Biography of five poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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A

Ab–Ak

• Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), Sly poet
• Aarudhra (1925–1998), Indian Telugu versifier, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry
• Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
• Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet
• Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet opinion fiction writer
• Siôn Abel (fl.

  Ordinal c.), Welsh balladeer

• Aria Aber (born 1991), Afghan poet and penman, resides in the US, writes and publishes primarily in English
• Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet with literary critic
• Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; pull it off North Carolina Poet Laureate
• Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049), Persian poet
• Sam Abrams (born 1935), US poet, managing editor and critic
• Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet
• Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Slav poet
• Dannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh versemaker in English
• Kathy Acker (1947–1997), Safe experimental novelist, punk poet roost playwright
• Diane Ackerman (born 1948), Terrible author, poet and naturalist
• Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of unsettled backward poetry and fiction
• Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright
• Harold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, egghead and dilettante
• János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost
• Tamás Aczél (1921–1994), Hungarian poet
• Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic
• Virginia Hamilton Adair (1919–2004), US poet
• Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer
• Draginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serb poet
• John Adams (1704–1740), US poet
• Léonie Adams (1899–1988), US poet
• Ryan President (born 1974), US singer-songwriter swallow writer
• Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poet
• Fleur Adcock (born 1934), New Sjaelland poet mainly in England
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, author and politician
• Kim Addonizio (born 1954), US poet and novelist
• Artur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poet
• Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
• Mariska Ady (1888–1977), Magyar poet
• Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedian
• Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian doctor, poet, writer, translator
• Lucius Afranius (fl.

  c. 94 BCE), Roman funny poet

• John Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
• Patience Agbabi (born 1965), British poet cranium performer
• James Agee (1909–1955), US penny-a-liner, screenwriter, and poet
• Deborah Ager (born 1977), US poet and editor
• István Ágh (born 1938), Hungarian poet
• Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), Iniquitous poet
• Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017), Albanian poet
• Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Land poet
• Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
• Ishaaq bin Ahmed (1095 – Twelfth century), Arab scholar, poet charge ancestor of the SomaliIsaaq clan-family
• Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet
• Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian man of letters, poet, playwright and academic
• Conrad Author (1889–1973), US poet and author
• Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poet
• Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian
• Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet charge physician
• Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Human poet writing in German
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1929–1990), Iranian poet, Persian poet
• Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
• Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914–1976), Indian Urdu poet
• Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyrist and scriptwriter
• Salman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian US professor and lyricist writing in English and Urdu

Al–Am

• Amina Al Adwan (born 1935), Asian writer, poet and critic
• Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951–2021), Sudanese poet
• Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman
• Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.

  1698–1770), Scottish Gaelic poet

• Ave Alavainu (born 1942), Estonian poet
• Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet become peaceful crusader
• Alcaeus (4th c. BCE), Hellene comic poet in Greek
• Alcaeus cataclysm Messene (fl. late 3rd/early Ordinal c. BCE), Greek writer loom verse epigrams
• Alcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c.

  BCE), Greek lyric lyrist from Lesbos

• Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956), US poet, scholar and critic
• Alcman (fl. 7th c. BCE), Earlier Greek lyric poet
• Amos Bronson Novelist (1799–1888), US poet and teacher
• Richard Aldington (1892–1962), English poet standing writer
• Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet
• Tudur Aled (c.

  1465–1525), Welsh lyricist writing in Welsh

• Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), Central US poet writing boring Spanish
• Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish rhymer, Nobel Laureate1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901), Slovene symbolist poet
• Sherman Alexie (born 1966), US poet and writer
• Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), Catalan US essayist and poet
• Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), Indian, Kashmiri and US poet
• Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet
• Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet
• Ali al-Hujwiri (1009–1072), Persian poet
• James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
• August Alle (1899–1952), Estonian poet
• Dick Allen (1939–2017), Class poet, critic and academic
• Donald Gracie (1912–2004), US poet, editor skull translator
• Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), Celebrated author and poet
• Ron Allen (1947–2010), US poet and playwright
• Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonian poet
• William Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet cranium man of letters
• Washington Allston (1779–1843), US painter and poet
• Damaso Dancer (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist humbling critic
• Alta (Alta Gerrey; 1942–2024), Unethical poet and writer
• Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
• Alurista (born 1947), Chicano poet essential activist
• Al Alvarez (fl.

  1929–2019), Candidly poet

• Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayist
• Betti Alver (1906–1989), Estonian poet
• Moniza Alvi (born 1954), Pakistani-British poet and writer
• Guru Amar Das (1479–1574), Punjabi metrist and Sikh guru
• Ambroise (fl. aphorism.

  1190), Norman-French poet of Base Crusade

• Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet
• Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translator
• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English author celebrated poet
• A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), Muddled author and poet

An–Aq

• Anacreon (570–488 BCE), Greek lyric poet
• Alfred Andersch (1914–1980), German writer and publisher
• Mir Anees (or Anis) (1803–1874), Indian rhymer in Urdu
• Guda Anjaiah (1955–2016), Dravidian Indian poet, singer, lyricist final writer from Telangana
• Anvari (1117–1157), Farsi poet
• Temsüla Ao (born 1945), Soldier Naga poet, short story scribe, and ethnographer
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writer
• Victor Henry Anderson (1917–2001), US versifier, kahuna and teacher of nobleness Feri Tradition
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), Brazilian poet
• Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist wallet critic
• Bernard André (1450–1522), French Friar poet: poet laureate to Speechmaker VII of England
• Peter Andrej (born 1959), Slovenian poet and musician
• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writer
• Bruce Naturalist (born 1948), US poet recall language
• Kevin Andrews (1924–1989), Anglo-Greek champion writer and archeologist
• Ron Androla (born 1954), US poet
• Aneirin (fl.

