List of U.S. poets

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

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

A

 * Henry Abbey (1842–1911)
 * Sam Abrams (born 1935)
 * Seth Abramson (born 1976)
 * Diane Ackerman (born 1956)
 * Duane Ackerson (born 1942)
 * Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968)
 * Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004)
 * Helen Adam (1909–1993)
 * John Adams (1704–1740)
 * Léonie Adams (1899–1988)
 * Kim Addonizio (born 1954)
 * James Agee (1909–1955)
 * Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969)
 * Ai (1947-2010)
 * Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
 * Salman Akhtar (born 1946)
 * Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956)
 * Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
 * Sherman Alexie (born 1966)
 * Felipe Alfau (1902–1999)
 * William Allegrezza (born 1974)
 * Dick Allen (born 1939)
 * Donald Allen (1912–2004)
 * Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832 – 1911)
 * Ron Allen (born 1947)
 * Washington Allston (1779 – 1843)
 * Bert Almon (born 1943), United States / Canada
 * Alurista (born 1947)
 * Julia Álvarez (born 1950)
 * Alta (Alta Gerrey) (born 1942)
 * Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960)
 * A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)
 * Victor Anderson (1917-2001)
 * Bruce Andrews (born 1948)
 * Kevin Andrews (writer) (1924 – 1989)
 * Ron Androla (born 1954)
 * Ralph Angel (born 1951)
 * Maya Angelou (born 1928)
 * David Antin (born 1932)
 * Antler (born 1946)
 * "Brother Antoninus" &mdash; William Everson (1912–1994)
 * Susanne Antonetta (born 1956)
 * Philip Appleman (born 1926)
 * Adrian Arancibia (born 1971)
 * Rae Armantrout (born 1947)
 * Richard Armour (1906–1989)
 * Craig Arnold (born 1967)
 * Robert P. Arthur (born 1943)
 * M. K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982)
 * John Ashbery (born 1927)
 * Joseph Auslander (1897–1965)
 * Paul Auster (born 1947)
 * James L. Avery, Sr. (born 1948)
 * Sevan Aydinian (born 1983)
 * Jody Azzouni (born 1954)

B

 * Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952)
 * Bellamy Bach (pseudonym used by a group of writers)
 * Joseph M. Bachelor (1889–1947)
 * Mahnaz Badihian
 * Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940)
 * David Baker (born 1954)
 * John Balaban, (born 1943)
 * Jesse Ball (born 1978)
 * Russell Banks (born 1940)
 * Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (born 1934)
 * Coleman Barks (born 1937)
 * Mary Barnard
 * Djuna Barnes
 * Tim Barnes
 * Catherine Barnett
 * Candy Barr (1935-2005)
 * Laird Barron
 * Bertha Hirsch Baruch
 * Todd Bash
 * Ellen Bass, (born 1947)
 * Arlo Bates (1850-1918)
 * David Bates (1809-1870)
 * Dawn-Michelle Baude
 * Eric Baus
 * Charles Baxter (author)
 * Abel Beach (1829-1899), Iowa
 * Ray Young Bear
 * Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (?1913-1995), Tenessee
 * George Beck (1749-1812), Kentucky
 * Julian Beck
 * Larry Beckett
 * Joshua Beckman
 * Ethel Lynn Beers
 * Erin Belieu, (born 1957)
 * Marvin Bell
 * Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)
 * William Rose Benét (1886-1950)
 * Park Benjamin (poet)
 * Nelson Bentley
 * Bill Berkson
 * David Berman (musician)
 * Charles Bernstein (born 1950)
 * Steven "Jesse" Bernstein (1950–1991)
 * Anselm Berrigan
 * Ted Berrigan (1934–1983)
 * Wendell Berry (born 1934)
 * John Berryman (1914–1972)
 * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
 * Lorraine Bethel
 * Helen Bevington
 * Frank Bidart (born 1939)
 * Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
 * Linda Bierds
 * David Biespiel
 * Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
 * John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)
 * Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975)
 * Baxter Black
 * Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958)
 * Paul Blackburn (1926–1971)
 * Nicole Blackman
 * Kimberly M. Blaeser
 * Don Blanding
 * Robin Blaser
 * Anthony Bleecker
 * Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
 * Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919)
 * Henry Ames Blood (1836-1900)
 * Roberts Blossom
 * Robert Bly (born 1926)
 * Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672)
 * D. A. Blyler
 * Maxwell Bodenheim
 * Jean Boese
 * Louise Bogan
 * Arna Bontemps
 * Bruce Boston
 * David Bottoms, (born 1949)
 * Jenny Boully
 * Kay Boyle (1902–1992)
 * William Brandon (author)
 * Beth Brant
 * Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)
 * Kate Braverman
 * Donari Braxton
 * Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
 * Ken Brewer (1941–2006)
 * Martha Wadsworth Brewster
 * Kim Bridgford
 * Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)
 * John Malcolm Brinnin (1916–1999)
 * James Brock (born 1958)
 * Joseph Brodsky (1940 – 1996),
 * Louis Daniel Brodsky (born 1941)
 * David Bromige (1933 - )
 * William Bronk (1918–1999)
 * Charles Timothy Brooks
 * Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
 * Maria Gowen Brooks (?1794–1845)
 * "Brother Antoninus" &mdash; William Everson (1912–1994)
 * Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
 * Alice Brown (writer)
 * Rita Mae Brown
 * Francis Fisher Browne
 * William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
 * Jack Buck
 * David Budbill, (born 1940)
 * Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
 * David R. Bunch
 * Henry Cuyler Bunner
 * José Antonio Burciaga
 * Stanley Burnshaw
 * Amelia Josephine Burr
 * Maxwell Struthers Burt
 * Raegan Butcher
 * Ray Buttigieg (born 1955)
 * W.E. Butts
 * Witter Bynner
 * Gilbert Byron

