Poets & Writers

Abel, Mark

1948–

Adams, H. Leslie

1932–2024

Adams, Franklin Pierce

1881–1960

Adams, John

1735–1826

Adams, Léonie

1899–1988

Adams, Abigail

1744–1818

Agee, James

1909–1955

Aiken, Conrad

1889–1973

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

1836–1907

Allen, Dick

1939–2017

Alsop, George N.

Amaker, Marcus

1976–

Ammons, A. R.

1926–2001

Amwell, John Scott of

1730–1783

Anderson, Maxwell

1888–1959

Anderson, Thomas Jefferson

1928–

Angelou, Maya

1928–2014

Anonymous

Arnold, Sir Edwin

1832–1904

Arvey, Verna

1910–1987

Auden, W. H.

1907–1973

Auslander, Joseph

1897–1965

Baháʼu’lláh

1817–1892

Baiocchi, Regina Harris

1956–

Barnes, Jasmine

Bass, George Houston

1938–1990

Bates, Arlo

1850–1918

Beach, Amy Marcy

1867–1944

Beach, Henry Harris Aubrey

1843–1910

Beers, Ethel Lynn

1827–1879

Behn, Robin

1958–

Benét, Rosemary

1900–1962

Benjamin, Torrence

Bennett, Sanford Fillmore

1836–1898

Bennett, Gwendolyn

1902–1981

Bensel, James Berry

1856–1886

Bergman, David

1950–

Bernstein, Leonard

1918–1990

Berry, Wendell

1934–

Bible, The

Biblical

Bierce, Ambrose

1842–1914

Billings, William

1746–1800

Bishop, Elizabeth

1911–1979

Blake, William

1757–1827

Blitzstein, Marc

1905–1964

Blodgett, Harriet Fairchild

Blue Cloud, Peter

1935–2011

Bluestone, Stephen

Bly, Robert

1926–2021

Bogan, Louise

1897–1970

Bohanan, Otto Leland

Bontemps, Arna

1902–1973

Bowles, Paul

1910–1999

Bowles, Frederick G.

Bowles, Jane

1917–1973

Bradstreet, Anne

1612–1672

Brant, LeRoy V.

1890–1969

Brass, Perry

1947–

Brodsky, Joseph

1940–1996

Brontë, Emily

1818–1848

Brooks, Gwendolyn

1917–2000

Brown, Abbie Farwell

1871–1927

Browne, Michael Dennis

1940–

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

1806–1861

Browning, Robert

1812–1889

Brubeck, Dave

1920–2012

Bryant, William Cullen

1794–1878

Burgos, Julia de

1914–1953

Burke, James Joseph

Burnet, Dana

1888–1962

Calamity Jane

1852–1903

Campbell, Mark

Carpenter, John Alden

1876–1951

Carroll, Lewis

1832–1898

Carver, Raymond

1938–1988

Cary, Alice

1820–1871

Cather, Willa

1873–1947

Cawein, Madison

1865–1914

Channing, William Ellery

1818–1901

Cheney, John Vance

1848–1922

Cisneros, Sandra

1954–

Coates, Florence Earle

1850–1927

Cochran, Leonard

1928–2013

Cohan, George M.

1878–1942

Collins, Billy

1941–

Collins, Leslie Morgan

Collins, Carrie Beatrice Holloway

1930–2016

Cook, Will Marion

1869–1944

Corley, Maria Thompson

1966–

Corso, Gregory Nunzio

1930–2001

Cotter, Jr., Joseph Seamon

1895–1919

Crane, Stephen

1871–1900

Crane, Hart

1899–1932

Crapsey, Adelaide

1878–1914

Creeley, Robert

1926–2005

Crosby, Frances Jane

1820–1915

Cullen, Countee

1903–1946

Cummings, E. E.

1894–1962

Cuney, William Waring

1906–1976

D., H.

1886–1961

Davis, Annie

Davis, Julia Johnson

Davis, Frank Marshall

1905–1987

de Callataÿ, Xavier

1932–1998

De la Mare, Walter

1873–1956

Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

1857–1945

Delany, Clarissa Scott

1901–1927

Dickey, James

1923–1997

Dickinson, Emily

1830–1886

Dickinson, Harold

1913–1970

Dickinson Bianchi, Martha Gilbert

1866–1943

Dietz, Howard

1896–1983

Dillard, Annie

1945–

Dillon, George H.