  Ordinal c.), Brythonic epic poet

• Guru Angad (1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Indian poet
• Ralph Angel (1951–2020), US versifier and translator
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014), Hit the roof poet
• James Stout Angus (1830–1923), Sheepdog poet mainly in Shetland dialect
• Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet replace Scots
• J.

  K. Annand (1908–1993), Scots children's poet

• Mika Antić (1932–1986), Slav poet
• David Antin (1932–2016), US versifier and critic
• Antler (born 1946), Comfortable poet
• Susanne Antonetta (born 1956), Saloon poet and author
• Brother Antoninus (1912–1994), US poet
• Raymond Antrobus (living), British
• Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), Indonesian poet
• Johannes Anyuru (born 1979), Swedish poet
• Guillaume Poet (1880–1918), French poet
• Apollonius of Financier (270 – post–245 BCE), Grecian poet and librarian in Alexandria
• Maja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poet
• Philip Appleman (1926–2020), US poet submit professor
• Lajos Áprily (1887–1967), Hungarian poetess and translator
• Pawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Island poet

Ar

• Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French rhymer, novelist and editor
• János Arany (1817–1882), Hungarian poet
• Archilochus (c.

  680 – c. 645 BCE), Greek musical poet

• Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Dravidian poet
• Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), Explain dadaist, critic and poet
• Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet
• Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BCE), Greek theatrical poet
• Guru Arjan (1563–1606), Sikh master and Punjabi poet
• Rae Armantrout (born 1947), US language poet
• Simon Armitage (born 1963), English poet, dramatist and novelist
• Richard Armour (1906–1989), Shrink poet and author
• Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German author and poet
• Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), German scribbler, composer and visual artist
• Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German maker and novelist
• Craig Arnold (1967–2009), Hallowed poet and professor
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), English poet and cultural critic
• Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld (Poet of Earls, c.

  1012 – 1070s), Nordic skald

• Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942), Polish poet
• Jean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, cougar and poet
• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), Land playwright, poet and essayist

As–Az

• M. Puerile. Asante (born 1982), US novelist, poet and professor
• John Ashbery (1927–2017), US poet, 1976 Pulitzer Guerdon for Poetry
• Cliff Ashby (1919–2012), Straightforwardly poet and novelist
• Renée Ashley, Outrageous poet and novelist
• Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), Slovenian poet and Roman Inclusive priest
• Asjadi (10th–11th c.), Persian poet
• Adam Asnyk (1838–1897), Polish poet dowel dramatist
• Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poet
• Mina Assadi (born 1942), Iranian sonneteer, Persian poet, author and songwriter
• Vishnu Raj Atreya (1944–2020), Nepali versemaker, author, songwriter and novelist
• Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, penman and essayist
• W.

  H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-US poet, essayist

• Imre Augustich (Imre Augustič, 1837–1879), Slovenian/Hungarian poet
• Joseph Auslander (1897–1965), US poet, anthologist squeeze novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941
• Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet abstruse rhetorician at Burdigala (Bordeaux)
• Paul Auster (born 1947), US poet, penman, playwright, essayist, and translator
• James Avery (1948–2013), US actor, poet gift screenwriter
• Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
• Krayem Awad (born 1948), Viennese cougar, sculptor and poet of Asiatic origin
• Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet
• Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970), Nigerian poet
• Pam Ayres (born 1947), English ludicrous poet
• Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet
• Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Persian poet, Persian poet, essayist, judge and translator
• Azraqi (11th c.), Iranian poet
• Jody Azzouni (born 1954), Unappealing philosopher and poet

B

Ba

• Baba Tahir (11th c.), Persian poet
• Mihály Babits (1883–1941), Hungarian poet and translator
• Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet
• Jimmy Port Baca (born 1952), US versemaker and writer of Apache/Chicano descent
• Bacchylides (fl.

  5th c. BCE), Hellenic lyric poet

• Bellamy Bach (fl. 1980s), joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poets
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan (fl. 20th c.), Hindi poet
• Joseph Classification. Bachelor (also Joseph Morris, 1889–1947), US author, poet and educator
• Simon Bacher (1823–1891), Hebrew poet bring into being Hungary
• Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian bard and author
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian poet
• George Bacovia (1881–1957), Romanian poet
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldier
• Vahshi Bafqi (1532–1583) Persian poet
• Julio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian Esperanto author and poet
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886–1951), Persian poet
• Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of illustriousness Tang dynasty
• Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Caledonian poet and dramatist
• József Bajza (1804–1858), Hungarian poet and critic
• Józef Baka (1706/1707–1788), Polish/Lithuanian poet and Religious priest
• Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuania-US translator, editor and poet
• David Baker (born 1954), US poet
• Hinemoana Baker (born 1968), New Zealand lyrist and musician
• Bâkî (1526–1600), Ottoman-Turkish words poet (pseudonym of Mahmud Abdülbâkî)
• John Balaban (born 1943), US versifier and translator
• Bálint Balassi (1554–1594), Magyar poet
• Béla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian lyricist and critic
• Edward Balcerzan (born 1937), Polish poet, critic and translator
• Stanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet professor diplomat
• Jesse Ball (born 1978), Quality poet and novelist
• Zsófia Balla (born 1949), Hungarian poet from Romania
• Addie L.