C

 * Alex Caldiero
 * James Edwin Campbell (poet)
 * Mary Baine Campbell
 * Melville Henry Cane
 * Skipwith Cannell (1887-1957)
 * Joe Cardarelli
 * Jim Carroll
 * Hayden Carruth, (1921–2008)
 * Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904)
 * Jared Carter
 * Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
 * Phoebe Cary
 * Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
 * Sandra M. Castillo
 * Ana Castillo
 * Madison Cawein (1865-1914)
 * Thomas Centolella
 * Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988)
 * William Ellery Channing (1818–1901)
 * Arthur Chapman (1874–1935)
 * John Jay Chapman
 * Fred Chappell
 * Alexander Chee
 * Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945)
 * Maxine Chernoff
 * Bob Cherry
 * Kelly Cherry
 * Chrystos
 * Angélico Chávez
 * James Wm. Chichetto
 * William Childress
 * John Ciardi (1916–1986)
 * Noah Cicero
 * Sandra Cisneros
 * Carson Cistulli (born 1979)
 * Amy Clampitt
 * Tom Clark (poet)
 * Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909 - 1971)
 * John Clarke (poet)
 * Lucille Clifton, (1936–2010)
 * Joshua Clover
 * Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)
 * Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976)
 * Stanton A. Coblentz
 * Andrei Codrescu
 * Robert P. T. Coffin
 * Ira Cohen
 * Nan Cohen
 * Jim Cohn
 * Henri Cole
 * Norma Cole
 * Wanda Coleman
 * Billy Collins (born 1941)
 * Betsy Colquitt (born 1927)
 * Shanna Compton (born 1970)
 * Hilda Conkling
 * Evan S. Connell
 * Leo Connellan (1928–2001)
 * Gillian Conoley
 * J. Gordon Coogler
 * Rose Terry Cooke
 * Ina Coolbrith
 * Clark Coolidge
 * Dennis Cooper
 * Jake Copass
 * William Corbett
 * Billy Corgan
 * Cid Corman (1924–2004)
 * Alfred Corn, (born 1943)
 * Gregory Corso (1930–2001)
 * Jayne Cortez
 * Joe Cottonwood
 * Henri Coulette
 * John Cournos
 * Elise Cowen
 * Louis O. Coxe
 * Christopher Pearse Cranch
 * Hart Crane, (1899–1932)
 * Stephen Crane, (1871–1900)
 * Adelaide Crapsey
 * Gary William Crawford
 * Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
 * Judson Crews (born 1917)
 * Harry Crosby (1898–1929)
 * Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
 * E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
 * J.V. Cunningham (1911–1985)
 * Bloodgood Cutter

