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