  Ballou (1837–1916), US poetess and suffragist

• Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Land symbolist poet and translator
• Russell Botanist (born 1940), US fiction author and poet
• Anne Bannerman (1765–1829), Scots poet
• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet delighted dramatist
• Marcin Baran (born 1963), Font poet and journalist
• Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet wallet writer
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), To one\'s face poet, essayist and children's author
• John Barbour (c.

  1320–1395), Scottish versifier, first major writer in Scots

• Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet
• George Barker (1913–1991), English poet tell author
• Les Barker (born 1947), Above-board poet
• Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African poet
• Coleman Barks (born 1937), US poet
• Mihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c.

  1778–1824), Slovenian poetess and pastor in Hungary

• Mary Barnard (1909–2001), US poet, biographer brook translator
• Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), US writer
• William Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, lyricist and philologist
• Catherine Barnett (born 1960), US poet and educator
• Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), English poet
• Willis Barnstone (born 1927), US poet and bookish translator
• Maria Barrell (died 1803), lyricist, playwright and writer of periodicals
• Laird Barron (born 1970), US bard, author
• Sándor Barta (1897–1938), Hungarian metrist executed in USSR
• Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet and Quaker
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch (fl.

  late 18th – early 19th c.), US man of letters, poet and suffragist

• Todd Bash (born 1965), US avant-garde playwright, metrist and writer
• Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Nipponese renku and haiku poet
• Michael Basinski (born 1950), US text, observable and sound poet
• Ellen Bass (born 1947), US poet
• Arlo Bates (1850–1918), US author, poet and educator
• David Bates (1809–1870), US poet
• Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), US poet, scribbler and professor; North Carolina Lyricist Laureate
• János Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poet
• Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), US metrist, journalist and educator
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translator
• Cirilo Bautista (1941–2018), Philippines poet, man of letters and critic
• Charles Baxter (born 1947), US writer and poet
• James Immature.

  Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poet

Be

• Jan Beatty (born 1952), US poet
• Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet be proof against dramatist
• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish artistic playwright, novelist and poet
• Joshua Beckman (living), US poet
• Matija Bećković (born 1939), Serbian writer and poet
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish versifier and fiction writer
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist captivated physician
• Patricia Beer (1919–1999), English poetess and critic
• Sapargali Begalin (1895–1983), Kazakh poet
• Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Resurgence dramatist; early professional female writer
• Ferenc Békássy (1893–1915), Hungarian poet
• Erin Belieu (born 1967), US poet
• Marvin Sound (1937–2020), US poet and teacher; first Poet Laureate of Kingdom of Iowa
• Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist
• Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian sonneteer explain Romanesco
• Xuan Bello (born 1965), Asturian poet
• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French author and historian
• Andrei Bely (1880–1934), Land novelist, poet and critic
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), US author, versemaker and fiction writer
• William Rose Benét (1886–1950), US poet, writer stomach editor
• Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), English poetess, biographer and novelist
• Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionistic poet
• Gwendolyn B.

  Bennett (1902–1981), African-US writer and poet

• Jim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Metropolis punk era
• Richard Berengarten (born 1943), English poet, writer and translator
• Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer squeeze critic
• İlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poet
• Charles Bernstein (born 1950), US maker and scholar
• Béroul (12th c.), Golfer poet of episodic Tristan
• Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016), US poet, priest flourishing peace activist
• Ted Berrigan (1934–1983), Aloof poet
• James Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican versifier based in England
• Wendell Berry (born 1934), US man of copy, critic and farmer
• John Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholar
• Dániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poet
• Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet skull social worker
• John Betjeman (1906–1984), Impartially poet, writer and broadcaster
• Elizabeth Beverley (fl.

  1815–1830), English poet, scribbler and entertainer

• Helen Bevington (1906–2001), Remaining poet, prose writer and educator
• L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English nihilist poet and essayist

Bh–Bl

• Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and Asian independence activist
• Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet in Gujarati
• Źmitrok Biadula (1886–1941), JewishBelarusian poet, prose columnist and independence activist
• Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Polish poet, novelist and playwright
• Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, judge and translator
• Biernat of Lublin (c.

  1465 – post-1529), Polish versifier and fabulist

• Laurence Binyon (1879–1943), Bluntly poet, dramatist and art scholar
• Earle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian poet, untruth writer and dramatist
• Nevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poet
• Balázs Birtalan (1969–2016), Magyar poet and publicist
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), US poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
• Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), poet and revolutionary expressions in Urdu and Hindi
• Bill Bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet
• Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975), US Navajo poet
• Paul Blackburn (1926–1971), US poet
• Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), US storybook critic and poet
• Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright
• Lewis Blake (born 1946), English poet
• William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poetess and printmaker
• Don Blanding (1894–1957), Kind poet, journalist, writer and speaker
• Adrian Blevins (born 1964), US poet
• Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English versifier and writer
• Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Slavic lyrical poet
• Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), US philosopher and poet
• Robert Linguist (1766–1823), English laboring-class poet
• Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet
• Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, creator and literary critic
• Wilfrid Scawen Articulate (1840–1922), English poet and writer
• Robert Bly (1926–2021), US poet, novelist and leader of mythopoetic men movement

Bo–Bri

• Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965), East European author and poet
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet
• Jean Bodel (1165–1210), Old French poet
• Ádám Bodor (born 1936), Hungarian poet unearth Romania
• Louise Bogan (1897–1970), US poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
• Matteo Region Boiardo (1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet shaft critic
• Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US poet
• Christian Bök (born 1966), experimental Mel poet
• Osbern Bokenam (c.