D

 * Beverly Dahlen (born 1934)
 * Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
 * H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
 * Steve Dalachinsky
 * Enid Dame
 * S. Foster Damon
 * Jim Daniels (born 1956)
 * Tina Darragh
 * Robert von Dassanowsky
 * Guy Davenport
 * Donald Davidson (poet)
 * Gustav Davidson
 * Michael Davidson (born 1944)
 * Alan Davies (poet)
 * Dale Davis (poet)
 * Gwen Davis
 * Jon Davis (poet)
 * Clarence Day
 * Jaime de Angulo
 * Caridad de la Luz
 * Philip F. Deaver
 * Madeline DeFrees, (born 1919)
 * Edwin Denby (1903-1983)
 * Richard Denner
 * Reuel Denney
 * Carl Dennis
 * Tory Dent
 * Babette Deutsch
 * Jennifer K Dick
 * Ray DiPalma
 * George Dickerson
 * James Dickey (1923–1997)
 * Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
 * Roger Dickinson-Brown (born 1944)
 * Matthew Dickman, (born 1975)
 * Michael Dickman, (born 1975)
 * R.H.W. Dillard (born 1937)
 * George Dillon
 * Ray DiPalma (born 1943)
 * Diane Di Prima (born 1934)
 * Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)
 * Patricia Dobler
 * Stephen Dobyns (1941)
 * Will Dockery (born 1958), Georgia
 * Owen Dodson
 * John Dolan (writer)
 * Nathan Haskell Dole
 * Sonya Dorman
 * Ed Dorn (1929–1999)
 * Julia Caroline Dorr
 * Mark Doty
 * Franz Douskey
 * Rita Dove (1952)
 * Kirby Doyle
 * Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820)
 * Will Allen Dromgoole
 * Celia Dropkin
 * Norman Dubie, (born 1945)
 * Bruce Ducker
 * Peter Kane Dufault
 * Alan Dugan (born 1923–2003)
 * Henry Dumas
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
 * Robert Duncan (1919–1988)
 * Jim Dunlap
 * Stephen Dunn
 * Rachel Blau DuPlessis
 * Job Durfee
 * Stuart Dybek (born 1942)
 * Bob Dylan (born 1941)

E

 * Cornelius Eady
 * Pliny Earle (physician)
 * Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)
 * David Edelstadt
 * Russell Edson
 * Kari edwards
 * Terry Ehret, (born 1955)
 * Max Ehrmann
 * Larry Eigner (1927–1996)
 * Loren Eiseley
 * Che Elias
 * T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
 * James Emanuel
 * Lynn Emanuel
 * Claudia Emerson
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
 * Paul Engle
 * Theodore Enslin (born 1925)
 * Daniel Mark Epstein
 * Clayton Eshleman (born 1935)
 * Martín Espada
 * Willard R. Espy
 * Maggie Estep
 * Jerry Estrin (1947–1993)
 * David Allan Evans
 * Mari Evans
 * Landis Everson (1926 – 2007)
 * William Everson &mdash; Brother Antoninus (1912–1994)

F

 * Ruth Fainlight
 * B.H. Fairchild
 * William Clark Falkner
 * Roger Fanning
 * Norma Farber
 * Patricia Fargnoli
 * John C. Farrar
 * Jessie Redmon Fauset
 * Kenneth Fearing
 * Frederick Feirstein
 * Irving Feldman (born 1928)
 * Paul Fericano
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)
 * Eugene Field
 * Rachel Field
 * James Thomas Fields
 * Fireside Poets
 * Annie Finch
 * Ann Fisher-Wirth
 * Bob Flanagan
 * John Gould Fletcher
 * Roland Flint
 * Nick Flynn
 * Jack Foley (poet)
 * Carolyn Forché (born 1950)
 * John M. Ford
 * Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911)
 * FrancEye (Frances Dean Smith)
 * Robert Frazier
 * Philip Freneau (1752–1832)
 * Robert Frost (1874–1963)
 * Gwen Frostic
 * Gene Frumkin (born 1928)
 * Nan Fry
 * Gloria Frym (born 1947)
 * Alice Fulton (born 1952)

G

 * Tess Gallagher
 * James Galvin (born 1951)
 * Forrest Gander (born 1956)
 * Deborah Garrison (born 1965)
 * Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
 * Dan Gerber, (born 1940)
 * Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
 * Jack Gilbert
 * Strickland Gillilan (1869–1954)
 * Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
 * Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941)
 * Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)
 * Peter Gizzi (born 1959)
 * Jesse Glass (born 1954)
 * Louise Glück (born 1943)
 * Patricia Goedicke, (1931–2006)
 * Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961)
 * Laurence Goldstein
 * Rodolfo Gonzales
 * Rigoberto González
 * Elaine Goodale
 * Kevin Goodan
 * Alice Goodman
 * Paul Goodman (writer)
 * Hedwig Gorski (born 1949)
 * Janice Gould
 * David Graham (American poet)
 * Jorie Graham
 * Judy Grahn
 * Linda Gregerson
 * Linda Gregg
 * Debora Greger
 * Horace Gregory
 * Robert Grenier (poet)
 * Susan Griffin
 * Angelina Weld Grimke
 * Charlotte Forten Grimké
 * Lee Groban
 * Allen Grossman
 * Gabriel Gudding
 * Charles Guenther (1920–2008)
 * Barbara Guest (1920–2006)
 * Edgar Guest (1891–1959)
 * Louise Imogen Guiney
 * Arthur Guiterman
 * R. S. Gwynn
 * Brion Gysin (1916–1986)

