This is a list of notable poets.
Bab–Ban
Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet
Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), American poet and writer of Apache and Chicano descent
Bacchylides (fl. 5th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
Bellamy Bach, pseudonym used by a group of writers of fiction, poetry, short stories
Joseph M. Bachelor (aka Joseph Morris; 1889–1947), American author, poet, editor and educator
Harivansh Rai Bachchan 20th century, Hindi poet
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian Poet
George Bacovia (1881–1957), Romanian poet
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldier
Mahnaz Badihian (aka Oba), Iranian-American poet
Julio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian actor and one of the leading authors of the Esperanto movement; wrote Esperanto poetry
Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuanian-American translator, editor, and poet
David Baker (born 1954), American poet
Bâkî (1526–1600), Ottoman poet (pen name of Mahmud Abdülbâkî)
John Balaban (born 1943), American poet and translator
Jesse Ball (born 1978), American poet and novelist
Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragist
Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator
Russell Banks (born 1940), American writer of fiction and poetry
Bar–Bax
Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), American writer, poet, dramatist, essayist and music critic
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author
Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer
John Barbour (c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots
Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet
George Barker (1913–1991), English poet and author
Les Barker (born 1947), English poet
Coleman Barks (born 1937), American poet
Mary Barnard (1909–2001), American poet, biographer and translator
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American writer
William Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
Catherine Barnett (born 1960), American poet and educator
Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), English poet
Willis Barnstone (born 1927), American poet and literary translator
Laird Barron (born 1970), American poet, author
Bertha Hirsch Baruch, late 18th- to early 19th-century American writer, poet and suffragette
Todd Bash (born 1965), American avant-garde playwright, poet and writer
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poet
Michael Basinski (born 1950), American text, visual and sound poet
Ellen Bass (born 1947), American poet
Arlo Bates (1850–1918), American author, poet, educator and newspaperman
David Bates (1809–1870), American poet
Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), American poet, writer, professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate
János Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poet
Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), American poet, journalist and educator
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist, art critic and translator
Eric Baus (born 1975), American poet
Cirilo Bautista (born 1941), Filipino poet, writer and critic
Charles Baxter (born 1947), American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry
James K. Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poet
Jan Beatty, American poet
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), poet, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist, and poet
Joshua Beckman, American poet
Matija Bećković (born 1939), Serbian writer and poet
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physician
Patricia Beer (1919–1999), English poet and critic
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration dramatist; one of the first English professional female writers
Erin Belieu (born 1967), American poet
Marvin Bell (born 1937), American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa
Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco
Xuan Bello (born 1965), best-known Asturian language poet
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian
Andrei Bely (1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet, theorist and literary critic
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist
William Rose Benét (1886–1950), American poet, writer, and editor
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-American writer and poet
Jim Bennett (born 1951), Liverpool poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
Richard Berengarten (born 1943) English poet, writer and translator
Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy
İlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poet
Charles Bernstein, (born 1950), American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar; prominent Language poet
Béroul (12th century), Norman poet who wrote the episodic poem Tristan
Daniel Berrigan (born 1921), American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet
Ted Berrigan (1934–1983), American poet
James Berry (born 1924), Jamaican poet, based in England
Wendell Berry (born 1934), American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer
John Berryman (1914–1972), American poet and scholar
Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand social worker and poet, born in Horsell, Surrey, England
John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30), English poet, writer and entertainer
Helen Bevington (1906–2001), American poet, prose writer and educator
L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet and essayist
Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet, journalist, social reformer, and Indian independence activist
Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet; native speaker of Gujarati
Źmitrok Biadula (1886–1941), Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer, cultural worker, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement
Laurence Binyon (1879–1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar
Earle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poet
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), Urdu-Hindi poet and revolutionary
bill bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet
Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975), American Navajo poet
Paul Blackburn (1926–1971) American poet
Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), American literary critic and poet.
Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright
William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmaker
Don Blanding (1894–1957), American poet, journalist, writer and speaker
Adrian Blevins (born 1964), American poet
Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet
Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), American philosopher and poet
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823),English laboring class poet
Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and literary critic
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer
Robert Bly (born 1926), American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet
Jean Bodel (1165–1210), Old French poet
Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1–1494), Italian Renaissance poet
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
Eavan Boland (born 1944), Irish poet
Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scots poet, biographer, and journalist
Christian Bök (born 1966), experimental Canadian poet
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers
Edmund Bolton (c. 1575–c. 1633), English historian and poet
Nozawa Bonchō (c. 1640–1714), Japanese haikai poet
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi, and poet
Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance
Kurt Boone, American published poet
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator
Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and journalist
Hristo Botev (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), was an English poet, known particularly for verse drama
David Bottoms (born 1949), American poet; Georgia Poet Laureate
Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), American poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), American poet who won Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989
Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American writer, educator, and political activist
Bra–Bri
Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poet from Lincolnshire
Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), landed in Salem, Massachusetts, June 14, 1630; America's first published poet
Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic
Giannina Braschi (born 1953), American poet born in Puerto Rico
Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930), of Bridgetown, Barbados a major voice in Caribbean literature
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet, lyricist, notable work: the Threepenny Opera
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
Radovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poet
Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian poet and scholar
Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990), American poet, writer of fantasy and horror fiction
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelist
André Breton (1896–1966), French writer and poet; a founder of Surrealism
Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet and novelist
Ken Brewer (1941–2006), American poet and scholar; a Utah Poet Laureate
Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; a Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author
Bro–Bry
Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), American poet and translator
James Brock (born 1958), American poet
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayist
Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldier
William Bronk (1918–1999), American poet
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel Wuthering Heights
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
Hans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), Danish Pietist bishop and poet.
Joan Brossa (1919–1998), Catalan poet, playwright and plastic artist
Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet, living in the United States
Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women’s rights activist
Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusian poet
George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist
James Brown known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scots poet and essayist
Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-American professor, author of works on folklore, poet and literary critic
Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist
William Browne (1590–1643), English poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet, among the prominent poets of the Victorian era
Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright, prominent Victorian era poet
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post
Colette Bryce (born 1970), poet from Northern Ireland
Bryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor
Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, novelist, critic
Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scots poet writing in Scot and Scottish Gaelic.
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
August Buchner (1591–1661), Baroque poet and professor of poetry and rhetoric
Vincent Buckley (1927–1988), Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic
David Budbill (born 1940), American poet, and playwright
Arun Budhathoki (born 1986), Nepalese poet (aka Daniel Song)
Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), American poet
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American poet, novelist and short story writer
Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist
Basil Bunting (1900–1985), English modernist poet
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic
Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist
Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), American poet
John Burnside (born 1955), Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline, winner of T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Poetry Prize
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer
Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and writer
Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter
Raegan Butcher (born 1969), American poet and singer
Ray Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, composer, musician
Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian language poet
Anthony Butts, (born 1969), American poet
Kathryn Stripling Byer (born 1944), American poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09
Witter Bynner (aka Emanuel Morgan) (1881–1968), American poet, writer and scholar
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism
Cab–Cap
Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
Cædmon (fl. 7th century), earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known
Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer (in Gaelic)
Scott Cairns (born 1954), American poet, memoirist and essayist
Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator
Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist
Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist, biographer, filmmaker and painter
Callimachus (c. 305–c. 240 BC), Hellenistic poet; noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria
Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musician
Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poet
Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580), early Portuguese poet (author of Os Lusíadas)
Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h) àdraig Caimbeul), Scottish award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor
David Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in New Guinea
Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet
Jan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist
Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist
Thomas Campion (1567–1619), English composer, poet and physician
Matilde Camus (born 1919), Spanish poet and researcher
Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), American poet and lawyer
Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), British poet
Edip Cansever (1928–1986) Turkish poet
Cao Cao (155–220), warlord, poet
Cao Pi (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet; first emperor of the state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao
Cao Zhi (192–232), Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao
Vahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poet
Car–Cav
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), Brazilian poet.
Ernesto Cardenal (born 1925), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priest, poet and politician
Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet and teacher
Thomas Carew (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet
Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-American poet associated with the Confederation Poets
Jim Carroll (1949–2009), author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician
Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Hayden Carruth (1921–2008), American poet and literary critic
Ann Elizabeth Carson (born 1929), Canadian poet, author, artist, sculptor, feminist, and psychotherapist
Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor
Jared Carter (born 1939), American poet and editor
William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman
Neal Cassady (1926–1968), a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s
Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), American poet and professor
Catullus (c. 84–54 BC), Latin poet of the Roman Republic
Charles Causley (1917–2003), Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer
C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant
Guido Cavalcanti (1250s–1300), Florentine poet, and friend of Dante Alighieri
Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English aristocrat, writer, and scientist
Cecília Meireles (1901-1964), Brazilian poet.
Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator
Thomas Centolella, American poet
Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), French poet and author
Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poet
Luis Cernuda (1903–1963), Spanish poet and literary critic
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), French poet, author and politician from Martinique
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Portuguese surrealist poet
Ashok Chakradhar (born 1951), Hindi author and poet
John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet
Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle; known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française
Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), American cowboy poet and newspaper columnist
George Chapman (1559–1634), English dramatist, translator, and poet
Fred Chappell (born 1936), American author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002
René Char (1907–1998), French poet
Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465), Duke of Orléans from 1407, medieval poet of more than five hundred poems, mostly written during his time as a prisoner of war
Craig Charles (born 1964), English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer; Father of English literature
Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), American Franciscan priest, historian, author, poet, and painter
Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leonean poet and novelist
Kelly Cherry (born 1940), American writer, Poet Laureate of Virginia,
G. K. Chesterton, (1874–1936) was an English writer in a wide range of genres, including poetry
Choe Chiwon (born 857), Korean (Silla) poet
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), female Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period
Henri Chopin (1922–2008), avant-garde poet and musician
Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240–c. 1305), French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose
Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th century), French poet and trouvère
Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter, printer
Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satirist
John Ciardi, (1916–1986) Italian-American poet, translator, and etymologist
Colley Cibber (16711757), English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate
Jovan Ćirilov (born 1931), Serbian theater expert, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, poet
Carson Cistulli (born 1979), American poet, essayist and English professor
Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, professor, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic
Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), American poet and author
Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer
John Clare (1793–1864), English poet
Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright
Austin Clarke (1896–1974), leading Irish poets
George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Poet, University of Toronto professor
Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh
Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat
Claudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius
Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), German poet, also known by the penname of "Asmus".
Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), American humorist, poet, and author
Jack Clemo (1916–1994), English Christian poet, drawing particular inspiration from Cornwall
Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Jamaican-American author of short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism
Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poets Laureate of Maryland
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, an educationalist, and assistant to Florence Nightingale
Coa–Con
Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), Montana writer
Robbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poet
Alison Cockburn(1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialite
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer
Judith Ortiz Cofer, (born 1952), Puerto Rican poet and author
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
Wanda Coleman (born 1946), African-American poet
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), British novelist, essayist, and poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet
Edward Coletti, (born 1944), Italian-American poet
Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet, appointed as United States Poet Laureate 2001–03
William Collins (1721–1759), English poet
William Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poet
Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright
Paul Conneally, (born 1959), English poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough
Robert Conquest (born 1917), Anglo-American historian and poet best known for his influential works of Soviet history
Henry Constable (1562–1613), English poet
David Constantine (born 1944), English, Lancashire-born poet and translator.
Coo–Cow
Clark Coolidge (born 1939, American poet
Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
Robert Copland (fl. 1515), English printer, author and translator
Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet of the Brittany region
Cid Corman (1924–2004), American poet, translator and editor
Alfred Corn (born 1943), American poet and essayist
Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet; wife to F. M. Cornford
F. M. Cornford (1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband to Frances Cornford
Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright.
Gregory Corso (1930–2001), American Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb"
Jayne Cortez (born 1936), American poet, and performance artist
George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist
Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translator
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), leading English poet of the 17th century
Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist
William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist
George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
Hart Crane (1899–1932), American modernist poet
Stephen Crane (1871–1900), American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist
Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), English poet; central figure among the Metaphysical poets
Robert Creeley (born 1926), American poet and author; usually associated with the Black Mountain poets
Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), "father of French Canadian poetry"
Miloš Crnjanski, poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat
Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), English poet
Charles Cros (1842–1888), French poet and inventor
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and poet
Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
Countee Cullen (1903–1946), American poet, a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and author
James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
Allen Curnow (1911–2001), New Zealand poet and journalist
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006), Scottish poet, musician, songwriter and humorist
Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono (born 1940), Indonesian poet
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historian
David Daniels (1933–2008), American visual poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American poet
Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet, who wrote in Old French
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and soldier during World War I
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet and writer; pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry
Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo
Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), major Indian poet and short story writer, writing in English
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), British poet and herbalist
Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet and author; known as Palestinian national poet
Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
René Daumal (1908–1944), French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
Jean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet, scholar, and a member of 'La Pléiade
William Davenant (1606–1668), English poet and playwright
Guy Davenport (1927–2005), American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, and teacher
Donald Davidson (1893–1968) American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author
John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for ballads
Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), American poet
Donald Davie (1922–1995), English Movement poet, and literary critic
Alan Davies (born 1951), American poet, critic and editor
Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist, communist and British surrealist
Sir John Davies (1569–1626), English poet, lawyer, and politician
W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writer
Jon Davis, American poet
Edward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish American poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
Peter Davison, (1928–2004), American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor, and publisher; son of poet Edward Davison
Denis Davydov (1784–1839), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars noted for hussar poetry
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1968–72
James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisher
Aurora de Albornoz (1926–1990), 20th-century Spanish poet
John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist
Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian cultural critic, poet and essayist
Jean Louis De Esque (1879–1956), American poet and author of Betelguese, a trip through hell.
Daniel Defoe (1659/61?–1731) English writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, author of Robinson Crusoe
Madeline DeFrees (born 1919), American poet
Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), 17th-century Mexican poet
Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of the Parnassian movement
Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet, writing in English and Shetland dialect
François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic, and translator
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), 19th-century poet
Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translator
Sir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtier
Tory Dent (1958–2005), American poet, art critic and commentator on the AIDS crisis
Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poet
Regina Derieva (born 1949), Russian poet and writer
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopher
Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-American poet
Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet
Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright and poet
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier poet, praised also for lost plays
Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet, playwright and novelist
Lakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayist
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist
Dhurjati (c. 15th and 16th centuries), Telugu poet in the court of the king Krishnadevaraya, one of the Astadiggajas
Souéloum Diagho, contemporary Tuareg poet
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (born 1949), Italian-Canadian poet; second Poet Laureate of Toronto
Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970), American poet
James Dickey (1923–1997), American poet and novelist; 18thPoet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
Matthew Dickman (born 1975), American poet; twin of Michael Dickman
Michael Dickman (born 1975), American poet; twin of Matthew Dickman
Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and Vice President
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic
Diane di Prima (born 1934), American poet
Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet
Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet
Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), American poet, novelist
Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), American poet
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist
Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), American author, novelist, poet
Gojko Đogo, Serbian poet
Pete Doherty, (born 1979), English musician, songwriter, poet
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet
Joe Dolce, (born 1947), Australian musician, songwriter, poet and essayist
John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer and Anglican cleric
H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American Imagist poet
Edward Dorn (1929–1999), American poet and teacher
Mark Doty (born 1953), American poet and memoirist
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer, and traveller
Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translator
Keith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poet
Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet and author; US Poet Laureate
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with Decadent movement
Jane Draycott, English poet
Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet of the Elizabethan era
Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet
John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet
William Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poet
William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poet
John Dryden (1631–1700), English Restoration poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poet
Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet, critic, and a member of La Pléiade
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, activist
Norman Dubie (born 1945), American poet
Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat
Du Fu (712–770), prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
Du Mu (803–852), leading Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty
Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Alan Dugan (1923–2003), American poet
Richard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poet, associated with Tory writers of Restoration era
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-American poet, novelist, and playwright
William Dunbar (c. 1460–c. 1520), Scots makar
Robert Duncan (1919–1988), American poet associated with New American Poetry, Black Mountain poets, and San Francisco Renaissance
Camille Dungy (born 1972), American poet, academic, essayist, and critic
Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic, and critic
Stephen Dunn (born 1939), American poet
Helen Dunmore (born 1952), English poet, novelist and children's writer
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), expatriate English novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer
Stuart Dybek (born 1942), American poet, writer
Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English courtier and poet.
Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist
Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and National Book Award for Poetry winner
Russell Edson (born 1935), American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator
Terry Ehret (born 1955), American poet
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and novelist of later German romanticism
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, journalist and translator; leading writer of the Victorian era
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), American-English publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), English poet, known as "Corn Law rhymer"
Royston Ellis (born 1941), English poet inspired by Beat Generation
Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet among founders of surrealism
Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet
Claudia Emerson (born 1957) American poet, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist, lecturer and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement
Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet, essayist, and translator
Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian Romantic poet, novelist and journalist
William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet; key figure in New Criticism
Yunus Emre (1240?–1321?), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
Michael Ende (1929–1995), German author of fantasy, poetry and children's literature
Paul Engle (1908–1991), American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright
Ennius (c. 239–c. 169 BC), considered the father of Roman poetry
D J Enright (1920–2002), British academic, poet, novelist and critic
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German author, poet, translator and editor
Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American heritage
Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poet
Max Ernst (1891–1976), German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet; a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism
Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170–c. 1220), German knight and poet; Minnesinger
Clayton Eshleman (born 1935), American poet, translator and editor
Martín Espada (born 1957), American poet and teacher
Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet
Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalan poet
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Christian erotic poet
Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish American carpenter, poet
Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
Maggie Estep (born 1963), American writer, musician, slam poet
Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), American poet and magazine editor
Euripides (480–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Mari Evans (born 1923), African-American poet
William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance; literary critic, printer
Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymn writer and theologian
Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poet
Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist
U. A. Fanthorpe, CBE (1929–2009), English poet
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire
J.P. Farrell (born 1968), American poet and musician
Elaine Feinstein (born 1930), English a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
Fenggan (fl. 9th century), Chinese Zen monk-poet under the Tang Dynasty
Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translator
James Fenton (born 1931), Northern Irish linguist and poet who writes in Ulster Scots
James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist and literary critic; former Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Ferdowsi (935–1020), Persian poet
Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scots poet, and influence on Robert Burns
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), American poet, painter, liberal activist
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and Spanish Enlightenment poet
David Fernández Rivera (born 1986), Spanish poet, playwright, musician and theatre director
Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist, dramatist and poet
Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English poet whose nature poetry was praised by William Wordsworth
Annie Finch (born 1956), American poet, librettist, translator
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener
Roy Fisher (born 1930), English poet and jazz pianist
Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and writer famous for English translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), American poet, critic and translator
Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet and diplomat, member of the English Parliament
Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet, chiefly known for Christ's Victorie and Triumph
John Fletcher (1579–1625), Jacobean era English playwright, poet
John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Imagist poet
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet, elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, and brother of Giles the younger
F. S. Flint (1885–1960), English poet and translator prominent in the Imagist group
Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author, poet, and corporate lawyer
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet; German language realist writer
John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet
Carolyn Forché (born 1950), American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet, critic, and editor
John Ford (1586–1639), English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet
John M. Ford (1957–2006), American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet
Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poet and critical theorist
Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier, and translator
Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand author
Anatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist, and novelist
Robert Francis (1901–1987), American poet
Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice
G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, literary critic and academic
Gregory Fraser (born 1963), American poet, editor, and professor
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writer; regarded as the national poet of Albania
Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer
Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–86
Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer, and translator
Jean Froissart (c. 1337–c. 1405), French chronicler and court poet
Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet; received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), American poet and teacher
John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller
Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet
Alice Fulton, (born 1952), American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
Fuzûlî (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet
Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet
James Galvin (born 1951), American poet
Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric
Robert Garioch (1909–1981), pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, Scots poet and translator
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), American novelist, poet, psychical researcher, essayist and short-story writer
Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and first editor of Anglo-Welsh Review
Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
Jean Garrigue (1914–1972), American poet
Samuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poet
George Gascoigne (1535–1577), English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier
David Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet associated with the Surrealist movement
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic
John Gay (1685–1732), English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club
Yehonatan Geffen (born 1947), Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991), American writer, poet, and cartoonist
Juan Gelman (born 1930), Argentinian poet, writer, translator
Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor, and translator
Dan Gerber (born 1940), American poet
Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymn writer
Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869) Urdu and Persian poet from Subcontinent India
Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), American children's author, poet, speaker, and nationally syndicated feature writer
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic and artist
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English Georgian poet
Jack Gilbert (born 1925), American poet
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911), English poet
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), American poet; leading figure of Beat Generation
Dana Gioia (born 1950), American writer, critic, poet and businessman
Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator
Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar and poet
Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poet
Denis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poet and publisher
Louise Glück (born 1943), American poet; US Poet Laureate
Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Sikh Guru, founder of Khalsa, and Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Brij Bhasha, and Farsi Poet
Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Quebec poet and politician
Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), American poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist, and politician
Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and researcher
Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English writer, poet
Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet
Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet
Paul Goodman (1911–1972), American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist
Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet, and translator
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet, jockey and politician.
Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poet
Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American performance poet and avant-garde artist
Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author and critic
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic
John Gower (c. 1330–1408), English poet and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer
Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier and poet
Jorie Graham (1950), American poet, the first woman to be appointed Boylston Professor at Harvard
W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poet
Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographer
Alex Grant, Scottish American poet, teacher
Günter Grass (born 1927), German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Richard Graves (1715–1804), British poet and essayist
Robert Graves (1895–1985), British author, scholar
Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator, writer and poet
Thomas Gray (1716–1771), British poet
Robert Greene (1558–1592), English author, poet
Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
Linda Gregg (born 1945) American poet
Horace Gregory (1898–1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and professor
Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628), Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Susan Griffin (born 1943), American ecofeminist poet, writer
Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival
Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean journalist, poet, short-story writer, activist, columnist and scholar
Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), British poet and critic
Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet, dramatist
Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and dramatist
Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), African-American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
Charlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator
Rufus W. Griswold (1815–1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic
Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Serbian Bishop, statesman, writer, poet, orator and translator
Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist
Philip Gross (born 1952), English poet, novelist, playwright and academic
Igo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translator
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, pastor, philosopher and historian
Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet and prose stylist
Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born American poet
Paul Guest, American quadriplegic poet and memoirist
Bimal Guha (born 1952), leading Bangladeshi modern poet
Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200–c. 1240), French scholar and poet from Lorris, the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose
Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27
Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer
Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poet and ostensible founder of Dolce Stil Novo
Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvère
Malcolm Guite (born 1957)
Gül Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement
Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poet
Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-American poet associated with The Movement
Lee Gurga (born 1949), American haiku poet
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet
Lars Gustafsson (born 1936), Swedish poet, novelist and scholar
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist, poet
Beth Gylys (born 1964), American poet and professor.
Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist
Rafey Habib, Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic
Hadraawi (born 1943), Somali poet and songwriter
Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet
Hai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poet
John Haines (1924–2011), American poet and educator
Donald Hall (born 1928), 2006 US Poet Laureate
Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by his friend Alfred Tennyson
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet, critic, and academic
Han Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet under Tang dynasty
Hanshan (fl. 9th century), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet
Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 1921), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
Jim Harrison (born 1937), American author; poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays
Tony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwright
Carla Harryman (born 1952), American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with Language poets
David Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriter
Peter Härtling (born 1933), German writer and poet
Michael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet, who wrote in both English and Irish
Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist
Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani origin
Ahmet Haşim (1884?–1933), influential Turkish poet
Robert Hass (born 1941) American poet, and former Poet Laureate
Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian poet
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist, poet, and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912
Stephen Hawes (died 1523), popular English poet during the Tudor period
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall
George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scots poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English
Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th century), Scots poet and translator
Robert Hayden (1930–1980), American poet, essayist, educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer, friend of Cowper
Tony Haynes (born 1960) American poet, songwriter, author, lyricist
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
Josephine D. Heard (1861–c. 1921), American teacher, poet
John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translator
Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), American poet
Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), American poet, historian, philosopher, and author
Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American poet, writer, performer
Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator
John Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Lyn Hejinian (1941), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
Acharya Hemachandra (1089–1172), Jain scholar, poet, and polymath
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), American poet and activist
Hamish Henderson (1919–2002); Scottish poet, songwriter, soldier, and catalyst for folk revival in Scotland
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, critic and editor
Adrian Henri (1932–2000), English poet and painter
Robert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poet
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher; brother of George Herbert
George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), (née Sidney) one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, poetry, and poetic translations
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Miguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright associated with Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements
Herodas or Herondas (3rd century BC), Greek poet and author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse
Antoine Héroet, (died 1568), French poet
Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet
Hesiod (fl. 750–650 BC), Ancient Greek poet
Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
John Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Ireland-born poet
William Heyen (born 1940), American poet, literary critic, novelist
Thomas Heywood (c. 1570s–1641), English playwright, actor, and author
Dick Higgins (1938–1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
Scott Hightower (born 1952), American poet and teacher
Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist
Geoffrey Hill (born 1932), English poet and professor
Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), American poet
Hipponax (6th century BC), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, Ancient Greek iambic poet
Rozalie Hirs, (born 1965), Dutch poet
Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953), American poet
George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter
H. L. Hix (born 1960), American poet and academic
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426), English poet and clerk
Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet who writes in English, and translator
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist
James Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet and novelist
David Holbrook (1923–2011), British writer, poet and academic
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German lyric poet associated with Romanticism
Barbara Holland (born 1933), American author
John Hollander (born 1929), Jewish-American poet and literary critic
Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), American physician, poet, professor, and author
Homer (fl. 8th century BC), Greek epic poet, author of Iliad and Odyssey
Thomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood
A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BC), Roman lyric poet
George Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-American poet
Joan Houlihan, American poet
A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English classical scholar and poet
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry
Richard Howard (born 1929), American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher and translator
Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; associated with Language poetry
Hrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and playwright from Lower Saxony; first known woman dramatist in literature
Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), modern poet from Bangladesh
Langston Hughes (1902–1967), American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist
Ted Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Richard Hugo (1923–1982), American poet
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poet; exponent of artistic movement called Creacionismo
Lynda Hull (1954–1994), American poet
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917), English critic and poet
Alexander Hume (1560–1609), Scottish poet
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), English critic, essayist, poet and writer
Sam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poet.
Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet born at the end of Lê Dynasty
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist; writer of short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts
Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), American poet, writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–83
Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906) major Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Ibycus (fl. second half 6th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet from Rhegium, numbered nine canonical lyric poets
Ikkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet
Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, (1877–1938) Indian poet (Pakistan's national poet)
Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poet
Sabit Ince (1954–), Turkish lyric poet
Sergey Izgiyaev (1922–1972), poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descent
FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
Đura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist, bohemian and patriot
Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet, writer
Ada Jafarey (born 1924) Pakistani Urdu poet
Richard Jago (1715–1781), English poet
James I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair
James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots and King of England and Ireland from 1603
Clive James (born 1939), Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist
Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator
Patricia Janus (1932–2006), American poet and artist
Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), American poet and critic
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist; US Poet Laureate
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), American poet
Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet, writer
Rod Jellema (born 1927), American poet, teacher, and translator
Simon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writer
Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poet
Jia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet active under Tang Dynasty
John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet
Edmund John (1883–1917), English poet of the Uranian school
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Helene Johnson (1906–1995), African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), American author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist and critic
Emily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk: Tekahionwake) (1861–1913), Canadian writer and performer whose poems celebrate her First Nations heritage
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
George Benson Johnston (1913–2004), Canadian poet, translator, and academic
David Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poet
Richard Jones, English American poet
Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
June Jordan (1936–2002), American poet and educator
Anthony Joseph, British-Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and lecturer
Jenny Joseph (born 1932), English poet
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet, physician
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet
Frank Judge (born 1946), American editor and publisher, poet, translator and film critic
Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher
Donald Justice (1925–2004), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980
Juvenal (fl. 1st century–2nd century CE), Roman poet, satirist
Jumoke Verissimo (1979), Nigerian poet
Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet-diplomat
Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and sant of India
Kālidāsa (fl. c. 4th century) Sanskrit poet
Kambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil poet
Kannadasan (1927–1981),Tamil poet, author and lyricist
Jim Kacian (born 1953), American haiku poet, editor, publisher, and public speaker
Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author, and translator
Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American poet, librettist, and translator, who collaborated with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky
Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian poet; foremost figure in Esperanto literature
Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer, translator and literary critic
Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor
Orhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poet; a founder of the Garip Movement
Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic
Andreas Karavis, fictitious poet; hoax created by poet David Solway
Mary Karr (born 1955), American poet, essayist and memoirist
Vim Karenine (born 1933) American poet, essayist and novelist
Julia Kasdorf (born 1962) American poet
Laura Kasischke (born 1961) American poet, fiction writer
Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist
Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), American Beat poet and surrealist; coined the term "beatnik"
Shirley Kaufman (born 1923), American poet and translator
Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadian poet and photographer
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), Irish poet and novelist
Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary
John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet.
Weldon Kees (1914–1955), American poet, painter, critic, novelist, playwright, pianist, and filmmaker
Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history
Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), American poet
Walter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish makar
X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), American poet, translator, anthologist, and author of textbooks and children's literature
Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), American poet and translator
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), American novelist and poet
Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in Tunisia in World War II.
Keorapetse Kgositsile (born 1938), South African poet and political activist
Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet
Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior, charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe
Omar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet
Velemir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), Russian poet and playwright; part of the Russian Futurist movement
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary critic
Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), known as Amīr Khusrow, Sufi musician, poet and scholar
Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and poet
Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), American writer and poet
Edward King (1612–1637), subject of Milton's Lycidas, born in Ireland
Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishop
William King (1663–1712), English poet
Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer
Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionary
Galway Kinnell (born 1927), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982
John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor
Thomas Kinsella (born 1928), Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English short-story writer, poet and novelist
Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian novelist, short story writer and poet
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and activist
Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet
Carolyn Kizer (born 1925), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
Sarah Klassen (born 1932) Canadian writer of short fiction collection and five books of poetry
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poet
Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-American poet
Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poet
Kenneth Koch (1925–2002), American poet, playwright, and professor; New York School
Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writer, politician
Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), American poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994
Faik Konica (1875–1942) Albanian poet
Ted Kooser (born 1939), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 2004–06
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), Slovene expressionist poet
Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serbian poet, writer, lawyer, polyglot, publicist, and politician
Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936) Hungarian poet and prose writer
Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovene poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist
Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), Poland's leading Enlightenment poet; critic of clergy, author of first Polish novel
Zlatko Krasni (1951–2008), Serbian poet
Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), American poet and children's books author
Krayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor and poet
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1940), American writer, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian and Yugoslav poet and novelist
Antjie Krog (born 1952), prominent South African poet, academic and writer
Marilyn Krysl (born 1942), American poet, short story writer
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian Irish novelist, poet and literary translator
Maxine Kumin (born 1925), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82
Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000
Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarus poet
Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist and anarchist
Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet
Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), prominent Turkish writer, film producer/actor, and poet
Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), American poet
Kusumagraj (1912–1999), eminent Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist
Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English lawyer, courtier, poet and politician
Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), Compton poet, hip-hop artist
Ilmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poet
Pierre Labrie (born 1972), poet from Quebec
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist
Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), Franco-Uruguayan poet, major influence on Ezra Pound and T S Eliot
Jarkko Laine (1947–2006), Finnish poet, writer, playwright
Ivan V. Lalić (1931–1996), Serbian poet
Philip Lamantia (1927–2005), American poet and lecturer
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician
Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802–1838), English poet and novelist.
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English writer and poet
William Langland (c. 1332–c. 1386) probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman
Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), first Englishwoman to call herself a professional poet
Laozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th century BC), Chinese philosopher, poet of history of ancient China
Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet
Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), American poet; first poet of Indiana
Bruce Larkin (born 1957), American children's author and poet
Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelist
Claudia Lars (1899–1974), Salvadoran poet
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright
Lasus of Hermione (6th century BC), Greek lyric poet from Hermione in Argolid
David Lehman (born 1948), American poet, editor
Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist
James Laughlin (1914–1997), American poet, publisher
Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), American poet, essayist, and professor
Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan-born French poet
Jan Lauwereyns (born 1969), Belgian poet, writer and scientist
Dorianne Laux (born 1952), American poet
Christine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelist
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Henry Lawson (1867–1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson
Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson
Robert Lax (1915–2000), American poet; friend of Thomas Merton
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepalese poet and scholar
Edward Lear (1812–1888), English artist, illustrator, author, and poet
Jan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish poet, critic, and diplomat; co-founder of Skamander literary movement
Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poet
David Lee (born 1966), American poet
Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and critic
Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist
Brad Leithauser (born 1953), American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher
Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright
Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet
John Leonard (born 1965), Australian poet
Lekhnath Paudyal (1885-1967), Nepalese poet
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter
Ben Lerner (born 1979), American poet, novelist, and critic
Bolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet, artist
Rika Lesser (born 1953), American poet, translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic
Denise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born American poet; associated with Black Mountain poets
Dana Levin (born 1965), American poet and teacher
Philip Levine (born 1928), American poet; 2011–12 US Poet Laureate, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Larry Levis (1946–1996), American poet
D. A. Levy (1942–1968), American poet, artist, and alternative publisher
William Levy (born 1939), American magazine editor, short story writer and poet
Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poet of Ages of Chaos & Fury (2005) and More Atoms of Memory (2006)
Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in English, of World War II
C S Lewis (1898–1963), Northern Irish novelist, poet, academic, critic, essayist, and Christian apologist
Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet, and inaugural National Poet of Wales
J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), American poet and Children's Poet Laureate (2011–13)
Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist
Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and author
Li Houzhu (937–978), last ruler of Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975); poet
José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), Cuban writer and poet
Tim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic, professor
Li Bai (701–762), major Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
Li Jiao, official under Tang and Zhou dynasties; poet
Li Qingzhao (1084–1151), Chinese writer and poet of Song Dynasty
Li Shangyin (813–858), Chinese poet of late Tang Dynasty
Tim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayist
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American author, aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh
Sarah Lindsay, American poet
Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), American poet
Terry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist, poetry reviewer and academic
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and writer of Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
Iain Lom (c. 1624–c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and educator
Michael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poet
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and theater director
Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-American writer, poet, librarian and activist
Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poet
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet of imagist school; 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), American Romantic poet, critic, editor and diplomat; Fireside Poets
Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet, confessional poetry movement; 1947 and 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 1947 US Poet Laureate
Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist
Mina Loy (1882–1966), English artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress and Christian Scientist
Lu You (1125–1209), Chinese Song Dynasty poet
Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet
Lucan (39–65 AD), Roman poet
Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author
Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd century BC), Roman satirist
Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century AD), poet, friend of Seneca; procurator of Sicily under Nero
Lucretius (c. 99 BC–c. 55 BC), Roman poet and philosopher
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), American author, journalist, and explorer
Luo Binwang (640–684), Chinese writer and poet recognized as one of Four Greats of the Early Tang
Thomas Lux (born 1946), American poet
Mario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poet
John Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poet
John Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright and politician
Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490–c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet
George Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman and arts patron
Mac–Mak
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet, historian and Whig politician
George MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelist
Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scots poet
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scots poets, most prominent poet of Scottish Renaissance
George MacDonald (1824–1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian writer, poet
Antonio Machado (1875–1939), Spanish poet; prominent in Generation of '98
Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh short story writer, poet, novelist, journalist, actor
Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist, poet, and co-founder of Scottish National Party
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), American Modernist poet, writer; won three Pulitzer Prizes
Aonghas MacNeacail (born 1942), writer in Scottish Gaelic
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Irish poet and playwright; of generation of "thirties poets"
Hector Macneill (1746–1818), Scots poet and songwriter
James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish writer, poet, and politician, known as "translator" of Ossian poem cycle
Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-American author, educator, and poet
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1941), American aviator and poet; combat pilot officer
Derek Mahon (born 1941), Northern Irish poet
Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene military officer, poet and political activist
Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi and Hindi poet, lyricist, playwright, actor and orator.
Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet, painter and novelist
Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professor
Majeed Amjad (1914–1974), Punjabi Urdu poet
Mal–Mar
Madayyagari Mallana (15th century), Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and critic; symbolist movement
David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet
Sir Thomas Malory (1405–1471), English writer and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), (also Mandelshtam), Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), Irish poet
Bill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor; inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate
Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD), Roman poet and astrologer
Maurice Manning (poet) (born 1966), American poet
Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and author
Robert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and Gilbertine monk writing in Middle English, French and Latin
Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher
Manuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th century), royal poet in Persia
Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet, novelist
Ausiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knight
Morton Marcus (1936–2009), American poet and author
Paul Mariani (born 1940), American poet and a professor at Boston College
Marie de France (fl. 12th century), medieval poet probably born in France and resident in England
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet and editor, founder of Futurist movement
Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), Italian poet
E. A. Markham (1939–2008), Montserrat poet, playwright, novelist and academic
Edwin Markham (1852–1940), American poet
Đorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Serbian poet, sometimes cited as first Serbian modernist.
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet and translator
Clément Marot (1496–1544), French poet of Renaissance period
Don Marquis (1878–1937), American humorist, journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright
Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and Anglican cleric
John Marston (1576–1634), English poet, playwright and satirist
José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer
Martial (40–c. 102), Roman epigrammatists
Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist
Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish sailor, author and poet
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), English metaphysical poet and politician
Mas–Maz
John Masefield (1878–1967), English poet and writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1930–1967)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950), American poet, biographer, and dramatist
Glyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright, librettist, and lecturer
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian and Soviet poet and playwright
Karl May (1842–1912), German writer, poet, composer, playwright, musician
Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and prose writer
James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian academic, poet, journalist, and literary critic; convert to Roman Catholicism
Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/American poet and literary critic
J. D. McClatchy (born 1945), American poet and literary critic
Michael McClure (born 1932), American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist
John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier; "In Flanders Fields"
Walt McDonald (born 1934), American poet, Poet Laureate of Texas
Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet, stand-up comedian
William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), reputedly the worst poet in the history of the English language
Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and, poet
Campbell McGrath (born 1962), American poet
Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet, novelist
Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), American poet
Heather McHugh (born 1948), American poet, translator and educator
Duncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scots Gaelic poet
James McIntyre (1827–1906), the "Cheese Poet", known as worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet
Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
Rod McKuen (born 1933), American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
James McMichael (born 1939), American poet
Ian McMillan (born 1956), English poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster
Narsinh Mehta (1414?–1481?), poet-saint of Gujarat, India; bhakta
Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese poet of Song dynasty
Peter Meinke (born 1932), American poet, essayist, and fiction writer, first Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, FL
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet
Meng Haoran (689 or 691–740), Chinese Tang Dynasty poet
George Meredith (1828–1909), English poet and novelist
Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet, member of the Arbujad
Alda Merini (1931–2009) Italian writer and poet
Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), American Symbolist poet; wrote predominantly in French
James Merrill (1926–1995), American poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Thomas Merton (1915–1968), American author and Trappist monk
W. S. Merwin (born 1927), American poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate
Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
Henry Meyer (1840–1925), American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatist
Henri Michaux (1899–1984), Belgian-born French poet, writer, and painter
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish national poet, essayist, translator, publicist and political writer
Veronica Micle (1850–1889), Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet
Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translator
Christopher Middleton (born 1926), English poet and translator, esp. of German literature
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German author, journalist, and poet
Josephine Miles (1911–1985), American poet and literary critic
Jennifer Militello, American poet and professor
Branko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist; 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), American writer and poet
Grazyna Miller (1957–2009), poet and translator Italian–Polish
Jane Miller, American poet
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), American poet; "Poet of the Sierras"
Leslie Adrienne Miller, American poet
Vassar Miller (1924–1998), writer and poet, sufferer from cerebral palsy
Spike Milligan (1918–2002), Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
John Milton (1608–1674), English poet, polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England
Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet
Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator
Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist; Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwright.
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American physician and writer
Stephen Mitchell, (born 1943) American poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist
Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), American cowboy poet
Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg poet
Anis Mojgani (born 1977), spoken word poet and visual artist
Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), poet and only king of Montenegro
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwright
Atukuri Molla (1440–1530), Telugu poet, author of Ramayana
Harold Monro (1879–1932), English poet; proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop
Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American scholar, critic and poet; editor of Poetry magazine
John Montague (born 1929), Irish poet
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661–1715), English poet and statesman; creator of Bank of England
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, writer and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lenore Montanaro (born 1990), American poet, amputee
Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550?–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar
Alan Moore (poet) (born 1960), Irish writer and poet
Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American Modernist poet and writer
Merrill Moore (1903–1957), American psychiatrist and poet; sonneteer
Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer
Dom Moraes (1938–2004)), Goan writer, poet and columnist
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translator, associated with Scottish Renaissance
John Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975), American publisher, author and poet
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German author and poet
Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), German Romantic poet.