1906–1968

Dismond, Binga

Dixon, Melvin

1950–1992

Dodson, Owen

1914–1983

Doty, Mark

1953–

Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce

1870–1945

Douglass, Frederick

1818–1895

Dove, Rita

1952–

Dresser, Paul

1858–1906

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

1872–1906

Dunn, Stephen

1939–2021

Eastman, Max Forrester

1883–1969

Eberhart, Nelle Richmond

1871–1944

Eberhart, Richard

1904–2005

Elder, Odessa P.

Eliot, George

1819–1880

Ellison, Max

1914–1985

Ely, Elissa

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

1803–1882

Emmett, Daniel Decatur

1815–1904

Evans, Mari

1923–2017

Evans, Nina

2005–

Fabbri, Cora Randall

1871–1892

Fariña, Richard

1937–1966

Farwell, Arthur

1872–1952

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

1919–2021

Field, Eugene

1850–1895

Fisher, Jessica

1976–

Fitzgerald, Robert

1910–1985

Flaster, Karl West

1905–1965

Ford, Charles Henri

1913–2002

Foster, Stephen

1826–1864

Francis, Robert

1901–1987

Freeman, James Dillet

1912–2003

Fried, Michael

1939–

Frost, Robert

1874–1963

Frost, Frances

1905–1959

Fulton, Alice

1952–

Gale, Kate

Gallagher, Tess

1943–

Gamble, Mary Rolofson

Gardner, William Henry

1865–1932

Garrigue, Jean

1914–1972

Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield

1829–1892

Gioia, Dana

1950–

Giovanni, Nikki

1943–

Glück, Louise

1943–

Goodman, Paul

1911–1972

Gordon, Ricky Ian

1956–

Graves, Robert

1895–1985

Grenville, R. H.

1970–1958

Grimké, Angelina Weld

1880–1958

Guiney, Louise Imogen

1861–1920

Hagedorn, Hermann

1882–1964

Hagedorn, Hermann

1882–1964

Hall, Donald

1928–2018

Hammerstein, Oscar

1895–1960

Harding, Alison

Harjo, Joy

1951–

Harper, Michael S.

1938–2016

Hass, Robert

1941–

Hayden, Robert

1913–1980

Hayes, Alfred

1911–1985

Hayes, Terrance

1971–

Hayes, Donald Jeffrey

1904–1991

Hecht, Anthony

1923–2004

Heggie, Jake

1961–

Heitzeg, Steve

1959–

Hemminger, Graham Lee

1895–1950

Henley, William Ernest

1849–1903

Herford, Oliver

1863–1935

Herrera, Juan Felipe

1948–

Herrick, Robert

1591–1674

Hersch, Fred

1955–

Heyen, William

1940–

Heyman, Edward

1907–1981

Higginson, Ella

1861–1940

Higley, Dr. Brewster

1823–1911

Hillyer, Robert

1895–1961

Hoffenstein, Samuel

1890–1947

Hoffman, William M.

1939–2017

Hoffman, Daniel

1923–2013

Hoisington, Mary Folwell

1874–

Hollander, John

1929–2013

Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell

1809–1894

Hope, Laurence

1865–1904

Hopkinson, Joseph

1770–1842

Horan, Robert

1922–1981

Housman, A. E.