H

 * Hermann Hagedorn
 * Jessica Hagedorn
 * Richard Hague
 * Kimiko Hahn (born 1955)
 * John Haines, (born 1924)
 * Donald Hall
 * Irma P. Hall
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck
 * Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
 * Barbara Hamby
 * Dennis M. Hammes (1945-1980), Minnesota
 * Jupiter Hammon
 * Jeff Hardy
 * William Harmon
 * Jim Harrison (born 1937)
 * Carla Harryman (born 1952)
 * Robert Hass
 * Katherine Hastings
 * Julian Hawthorne
 * Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
 * Terrance Hayes
 * Paul Hamilton Hayne
 * William Shakespeare Hays
 * Trebor Healey
 * Eloise Klein Healy
 * Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)
 * Jennifer Michael Hecht
 * Allison Hedge Coke
 * Lyn Hejinian (born 1941)
 * Michael Heller
 * Essex Hemphill
 * Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949)
 * Nancy A. Henry
 * Oliver Herford
 * William Heyen
 * Leland Hickman (1934 – 1991)
 * Bob Hicok
 * Dick Higgins
 * Scott Hightower (born 1952)
 * Conrad Hilberry (born 1928)
 * Donora Hillard (born 1982)
 * Robert Hillyer
 * Ellen Hinsey
 * Edward Hirsch
 * Jane Hirshfield (born 1953)
 * Jack Hirschman
 * George Hitchcock (1914–2010)
 * H.L. Hix
 * Allen Hoey (born 1952)
 * Linda Hogan (born 1947)
 * Tony Hoagland
 * Daniel Hoffman
 * Roald Hoffmann
 * John Hollander (born 1929)
 * Bill Holm (poet)
 * Bob Holman
 * M. Carl Holman
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
 * Dennis Holt (born 1942)
 * Garrett Hongo
 * Edwin Honig (born 1919)
 * George Moses Horton
 * Joan Houlihan
 * Richard Howard (born 1929)
 * Robert E. Howard (1906–1936)
 * Fanny Howe (born 1940)
 * Julia Ward Howe
 * Marie Howe
 * Rick Howe (died 2007), Georgia / Arkansas
 * Susan Howe (born 1937)
 * William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
 * Helen Hoyt (1887-1972)
 * Thomas Hubbard (born 1938)
 * Detrick Hughes (born 1966)
 * Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
 * Richard Hugo (1923–1982)
 * Constance Hunting (1925–2006)
 * Cynthia Huntington
 * Siri Hustvedt

I

 * David Ignatow (1914–1997)
 * Arthur Crew Inman
 * P. Inman

J

 * Josephine Jacobsen
 * Afdhere Jama
 * James Cummins
 * J. J. Jameson
 * Patricia Janus
 * Joseph Jarman
 * Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)
 * Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
 * Robinson Jeffers, (1887–1962)
 * Ted Joans
 * Orrick Glenday Johns
 * Denis Johnson
 * Georgia Douglas Johnson
 * Helene Johnson
 * Josephine Winslow Johnson
 * James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
 * Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937)
 * Kathryn Johnston (2007–2010)
 * LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) (born 1934)
 * Richard Jones (poet)
 * Sarah Jones (stage)
 * June Jordan
 * Pierre Joris
 * Andrew Joron
 * Lawrence Joseph
 * Matthew Josephson
 * Frank Judge
 * Donald Justice

K

 * Jim Kacian
 * Mary Elizabeth Kail(1828-1890)
 * Sheema Kalbasi
 * Chester Kallman
 * Ilya Kaminsky
 * Lenore Kandel
 * Mary Karr
 * Julia Kasdorf
 * Laura Kasischke (born 1961)
 * Janet Kauffman (born 1945)
 * Herbert Kaufman
 * Shirley Kaufman, (born 1923)
 * Sarah Kay (poet)
 * W. B. Keckler
 * John Keene (writer)
 * Weldon Kees (1914–1955)
 * Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951)
 * Jamie Kennedy (poet)
 * Richard Kenney
 * Maurice Kenney
 * Jane Kenyon
 * Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
 * Sophie Kerr
 * Francis Scott Key
 * Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
 * Alicia Keys
 * Kerry Shawn Keys (born 1946)
 * Bill Keith
 * D. Kildare
 * Aline Murray Kilmer
 * Joyce Kilmer
 * Val Kilmer
 * H.T. Kirby-Smith
 * Suji Kwock Kim
 * Kimiko Hahn
 * Haven Kimmel
 * Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
 * Susan Kinsolving
 * Mary Kinzie
 * David Kirby (poet)
 * Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996)
 * Carolyn Kizer, (born 1925)
 * August Kleinzahler (born 1949)
 * William Kloefkorn
 * Etheridge Knight(1933–1991)
 * Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)
 * Ruth Ellen Kocher
 * Wayne Koestenbaum
 * Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948)
 * Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
 * Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, (born 1946)
 * Alfred Kreymborg
 * Maxine Kumin
 * Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
 * Laurie Kutchins
 * Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
 * Joanne Kyger (born 1934)