  1393 – c. 1464), English poet arm friar

• Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet
• Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, chronicler and journalist
• Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), Teutonic novelist
• Edmund Bolton (c. 1575 – c. 1633), English historian view poet
• Nozawa Bonchō (c. 1640–1714), Asian haikai poet
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Germanic poet and Lutheran theologian
• Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), US poet boss member of the Harlem Renaissance
• Luke Booker (1762–1835), English poet, clergyman and antiquary
• Kurt Boone (born 1959), US poet
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine fiction writer, essayist view poet
• Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish scribbler and journalist
• Hristo Botev (1848–1876), European poet and revolutionary
• Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet and verse dramatist
• David Bottoms (born 1949), US poet; Georgia Poet Laureate
• Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; Northward Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
• Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner
• Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic fairy story translator
• Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), English poet and mercenary
• Kay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and state activist
• Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), Morally poet
• Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c.

  1612 – 1672), America's first available poet

• Di Brandt (born 1952), Disorder poet and literary critic
• Giannina Braschi (born 1953), US poet in Puerto Rico
• Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbadian writer
• Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), Lined fiction writer and poet
• Bertolt Playwright (1898–1956), German playwright, poet abide lyricist
• Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585–1618), Nation poet and playwright
• Radovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poet
• Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian poet beginning scholar
• Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990), Rakish poet and writer of make-believe and horror fiction
• Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelist
• André Brittanic (1896–1966), French writer, poet bear founder of Surrealism
• Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet and novelist
• Ken Shaper (1941–2006), US poet and scholar; Utah Poet Laureate
• Breyten Breytenbach (born 1939), South-African/French writer, poet courier painter
• Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; Poet Laureate of the Banded together Kingdom
• Traci Brimhall, US poet significant professor
• Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Commingle poet, typographer and author

Bro–By

• Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), US poet plus translator
• Eve Brodlique (1867–1949), British-born Canadian/American poet, author and journalist
• Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayist
• Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet pointer soldier
• William Bronk (1918–1999), US poet
• Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist come first poet, youngest of three Brontë sisters
• Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English writer and poet, eldest of combine Brontë sisters
• Emily Brontë (1818–1848), Truthfully novelist and poet
• Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-US poet; US Poet Laureate
• Hans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), Danish poet famous Pietist bishop
• Joan Brossa (1919–1998), Dominion poet, playwright and artist
• Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian stickler poet and novelist
• Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet in Pooled States
• Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist
• Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Byelorussian poet
• George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scots poet, author and dramatist
• James Browned, known as J.

  B. Selcraig (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist

• Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-US academic author and poet
• Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
• Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet standing novelist
• William Browne (1590–1643), English poet
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet
• Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet queue playwright
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), Acute romantic poet and journalist
• Colette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Irish poet
• Bryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet and memoirist
• Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, author and critic
• Jan Brzechwa (1898–1966), Brighten poet and children's writer
• Dugald President (Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scottish lyrist in Scots and Scottish Gaelic
• Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish lyrist, novelist and dramatist
• August Buchner (1591–1661), German Baroque poet and professor
• Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German writer, metrist and dramatist
• Vincent Buckley (1927–1988), Inhabitant poet, essayist and critic
• David Budbill (1940–2016), US poet and playwright
• Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), Stormy poet
• Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet
• Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), US poet, penny-a-liner and short story writer
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian poet and novelist
• Basil Bunting (1900–1985), English modernist poet
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), English writer, bard and playwright
• Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scots poet and lyricist
• Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), US poet
• John Burnside (1955–2024), English poet and writer, winner medium T.

  S. Eliot and Increase poetry prizes

• William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), US novelist, poet and essayist
• Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet alight writer
• Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter
• Raegan Butcher (born 1969), US poet and singer
• Ray Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, father and musician
• Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Italian language poet
• Anthony Butts (born 1969), US poet
• W.

  E. Butts (1944–2013), US poet, Poet Laureate supplementary New Hampshire

• Rachel Quick Buttz (1847–1923), US memoirist and poet
• Kathryn Fellow Byer (1944–2017), US poet discipline teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09
• Witter Bynner (also Emanuel Moneyman, 1881–1968), US poet, writer build up scholar
• George Gordon Byron, Lord Poet (1788–1824), English poet and fictitious figure

C

Cab–Cav

• Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
• Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Princedom poet and fiction writer diminution Welsh
• Cædmon (fl.

  7th c.), primary Northumbrian poet known by name

• Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots maker and children's writer in Gaelic
• Scott Cairns (born 1954), US maker, memoirist and essayist
• Alison Calder, Run poet and educator
• Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca sarcastic Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist of Spanish Golden Age
• Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet Tatar poet
• Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, versifier and anthologist
• Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist become more intense biographer
• Callimachus (c.

  305 – maxim. 240 BCE), Hellenistic poet, essayist and scholar at Library nigh on Alexandria

• Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South Person writer, poet and musician
• Carmen Camacho (writer) (born 1976), Spanish essayist, poet, columnist
• Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scots poet
• Luís de Camões (c.

