP Jac, Danish poet
Violet Jacob, Scottish poet writing in Scots
Rolf Jacobsen, Norwegian poet and writer
Ada Jafarey Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
Richard Jago, English poet
Đura Jakšić, Serbian poet, painter, and dramatist
James I, King of Scots, author of The Kingis Quair
James VI and I, King of Scots, and of England and Ireland
Christine James, Welsh poet and academic
Clive James, Australian author, poet, and memoirist
Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer, poet, and translator
Klemens Janicki, Polish poet in Latin
Janus Pannonius, Hungarian/Slavonian poet in Latin
Patricia Janus, American poet and artist
Mark F. Jarman, American poet and critic
Randall Jarrell, American poet, children's author, and novelist; US Poet Laureate
Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet, novelist and playwright
Mieczysław Jastrun, Polish poet and essayist
László Jávor, Hungarian poet
Robinson Jeffers, American poet
Vojin Jelić, Croatian Serb poet and writer
Rod Jellema, American poet, teacher, and translator
Simon Jenko, Slovene poet, lyricist, and writer
Elizabeth Jennings, English poet
Jia Dao, Chinese poet active under Tang Dynasty
John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet
Edmund John, English poet
Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet
Helene Johnson, African-American poet
James Weldon Johnson, American author, poet, and folklorist
Lionel Johnson, English poet, essayist, and critic
Emily Pauline Johnson , Canadian writer, performer, and poet celebrating her First Nations heritage
Samuel Johnson, English poet, essayist, and lexicographer
George Benson Johnston, Canadian poet, translator, and academic
Anna Jókai, Hungarian poet and prose writer
David Jones, English artist and poet
Richard Jones, English American poet
Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist
June Jordan, American poet and educator
Anthony Joseph, British-Trinidadian poet, novelist, and musician
Jenny Joseph, English poet
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Serbian poet, physician
James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet
Attila József, Hungarian poet
Frank Judge, American editor, poet, and film critic
Ferenc Juhász, Hungarian poet
Gyula Juhász, Hungarian poet
Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher
Donald Justice, American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980
Juvenal, Roman poet and satirist
Jumoke Verissimo, Nigerian poet
Jaydeep Sarangi 1973, Indian Poet in English
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Ka–Kh

Abhay K, Indian poet and diplomat
Kabir, mystic poet and sant of India
Margit Kaffka, Hungarian poet and novelist
Kālidāsa, Sanskrit poet
Kambar, Tamil poet
Anna Kamieńska, Polish poet, translator and critic
Kannadasan, Tamil poet, author, and lyricist
Jim Kacian, American haiku poet and editor
Uuno Kailas, Finnish poet, author, and translator
Chester Kallman, American poet, librettist, and translator
László Kálnoky, Hungarian poet and translator
Kálmán Kalocsay, Hungarian poet in Hungarian and Esperanto
Anna Kamieńska, Polish poet, writer, and critic
Ilya Kaminsky, Russian-American poet, critic, and translator
Orhan Veli Kanik, Turkish poet
Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet and translator from Romania
Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, philosopher, and critic
Adeena Karasick, New York-based Canadian poet, media artist, and essayist
Vim Karenine, American poet, essayist, and novelist
György Károly, Hungarian poet and critic
Franciszek Karpiński, Polish poet
Mary Karr, American poet, essayist, and memoirist
Julia Kasdorf, American poet
Laura Kasischke, American poet and fiction writer
Jan Kasprowicz, Polish poet, playwright and critic
Lajos Kassák, Hungarian poet, novelist and painter
Erich Kästner, German author, poet, and satirist
József Katona, Hungarian playwright and poet
Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
Shirley Kaufman, American poet and translator
Rupi Kaur, Indo-Canadian poet and photographer
Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist
Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, and revolutionary
John Keats, English Romantic poet
Weldon Kees, American poet, novelist, and critic
Isabella Kelly, Scottish poet and novelist
Arthur Kelton, rhymster about Welsh history
Miranda Kennedy, American poet
Walter Kennedy, Scottish makar
X. J. Kennedy, American poet, anthologist, and children's writer
Jane Kenyon, American poet and translator
Géza Képes, Hungarian poet and translator
Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet
Sidney Keyes, English poet killed in action in World War II
Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African poet and political activist
Mimi Khalvati, Iranian-born British poet
Dilwar Khan, Bangladeshi poet
Khushal Khan Khattak, Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior, and tribal chief
Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet
Vladislav Khodasevich, Russian poet and literary critic
Talib Khundmiri, Indian poet and humorist writing in Urdu
Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow, Sufi poet, scholar, and musician
Ki–Ky
Saba Kidane, Eritrean poet
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and poet
Emelihter Kihleng Pohnpeian poet and academic
Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Polish poet and politician
Takarai Kikaku, Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
Joyce Kilmer, American writer and poet
Edward King, Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas
Henry King, English poet and bishop
William King, English poet
Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish bishop, poet, and hymn-writer
Gottfried Kinkel, German poet and revolutionary
Galway Kinnell, American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982
John Kinsella, Australian poet, novelist, and essayist
Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, and editor
Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, and poet
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish poet, novelist, and playwright
Atala Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet
Eila Kivikk'aho, Finnish poet
Carolyn Kizer, American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
Sarah Klassen, Canadian poet and writer of short fiction
August Kleinzahler, American poet
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, Polish poet and Jesuit
Etheridge Knight, African-American poet
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haikai poet
Jan Kochanowski, Polish Renaissance poet
Kenneth Koch, American poet, playwright, and professor
Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet
Petar Kočić, Bosnian Serb writer and politician
István Koháry, Hungarian poet and politician
Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician
Aladár Komját, Hungarian poet and politician
Yusef Komunyakaa, American poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994
Béla Kondor, Hungarian poet, prose writer and painter
Faik Konitza, Albanian poet
Halina Konopacka, Polish poet and athlete
Maria Konopnicka, Polish poet, novelist and children's writer
Ted Kooser, American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 2004–2006
Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski, Polish poet and translator
Julian Kornhauser, Polish poet, novelist and critic
Apollo Korzeniowski, Polish poet, playwright and translator
Srečko Kosovel, Slovene expressionist poet
József Kossics, Hungarian/Slovene poet and priest
Laza Kostić, Serbian poet, writer, and polyglot
Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and prose writer
Urszula Kozioł, Polish poet
Taja Kramberger, Slovene poet, translator, and anthropologist
Ignacy Krasicki, Polish poet and novelist
Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet
Zlatko Krasni, Serbian poet
Ruth Krauss, American poet and children's book author
Krayem Awad, Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor, and poet
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, American writer; Poet Laureate of Virginia
Katarzyna Krenz, poet, novelist and painter
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian/Yugoslav poet and novelist
Antjie Krog, South African poet, academic and writer
Józef Krupiński, Polish poet
Ryszard Krynicki, Polish poet and translator
Marilyn Krysl, American poet and short story writer
Andrzej Krzycki, Polish poet and archbishop
Žofia Kubini, Hungarian poet writing in early Czech
Paweł Kubisz, Polish poet and journalist
Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet and critic
Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian/Irish novelist, poet, and translator
Endre Kukorelly, Hungarian poet and journalist
Maxine Kumin, American poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82
Stanley Kunitz, American poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000
Yanka Kupala, Belarus poet
Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet and author
Jalu Kurek, Polish poet and prose writer
Momoko Kuroda, Japanese haiku poet
Mira Kuś, Polish poet
Onat Kutlar, Turkish writer and poet
Stephen Kuusisto, American poet
Kusumagraj, Indian Marathi poet, writer, and humanist
Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston, English poet, lawyer, and politician
Kyoshi Takahama, known as Kyoshi, Japanese poet
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Jean de La Fontaine, French fabulist
Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet
Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet writing in French
László Ladányi, Hungarian-Israeli poet and writer
Jules Laforgue, Franco-Uruguayan poet
Jarkko Laine, Finnish poet, writer, and playwright
Ivan V. Lalić, Serbian poet
Philip Lamantia, American poet and lecturer
Kendrick Lamar, American poet and hip-hop artist
Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet, and politician
Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist.
Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
Antoni Lange, Polish poet, philosopher and translator
William Langland probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman
Emilia Lanier, English poet
Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos, Hungarian poet and historian
Laozi , Chinese philosopher and poet of history of ancient China
Alda Lara, Angolan poet
Rebecca Hammond Lard, American poet
Bruce Larkin, American children's author and poet
Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist
Claudia Lars, Salvadoran poet
Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright
Lasus of Hermione, Greek lyric poet from Hermione in Argolid
Evelyn Lau, Canadian poet and novelist
James Laughlin, American poet and publisher
Ann Lauterbach, American poet, essayist and professor
Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-born French poet
Dorianne Laux, American poet
Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and novelist
D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, and critic
Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson, Australian poet and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson
Robert Lax, American poet
Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Nepalese poet and scholar
Henryka Łazowertówna, Polish poet
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Edward Lear, English poet, artist, and illustrator
Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and aphorist
Joanna Lech, Polish poet and novelist
Jan Lechoń, Polish poet, critic, and diplomat
Francis Ledwidge, Irish war poet
David Lee, American poet
Dennis Lee, Canadian poet, editor, and critic
David Lehman, American poet and editor
Ágnes Lehóczky, Hungarian poet, academic and translator
Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist
Brad Leithauser, American poet, novelist, and essayist
Alexander Lenard Hungarian writer and poet in several languages
Sue Lenier, English poet and playwright
Lalitha Lenin, Indian poet
Krystyna Lenkowska, Polish poet and translator
Charlotte Lennox, Scottish poet and novelist
John Leonard, Australian poet
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, essayist, and philologist
Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer, poet, and painter
Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist, and critic
Bolesław Leśmian, Polish poet and artist
Rika Lesser, American poet and translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, philosopher, and dramatist
Denise Levertov, British-born American poet
Dana Levin, American poet and teacher
Philip Levine, American poet; 2011–12 US Poet Laureate, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Larry Levis, American poet
D. A. Levy, American poet, artist, and alternative publisher
William Levy, American poet, short story writer, and editor
Oswald LeWinter, poet
Alun Lewis, Welsh poet in English, of World War II
C S Lewis, Northern Irish novelist, poet, and essayist
Gwyneth Lewis, Welsh poet; inaugural National Poet of Wales
J. Patrick Lewis, American poet; Children's Poet Laureate
Saunders Lewis, Welsh poet, dramatist, and critic
Wyndham Lewis, English painter and author
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Li Houzhu, poet and last ruler of Southern Tang Kingdom
José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet
Tim Liardet, English poet, critic, and professor
Li Bai, Chinese Tang dynasty poet
Jerzy Liebert, Polish poet
Li Jiao, poet and official under Tang and Zhou dynasties
Li Qingzhao, Chinese Song dynasty writer and poet
Li Shangyin, Chinese late Tang dynasty poet
Tim Lilburn, Canadian poet and essayist
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh
Jack Lindeman, American poet and critic
Sarah Lindsay, American poet
Rossy Evelin Lima, Mexican poet
Vachel Lindsay, American poet
Ewa Lipska, Polish poet
László Listi, Hungarian poet and counterfeiter of coins
Józef Łobodowski, Polish poet and political thinker
Terry Locke, New Zealand poet, anthologist, and academic
Thomas Lodge, English dramatist and writer
Iain Lom, Scottish Gaelic poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator
Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, dramatist, and theater director
Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, poet, and librarian
Richard Lovelace, English Cavalier poet
Amy Lowell, American poet; 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Russell Lowell, American poet, critic, and diplomat
Robert Lowell, American poet; 1947 and 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 1947 US Poet Laureate
Maria White Lowell, American poet and abolitionist
Solomon Löwisohn, Hungarian Jewish poet and historian in Hebrew and German
Mina Loy, English poet, playwright, and novelist
Lu You, Chinese Song dynasty poet
Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Polish poet, writer and politician
Gherasim Luca, Romanian poet and surrealist
Lucan, Roman poet
Edward Lucie-Smith, English writer, poet, and broadcaster
Gaius Lucilius, Roman satirist
Lucilius Junior, poet and procurator of Sicily
Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author, journalist, and explorer
Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk, Hungarian poet and politician
Luo Binwang, Chinese early Tang-dynasty writer and poet
Thomas Lux, American poet
Mario Luzi, Italian poet
John Lydgate, English monk and poet
John Lyly, English writer, poet and dramatist
Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Scottish Lord Lyon and poet
George Lyttelton, English poet, statesman, and arts patron
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Anglo-Scottish poet, historian, and politician
George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist
Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poets
George MacDonald, Scottish poet and novelist
Sorley MacLean, Scottish Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer and poet
Antonio Machado, Spanish poet
Arthur Machen, Scottish writer, memoirist, and poet
Archibald MacLeish, American Modernist poet and writer of lots of books; three Pulitzer Prizes
Aonghas MacNeacail, writer in Scottish Gaelic
Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright
Hector Macneill, Scottish poet and songwriter
James Macpherson, Scottish writer and poet
Haki R. Madhubuti, African-American writer, poet, and educator
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator
Derek Mahon, Northern Irish poet
Rudolf Maister, Slovene military officer, poet, and activist
Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar, Marathi and Hindi poet and playwright
János Majláth, Hungarian historian and poet
Clarence Major, American poet, painter and novelist
Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and professor
Majeed Amjad, Indian/Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
Antoni Malczewski, Polish poet
Marcin Malek, Polish poet, writer and playwright
Madayyagari Mallana, Telugu poet
Stephane Mallarme, French poet and critic
David Mallet, Scottish dramatist and poet
Sir Thomas Malory, English author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet, and writer
Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet
Bill Manhire, New Zealand poet and short story writer; inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate
Marcus Manilius, Roman poet and astrologer
Maurice Manning, American poet
Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-born English poet and author
Robert Mannyng, English chronicler and monk writing in Middle English, French, and Latin
Chris Mansell, Australian poet and publisher
Jakobe Mansztajn, Polish poet and blogger
Manuchehri, royal poet in Persia
Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet, novelist
Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet, novelist and U.S. exile
Ausiàs March, Valencian poet and knight
Morton Marcus, American poet and author
Mareez, Indian poet writing in Gujarati
Paul Mariani, American poet and a professor at Boston College
Marie de France, medieval poet probably born in France and resident in England
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor
Giambattista Marino, Italian poet
E. A. Markham, Montserrat poet, playwright, and novelist
Edwin Markham, American poet
Đorđe Marković Koder, Serbian poet
Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, poet, and translator
Clément Marot, French Renaissance poet
Don Marquis, American novelist, poet, and playwright
Edward Garrard Marsh, English poet and Anglican cleric
John Marston, English poet, playwright, and satirist
José Martí, Cuban poet and writer
Martial, Roman epigrammatist
Camille Martin, Canadian poet and collage artist
Harry Martinson, Swedish sailor, author, and poet
Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet and politician
John Masefield, English poet and writer; UK Poet Laureate
Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer, and dramatist
Dafydd Llwyd Mathau, Welsh poet writing in Welsh
János Mattis-Teutsch, Hungarian-Romanian poet and artist
Glyn Maxwell, British poet, playwright, and librettist
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian/Soviet poet and playwright
Karl May, German writer, poet and musician
Bernadette Mayer, American poet and prose writer
Ben Mazer, American poet and editor
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James McAuley, Australian poet and critic
Susan McCaslin, Canadian/American poet and critic
J. D. McClatchy, American poet and critic
Michael McClure, American poet, playwright, and novelist
John McCrae, Canadian poet, physician, and artist
Walt McDonald, American poet; Poet Laureate of Texas
Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet and stand-up comedian
William Topaz McGonagall, Scottish writer of doggerel
Roger McGough, English comedian and poet
Campbell McGrath, American poet
Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet and novelist
Thomas McGrath, American poet
Heather McHugh, American poet, translator, and educator
Duncan Ban McIntyre, Scottish poet in Scots Gaelic
James McIntyre, Canadian writer of doggerel
Claude McKay, Jamaican-American writer and poet
Don McKay, Canadian poet, editor and educator
Rod McKuen, American poet, composer and singer
James McMichael, American poet
Ian McMillan, English poet, playwright, and broadcaster
Meera, Indian Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna
Narsinh Mehta, Indian poet-saint of Gujarat; bhakta
Mei Yaochen, Chinese Song dynasty poet
Peter Meinke, American poet and fiction writer; first Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, FL
Cecília Meireles, Brazilian poet
Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet
Meng Haoran, Chinese Tang dynasty poet
George Meredith, English poet and novelist
Kersti Merilaas, Estonian poet
Alda Merini Italian writer and poet
Stuart Merrill, American poet writing mainly in French
James Merrill, American poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Thomas Merton, American writer and Trappist monk
W. S. Merwin, American poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate
Sarah Messer,, American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew, English poet
Henry Meyer, American poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch
Ferenc Mező, Hungarian poet
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Henri Michaux, Belgian/French poet, writer, and painter
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italian poet and sculptor
Tadeusz Miciński, Polish poet and playwright
Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet, essayist, and publicist
Veronica Micle, Austria/Romanian poet
Christopher Middleton, English poet and translator
Christopher Middleton, English poet and translator from Germany
Thomas Middleton, English poet and playwright
Agnes Miegel, German writer and poet
Josephine Miles, American poet and critic
Jennifer Militello, American poet and professor
Branko Miljković, Serbian poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay, American lyric poet, playwright, and feminist; 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Alice Duer Miller, American writer and poet
Grazyna Miller, Italian/Polish poet and translator
Jane Miller, American poet
Joaquin Miller, American poet
Leslie Adrienne Miller, American poet
Thomas Miller, English poet
Vassar Miller, American writer and poet
Spike Milligan, Irish comedian, poet, and musician
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet; 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
John Milton, English poet, polemicist, and civil servant
Sima Milutinović Sarajlija, Serbian adventurer, writer, and poet
Robert Minhinnick, Welsh poet, essayist, and novelist
Matthew Minicucci, American poet and teacher
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and feminist; 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
Adrian Mitchell, English poet, novelist, and playwright.
Silas Weir Mitchell, American physician and writer
Stephen Mitchell, American poet, translator, and anthologist
Waddie Mitchell, American poet
Ndre Mjeda, Albanian Gheg poet
Stanisław Młodożeniec, poet
Anis Mojgani, American spoken-word poet and visual artist
Molière , French playwright
Atukuri Molla, Telugu poet
Harold Monro, English poet
Harriet Monroe, American scholar, critic, and poet
John Montague, Irish poet
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, writer, and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lenore Montanaro, American poet
Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar
Alan Moore, Irish writer and poet
Marianne Moore, American poet and writer
Merrill Moore, American psychiatrist and poet
Thomas Moore, Irish poet, singer, and songwriter
Dom Moraes ), Goan writer, poet, and columnist
Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet and translator
J. O. Morgan, Scottish poet
John Morgan, Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
Lorin Morgan-Richards, American poet and author
Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet
Eduard Mörike, German poet
William Morris, English writer, poet, and designer
Jim Morrison, American songwriter and poet
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet
Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet
Valzhyna Mort, Belarus poet
Viggo Mortensen, American poet, actor, and musician
Moschus, ancient Greek bucolic poet
Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic
Andrew Motion, English poet, novelist, and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom] 1999–2009
Enrique Moya, Venezuelan poet, fiction writer, and critic
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Micere Githae Mugo, Kenyan playwright, author, and poet
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somali poet and religious leader
Taha Muhammad Ali, Palestinian poet
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar
Erich Mühsam, German-Jewish antimilitarist, anarchist essayist, poet and, playwright
Edwin Muir, Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist, and translator
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Lale Müldür, Turkish poet and writer
Laura Mullen, American poet
Anthony Munday, English playwright and writer
George Murnu, Romanian archaeologist, historian, and poet
Sheila Murphy, American text and visual poet
George Murray, Canadian poet
Joan Murray, American poet, writer, and playwright
Les Murray, Australian poet, anthologist, and critic
Richard Murphy, Irish poet
Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's writer
Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot
Nikola Musulin, Serbian poet
Togara Muzanenhamo, Zimbabwean poet
Christopher Mwashinga, Tanzanian poet, author, and Christian minister
Lam Quang My, Vietnamese poet in Polish and Vietnamese
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Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist and poet writing in Russian and English
Daniel Naborowski, Polish poet
Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Hungarian poet and translator
Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet
Lajos Parti Nagy, Hungarian poet, playwright and critic
László Nagy, Hungarian poet and translator
Guru Nanak Dev, first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Nannaya, earliest known Telugu author