L

 * Philip Lamantia (1927-2005), California
 * Fran Landesman
 * Joseph Langland
 * Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
 * Dorothea Lasky
 * George Parsons Lathrop
 * Richmond Lattimore
 * Sanders Anne Laubenthal
 * James Laughlin, (1914 – 1997)
 * Ann Lauterbach
 * Dorianne Laux
 * James Lavilla-Havelin
 * Anne Mary Lawler (1908–1980)
 * William P. Lawrence
 * Robert Lax (1915–2000)
 * Emma Lazarus
 * Kelly Le Fave
 * David Lee (poet), (born 1966)
 * Li-Young Lee
 * Malka Lee
 * Lemon (poet)
 * Aya de Leon
 * Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
 * David Lerner
 * Jimmy Lerner
 * Rika Lesser
 * Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
 * Dana Levin, (born 1965)
 * Philip Levine (born 1928)
 * Larry Levis
 * D. A. Levy
 * William Levy
 * Alonzo Lewis
 * Charles Lillard
 * Shirley Geok-lin Lim
 * Tao Lin
 * Sarah Lindsay
 * Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
 * Amon Liner
 * Sara Jane Lippincott
 * Jonathan Lamas
 * George Cabot Lodge
 * Ron Loewinsohn
 * John Logan (1923 – 1987)
 * Naomi Long Madgett (born 1923)
 * James Longenbach
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
 * Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
 * Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
 * James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
 * Maria White Lowell
 * Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
 * Walter Lowenfels
 * Mina Loy
 * Felipe Luciano
 * Lydia Lunch
 * Masiela Lusha
 * Thomas Lux
 * William Whittingham Lyman, Jr. (1885-1983)
 * Henry Lyman
 * Thomas Lynch (born 1948)

M

 * Lewis MacAdams (born 1944)
 * Morgan Kalani MacLean
 * Jackson Mac Low
 * Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
 * Percy MacKaye
 * Nathaniel Mackey
 * Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
 * Naomi Long Madgett
 * Haki R. Madhubuti
 * John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
 * Clarence Major, (born 1936)
 * Taylor Mali
 * Frank Richard Maloney
 * Tom Mandel (poet)
 * Djelloul Marbrook
 * Morton Marcus (1936–2009)
 * Joseph Moncure March
 * Edwin Markham
 * Don Marquis
 * Camille Martin
 * David Mason
 * Matt Mason
 * Steve Mason
 * Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)
 * Harry Mathews
 * William Matthews (1942–1997)
 * John Matthias
 * Kevin Max
 * Bernadette Mayer
 * Frances Mayes
 * Janet McAdams
 * Robert McAlmon
 * Jack McCarthy
 * J. D. McClatchy
 * Michael McClure
 * Michael McFee
 * Bryant H. McGill (born 1969)
 * Karyna McGlynn
 * Mac McGovern (born 1950)(poet/author)
 * Michael McGovern
 * Campbell McGrath
 * Thomas McGrath (1916–1990)
 * Heather McHugh (born 1948)
 * Claude McKay (1889–1948)
 * Louis McKee
 * Rod McKuen (born 1933),
 * James McMichael (born 1939)
 * Wesley McNair
 * Louise McNeill
 * Alexander Beaufort Meek
 * Abel Meeropol
 * David Meltzer
 * Herman Melville (born 1819–1890)
 * Samuel Menashe (born 1925)
 * Nancy Mercado (born 1959)
 * William Meredith (born 1919)
 * Billy Merrell
 * Eve Merriam
 * James Merrill (1926–1995)
 * Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
 * Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
 * W.S. Merwin (born 1927)
 * Tom Meschery
 * Sarah Messer (born 1966)
 * Henry Meyer (1840-1925)
 * Robert Mezey
 * William Michaelian (born 1956)
 * Diane Middlebrook
 * Josephine Miles (1911–1985)
 * Joseph Millar
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
 * Alice Duer Miller
 * Jane Miller
 * Rev. Jen Miller
 * Joaquin Miller (1837–1913)
 * Leslie Adrienne Miller
 * May Miller
 * Tim Miller
 * Vassar Miller
 * Deborah A. Miranda
 * Gary Miranda
 * John Kearsley Mitchell
 * Susan Mitchell
 * Anis Mojgani
 * Paul Monette
 * Mong-Lan
 * Marion Montgomery
 * José Montoya
 * William Vaughn Moody
 * Clara Jessup Moore
 * Charles Leonard Moore
 * Daniel Moore
 * Jacqueline S. Moore
 * Jessica Care Moore
 * Julia A. Moore
 * Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
 * Pat Mora
 * Barbara Moraff
 * A. F. Moritz
 * Hilda Morley (1916–1998)
 * George Frederick Morgan (1922–2004)
 * Richard Morris
 * Tracie Morris
 * Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
 * Bradford Morrow
 * Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
 * Jennifer Moxley (born 1964)
 * Viggo Mortensen
 * Howard Moss
 * Thylias Moss
 * Louise Chandler Moulton
 * Anna Cora Mowatt
 * Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
 * Harryette Mullen
 * Charles Muñoz
 * Erin Murphy
 * Sheila Murphy
 * Pauli Murray
 * Sheila Murphy