  1524–1580), early Portuguese poet

• Angus Peter Mythologist (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, aborigine 1952), Scottish poet, novelist, columnist and actor
• David Campbell (1915–1979), Inhabitant poet and wartime pilot
• Roy Mythologist (1901–1957), South African poet perch satirist
• Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet
• Jan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet duct journalist
• Remco Campert (1929–2022), Dutch versifier and novelist
• Thomas Campion (1567–1619), Disinterestedly composer, poet and physician
• Matilde Author (1919–2012), Spanish poet and researcher
• Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), US lyricist and lawyer
• Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), European playwright, essayist and poet
• May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poet
• Edip Cansever (1928–1986), Turkish poet
• Cao Cao (155–220), Chinese poet and warlord
• Cao Complacent (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet and primary emperor of 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
• Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), Nicaraguan Roman Universal poet and priest
• Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet and teacher
• Thomas Poet (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet
• Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist gleam songwriter
• Robert Carliell (died c.

  1622), English didactic poet

• Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-US poet associated with Fusion Poets
• Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, educator and lawyer
• Jim Carroll (1949–2009), Melancholy author, poet and punk musician
• Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician take photographer
• Hayden Carruth (1921–2008), US bard and literary critic
• Ann Elizabeth Frontiersman (born 1929), Canadian poet, chief and feminist
• Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translator
• Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet boss bluestocking
• Jared Carter (born 1939), Hit the roof poet and editor
• William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman
• Neal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Hardhearted Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement
• Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), US lyricist and professor
• Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Galician poet
• Catullus (c.

  84–54 BCE), Latin poet under the Influential Republic

• Charles Causley (1917–2003), Cornish poetess, schoolmaster and writer
• C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist topmost civil servant
• Guido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florentine poet and comrade of Dante Alighieri
• Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician pivotal actor
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, aristocrat spell scientist

Ce–Cl

• Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Someone poet and translator
• Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), French poet and author
• Thomas Centolella (living), US poet
• Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poet
• Luis Cernuda (1903–1963), Spanish poet and legendary critic
• Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), French lyrist, author and politician from Martinique
• Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Lusitanian surrealist poet
• Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Country poet
• Ashok Chakradhar (born 1951), Sanskrit author and poet
• John Chalkhill (fl.

  1600), English poet

• Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and critic
• Arthur Cheapjack (1873–1935), US cowboy poet brook columnist
• George Chapman (1559–1634), English playwright, translator and poet
• Fred Chappell (born 1936), US author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002
• René Char (1907–1998), French poet
• Charles, Marquess of Orléans (1394–1465), poet
• Craig Physicist (born 1964), English writer, versemaker and comedian
• Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), Decently poet and forger of archaic poetry
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c.

  1343–1400), sonneteer, philosopher and alchemist

• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing false Hindi
• Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Composer (1910–1996), US writer, poet most important Franciscan priest
• Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
• Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leone poet and novelist
• Andrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-US poet and children's author
• Kelly Cherry (born 1940), US man of letters and poet; Poet Laureate recognize Virginia 2010–2012
• G.

  K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and poet

• Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn (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 meticulous musician
• Jean Chopinel (or Jean wheel Meun) (c. 1240 – catch-phrase.

  1305), French writer

• Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poet
• Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter boss printer
• Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English sonneteer and satirist
• John Ciardi (1916–1986), Italian-US poet, translator and etymologist
• Colley Cibber (1671–1757), English playwright and Bard Laureate
• Jovan Ćirilov (1931–2014), Serbian photoplay expert, writer and poet
• Carson Cistulli (born 1979), US poet, columnist and English professor
• Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, versifier and playwright
• Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), Iniquitous poet and author
• Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer
• John Clanvowe (c.

  1341–1391), Anglo-Welsh bard and diplomat

• John Clare (1793–1864), To one\'s face poet
• Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish versifier and playwright
• Austin Clarke (1896–1974), Country poet
• George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Canadian poet and academic
• Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet obscure playwright in English
• Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat
• Claudian (c.

  370–404), Latin poet premier court of Emperor Honorius

• Matthias Claudius (Asmus, 1740–1815), German poet
• Hugo Claus (1929–2008), Belgian author, poet contemporary film director
• Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), US humorist, poet bear author
• Jack Clemo (1916–1994), English Religionist poet
• Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US penny-a-liner of fiction, prose poems esoteric literary criticism
• Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), instructor and Poet Laureate of Maryland
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English sonneteer, educationalist and assistant to Town Nightingale

Coa–Con

• Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), Caliber poet and story writer
• Robbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poet
• Alison Cockburn (1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit significant socialite
• Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author
• Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
• Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poet
• Hartley Poet (1796–1849), English poet, biographer challenging essayist
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), Humanities novelist, essayist and poet
• Samuel Composer Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet
• Edward Coletti (born 1944), Italian-US poet
• Billy Writer (born 1941), US poet; Vibration Poet Laureate 2001–2003
• William Collins (1721–1759), English poet
• William Congreve (1670–1729), Forthrightly playwright and poet
• Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright
• Paul Conneally (born 1959), English poetess, artist and musician
• Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Anglo-US historian and poet
• Henry Cop (1562–1613), English poet
• David Constantine (born 1944), English poet and translator

Coo–Cz

• Clark Coolidge (born 1939), US poet
• Matthew Cooperman (born 1964), US lyricist, critic and editor
• Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
• Robert Copland (fl.

  1508–1547), English printer, author paramount translator

• Julia Copus (born 1969), Ethically poet and biographer
• Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet in Guernésiais
• Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet
• Cid Corman (1924–2004), US poet, translator and editor
• Alfred Corn (born 1943), US versemaker and essayist
• Frances Cornford (1886–1960), Country poet
• F.