Adam Naruszewicz, Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatist
Ogden Nash, American poet known for light verse
Thomas Nashe, English playwright, poet, and satirist
Imadaddin Nasimi,, Azerbaijani poet
Momčilo Nastasijević, Serbian poet, novelist, and dramatist
Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist and poet of Meiji period
Gellu Naum, Romanian poet, dramatist, and children's writer
Nedîm, Ottoman poet
John Neal, American writer, critic, activist, and poet
Henry Neele, English poet and scholar
John Neihardt, American poet, historian, and ethnographer
Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet
Marilyn Nelson, American poet, translator, and children's writer
Howard Nemerov, American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 1963–64 and 1988–90; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1978
István Péter Németh, Hungarian poet and literary historian
Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, writer and poet
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971
Neşâtî,, Ottoman Sufi poet
Henry John Newbolt, English historian and poet
John Henry Newman, writer, poet and hymnist
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Asian American poet
Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet in the ancient writing script chữ nôm
B. P. Nichol, Canadian poet
Nicholas I of Montenegro, poet and king of Montenegro
Grace Nichols, Guyanese poet
Norman Nicholson, English poet
Lorine Niedecker, American poet
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish poet, playwright and statesman
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, poet, and philologist
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla , Albanian poet and writer
Nisami, Persian poet
Nishiyama Sōin, Japanese haikai poet
Moeen Nizami, Pakistani poet, scholar and writer
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian poet, playwright, and prince-bishop
Yamilka Noa, Cuban–Costa Rican poet
Gábor Nógrádi, Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelist
Christopher Nolan, Irish poet and author
Fan S. Noli, Albanian American writer, diplomat, and historian
Olga Nolla, Puerto Rican poet, writer, and professor
Harry Northup, American actor and poet
Caroline Norton, English writer, feminist and social reformer
Cyprian Norwid, Polish poet, dramatist, and artist
Alice Notley, American poet
Novalis,, German poet and novelist
Franciszek Nowicki, Polish poet and conservationist
Alfred Noyes, English poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, first Aboriginal Australian published poet
Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet and songwriter
Naomi Shihab Nye, Palestinian-American poet, songwriter, and novelist
Robert Nye, English poet, novelist, and children's writer
Niyi Osundare, Nigerian poet, dramatist, and literary critic
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Dositej Obradović, Serbian philosopher, writer, and poet
Sean O'Brien, British poet, critic, and playwright
Philip O'Connor, Anglo-French writer and poet
Antoni Edward Odyniec, Polish poet
Ron Offen, American poet, playwright and producer
Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet
Frank O'Hara, American writer, poet, and art critic
Sharon Olds, American poet
Mary Oliver, American poet; 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Charles Olson, American modernist poet
Saishu Onoe, Japanese poet
Onomacritus, Attica poet, priest, and seer
George Oppen, American poet and political activist
Artur Oppman, Polish poet
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II, American poet, painter, and army officer
Zaharije Orfelin, Serbian polymath and poet
Władysław Orkan, Polish poet
Peter Orlovsky, American poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Orr, American poet
Agnieszka Osiecka, Polish poet, writer and author of screenplays
Alice Oswald, English poet; 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize
Ouyang Xiu, Chinese Song Dynasty historian, essayist, and poet
Ovid,, Roman poet
Wilfred Owen, English poet and soldier
İsmet Özel, Turkish poet and scholar
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Ruth Padel, English poet, author, and critic
Ron Padgett, American poet, writer, and translator
Dan Pagis, Israeli poet, Holocaust survivor
Grace Paley, American short story writer, poet, and political activist
Francis Turner Palgrave, English critic and poet
Palladas, Greek poet
Michael Palmer, American poet and translator
Sima Pandurović, Serbian poet
Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet in Hindi
Daniele Pantano, Swiss poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar
William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh poet and hymn writer in Welsh
Park Yong-rae, Korean poet
Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, and satirist
Thomas Parnell, Irish poet and clergyman
Nicanor Parra, Chilean mathematician and poet
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
Ámbar Past, Mexican poet, visual artist
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist and translator
Leon Pasternak, Polish poet and satirist
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo, Puerto Rican author of poetry, fiction and literary articles
Kenneth Patchen, American poet and novelist
Ravji Patel, Indian poet
Banjo Paterson , Australian bush poet, journalist and author
Don Paterson, Scottish poet, writer and musician
Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic
Brian Patten, English poet
Lekhnath Paudyal, Nepalese poet
Paul I, Prince Esterházy Austro-Hungarian poet
Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, and critic
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Polish poet and dramatist
Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat
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Thomas Love Peacock, English poet and novelist
Patrick Pearse, Irish poet, writer, and political activist; leader of Easter Rising
James Larkin Pearson, American poet and publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1953–1981
Allasani Peddana, Telugu poet, foremost of the Astadiggajas
Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist, and editor
Kathleen Peirce, American poet
Gabino Coria Peñaloza, Argentine poet and lyricist
Sam Pereira, American poet
Lucia Perillo, American poet
Persius, Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic
Lenrie Peters, Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist
Robert Peters, American poet, scholar, and playwright
Pascale Petit, French-Welsh poet, artist
Petrarch , Italian scholar and poet; "Father of Humanism"
Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet and prose writer
Marine Petrossian, Armenian poet, essayist and columnist
Veljko Petrović, Serbian poet, prose writer, and theorist
Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian and Montenegrin poet, soldier, and diplomat
Mario Petrucci, English poet, author, and translator of Italian origin
Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician
Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet
Pi Rixiu, Tang Dynasty poet
Tom Pickard, English poet and documentary film maker
Pindar, Theban lyric poet in Greek
Robert Pinsky, American poet, critic, and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet Laureate
Ruth Pitter, English poet; first woman awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1955
Christine de Pizan, Venetian historian, poet, and philosopher
Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist; 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry as first posthumous recipient
William Plomer, South African novelist, poet, and editor, in English
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Jacek Podsiadło, Polish poet, translator and essayist
Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, and critic
Suman Pokhrel, Nepalese poet, playwright, and artist
Wincenty Pol, Polish poet and geographer
Margaret Steuart Pollard, English poet
Edward Pollock, American poet and lawyer
John Pomfret, English poet and clergyman.