William Morris (1834–1896), English designer and writer; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Arts and Crafts Movement
Jim Morrison (1943–1971), American songwriter and poet; lead singer of The Doors
Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarus poet
Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter
Moschus (fl. 2nd century BC), ancient Greek bucolic poet; student of Aristarchus of Samothrace
Howard Moss (1922–1987), American poet, dramatist and critic
Andrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom] 1999–2009
Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer, translator, essayist and critic
Micere Githae Mugo (born 1942), Kenyan playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), Somali poet and religious leader who set up Dervish state in Scramble for Africa
Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar
Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish antimilitarist, anarchist essayist, poet and playwright
Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist and translator
Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer
Laura Mullen (born 1958), American poet
Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writer
George Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian university professor, archaeologist, historian, translator, and poet
Sheila Murphy (born 1951), American text and visual poet
George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet
Joan Murray (born 1945), American poet, writer, playwright and editor
Les Murray (born 1938), Australian poet, anthologist and critic
Richard Murphy (born 1927), Irish poet, member of Aosdána
Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer
Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot
Nikola Musulin (fl. 19th century), Serbian poet
Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poet
Lam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet writing in Polish and Vietnamese
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist, poet and story writer writing in Russian and English
Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Nannaya (c. 11th century), the earliest known Telugu author
Ogden Nash (1902–1971), American poet known for light verse
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), English playwright, poet and satirist
Imadaddin Nasimi, (died 1417?), Azerbaijani poet
Momčilo Nastasijević (1894–1938), Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist
Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist and poet of Meiji period
Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer and translator
Nedîm (1681?–1730), Ottoman poet
John Neihardt (1881–1973), American poet, prose author, historian, ethnographer, and philosopher of Great Plains
Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet
Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), American poet, translator and children's book author
Howard Nemerov (born 1920), American poet; US Poet Laureate, 1963–64 and 1988–90; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1978
Jan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech journalist, writer and poet
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet, diplomat and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971
Neşâtî, (died 1674), Ottoman Sufi poet;
Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938), English historian, poet
John Henry Newman (1801–1890), English Catholic Cardinal; writer, poet, and hymnist
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian American poet
Nguyễn Du ( 1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in chữ nôm, the ancient writing script of Vietnam
B. P. Nichol (bpNichol) (1944–1988), Canadian poet
Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet
John Gambril Nicholson (1866–1931), English schoolteacher, Uranian poet, and amateur photographer
Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), English poet associated with Cumbrian town of Millom
Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), American Objectivist poet
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic and classical philologist
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911–1938), Albanian poet and writer
Nisami (1141–1209), Persian poet
Nishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet
Petar II Petrovic Njegos (1813–1851), Serbian Orthodox Prince-Bishop of Montenegro; poet, playwright
Robert Nye (born 1939), English poet, novelist, and writer for children
Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and author; member of Aosdána
Fan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian-American writer, diplomat, historian, and founder of Albanian Orthodox Church
Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist and professor
Harry Northup (born 1940), American actor and poet
Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English society beauty, feminist, social reformer, and author
Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor
Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772–1801), German poet and novelist
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poet, political activist, artist and educator
Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-American poet, songwriter, and novelist
Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist, and literary critic
Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian philosopher, educator, writer and poet
Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic, playwright
Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and surrealist poet and painter
Ron Offen (1930–2010), American poet, playwright, critic, editor, and theater producer
Dennis O'Driscoll (born 1954), Irish poet
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), American writer, poet and art critic; New York School
Sharon Olds (born 1942), American poet
Mary Oliver (born 1935), American poet; 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; National book award
Charles Olson (1910–1970), American modernist poet
Saishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poet
Onomacritus (c. 530 BC–480 BC), priest, seer, and poet of Attica
George Oppen (1908–1984),
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), US Army major, inventor, painter, and poet
Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poet
Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), American poet and actor; lifelong partner of Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Orr (born 1947), American poet
Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist
Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet; 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize
Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese statesman, historian, essayist, calligrapher and poet of Song Dynasty
Ovid, (43 BC–17 AD), Roman poet
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldier
İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar
Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author and critic
Ron Padgett (born 1942), American poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator; member of New York School
Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet, Holocaust survivor
Grace Paley (1922–2007), American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poet
Palladas (fl. 4th century), Greek poet
Michael Palmer (born 1943), American poet and translator
Sima Pandurović (1883–1960), Serbian poet
Daniele Pantano (born 1976), Swiss poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymn writer
Park Yong-rae (1925-1980), Korean poet
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718), Irish poet and clergyman
Nicanor Parra (born 1914), Chilean mathematician and poet
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), Italian poet
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (born 1954), Puerto Rican author of poetry, fiction and literary articles
Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972), American poet and novelist
Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author
Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), English poet and critic
Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator
Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet and novelist
Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish teacher, poet, writer, and political activist; a leader of Easter Rising
James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), American poet and newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1953–1981
Allasani Peddana (15th and 16th centuries), Telugu poet, foremost of the Astadiggajas
Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist, and editor
Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), American poet
Gabino Coria Peñaloza (1881-1975), Argentine poet and lyricist
Sam Pereira, American poet
Lucia Perillo, American poet
Persius (34–62), Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, writer, philosopher, literary critic and translator
Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist
Robert Peters (born 1924), American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor
Pascale Petit (born 1953), French-Welsh poet, artist
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet; often called "Father of Humanism"
Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist
Veljko Petrović (1884–1967), Serbian poetry and prose writer, critic and theoretician
Mirko Petrović-Njegoš (1820–1867), Serbian and Montenegrin soldier, diplomat and poet
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), English poet and politician
Katherine Philips (1632–1664) Anglo-Welsh poet,
Tanwir Phool (born 1948) Pakistani poet in English and Urdu
Pi Rixiu (c. 834–883), Tang Dynasty poet
Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and documentary film maker
Pindar (522–443 BC), Theban lyric poet
Robert Pinsky (born 1940), American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet Laureate
Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), British poet; first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1955
Christine de Pizan (c. 1365–c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet, philosopher
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet and novelist; 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry as first posthumous recipient
William Plomer (1903–1973), South African author, known as novelist, poet and literary editor
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) Nepalese poet, translator, and artist
Edward Pollock (1823–1858), American poet, lawyer
John Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet and clergyman.
Marie Ponsot (born 1921), American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
Vasko Popa (1922–1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descent
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian Argentinian poet
Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet, writer, and poetry editor
Peter Porter (1929–2010), British-based Australian poet
Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writer
Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic; promoted Imagism
Adélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English politician and poet
E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poet
Petar Preradović (1818–1872), Croatian poet, writer, and military general in Austro-Hungarian Army; Serbian origin
France Prešeren (1800–1849), Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet and screenwriter
Richard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist, and translator
Robert Priest (born 1951) English-born Canadian poet, children's author and singer-songwriter
F. T. Prince (1912–2003), English poet and academic
Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat
Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet
Sextus Propertius, (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin elegiac poet of Augustan age
Kevin Prufer (born 1969), American poet, academic, editor, and essayist
J H Prynne (born 1936), English poet associated with British Poetry Revival
Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet best known for Morgante
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist and playwright
Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), India]n poet, writer, translator, critic, educationist and politician
Aref Qazvini (1882–1934), Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician
Qu Yuan (343–278 BCE), Chinese poet of the Warring States period
Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poet
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist
Branko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poet
Sam Ragan (1915–1996), American poet, journalist, writer; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1982–96
Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnist; key figure in Bengali literature
Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet associated with Martian poetry
Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic, and scholar
Samina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer, translator and broadcaster
Milan Rakić (1876–1938), Serbian poet
Carl Rakosi (1903–2004), American Objectivist poet
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, spy, and explorer
Tenali Rama (16th century, CE), Telugu poet, one among the Astadiggajas
Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu (16th century, CE), Telugu poet, one among the Astadiggajas
Ramarajabhushanudu (mid 16th century CE), Telugu poet and notable musician, one of the Astadiggajas
Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker
Dudley Randall (1914–2000), African-American poet and publisher
Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatist
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor
Addepalli Ramamohana Rao (1936-2016), Telugu poet and literary critic
Ágnes Rapai (born 1952) Hungarian poet, writer, and translator
Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry
Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), American poet and critic
Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist
Tom Raworth (born 1938), British poet and visual artist; key figure in the British Poetry Revival
Herbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet
James Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor
Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poet
Henry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist
Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, essayist, playwright and novelist
Ennis Rees (1925–2009), American poet, professor, translator; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1984–85
James Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer, and writer on traditional song
Abraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor
Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer
James Reiss (born 1941), American poet
Robert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist
Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960), French poet inspired by and influencing Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism
Jacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586–1658), Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), American poet, translator and critical essayist
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), American Objectivist poet
Raees Warsi (Born 1963), Urdu poet, writer, lyricist and TV anchor in Pakistan
Stan Rice (1943–2002), American poet and artist; husband of author Anne Rice
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist
Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor
Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born American anarchist poet and editor
Laura Riding (1901–1981), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editor
James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), American writer, poet; known as Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet
John Riley (1937–1978), English poet associated with British Poetry Revival
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet
Gopal Prasad Rimal (1918–1973), Nepali poet and playwright
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet; part of Decadent Movement
Alberto Ríos (born 1952), American poet and professor
Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Urdu and Persian poet and scholar
Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet
Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet and writer, editor 1936 Faber Book of Modern Verse
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), American poet; won three Pulitzer Prizes
Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist
Roland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writer
Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898) Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist
W R Rodgers (1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist, script writer, and Presbyterian minister
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971), Panamanian poet and artist
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), American poet; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poet
Rognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saint
Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), American poet
David Romtvedt, American poet
Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet
Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poet
Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009), American poet, artist, historian, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), American poet, writer, painter, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet of World War I
Alan Ross (1922–2001), English poet, cricket writer and editor
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), English poet, illustrator and painter; co-founded Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Andrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet
Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast
Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715
Susanna Roxman, English poet born in Sweden
Tadeusz Różewicz (born 1921), Polish poet and writer
Ljubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poet
Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator, and professor
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), American poet and political activist
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic
Paul-Eerik Rummo (1942), Estonian poet
Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet; national poet of Finland, wrote in Swedish
Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), American comedian; regarded as "poet laureate of television"
Ryōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet
Umberto Saba (1883–1957), Italian poet and novelist
Jaime Sabines (1926–1999)
Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638–1706), English poet and courtier
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English author, poet and gardener
Saʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), medieval Persian poet
Ahmad Shamloo (December 12, 1925 – July 24, 2000), influential Persian poet, writer, and journalist
Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), American poet, novelist and children's writer
Ali Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist, and translator
Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (c. 1491–1558), French Renaissance poet; Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
Akim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist regarded as first Nanai language writer
Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-American poet; associated with Black Arts Movement
Michal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), American poet, writer and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.