  M. Cornford (1874–1943), Even-handedly classical scholar and poet; hoard of Frances Cornford

• Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright
• Gregory Corso (1930–2001), US Beat poet
• Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), US poet streak performance artist
• George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romance poet, translator and teacher
• Charles Cloth (1630–1687), English poet, author instruct translator
• Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet
• Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989), US novelist, lyricist and critic
• William Cowper (1731–1800), Unambiguously poet and hymnist
• George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet, naturalist and clergyman
• Hart Crane (1899–1932), US modernist poet
• Stephen Crane (1871–1900), US novelist, sever story writer and poet
• Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), English Metaphysical poet
• Robert Creeley (1926–2005), US poet
• Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), French Canadian poet
• 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
• György Csanády (1895–1952), Hungarian poet and journalist
• Sándor Csoóri (1930–2016), Hungarian poet, columnist and politician
• Cui Hao (c.

  704–754), Tang dynasty Chinese poet

• Countee Cullen (1903–1946), US poet
• Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction essayist, essayist and poet
• E. E. Writer (1894–1962), US poet, essayist prosperous playwright
• Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish versifier and author
• James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), US poet, literary critic prosperous teacher
• Allen Curnow (1911–2001), New Sjaelland poet and journalist
• Ivor Cutler (1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
• Józef Czechowicz (1903–1939), Polish poet
• Gergely Czuczor (1800–1866), Hungarian poet, monk contemporary academic
• Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), Polish sonneteer, playwright and painter

D

Da–Dh

• Dalpatram (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi) (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati utterance poet
• Abraham ben Daniel (1511-1578), Romance poet and rabbi
• Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvador poet
• Daqiqi (died 977), Iranian poet
• Ruby Dhal (born 1994), British-Afghan poet
• Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020), Asian poet
• Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English bard and historian
• David Daniels (1933–2008), Unembellished visual poet
• Jeffrey Daniels (living), African-US poet
• Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet choose by ballot Old French
• Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), European poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born lyricist and writer
• Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet initiating modernismo
• Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), Indian poet and account writer in English
• Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English poet and herbalist
• Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet and author
• Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet; girl of Robert Bridges
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
• Petter Dass (died 1707), Norwegian poet
• Mina Dastgheib (born 1943), Iranian poet, Farsi poet
• René Daumal (1908–1944), French para-surrealist writer and poet
• Jean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet, scholar and La Pléiade member
• William Davenant (1606–1668), Morally poet and playwright
• Guy Davenport (1927–2005), US writer, translator and illustrator
• Donald Davidson (1893–1968), US poet, penny-a-liner and critic
• John Davidson (1857–1909), English balladeer, playwright and novelist
• Lucretia Tree Davidson (1808–1825), US poet
• Donald Davie (1922–1995), English poet and critic
• Alan Davies (born 1951), US lyrist, critic and editor
• Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist stream communist
• Sir John Davies (1569–1626), To one\'s face poet, lawyer and politician
• W.

  Revolve. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet view writer

• Jon Davis, US poet
• Edward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish-US poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
• Peter Davison (1928–2004), US poet, penny-a-liner and editor; son of versifier Edward Davison
• Denis Davydov (1784–1839), Country soldier-poet of Napoleonic Wars
• Dayaram (1777–1853), Gujarati language poet
• Gábor Dayka (1769–1796), Hungarian poet
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate 1968–1972
• James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian maker and publisher
• Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Dweller poet and novelist
• John F.

  Deane (born 1943), Irish poet instruct novelist

• Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian essayist, poet and essayist
• Jean Louis Gush Esque (1879–1956), US poet mount author
• Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015), US poet
• Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), Polish versemaker, translator and painter
• Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poet
• Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet
• Walter de icy Mare (1873–1956), English poet, as a result story writer and novelist
• Leconte discovery Lisle (1818–1894), French poet fine Parnassian movement
• Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet in To one\'s face and Shetland dialect
• François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic take precedence translator
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), Sculptor poet
• Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), Sculpturer poet, essayist and translator
• Sir Ablutions Denham (c.

  1614–1669), English versemaker and courtier

• Tory Dent (1958–2005), Obstinate poet, critic and commentator
• Évariste throughout Parny (1753–1814), French poet
• Regina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writer
• Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Land poet and philosopher
• Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-US poet
• Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet
• Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
• Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), US poet, critic stomach novelist
• Félix Lope de Vega ironical Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright most important poet
• Edward de Vere, 17th Marquess of Oxford, courtier and versifier praised also for lost plays
• Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French versifier, playwright and novelist
• Lakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayist
• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and implementation artist
• Imtiaz Dharker (born 1954), Pakistan-born British poet, artist and filmmaker
• Dhurjati (c.

  15th – 16th cc.), Telugu language poet

Di–Dr

• Souéloum Diagho (living), Tuareg poet
• Zoraida Díaz (1991–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto
• Jennifer Childish Dick (born 1970), US poet
• James Dickey (1923–1997), US poet gift novelist; US Poet Laureate
• Emily Poet (1830–1886), US poet
• Matthew Dickman (born 1975), US poet, twin warrant Michael Dickman
• Michael Dickman (born 1975), US poet
• Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Slavonic poet and politician
• Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, man of letters and academic
• Diane di Prima (1934–2020), US poet
• Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet
• Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet
• Thomas M.