1859–1936

Hovey-King, Alvin

1882–1938

Howe, Julia Ward

1819–1910

Howe, Marie

1950–

Howells, William Dean

1837–1920

Hughes, Langston

1902–1967

Hundley, Richard

1931–2018

Hurston, Zora Neale

1871–1960

Ives, Charles

1874–1954

Jacobs-Bond, Carrie

1862–1946

Jacobsen, Josephine

1908–2003

Jarrell, Randall

1914–1965

Jessye, Eva

1895–1992

Johns, Orrick Glenday

1887–1946

Johnson, Robert Underwood

1853–1937

Johnson, James Weldon

1871–1938

Johnson, Georgia Douglas

1880–1966

Jones, Howard Mumford

1892–1980

Jonson, Benjamin

1572–1637

Joyce, James

1882–1941

Kallet, Marilyn

1946–

Kallman, Chester

1921–1975

Kenyon, Jane

1947–1995

Key, Francis Scott

1779–1843

Kilmer, Joyce

1886–1918

King, Jr., Martin Luther

1929–1968

Kingsley, Charles

1819–1875

Kinnell, Galway

1927–2014

Kipling, Rudyard

1865–1936

Koch, Kenneth

1925–2002

Kooser, Ted

1939–

Kumin, Maxine

1925–2014

Kunitz, Stanley

1905–2006

Kwarteng, Tesia

La Farge, Peter

1931–1965

Landor, Walter Savage

1775–1864

Lanier, Sidney

1842–1881

Larson, Jack

1928–2015

Laughlin, James

1914–1997

Lazarus, Emma

1849–1887

Le Guin, Ursula K.

1929–2018

Lear, Edward

1812–1888

Learned, Walter

1847–1915

Lenau, Nikolaus

1802–1850

Leonard, Patricia

1969–

Levertov, Denise

1923–1997

Levine, Philip

1928–2015

Lewin, Frank

1925–2008

Lewis, Janet

1899–1998

Lincoln, Abraham

1809–1865

Lindsay, Vachel

1879–1931

Lippman, Julie Mathilde

1864–1952

Littell, Philip

1950–

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

1807–1882

Loràl, Leberta

Lorca, Federico García

1898–1936

Lovoos, Janice

Lowell, Amy

1874–1925

Lowell, Robert

1917–1977

Lowry, Robert

1826–1899

Lux, Thomas

1946–2017

MacDowell, Edward

1860–1908

Mackay, Charles

1812–1889

MacLeish, Archibald

1892–1982

Markham, Edwin

1852–1940

Marston, Philip Bourke

1850–1887

Masefield, John

1878–1967

Mason, David

1954–

Matthews, William

1942–1997

McCarthy, Justin Huntly

1859–1936

McCrae, John

1872–1918

McCullers, Carson

1917–1967

McCurry, John Gordon

1821–1886

McDonald, Joette

McGinley, Phyllis

1905–1978

McKay, Claude

1889–1948

Melville, Herman

1819–1891

Menashe, Samuel

1925–2011

Meredith, William

1919–2007

Merwin, W. S.

1927–2019

Meynell, Alice

1847–1922

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

1892–1950

Miller, Emily Huntington

1833–1913

Miłosz, Czesław

1911–2004

Monette, Paul

1945–1995

Moore, Marianne

1887–1972

Moore, Thomas

1779–1852

Morefield, Laura

1960–2011

Morris, George Pope

1802–1864

Morris, Maurice

Morrison, Toni

1931–2019

Morton, Sarah Wentworth

1759–1846

Mosby, Katherine

Moss, Howard

1922–1987

Mumford, Erika

1935–1988

Munkittrick, Richard Kendall

1853–1911

Murray, Lucy Miller

Nash, Ogden

1902–1971

Nemerov, Howard

1920–1991

Nevin, Robert P.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

1892–1971

Niedecker, Lorine

1903–1970

Niles, John Jacob

1892–1980

Niles, Nathaniel

1741–1828

Noyes, Alfred

1880–1958

O’Hara, Theodore

1820–1867

O’Hara, Frank

1926–1966

O’Neall, Roderick

O’Neill, Eugene

1888–1953

O’Reilly, John Boyle

1844–1890

Okoye, Nkeiru

1972–

Oliver, Mary

1935–2019

Paine, Francis Bacon

Parker, Horatio

1863–1919

Parker, Dorothy

1893–1967

Parnell, Thomas

1679–1718

Patchen, Kenneth

1911–1972

Patchett, Ann

1963–

Patterson, Raymond R.

1929–2001

Penn, William

1644–1718

Peterson, Frederick

1859–1938

Pines, Paul

Pinsky, Robert

1940–

Piper, Edwin Ford

1871–1939

Pitchford, Kenneth

Plath, Sylvia

1932–1963

Poe, Edgar Allan

1809–1849

Pound, Ezra

1885–1972

Prejean, Sister Helen

1939–

Price, Florence

1887–1953

Probyn, May

1856–1909

Prokosch, Frederic

1906–1989

Purdy, James

1914–2009

Randall, Dudley

1914–2000

Ransom, John Crowe

1888–1974

Razaf, Andy

1895–1973

Reese, Lizette Woodworth

1856–1935

Reiner, Annie

1957–

Rexroth, Kenneth

1905–1982

Rice, Lillian Dynevor

Rich, Gladys

1892–1972

Riley, James Whitcomb

1849–1916

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

1869–1935

Roethke, Theodore

1908–1963

Rogers, Robert Cameron

1862–1912

Rogers, Alex.