Marie Ponsot, American poet, critic, and essayist
Vasko Popa, Serbian poet of Romanian descent
Alexander Pope, English poet
Antonio Porchia, Italian Argentinian poet
Judith Pordon,, American poet, writer, and editor
Peter Porter, England-based Australian poet
Halina Poświatowska, Polish poet and writer
Wacław Potocki, Polish poet and moralist
Ezra Pound, American expatriate poet and critic; promoted Imagism
Alishetty Prabhakar, Telugu poet
Adélia Prado, Brazilian writer and poet
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician and poet
Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet in Hindi
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet
Petar Preradović, Croatian poet, writer, and general
France Prešeren, Carniolan Romantic poet
Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter
Richard Price, Scottish poet, novelist, and translator
Robert Priest, English-born Canadian poet, children's author, and singer/songwriter
F. T. Prince, English poet and academic
Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat
Bryan Procter, English poet
Sextus Propertius, Latin elegiac poet of Augustan age
Kevin Prufer, American poet, academic, and essayist
J H Prynne, English poet; British Poetry Revival
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish poet, novelist and playwright
Zenon Przesmycki, Polish poet, translator and critic
Jeremi Przybora, Polish poet, writer and singer
Luigi Pulci, Italian poet best known for Morgante
Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, novelist, and playwright
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Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet, and publisher
Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, Indian poet, writer, and politician
Aref Qazvini, Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician
Qu Yuan, Chinese poet of Warring States period
Francis Quarles, English Christian poet
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Ra–Re

Jean Racine, French dramatist
Branko Radičević, Serbian lyric poet
Sam Ragan, American poet, journalist, and writer; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1982–96
Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and columnist; key figure in Bengali literature
Craig Raine, English poet associated with Martian poetry
Kathleen Raine, English poet, critic, and scholar
Samina Raja, Pakistani poet, writer, and broadcaster
Milan Rakić, Serbian poet
Carl Rakosi, American Objectivist poet
Martin Rakovský, Hungarian poet and scholar
Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Hungarian poet and translator
Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, and explorer
Tenali Rama, Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu, Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
Ramarajabhushanudu, Telugu poet and notable musician, one of the Astadiggajas
Guru Ram Das, Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, playwright and publisher
Dudley Randall, African-American poet and publisher
Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist
John Crowe Ransom, American poet, essayist, and magazine editor
Addepalli Ramamohana Rao, Telugu poet and literary critic
Ágnes Rapai, Hungarian poet, writer, and translator
Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
Stephen Ratcliffe, American poet and critic
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist
Tom Raworth, British poet and visual artist; key figure in the British Poetry Revival
Herbert Read, English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Angela Readman, English poet
James Reaney, Canadian poet, playwright, and professor
Malliya Rechana, Telugu poet
Peter Redgrove, English poet
Henry Reed, English poet, translator, and radio dramatist
Ishmael Reed, American poet, playwright and novelist
Ennis Rees, American poet, professor, and translator; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1984–85
James Reeves, English poet, children's writer, and writer on traditional song
Abraham Regelson, Israeli Hebrew poet, author, and children's author
Christopher Reid, Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist, and cartoonist
James Reiss, American poet
Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet and prose writer
Robert Rendall, Orkney Scottish poet and amateur naturalist
Pierre Reverdy, French poet inspired by and influencing Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism
Jacobus Revius , Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian, and church historian
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, translator, and critical essayist
Sydor Rey, Polish poet and novelist
Charles Reznikoff, American Objectivist poet
Raees Warsi, Pakistani poet, writer, and lyricist writing in Urdu
Ri–Ry
Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira, Ecuadorian poet
Stan Rice, American poet and artist; husband of author Anne Rice
Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist
John Richardson, English poet of the Lake District
Edgell Rickword, English poet, critic, and journalist
Lola Ridge, Irish-born American anarchist poet and editor
Laura Riding, American poet, critic, and novelist
Anne Ridler, English poet and editor
James Whitcomb Riley, American writer, poet; known as Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet
John Riley, English poet associated with British Poetry Revival
Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-Austrian poet
Gopal Prasad Rimal, Nepali poet and playwright
Arthur Rimbaud, French symbolist poet; part of Decadent movement
Alberto Ríos, American poet and professor
Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar writing in Urdu and Persian
Emma Roberts, English travel writer and poet
Michael Roberts, English poet and writer, editor 1936 Faber Book of Modern Verse
Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet; won three Pulitzer Prizes
Mary Robinson, English poet and novelist
Peter Robinson, English poet
Roland Robinson, Australian poet and writer
Georges Rodenbach, Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist
W R Rodgers, Northern Irish poet, essayist, and Presbyterian minister
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian poet and artist
Theodore Roethke, American poet; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Samuel Rogers, English poet
Rognvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney and saint
Matthew Rohrer, American poet
Géza Röhrig, Hungarian poet and actor
David Romtvedt, American poet
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet
Franklin Rosemont, American poet, artist, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
Penelope Rosemont, American poet, writer, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
Isaac Rosenberg, English poet of World War I
Barbara Rosiek, Polish poet, writer and psychologist
Alan Ross, English poet, cricket writer, and editor
Christina Rossetti, English poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet, illustrator and painter; co-founded Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Andrus Rõuk, Estonian artist and poet
Raymond Roussel, French poet, novelist, and playwright
Nicholas Rowe, English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715
Samuel Rowlands, English poet and pamphleteer
Susanna Roxman, English poet born in Sweden
Istvan Rozanich, exiled Hungarian poet
Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and writer
Ljubivoje Ršumović, Serbian poet
Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor
Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist
Zygmunt Rumel, Polish poet and partisan
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi, Persian Muslim poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic
Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet; national poet of Finland, wrote in Swedish
Nipsey Russell, American comedian; regarded as "poet laureate of television"
Lucjan Rydel, Polish poet and playwright
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Polish poet, essayist and dramatist
Ryōkan, Japanese calligrapher and poet
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Sa–Se

Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist
Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet
Nelly Sachs, Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex, English poet and courtier
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman, poet, and dramatist
Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet and gardener
Saʿdī Shīrāzī, medieval Persian poet
Ahmad Shamloo, Persian poet, writer, and journalist
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, American poet, novelist, and children's writer
Ali Ahmad Said , Syrian poet, essayist, and translator
Mellin de Saint-Gelais,, French Renaissance poet; Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
Akim Samar, Soviet poet and novelist regarded as first Nanai language writer
Sonia Sanchez, African-American poet; associated with Black Arts Movement
Michal Šanda, Czech writer and poet
Carl Sandburg, American poet, writer, and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, humanist, and epigrammist from Naples
Ann Sansom, English poet and writing tutor
Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian Serb poet
Taneda Santōka, Japanese free verse haiku poet
Genrikh Sapgir, Russian poet and fiction writer
Sappho, ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
Jaydeep Sarangi, Indian poet in English
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish poet in Latin
William Saroyan, American author of Armenian descent
Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet
Subagio Sastrowardoyo, Indonesian poet, short-story writer, and literary critic
Satsvarupa Das Goswami, American poet and artist; founded International Society for Krishna Consciousness
William Saunders, Welsh poet writing in Welsh
Richard Savage, English poet; subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage
Leslie Scalapino, American poet, writer, and playwright; associated with Language poets and Beat poets
Maurice Scève, French poet
Hermann Georg Scheffauer, American poet, architect, and short story writer
Georges Schehadé, Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French
Friedrich Schiller, German poet, philosopher, and playwright
Arno Schmidt, German author and translator
Dennis Schmitz, American poet
Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and dramatist
Philip Schultz, American poet; 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Schuyler, American poet; 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Morning of the Poem
Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer
Alexander Scott, Scottish poet
Alexander Scott, Scottish poet and playwright
Frederick George Scott, Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. Scott
F. R. Scott, Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
Tom Scott, Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Gil Scott-Heron, American soul musician and jazz poet
George Bazeley Scurfield, English poet, novelist, author and politician
Peter Seaton, American Language poet
Władysław Sebyła, Polish poet
Johannes Secundus, Dutch Neo-Latin poet
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English poet, wit, and dramatist
George Seferis , Greek poet, Nobel laureate, and Ambassador to UK
Hugh Seidman, American poet
Rebecca Seiferle, American poet
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lasana M. Sekou, Sint Maarten poet, essayist, and journalist
Semonides of Amorgos, Greek iambic and elegiac poet
Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist; first president of Senegal
Robert W. Service, Scottish-Canadian poet; called "Bard of the Yukon"
Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
Anne Sexton, American poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John W. Sexton, Irish poet, short-story writer, and children's novelist
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Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–92
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golkonda, who wrote poetry in Persian, Telugu and Urdu
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright
Tupac Shakur, American rapper, actor, and black activist
Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter, actress, and poet; lead singer of Otep
Ntozake Shange, American playwright and poet
Jo Shapcott, English poet, editor, and lecturer
Karl Shapiro, American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1946–47
Brenda Shaughnessy, American poet
Luci Shaw, English-born Christian poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley, major English Romantic poet
William Shenstone, English poet
Bhupi Sherchan, Nepalese poet
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist
Masaoka Shiki, Japanese author, poet, and literary critic
Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet
James Shirley, English dramatist
Avraham Shlonsky, Israeli poet and editor
Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier
Eli Siegel, Latvian-American poet and critic; founded philosophy of Aesthetic Realism
Robert Siegel, American poet and novelist
August Silberstein, Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in German
Jon Silkin, English poet
Ron Silliman, American poet; associated with Language poetry
Shel Silverstein, American poet, musician, and children's writer
Simeon Simev, Macedonian poet, essayist, and journalist
Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet; 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008
Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
, South African Author, Poet and Public Speaker.
Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet; 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Bennie Lee Sinclair, American poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000
Burns Singer, American poet usually identified with Scotland, where he was raised
Marilyn Singer, American children's writer and poet
Ervin Šinko, Croatian-Hungarian poet and prose writer
Lemn Sissay, English author and broadcaster
Charles Hubert Sisson, English writer, best known as poet and translator
Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic; eldest of three literary Sitwells
Sjón, Icelandic author and poet
Sk–Sp
Egill Skallagrímsson, Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, the protagonist of Egil's Saga
John Skelton, English poet
Sasha Skenderija, Bosnian-American poet
Ed Skoog, American poet
Jan Stanisław Skorupski, Polish poet, essayist and esperantist
Pencho Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet
Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet, publicist, and folklorist
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet and journalist
Anton Martin Slomšek, Slovene bishop, author, and advocate of Slovenian culture
Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet, playwright and artist
Juliusz Słowacki, Polish Romantic poet; one of "Three Bards" of Polish literature
Boris Slutsky, Russian poet
Christopher Smart, English poet and playwright
Hristo Smirnenski, Bulgarian poet and writer
Bruce Smith, American poet
Charlotte Turner Smith, English Romantic poet and novelist
Clark Ashton Smith, American poet, sculptor, and author
Margaret Smith, American poet, musician, and artist
Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist
Stevie Smith, English poet and novelist
Sydney Goodsir Smith, Scots poet in Lallans
Tracy K. Smith, American poet, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
William Jay Smith, American poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–1970
Tobias Smollett, Scottish poet and author
William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet; 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, and environmentalist; 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Edith Södergran, Swedish-speaking Finnish poet
Sōgi, Japanese waka and renga poet
David Solway, Canadian poet, educational theorist, and travel writer
William Somervile, English poet
Sophocles,, Athenian tragedian
Charles Sorley, English war poet of World War I
Gary Soto, Mexican-American author and poet
William Soutar, Scottish poet in English and Braid Scots
Caroline Anne Southey, English poet
Robert Southey, English Romantic poet, Lake Poet and UK Poet Laureate
Robert Southwell, English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionary
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
Bernard Spencer, English poet, translator, and editor
Stephen Spender, English poet, novelist. and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965–66
Edmund Spenser, English poet best known for The Faerie Queene
St–Sz
Edward Stachura, poet, prose writer and translator
Leopold Staff, Polish poet
William Stafford, American poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–71
A.E. Stallings, American poet and translator
Jon Stallworthy, English academic, poet and literary critic
Harold Standish, Canadian poet and novelist
Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet
Ann Stanford, American poet
Anna Stanisławska, Polish poet
George Starbuck, American neo-formalist poet
Andrzej Stasiuk, Polish poet and novelist
Statius, Roman poet
Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE, New Zealand novelist, poet and critic
Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet
Joseph Stefan, Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet, living in Austria
Stefan Stefanović, Serbian poet
Gertrude Stein, American Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, and art collector
Eric Stenbock, Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction
Mattie Stepanek, American poet and advocate
George Stepney, English poet and diplomat
Anatol Stern, Polish poet and art critic
Gerald Stern, American poet
Marinko Stevanović, Bosnian poet
C. J. Stevens, American writer of poetry, short stories, and biography
Wallace Stevens, American Modernist poet
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer
Margo Taft Stever, American poet
Trumbull Stickney, American classical scholar and poet
James Still, American poet, novelist and folklorist
Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja, Serbian poet
Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, and philosopher
Donna J. Stone, American poet and philanthropist
Ruth Stone, American poet, author and teacher
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, American poet and editor
Edward Storer, English writer, translator and poet, associated with Imagism
Theodor Storm, German writer and poet
Alfonsina Storni, Latin American Modernist poet
Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–91
Botho Strauß, German playwright, poet, and novelist
Joseph Stroud, American poet
Jesse Stuart, American writer known for short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia
Su Shi, Song dynasty writer, poet, and artist
Su Xiaoxiao, courtesan and poet under Southern Qi Dynasty
Sir John Suckling, English poet and inventor of the card game cribbage
Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
Jovan Sundečić, Serbian poet
Cemal Süreya, Turkish poet and writer
Abhi Subedi, Nepalese poet, playwright, and critic
Pingali Surana, Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
Robert Sward, American and Canadian poet and novelist
Cole Swensen, American poet, translator, and copywriter; Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
Karen Swenson, American poet
May Swenson, American poet and playwright
Marcin Świetlicki, Polish poet, prose writer and musician
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, and novelist
Anna Świrszczyńska , Polish poet
Joshua Sylvester, English poet
Arthur William Symons, English poet, critic and magazine editor
John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist, poet, and collector of folklore
Władysław Syrokomla, Polish poet and translator in the Russian Empire
Lőrinc Szabó, Hungarian poet and literary translator
Fruzina Szalay, Hungarian poet and translator
Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński, Polish poet, also in Latin
Arthur Sze, Chinese American poet
Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician
Gyula Szentessy, Hungarian poet
George Szirtes, Hungary-born British poet and translator
Janusz Szpotański, Polish poet, satirist and translator
Włodzimierz Szymanowicz, Polish poet and painter
Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, essayist, and translator; Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Szymon Szymonowic, Polish poet
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Ta–Te

Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
Judit Dukai Takách, Hungarian poet
Bogi Takács, Hungarian poet and fiction writer in the U.S.