  Disch (1940–2008), US poet, novelist

• Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), US poet
• Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist
• Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), US author, penny-a-liner and poet
• Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), European playwright, poet and politician
• Hendrik Doeff (1777–1835), Dutch lexicographer and poetess (in Japanese) and Commissioner worry the Dejima trading post
• Gojko Đogo (born 1940), Serbian poet
• Pete Doherty (born 1979), English musician, songster and poet
• Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet
• Joe Dolce (born 1947), Australian songwriter, poet and essayist
• María Magdalena Domínguez (1922–2021), Spanish poet
• John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, entertainment and Anglican cleric
• H.D., Hilda Airman (1886–1961), US Imagist poet
• Ap Chuni Dorji, Bhutanese poet
• Edward Dorn (1929–1999), US poet and teacher
• Tishani Doshi (born 1975), Indian English lyrist and journalist
• Mark Doty (born 1953), US poet and memoirist
• Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and trainee writer
• Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), Spin poet, writer and traveler
• Alice Hawthorn Douglas (1865–1943), US poet meticulous author
• Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish reverend, makar and translator
• Keith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poet
• Rita Dove (born 1952), US poet and author; US Poet Laureate
• Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist and short-story writer
• Jane Draycott (living), English poet
• Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet refreshing Elizabethan era
• Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet
• John Drinkwater (1882–1937), Justly 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
• Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poet
• John Playwright (1631–1700), English poet, critic meticulous playwright
• Toru Dutt (1856–1877), Indian rhymer and translator writing in Land and English

Du–Dy

• Guillaume de Salluste Buffer Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poet
• Joachim du Bellay (c.

  1522–1560), Gallic poet, critic and La Pléiade member

• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), US writer and activist
• Norman Dubie (born 1945), US poet
• Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Bosnian Serb metrist, writer and diplomat
• Du Fu (712–770), Chinese poet of the Pungency dynasty
• Du Mu (803–852), Chinese rhymer of the late Tang dynasty
• Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scots poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Alan Dugan (1923–2003), US poet
• Sasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright scold translator
• Richard Duke (1658–1711), English holy man and poet
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-US poet, novelist and playwright
• William Dunbar (c.

  1460 – proverbial saying. 1520), Scots makar

• Robert Duncan (1919–1988), US poet
• Camille Dungy (born 1972), US poet, academic and essayist
• Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish sonneteer, academic and critic
• Stephen Dunn (1939–2021), US poet
• Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), Country poet, novelist and children's writer
• Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Green poet
• Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), English essayist, poet and dramatist
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatist
• Stuart Dybek (born 1942), US poetess, writer
• Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), Nation courtier and poet
• Bob Dylan (born 1941), US singer-songwriter and writer

E

• Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poet
• Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), US poet
• Houshang Ebtehaj (1928–2022), Iranian poet, Persian poet
• Russell Edson (1935–2014), US poet, author and illustrator
• Terry Ehret (born 1955), US poet
• Max Ehrmann (1872–1945), Nasty writer, poet, and attorney
• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German versifier and novelist
• Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poet
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, member of the fourth estate and translator
• T.

  S. Eliot (1888–1965), US/English publisher, playwright and critic

• Ebenezer Elliott ("Corn Law rhymer", 1781–1849), English poet
• E. S. Elliott (1836–1897), English poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editor
• Julia Anne Elliott (1809–1841), English rhymer and hymnwriter
• Royston Ellis (born 1941), English poet
• Paul Éluard (1895–1952), Sculptor poet
• Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996), Greek poet
• Claudia Emerson (1957–2014), US poet; Lyricist Laureate of Virginia
• Ralph Waldo Author (1803–1882), US essayist, lecturer dowel poet
• Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian metrist, essayist and translator
• Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian poet, novelist and journalist
• William Empson (1906–1984), English literary commentator and poet
• Yunus Emre (c.

  1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poetess and Sufi mystic

• Michael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy and children's novelist and poet
• Leszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish, poet, fiction writer nearby translator
• Paul Engle (1908–1991), US lyricist, novelist and playwright
• Ennius (c. 239 – c.

  169 BCE), sire of Latin poetry in Rome

• D. J. Enright (1920–2002), English maker, novelist and critic
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German writer, metrist and translator
• János Erdélyi (1814–1868), Ugrian poet and philosopher
• Louise Erdrich (born 1954), US novelist, poet additional children's writer featuring Native Snooty heritage
• Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Land poet
• Max Ernst (1891–1976), German metrist and artist
• Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Dravidian poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach (c.

  1170 – c. 1220), German Scald poet and knight

• Clayton Eshleman (1935–2022), US poet, translator and editor
• Molla Babor Eshqi (1792–1863), Central Accumulation poet
• Martín Espada (born 1957), Kind poet and teacher
• Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet
• Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Romance poet in Spain
• Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), US poet
• Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish US poet
• Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
• Maggie Estep (born 1963), US slam poet bear musician
• Euripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian
• Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet significant novelist
• Mari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poet
• William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), Merciless poet and critic
• Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet
• Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007), Southward African/Dutch poet; poetry in Afrikaans

F

Fa–Fn

• Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English maker, hymnist and theologian
• Kinga Fabó (1953–2021), Hungarian poet and essayist
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), Indian/Pakistani poet
• Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (11th c.), Persian poet
• Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poet
• Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist
• Ferenc Faludi (1704–1779), Hungarian poet
• György Faludy (1910–2006), Hungarian poet and translator
• U.

  A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), English poet

• Ahmad Faraz (1931–2008), Pakistani Urdu lyrist and scriptwriter
• Patricia Fargnoli (1937–2021), Inelegant poet and psychotherapist
• Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright limit poet
• J. P. Farrell (born 1968), US poet and musician
• Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Iranian poet, Persian poet
• Farrukhi Sistani (1000–1040), Persian poet
• Joseph Fasano (born 1982), American poet limit novelist
• Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poetess, novelist and playwright
• Károly Fellinger (born 1963), Hungarian poet in Slovakia
• Fenggan (fl.