N

 * Vladimir Nabokov
 * Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
 * John Neal
 * John Neihardt
 * Jill Neimark
 * Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
 * Arthur Nersesian
 * Kenn Nesbitt (born 1962)
 * F. A. Nettelbeck (born 1950)
 * Celeste Newbrough
 * Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974)
 * Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)
 * Audrey Niffenegger
 * John Frederick Nims
 * Lucille Nixon
 * Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
 * Jessica Nordell
 * Charles North
 * Jessica Nelson North
 * Jim Northrup (writer)
 * Harry Northup (born 1940)
 * Alice Notley
 * Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952)

O

 * Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
 * Geoffrey G. O'Brien
 * Ed Ochester
 * David E. Oprava
 * Blanche Oelrichs
 * Ron Offen
 * Frank O'Hara (1926–1966)
 * Sharon Olds (born 1942)
 * Mary Oliver (born 1935)
 * Alix Olson
 * Charles Olson (1910–1970)
 * George Oppen (1908–1984)
 * Mary Oppen (1908–1990)
 * James Oppenheim
 * Joel Oppenheimer
 * Peter Oresick
 * Gregory Orr (born 1947)
 * Alicia Ostriker

P

 * Ron Padgett (born 1942)
 * Grace Paley
 * Cheryl Pallant
 * Condé Benoist Pallen
 * Michael Palmer (born 1943)
 * Jay Parini
 * Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
 * Thomas William Parsons (1819-1892)
 * Lee Passarella
 * Linda Pastan (born 1932)
 * Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
 * Ricardo Pau-Llosa (born 1954), Florida
 * Josephine Preston Peabody
 * Richard Peabody
 * Molly Peacock
 * Harry Thurston Peck
 * Bryan Penberthy
 * Rob Penny
 * James Gates Percival
 * Eleanor Percy Lee
 * William Alexander Percy
 * Sam Pereira (born 1949)
 * Bob Perelman
 * Lucia Perillo
 * Alice N. Persons
 * Robert Peters
 * Marge Piercy (1936)
 * Nick Piombino
 * Robert Pinsky (1940)
 * Carl Phillips
 * Wanda Phipps
 * Anthony Piccione
 * John Pierpont
 * Josephine Pinckney
 * Edward Coote Pinkney
 * Clarissa Pinkola Estés
 * Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
 * Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
 * Lanny Poffo
 * Robert Polito
 * Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
 * Paul Martinez Pompa
 * Marie Ponsot (born 1921)
 * Carol Potter
 * Charles Potts (1943)
 * Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
 * Kevin Powell
 * Julien de Lallande Poydras
 * Jack Prelutsky (1940)
 * Elizabeth Prentiss
 * Reynolds Price
 * Frederic Prokosch
 * Kevin Prufer

Q

 * George Quasha (born 1942)

R

 * Kevin Rabas
 * Burton Raffel
 * Sam Ragan
 * Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
 * Lee Ranaldo
 * Dudley Randall (1914–2000)
 * James Ryder Randall
 * Julia Randall
 * Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
 * John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
 * Sadi Ranson
 * Ron Rash
 * Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948)
 * Linda Ravenswood
 * David Ray (born 1932)
 * Wayne Ray (Alabama b. 1950, now in Canada)
 * Thomas Buchanan Read
 * Janice Rebibo
 * Spencer Reece
 * Ishmael Reed (born 1938)
 * Lizette Woodworth Reese
 * Naomi Replansky
 * Paul Reps
 * Carter Revard
 * Donald Revell (born 1954)
 * Eben E. Rexford
 * Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
 * Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
 * William Henry Rhodes
 * René Ricard
 * Cale Young Rice
 * Stan Rice
 * Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
 * Beah Richards
 * Laura E. Richards
 * Monica Richards
 * Lola Ridge (1873–1941)
 * Laura Riding
 * James Whitcomb Riley
 * Alberto Ríos
 * Tomás Rivera
 * Amélie Louise Rives
 * James J. Roberts (born 1947)
 * Howard W. Robertson
 * Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
 * Edouard Roditi
 * Luis J. Rodriguez
 * Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
 * Pattiann Rogers
 * Matthew Rohrer
 * Henry Rollins
 * David Romtvedt
 * Ronald Talney
 * Raymond Roseliep
 * Franklin Rosemont (born 1943)
 * J. Allyn Rosser
 * Terry Rossio
 * Jerome Rothenberg (born 1934)
 * Michael Rothenberg
 * Anne Rouse (born 1954)
 * Thomas Rowley (1721–1796)
 * Gibbons Ruark (born 1941)
 * Anne Rouse
 * Thomas Rowley (poet)
 * Gibbons Ruark
 * Mary Ruefle
 * Muriel Rukeyser
 * Nipsey Russell
 * Archibald Rutledge
 * Carl Hancock Rux
 * Abram Joseph Ryan
 * Kay Ryan
 * Michael Ryan (poet)