Ann Sansom, English poet and writing tutor
Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924), Bosnian Serb poet
Taneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet
Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
Sappho (c. 630–612–c. 570 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
William Saroyan (1908–1981), American author of Armenian descent
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poet
Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic
Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), American poet and artist, founded International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet; subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage
Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), American poet, writer, and playwright; associated with Language poets and Beat poets
Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet
Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876-1927), American poet, architect, journalist, translator and short story writer
Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator
Dennis Schmitz (born 1937), American poet
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatist
Philip Schultz (born 1945), American poet; 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Schuyler (1923–1991), American poet; 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Morning of the Poem
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), American poet and short story writer
Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) (c. 1520–1582/83), Scottish poet
Alexander Scott (20th-century poet) (1920–1989), Scottish poet and playwright
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. Scott
F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
Tom Scott, (1918—1995) Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011), American soul musician and jazz poet
George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
Peter Seaton (1942–2010), American Language poet
Johannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poet
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639–1701), English poet, wit, dramatist and politician
George Seferis (pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs) (1900–1971), Greek poet, Nobel laureate, and Ambassador to UK
Ehsan Sehgal (born 1951), Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, journalist and activist
Hugh Seidman (born 1940), American poet
Rebecca Seiferle, American poet
Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist, journalist and publisher
Semonides of Amorgos Greek iambic and elegiac poet believed to have lived in 7th century BC
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist; first president of Senegal
Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poet; called "Bard of the Yukon"
Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet
Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, short-story writer, radio script-writer and children's novelist
Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–92
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwright
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), American rapper, actor, producer, poet and black activist
Otep Shamaya (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, actress, poet and painter; lead singer of Otep
Ntozake Shange (born 1948), American playwright, and poet
Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer
Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1946–47
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), American poet
Luci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822),major English Romantic poet
William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet
Bhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poet
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artist
Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist
Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet
James Shirley (1596–1666), English dramatist
Avraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet, courtier and soldier
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet and critic; founded philosophy of Aesthetic Realism
Robert Siegel (1939–2012), American poet and novelist
Jon Silkin (1930–1997), English poet
Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet; associated with Language poetry
Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), American poet, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and children's writer
Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist
Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-American poet; 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, US Poet Laureate, 2007–08
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BC), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
Louis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poet; 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), American poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000
Burns Singer (1928–1964), American poet usually identified with Scotland, where he was raised
Marilyn Singer (born 1948), American children's writer and poet
Lemn Sissay, English author and broadcaster
Charles Hubert Sisson (1914–2003), English writer, best known as poet and translator
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic; eldest of three literary Sitwells
Sjón (born 1962), Icelandic author and poet
Egill Skallagrímsson (c. 910–c. 990), Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, the protagonist of Egil's Saga
John Skelton (1460–1529), English poet
Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-American poet
Ed Skoog (born 1971), American poet
Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet
Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, and folklorist
Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet and journalist
Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovene bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture
Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet; one of "Three Bards" of Polish literature
Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet
Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet, playwright
Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
Bruce Smith (born 1946), American poet
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American poet, sculptor, painter and author
Margaret Smith (born 1958), American poet, musician, and artist
Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist
Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scots poet in Lallans
Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), American poet, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
William Jay Smith (born 1918), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–70
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author
William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), American poet; 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Gary Snyder (born 1930), American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmentalist; 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Swedish-speaking Finnish poet
Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and critic
William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet
Sophocles, (c. 496 – 406 BC), Athenian tragedian
Charles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poet of World War I
Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-American author and poet
Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Romantic poet, a Lake Poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1813–1843
Robert Southwell (1561–1595), English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionary
Wole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), English poet, translator, and editor
Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist. and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965–66
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet best known for The Faerie Queene
Leopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poet
William Stafford (1914–1993), American poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–71
A.E. Stallings (born 1968), American poet and translator
Jon Stallworthy (born 1935), English academic, poet and literary critic
Harold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet and novelist
Ann Stanford (1916–1987), American poet
George Starbuck (1931–1996), American neo-formalist poet
Statius (c. 45–96), Roman poet
Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poet
Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand writer of novels, poetry, short stories, and criticism
Stesichorus (c. 640–555 BC), Greek lyric poet
Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet who lived in Austria
Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poet
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, art collector
Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction
Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), American poet and advocate
George Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomat
Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
Marinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poet
C. J. Stevens (born 1927), American writer of poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and biography
Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), American Modernist poet
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), American classical scholar and poet
James Still (1906–2001), American poet, novelist and folklorist
Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet
Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist and philosopher
Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
Ruth Stone (1915–2011), American poet, author and teacher
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), American poet and editor
Edward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet, associated with Imagism
Theodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poet
Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin American Modernist poet
Mark Strand (born 1934), Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–91
Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet, novelist and essayist
Joseph Stroud (born 1943), American poet
Jesse Stuart (1907–1984), American writer known for short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia
Su Shi (1037–1101), Song Dynasty writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, etc.
Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 AD), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi Dynasty
Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of card game cribbage
Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), ruler of Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
Paul Summers (born 1967), English poet
Jovan Sundečić (1825–1900), Serbian poet
Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), Turkish poet and writer
Abhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright, linguist, translator and critic
Pingali Surana (16th century), Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
Robert Sward (born 1933), American and Canadian poet and novelist
Cole Swensen (born 1955), American poet, translator, editor, and copywriter; Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
Karen Swenson (born 1936), American poet
May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Anna Świrszczyńska (aka Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poet
Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet
Arthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and magazine editor
John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore
Lőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), Hungarian poet and literary translator
Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese American poet
George Szirtes (born 1948), Hungary-born British poet and translator
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist, and translator; Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
Taliesin (fl. 6th century), British poet of post-Roman period
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915–1983), Tamil poet, editor, critic and publisher
Maxim Tank (1912–1996), Belarus poet
Tao Qian (365–427), Chinese poet of Six Dynasties period
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic
Alain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter, essayist, literary critic and art critic
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet; best known for Jerusalem Delivered
Allen Tate (1899–1979), American poet, essayist, social commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–44
James Tate (born 1943), American poet; 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatist
Henry S. Taylor (born 1942), American poet; 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyric poet
Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
Telesilla (fl. 510 BC), Greek poet
William Tennant (1784-1848), Scottish scholar and poet.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850–1892
Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian Urdu poet, humorist, artist, and orator
Vahan Terian (1885–1920), Armenian poet, lyricist and public activist
Elaine Terranova (born 1939), American poet
Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-American poet; author of oldest known work of literature by African American
A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), English poet
Neyzen Tevfik (1879–1953), Turkish poet, satirist, and ney performer"
Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), American writer and poet of "Casey at the Bat"
Theocritus (fl. 3rd century BC), bucolic poet
Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet
Nandi Thimmana (15th to 16th centuries), Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas in the court of king Krishnadevaraya
Thiruvalluvar (31 AD), Tamil poet and philosopher
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer
Edward Thomas (1878–1917), Anglo-Welsh poet and essayist
Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), American poet and critic
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet and Anglican priest
John Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poet
John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), American poet, journalist, editor and publisher
Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and ascetic
James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright; lyrics of Rule, Britannia!
James Thomson ( Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poet
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist etc.