Roos, Charles O.

Root, George Frederick

1820–1895

Rossetti, Christina

1830–1894

Rosten, Norman

1913–1995

Rukeyser, Muriel

1913–1980

Ruskin, John

1819–1900

Ryan, Kay

1945–

Sacred

Sandburg, Carl

1878–1967

Santayana, George

1863–1952

Sappho

Saroyan, William

1908–1981

Sassoon, Siegfried

1886–1967

Scaramellino, Gene

Scheer, Gene

1958–

Scher, Bob

1935–

Scollard, Clinton

1860–1932

Sexton, Anne

1928–1974

Shakespeare, William

1564–1616

Shanti, Nadine

1953–

Shapiro, Karl

1913–2000

Sherman, Frank Dempster

1860–1916

Silko, Leslie Marmon

1948–

Sill, Edward Rowland

1841–1887

Simic, Charles

1938–2023

Smith, Dave

1942–

Smith, William Jay

1918–2015

Smith, Tracy K.

1972–

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes

Snively, Susan

Snyder, Gary

1930–

Southey, Robert

1774–1843

Spender, Stephen

1909–1995

Speyer, Leonora

1872–1956

Spiritual

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott

1835–1921

Sprague, Charles

1823–1903

Stafford, William

1914–1993

Stallings, A. E.

1968–

Stanton, Frank Lebby

1857–1927

Stanton, B. Martin

Starr, Belle

1848–1889

Stein, Gertrude

1874–1946

Stephens, James

1882–1950

Stevens, Wallace

1879–1955

Stevenson, Robert Louis

1850–1894

Stewart, Susan

1952–

Stoddard, John Lawson

1850–1931

Strand, Mark

1934–2014

Sullivan, J. W.

Sweat, Noah "Soggy"

1922–1996

Swenson, May

1913–1989

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

1837–1909

Symons, Arthur

1865–1945

Tagore, Rabindranath

1861–1941

Tate, Allen

1899–1979

Tate, James

1943–2015

Taylor, Del’Shawn

1993–

Teasdale, Sara

1884–1933

Thiel, Diane

1967–

Thomas, Richard Pearson

1957–

Thomas, Edith Matilda

1854–1925

Thomas, Rosemary

1901–1961

Thomson, Virgil

1896–1989

Trethewey, Natasha

1966–

Tsiang, H. T.

1899–1971

Tubman, Harriet

1820–1913

Twain, Mark

1835–1910

Untermeyer, Louis

1885–1977

Untermeyer, Jean Starr

1886–1970

Updike, John

1932–2009

Van Doren, Mark

1894–1972

Van Duyn, Mona

1921–2004

Vannah, Kate

1855–1926

Villa, José García

1908–1997

Volkslieder

Wallace, Louise C.

Warren, Joseph

1741–1775

Warren, Robert Penn

1905–1989

Washburn, Henry Stevenson

1813–1903

Watkins Harper, Frances Ellen

1825–1911

Webster, Henry D. L.

1824–1896

Weinstein, Arnold

1927–2005

Wheatley, Phillis

1753–1784

Wheelock, John Hall

1886–1978

Whitman, Walt

1819–1892

Whittemore, Reed

1919–2012

Whittier, John Greenleaf

1807–1892

Wilbur, Richard

1921–2017

Willette, Florence Hynes

Williams, Tennessee

1911–1983

Williams, William Carlos

1883–1963

Willis, Nathaniel Parker

1806–1867

Winans, A.D.

1936–

Windham, Donald

1920–2010

Wing, Catherine

1972–

Woods, Fannie Carter

1882–1948

Woolman, John

1720–1772

Work, Henry Clay

1832–1884

Wright, Charles

1935–

Wright, James

1927–1980

Wylie, Elinor

1885–1928

Yeats, William Butler

1865–1939