S

 * Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
 * Michael Salinger
 * Mary Jo Salter (born 1954)
 * Benjamin Saltman (1927–1999)
 * Francis Saltus Saltus
 * Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
 * Robert Charles Sands
 * Aram Saroyan
 * May Sarton
 * Minot Judson Savage
 * Jeannine Savard
 * John Godfrey Saxe
 * Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
 * Peter Schjeldahl
 * Michael Schmidt (poet)
 * Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
 * Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953)
 * Dan Schneider
 * Pat Schneider
 * Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842)
 * Susan Polis Schutz
 * James Schuyler (1923–1991), New York
 * Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966)
 * Patricia Roth Schwartz
 * Armand Schwerner
 * Peter Seaton (1942 – 2010)
 * Alan Seeger
 * Calvin Seerveld
 * Frederick Seidel
 * Rebecca Seiferle
 * Martha Serpas
 * Dr. Seuss
 * Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
 * Tom Sexton
 * Ntozake Shange
 * Ravi Shankar (1901–2008)
 * David Shapiro
 * Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
 * G. S. Sharat Chandra
 * Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
 * Scott Shaw
 * Aaron Shurin
 * Eli Siegel (1902-1978),
 * Lydia Sigourney
 * Richard Siken
 * Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
 * Edward Rowland Sill
 * Ron Silliman (born 1946)
 * Murray Silverstein
 * Shel Silverstein (1930–1999)
 * Charles Simic
 * Jim Simmerman
 * William Gilmore Simms
 * Marge Simon
 * Louis Simpson
 * John Sinclair (poet)
 * Hal Sirowitz (born 1949)
 * Judith Skillman
 * Myra Sklarew (born 1934)
 * Ed Skoog (born 1971)
 * Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961), California
 * Edwin E. Smith
 * Elbert H. Smith
 * Elizabeth Oakes Smith
 * Langdon Smith
 * Marc Smith
 * Margaret Smith (poet)
 * Patti Smith
 * R.T. Smith
 * Rod Smith
 * Rolland Smith
 * Tracy K. Smith (born 1972)
 * William Jay Smith
 * W.D. Snodgrass (born 1926)
 * Eliza Roxcy Snow
 * Craig Snyder
 * Laurel Snyder
 * Gary Snyder (born 1930)
 * Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005)
 * Roberto Solis
 * Gilbert Sorrentino
 * Gary Soto
 * Juliana Spahr
 * Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
 * Jack Spicer
 * Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
 * Kim Stafford
 * William Stafford (1914–1993)
 * Ann Stanford (1916–1987)
 * Frank Stanford (1948–1978)
 * Henry Throop Stanton
 * George Starbuck
 * William Force Stead
 * Edmund Clarence Stedman
 * Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
 * Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
 * Edward Steinhardt (born 1961)
 * Mattie Stepanek
 * George Sterling (1869-1926)
 * Gerald Stern (born 1925)
 * Augusta Emma Stetson (1842–1928)
 * C. J. Stevens (born 1927)
 * James Thomas Stevens
 * Wallace Stevens (1880–1955)
 * Anne Stevenson
 * Susan Stewart (born 1952)
 * Trumbull Stickney
 * John Stigall
 * James Still
 * Charles Warren Stoddard
 * Dejan Stojanović (born 1959)
 * Donna J. Stone (1933–1994)
 * Ruth Stone (born 1915)
 * William Wetmore Story
 * Mark Strand (born 1934)
 * Joseph Stroud (born 1943)
 * Lucien Stryk
 * Jesse Stuart
 * Michael Sturdy
 * A. M. Sullivan
 * Sekou Sundiata
 * Barton Sutter
 * Thomas Burnett Swann
 * John Swanwick
 * Robert Sward (born 1933))
 * Cole Swensen (born )
 * Karen Swenson (born 1936)
 * May Swenson (1913–1989)
 * Arthur Sze (born 1950)