Georg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymnwriter
Maria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymnwriter
Anthony Thwaite (born 1930), English poet and writer
Tibullus (c. 54 BC–19 BC), Latin poet and writer of elegies
Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), English conspirator and poet
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740), English poet and man of letters
Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic
Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poet
Nick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster
Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
Charles Tomlinson (born 1927), English poet and translator
Jean Toomer (1894–1967), American poet and novelist; important figure in Harlem Renaissance
Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), English poetic dramatist
Thomas Traherne (1636/37–1674), English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer
Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian poet considered important Austrian Expressionists
Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), American poet
Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant
Duško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writer
Calvin Trillin (born 1935), American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist
Quincy Troupe (born 1939), American poet, editor, journalist and professor
Tõnu Trubetsky (Tony Blackplait) (born 1963), Estonian glam punk musician, film and music videodirector and poet
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian Soviet poet
Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
Tulsidas (1497/1532–1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher
Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian writer and public activist; considered national poet of Armenia
Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet, critic and publisher
George Turberville (c. 1540–c. 1597), English poet
Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson
Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet and mental health worker
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), English poet and farmer
Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008), New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry
Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent
Jan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priest
Chase Twichell (born 1950), American poet, professor, and publisher
Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priest; member of "La Pléiade"
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poet
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet, performance artist; a founder of Dada movement
Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), American Beat poet
Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885–1945), Telugu poet; sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham
Jeff Unaegbu (born 1979), Nigerian writer, actor, artist and documentary film maker
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), Italian poet, critic, and academic; 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor; US Poet Laureate 1961–62
John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Allen Upward (1863–1926), Irish-English poet, lawyer, politician and teacher; Imagist poet
Amy Uyematsu (born 1947), Japanese-American poet
Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
Alfonso Vallejo (born 1943), Spanish artist, playwright, poet, painter and neurologist
César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist
Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French-speaking Swiss poet and writer
Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature
Cor Van den Heuvel, (born 1931), American haiku poet, editor, commentator, archivist
Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–93
Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer, painter, singer and fashion designer
Nikola Vaptsarov (1909-1942), Bulgarian Communist poet
Varand, (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, and professor of literature
Dimitris Varos (born 1949), modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556), English poet
Vazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili) (1861–1915), Georgian poet and writer
Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003), American poet and educator
Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458), Italian poet who wrote in Latin
Vemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu language poet
Gavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. 1680–1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet, and illuminator
Helen Vendler (born 1933), American poetry critic and professor
Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), Catalan poet; prominent figure in Renaixença
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet associated with Symbolist movement
Paul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poet
Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937), French symbolist poet
Peter Viereck (1916–2006), American poet, professor and political thinker
Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
Jose Garcia Villa (1908–1997), Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter
Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), Mexican poet and playwright
François Villon (c. 1431–1464), French poet, thief, killer, barroom brawler, and vagabond
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70–19 BC), ancient Roman poet of Augustan period
Roemer Visscher (1547–1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
Walther von der Vogelweide, (c. 1170–c. 1230), celebrated Middle High German lyric poet
Vincent Voiture (1597–1648), French poet
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer
Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch playwright and poet
Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010), Soviet Russian poet
Stanko Vraz (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian language poet
Vyasa, revered Hindu figure; considered the author of Mahabharata and some Vedas
Wace (c. 1110–after 1174), Norman poet
Sidney Wade (born 1951), American poet and professor
John Wain (1925–1994), English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with The Movement
Diane Wakoski (born 1937), American poet; associated with deep image, confessional and Beat generation poets
Derek Walcott (born 1930), Saint Lucian poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
Anne Waldman (born 1945), American poet
Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-American poet, translator and publisher
Arthur Waley (1889–1966), English orientalist and Sinologist; poet and translator
Alice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet, and activist
Margaret Walker (1915–1998), African-American writer
Edmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politician
Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer
Robert Walser (1878–1956), German-speaking Swiss writer
Connie Wanek (born 1952), American poet
Wang Wei (1597–1647), Chinese priestess and poet
Wang Wei (701–761), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
Emily Warn, American poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poet.
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic; a founder of New Criticism
Thomas Warton (1728–1790), English literary historian, critic, and poet
Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Welsh poet, translator and painter
Thomas Watson (1555–1592), English lyrical poet writing in English and Latin
Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972)
George Watsky (born 1986), American poet and rapper.
Barrett Watten (born 1948), American poet, editor, and educator; associated with Language poets
Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English hymnist and logician
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), English critic and poet
Tom Wayman (born 1945), Canadian poet, author, editor, and educator
Francis Webb (1925–1973), Australian poet
John Webster (c. 1580–c. 1634), English dramatist
Rebecca Wee, American poet, professor
Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), American Language poet
Wei Yingwu (737–792) Chinese poet
Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), Chinese poet
Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), American poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English leader of Methodist movement, prolific hymnist
Gilbert West (1703–1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologist
Philip Whalen (1923–2002), American poet, Zen Buddhist, and figure in San Francisco Renaissance
Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet
Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Norwegian-Danish poet
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-American poet
Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932), American songwriter, performer, poet, novelist, and visual artist
E.B. White (1899–1985), American essayist, author, humorist, and poet
Henry Kirke White (1785-1806), English poet
James L. White (1936–1981), American poet, editor and teacher
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), English poet
Reed Whittemore (1919–2012), American poet, biographer, critic, and college professor
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet
Jay Wright (born 1935), African-American poet, playwright, and essayist
Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884–1947), English poet brought up in Australia
Les Wicks (born 1955), Australian poet, publisher, and editor
Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator
John Wieners (1934–2002), American lyric poet
Richard Wilbur (born 1921), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–88, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 and 1989
Jane Wilde (1826–1896), Irish poet and nationalist
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, playwright, and poet
John Wilkinson (born 1953), English poet
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126), best known as earliest troubadour whose works have survived
Emmett Williams (1925–2007), American poet and visual artist
Jonathan Williams (1929–2008), American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer
Miller Williams (born 1930), American poet, translator, and editor
Oscar Williams (1900–1964), Jewish Ukrainian-American anthologist and poet
Saul Williams (born 1972), African-American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), African-American poet, novelist, professor and social critic
Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh language poet; pacifist and Welsh nationalist
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician; associated with modernism and imagism
William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist
Clive Wilmer (born 1945), English poet,
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English poet, courtier, and satirist
Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), American poet and editor
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, born 1945), American political and cultural writer, essayist, and poet
Christian Wiman (born 1966), American poet and editor
Yvor Winters (1900–1968), American poet and literary critic
George Wither (1588–1667), English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist
Woeser (born 1966), Tibetan activist, blogger, poet and essayist
Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971), Polish poet
Christa Wolf (1929–2011), German literary critic, novelist, poet, and essayist
Charles Wolfe (1791–1823), Irish poet
Hans Wollschläger (1935–2007), German writer, translator, historian, and editor
Sholeh Wolpe (born 1962), Iranian-American poet, literary translator, editor and playwright
George Woodcock (1912–1995), Canadian writer of biography and history, anarchist thinker, essayist, poet, and critic
Gregory Woods (born 1953), English poet who grew up in Ghana
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet
Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), English poet
Carolyn D. Wright (born 1949), American poet
Charles Wright (born in 1935), American poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
David Wright (1920–1994) South African-born poet and author
Franz Wright (born 1953), American poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Wright (1927–1980), American poet, father of Franz Wright; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
Lady Mary Wroth (1587–c. 1651), English poet of the Renaissance
Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English ambassador and lyrical poet
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American poet and novelist
Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), Welsh language poet
Edward Alexander Wyon (1842−1872), English architect and poet
Xenokleides (4th century BCE) poet of Athens
Xin Qiji (1140 – 1207), Chinese poet in Song dynasty.
Cali Xuseen Xirsi (aka Yam Yam) (1946–2005), Somali poet active in the 1960s
Xu Zhimo (1897–1931), Chinese poet
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (born 1947), Uzbek poet; awarded title of People's Poet of Uzbekistan
Jūkichi Yagi (1898–1927), Japanese poet on modern religious themes
Leo Yankevich (born 1961), American poet and editor
Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poet
W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), Russian lyrical poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933), Soviet Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
Akiko Yosano (1878–1942), Japanese author, poet, feminist and pacifist
Andrew Young (1885–1971), Scottish poet and clergyman
Edward Young (1681–1765), English poet
Kevin Young (born 1970), American poet and teacher
Marguerite Young (1908–1995), American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism
A. W. Yrjänä (Aki Ville Yrjänä; born 1967), Finnish poet, singer, bassist, and songwriter with band CMX
Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Chinese poet, scholar, artist, and gastronome of Qing Dynasty
Yunus Emre (c. 1238–c. 1320), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
Adam Zagajewski (born 1945), Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist
Andrea Zanzotto (1921–2011), Italian poet
Matthew Zapruder (born 1967), American poet, editor, translator, and professor
Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), American lyric poet; 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Zend (1929–1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and artist
Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), English writer, dub poet and Rastafarian
Hristofor Zhefarovich, (c. 1690–1753), Serbian painter, engraver, writer and poet; proponent of Pan-Slavism
Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930), German-American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
Radovan Zogović, Serbian/Montenegrin poet
Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609), pre-Islamic Arabian poet
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), American poet; one of primary Objectivist poets
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), leader of Reformation in Switzerland; poet, hymnist, author of Pestlied
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