Taliesin, British poet of post-Roman period
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu, Tamil poet, editor, and critic
Maxim Tank, Belarusian poet
Tao Qian, Chinese poet of Six Dynasties period
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet, essayist, and literary critic
Alain Tasso, Franco-Lebanese poet, painter, and critic
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet; best known for Jerusalem Delivered
Allen Tate, American poet, essayist, and social commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–44
James Tate, American poet; 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Emma Tatham, English poet
Edward Taylor, colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
Emily Taylor, English poet and children's writer
Henry Taylor, English poet and dramatist
Henry S. Taylor, American poet; 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist
Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet
Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Telesilla, Greek poet
William Tennant, Scottish scholar and poet.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850–1892
Vahan Terian, Armenian poet, lyricist, and public activist
Elaine Terranova, American poet
Lucy Terry, African-American poet; author of oldest known work by African American
A. S. J. Tessimond, English poet
Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish poet, satirist, and ney performer"
Th–To
Kálmán Thaly, Hungarian poet and politician
Ernest Thayer, American writer and poet
John Thelwall, English poet and essayist
Theocritus, Greek bucolic poet
Jan Theuninck, Belgian painter and poet
Nandi Thimmana, Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas at court of King Krishnadevaraya
Thiruvalluvar, Tamil poet and philosopher
Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer in English
Edward Thomas, Welsh poet and essayist in English
Lorenzo Thomas, American poet and critic
R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet in English and Anglican priest
John Thompson, English-born Canadian poet
John Reuben Thompson, American poet, journalist, editor, and publisher
Francis Thompson, English poet and ascetic
James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright; lyrics of Rule, Britannia!
James Thomson, Scottish Victorian poet
Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet, and philosopher
Georg Thurmair, German poet and hymn writer
Maria Luise Thurmair, German poet and hymn writer
Joseph Thurston, English poet
Anthony Thwaite, English poet and writer
Tibullus, Latin poet and writer of elegies
Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet
Thomas Tickell, English poet and man of letters
Ludwig Tieck, German poet, translator, editor, and critic
Tikkana, Telugu poet, translator of Mahabharata
Gary Tillery, American writer, poet, and artist
Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade, Somali poet
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Polish poet
Nick Toczek, English writer, poet, and broadcaster
Melvin B. Tolson, American Modernist poet, educator, and columnist
Charles Tomlinson, English poet and translator
Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist; important figure in Harlem Renaissance
Mihály Tompa, Hungarian poet and pastor
Álvaro Torres-Calderón, Peruvian poet
Kálmán Tóth, Hungarian poet
Krisztina Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator
Sándor Tóth, Hungarian poet and journalist
Cyril Tourneur, English poetic dramatist
Ann Townsend American poet and essayist
Tr–Tz
Thomas Traherne, English poet, clergyman, and religious writer
Georg Trakl, Austrian Expressionist poet
Elizabeth Treadwell, American poet
Roland Michel Tremblay, French Canadian writer and poet
Duško Trifunović, Serbian poet and writer
Calvin Trillin, American humorist, poet, and novelist
Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist, literary critic and scholar
Suryakant Tripathi, Indian poet in Hindi and Bengali
Quincy Troupe, American poet, editor, journalist and professor
Tõnu Trubetsky , Estonian glam punk musician and poet
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Soviet poet
Kurt Tucholsky, German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
Charlotte Maria Tucker, English poet and religious writer
Tulsidas, Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher
Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian writer and public activist; considered national poet of Armenia
Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet, critic, and publisher
George Turberville, English poet
Charles Tennyson Turner, English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson
Julian Turner, English poet and mental health worker
Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer
Hone Tuwhare, New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet of Jewish descent
Jan Twardowski, Polish poet and priest
Chase Twichell, American poet, professor, and publisher
Pontus de Tyard,, French poet and priest; member of "La Pléiade"
Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian Romantic poet
Tristan Tzara, Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artist; a founder of Dada movement
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Kornel Ujejski Polish poet and political writer
Erzsi Újvári, Hungarian poet
Laura Ulewicz, American Beat poet
Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha, Telugu poet; sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham
Jeff Unaegbu, Nigerian writer, actor, and documentary film maker
Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist, novelist, and poet
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet, critic, and academic; 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Unorthodox Australian Poet, Australian poet
Louis Untermeyer, American poet, anthologist, and critic; US Poet Laureate 1961–62
John Updike, American novelist, poet, and literary critic
Allen Upward, Irish-English poet, lawyer and teacher; Imagist poet
Amy Uyematsu, Japanese-American poet
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János Vajda, Hungarian poet and journalist
Paul Valéry, French author and poet of the Symbolist school
Alfonso Vallejo, Spanish artist, playwright, and poet
César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, writer, and playwright
Jean-Pierre Vallotton, French-speaking Swiss poet and writer
Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature
Cor Van den Heuvel, American haiku poet, editor, and archivist
Mona Van Duyn, American poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–93
Lin Van Hek, Australian poet, writer, and fashion designer
Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian Communist poet
Varand,, Armenian poet, writer, and professor of literature
Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet writing in Hindi
Dimitris Varos, modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer
Henry Vaughan, Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, English poet
Joana Vaz, Portuguese poet and courtier
Vazha-Pshavela , Georgian poet and writer
Reetika Vazirani, American poet and educator
Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
Attila Végh, Hungarian poet and philosopher
Maffeo Vegio , Italian poet who wrote in Latin
Vemana, Indian Telugu language poet
Gavril Stefanović Venclović, Serbian priest, writer, poet, and illuminator
Helen Vendler, American poetry critic and professor
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet; a prominent figure in Renaixença
Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with Symbolist movement
Paul Vermeersch, Canadian poet
Veturi Sundararama Murthy, known as Veturi, Telugu poet and song-writer
Francis Vielé-Griffin, French symbolist poet
Peter Viereck, American poet, professor and political thinker
Gilles Vigneault, Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
Judit Vihar, Hungarian poet and literary historian
Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino poet, literary critic, and painter
Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright
François Villon, French poet, thief, and barroom brawler
Virgil, ancient Roman poet of Augustan period
Roemer Visscher, Dutch salesman, writer and poet
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, Hungarian poet
Mihailo Vitković, Hungarian poet in Serbian and lawyer
Walther von der Vogelweide,, celebrated Middle High German lyric poet
Vincent Voiture, French poet
Voltaire , French Enlightenment writer
Joost van den Vondel, Dutch playwright and poet
Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet Russian poet
Stanko Vraz, Croatian-Slovenian language poet
Vyasa, revered Hindu figure; considered the author of Mahabharata and some Vedas
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Wa–Wh

Wace, Norman poet
Sidney Wade, American poet and professor
John Wain, English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with The Movement
Diane Wakoski, American poet; associated with deep image, confessional and Beat generation poets
Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
Anne Waldman, American poet
Rosmarie Waldrop, German-American poet, translator, and publisher
Arthur Waley, English orientalist and Sinologist; poet and translator
Alice Walker, American author, poet, and activist
Margaret Walker, African-American writer
Edmund Waller, English poet and politician
Martin Walser, German writer
Robert Walser, German-speaking Swiss writer
Connie Wanek, American poet
Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and memoirist
Wang Wei, Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, and painter
Wang Wei, Chinese priestess and poet
Emily Warn, American poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner, English novelist and poet
Robert Penn Warren, American poet, novelist, and literary critic; a founder of New Criticism
Thomas Warton, English literary historian, critic, and poet
Albert Wass, Hungarian poet and novelist exiled to the U.S.
Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet, translator, and painter
Thomas Watson, English lyric poet writing in English and Latin
Samuel Wagan Watson, Australian poet
George Watsky, American poet and rapper
Barrett Watten, American poet, editor, and educator; associated with Language poets
Isaac Watts, English hymnist and logician
Theodore Watts-Dunton, English critic and poet
Tom Wayman, Canadian poet, author, and educator
Adam Ważyk, Polish poet and essayist
Francis Webb, Australian poet
John Webster, English dramatist
Rebecca Wee, American poet, professor
Hannah Weiner, American Language poet
Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and translator
Wei Yingwu, Chinese poet
Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet
Marjory Heath Wentworth, American poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
Charles Wesley, English leader of Methodist movement, and prolific hymnist
Gilbert West, English poet, translator and Christian apologist
Philip Whalen, American poet, Zen Buddhist, and figure in San Francisco Renaissance
Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet
Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet
Mary Whateley, English poet and playwright
Phillis Wheatley, first African-American poet
Billy Edd Wheeler, American songwriter, performer, and poet
E.B. White, American essayist, author, and humorist
Henry Kirke White, English poet
James L. White, American poet, editor, and teacher
Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and humanist
Isabella Whitney, English poet
Reed Whittemore, American poet, biographer, and critic
John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet
Wi–Wy
Anna Wickham , English poet brought up in Australia
Les Wicks, Australian poet, publisher, and editor
Ulrika Widström, Swedish poet and translator
John Wieners, American lyric poet
Kazimierz Wierzyński, Polish poet and journalist
Richard Wilbur, American poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–88, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 and 1989
Jane Wilde, Irish poet and nationalist
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, playwright, and poet
John Wilkinson, English poet
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, best known as earliest troubadour whose works have survived
Aeneas Francon Williams, British poet, writer and, missionary
Emmett Williams, American poet and visual artist
Jonathan Williams, American poet, publisher, and essayist
Heathcote Williams, English poet, political activist, and dramatist
Miller Williams, American poet, translator, and editor
Oscar Williams, Jewish Ukrainian-American anthologist and poet
Saul Williams, African-American singer, poet, writer, and actor
Sherley Anne Williams, African-American poet, novelist, and social critic
Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet; pacifist and Welsh nationalist
William Carlos Williams, poet and physician; associated with Modernism and imagism
William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh poet and hymnist
Clive Wilmer, English poet
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, English poet, courtier, and satirist
Eleanor Wilner, American poet and editor
Peter Lamborn Wilson, American political and cultural writer, essayist, and poet
Christian Wiman, American poet and editor
David Wingate, Scottish poet and collier
Yvor Winters, American poet and literary critic
George Wither, English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish poet, writer and philosopher
Stefan Witwicki, Polish poet
Woeser, Tibetan activist, poet, and essayist
Rafał Wojaczek, Polish poet
Grażyna Wojcieszko, Polish poet and essayist
Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist, and poet
Charles Wolfe, Irish poet
Hans Wollschläger, German writer, translator, and historian
Sholeh Wolpe, Iranian-American poet, literary translator, and playwright
Maryla Wolska, Polish poet
George Woodcock, Canadian writer of biography and history, anarchist thinker, and poet
Gregory Woods, English poet who grew up in Ghana
Dorothy Wordsworth, English author, poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet
Philip Stanhope Worsley, English poet
Carolyn D. Wright, American poet
Charles Wright, American poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
David Wright, South African-born poet and author
Franz Wright, American poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Wright, American poet, father of Franz Wright; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Jay Wright, African-American poet, playwright, and essayist
Judith Wright, Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
Lady Mary Wroth, English poet of the Renaissance
Thomas Wyatt, English ambassador and lyrical poet
Józef Wybicki, Polish poet and national-anthem writer
Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist
Hedd Wyn, Welsh language poet
Edward Alexander Wyon, English architect and poet
Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish poet, playwright and painter
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Xenokleides, poet of Athens
Xin Qiji, Chinese poet in Song dynasty
Cali Xuseen Xirsi , Somali poet active in the 1960s
Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, Uzbek poet; awarded title of People's Poet of Uzbekistan
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Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet on modern religious themes
Leo Yankevich, American poet and editor
Peyo Yavorov, Bulgarian Symbolist poet
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet Russian poet, dramatist, and film director
Lin Yining, Chinese poet, painter, and composer
Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet, feminist and pacifist
Andrew Young, Scottish poet and clergyman
Edward Young, English poet
Kevin Young, American poet and teacher
Marguerite Young, American author of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction
A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish poet, musician and songwriter with band CMX
Yuan Mei, Chinese poet, scholar, and gastronome of Qing Dynasty
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Tymon Zaborowski, Polish poet
Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, novelist, and essayist
Józef Bohdan Zaleski, Polish poet
Wacław Michał Zaleski, Polish poet, critic and politician
Andrea Zanzotto, Italian poet
Matthew Zapruder, American poet, translator, and professor
Marya Zaturenska, American lyric poet; 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Kazimiera Zawistowska, Polish poet and translator
Piotr Zbylitowski, Polish poet and courtier
Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak, Polish poet and journalist
Emil Zegadłowicz, Polish poet, playwright and translator
Ludwig Zeller, Chilean poet
Robert Zend, Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and artist
Benjamin Zephaniah, English writer, dub poet and Rastafarian
Hristofor Zhefarovich, Serbian painter, writer and poet; proponent of Pan-Slavism
Calvin Ziegler, German-American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
Narcyza Żmichowska, Polish poet and novelist
Radovan Zogović, Serbian/Montenegrin poet
Miklós Zrínyi, Hungarian poet and statesman
Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā, pre-Islamic Arabian poet
Louis Zukofsky, American poet; one of the primary Objectivist poets
Jerzy Żuławski, Polish poet, novelist and philosopher
Juliusz Żuławski, Polish poet, critic and translator
Huldrych Zwingli, leader of Reformation in Switzerland; poet, hymnist and author of Pestlied
Eugeniusz Żytomirski, Polish poet, playwright and novelist in Russia and Canada

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Al–Am

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Ri–Ry

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