T

 * Eileen Tabios
 * John Taggart
 * Amber Tamblyn
 * Luci Tapahonso
 * Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928)
 * Allen Tate (1899–1979)
 * James Tate (born 1943)
 * Bayard Taylor
 * Bert Leston Taylor
 * Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
 * Michelle Tea
 * Sara Teasdale
 * Michael Teig
 * Robbie Q. Telfer
 * Todd Temkin (born 1964)
 * Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
 * Lucy Terry
 * Steve Tesich
 * Celia Thaxter
 * Ernest Thayer (1863–1940)
 * Scofield Thayer
 * William Roscoe Thayer
 * Edith Matilda Thomas
 * Lewis Thomas
 * Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
 * Dunstan Thompson
 * Lady Gwen Thompson
 * Maurice Thompson
 * William Irwin Thompson
 * Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
 * Tamara Thorne (born 1957)
 * Richard L. Tierney (born 1936)
 * Richard Tillinghast (born 1940)
 * Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
 * Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
 * Stephen Tomajczyk
 * Lee Tonouchi
 * Nick Tosches
 * Tony Tost
 * William Tremblay
 * Natasha Trethewey
 * David Trinidad
 * Quincy Troupe
 * John Trumbull (poet)
 * Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
 * Lewis Turco (born 1934)
 * Brian Turner (American poet)
 * Genya Turovskaya
 * Chase Twichell
 * E. Donald Two-Rivers

U

 * David Unger (born 1950)
 * Louis Untermeyer (born 1885–1977)
 * Charles Upton (born 1948)
 * Amy Uyematsu (born 1947)

V

 * Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979)
 * Jean Valentine (born 1934)
 * Cor van den Heuvel
 * Mark Van Doren (born 1894–1972)
 * Mona Van Duyn (born 1921–2004)
 * Sheldon Vanauken (born 1914–1996)
 * Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003)
 * Janine Pommy Vega (born 1942)
 * Jones Very (born 1813–1880)
 * George Sylvester Viereck (born 1884–1962)
 * Peter Viereck (born 1916–2006)
 * Nick Virgilio (born 1928–1989)
 * Gerald Vizenor (born 1934)
 * Judith Vollmer (born 1951)

W

 * Buddy Wakefield
 * Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
 * Diane Wald
 * Anne Waldman
 * Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
 * Keith Waldrop (born 1932)
 * Alice Walker (born 1944)
 * Lonie Walker
 * Margaret Walker
 * Connie Wanek, (born 1952)
 * BJ Ward
 * Diane Ward
 * Catherine Anne Warfield
 * Emily Warn
 * Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
 * William John Watkins
 * Barrett Watten (born 1948)
 * Jim Webb
 * Rebecca Wee
 * Hannah Weiner
 * Eliot Weinberger (born 1949)
 * James Welch
 * Lew Welch
 * Joe Wenderoth
 * Theodore Weiss (1916–2003)
 * Paul West (poet)
 * Philip Whalen
 * Mark Whalon
 * John Wheatcroft
 * Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
 * John Hall Wheelock
 * John Brooks Wheelwright
 * Edward Lucas White
 * Gary J. Whitehead (born 1965)
 * Ruth Whitman
 * Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
 * Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
 * Reed Whittemore
 * John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
 * Margaret Widdemer
 * John Wieners
 * Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
 * Carlos Wilcox
 * Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * Richard Henry Wilde
 * Charlotte Wilder
 * Charles Willeford
 * C. K. Williams
 * Jonathan Williams (poet)
 * Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
 * Paul O. Williams
 * Philip Lee Williams (born 1950)
 * Sarah Williams
 * William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
 * Elizabeth Willis (born 1961)
 * Nathaniel Parker Willis
 * Eleanor Wilner, (born 1937)
 * Edmund Wilson
 * Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945)
 * Christian Wiman, (born 1966)
 * Anne Winters
 * Yvor Winters
 * Sam Witt
 * Larry Woiwode
 * John Barton Wolgamot
 * Nellie Wong
 * George Edward Woodberry
 * Samuel Woodworth


 * Gamel Woolsey
 * Bryan Thao Worra
 * Patience Worth
 * C. D. Wright, (born 1949)
 * Charles Wright (poet)
 * Franz Wright
 * James Wright (1927–1980)
 * Jay Wright (poet)
 * Kirby Wright
 * Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960)
 * Elinor Wylie

X-Z

 * Emanuel Xavier (born 1971)
 * Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961)
 * Leo Yankevich
 * John Yau (born 1950)
 * Al Young (born 1939)
 * C. Dale Young (born 1969)
 * Dean Young (poet) (born 1955)
 * Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
 * Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
 * Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
 * Andrew Zawacki (born 1972)
 * Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
 * Joaquin Zihuatanejo
 * Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)