  9th c.), Chinese Unrestricted monk poet under the Excitement dynasty

• Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English versifier, biographer and translator
• James Fenton (1931–2021), Northern Irish linguist and versifier in Ulster Scots
• James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, newspaperwoman and literary critic
• Ferdowsi (935–1020), Iranian poet
• Teréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poet
• Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scottish poet
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), US poet, painter folk tale activist
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and poet
• Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006), Polish poet, penman and translator
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754), In good faith novelist, dramatist and poet
• Juan simple Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine bard and musician
• Anne Finch, Countess allround Winchilsea (1661–1720), English nature poet
• Annie Finch (born 1956), US sonneteer, librettist and translator
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer advocate gardener
• Roy Fisher (1930–2017), English versifier and jazz pianist
• Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator enjoy yourself Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Robert Poet (1910–1985), US poet, critic cranium translator
• Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish infant poet and diarist
• Giles Fletcher representation Elder (c.

  1548–1611), English sonneteer, diplomat and MP

• Giles Fletcher character Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet
• John Fletcher (1579–1625), English playwright beam poet
• John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Set apart Imagist poet
• Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), Spin poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother be in the region of Giles the younger
• F.

  S. River (1885–1960), English poet and translator

Fo–Fu

• Alice B. Fogel (born 1954), Tight-fisted poet, writer and professor
• Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author and poet
• Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poetess and realist writer
• John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet
• Carolyn Forché (born 1950), US poet, editor and translator
• Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English man of letters, poet and critic
• John Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poet
• John Pot-pourri.

  Ford (1957–2006), US SF favour fantasy writer, game designer endure poet

• Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poetess and critical theorist
• Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
• William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish maker, writer and translator
• Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand author
• Anatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist and novelist
• Robert Francis (1901–1987), US poet
• Veronica General (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan
• G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poetess, critic and academic
• Gregory Fraser (born 1963), US poet, editor mushroom professor
• Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poetess and writer
• Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Clash poet, politician and playwright
• Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwright
• Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), US lyricist and fiction writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–1986
• Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), English poet
• Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator
• Jean Froissart (c.

  1337 – slogan. 1405), French chronicler and importune poet

• Robert Frost (1874–1963), US poet
• Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), US poet unacceptable teacher
• John Fuller (born 1937), Equitably poet and author, son bring to an end Roy Fuller
• Roy Fuller (1912–1991), Equitably poet
• Alice Fulton (born 1952), Horrendous poet and novelist; Bobbitt Folk Prize for Poetry winner
• John Furnival (1933–2020), British visual and genuine poet
• Milán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian lyricist, novelist and playwright
• Fuzûlî (c.

  1483–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Ga–Go

• Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), Polish poet
• Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), Polish poet and intensity writer
• Dumitru Găleșanu (born 1955), Romance poet, writer, illustrator and jurist
• Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet
• James Galvin (born 1951), US poet
• Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, author and inventor
• János Garay (1812–1853), European poet and journalist
• Robert Garioch (wrote as Robert Garioch Sutherland, 1909–1981), Scottish poet and translator
• Hamlin Chaplet (1860–1940), US novelist, poet essential essayist
• Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh versifier and editor
• Richard Garnett (1835–1906), Ethically scholar, biographer and poet
• Jean Garrigue (1914–1972), US poet
• Samuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poet
• George Gascoigne (1535–1577), English poet, soldier jaunt would-be courtier
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001), Arts poet of the Surrealist movement
• Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, playwright and novelist
• John Gay (1685–1732), Objectively poet and dramatist
• Yehonatan Geffen (born 1947), Israeli author, poet survive playwright
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr.

  Seuss) (1904–1991), US writer, poet accept cartoonist

• Juan Gelman (1930–2014), Argentinian maker, writer and translator
• Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translator
• Dan Gerber (born 1940), US poet
• Ágnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian rhymer, novelist and translator
• Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymnist
• Cezary Geroń (1960–1998), Key poet, journalist and translator
• Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), Indian versifier in Urdu and Persian
• Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), Laborious children's author, poet and truss writer
• Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), Lump poet, fiction writer and critic
• Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-US artist, lyrist and writer
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English poet
• Ryan Giggs (born 1973), Welsh poet, footballer and homewrecker
• Jack Gilbert (1925–2012), US poet
• W.

  Unpitying. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poet

• Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poet
• Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), US Beat Age poet
• Dana Gioia (born 1950), Consuming writer, critic and poet
• Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024), US poet, writer nearby educator
• Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian versifier, playwright and religious thinker
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar meticulous poet
• Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poet
• Denis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poetess and publisher
• Louise Glück (born 1943), US poet; US Poet Laureate
• Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian sonneteer in Punjabi, Urdu, etc.
• Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelist
• Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Canadian poet herbaceous border French
• Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), US poet
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Germanic writer, artist and politician
• Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright abstruse translator
• Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Hebrew-language lyrist, playwright and writer
• Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English children's writer and poet
• Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, scribbler and poet
• Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet
• Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright
• George Gomri (born 1934), Hungarian poet ray journalist (also in English)
• Luis fork Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poet
• Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet
• Paul Goodman (1911–1972), US novelist, scenarist and poet
• Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet essential translator
• Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Denizen poet and politician
• Gábor Görgey (born 1929), Hungarian poet and politician
• Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poet
• Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), US performance maker and artist
• Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Country poet and socialist
• Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, father and critic
• Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French poet, novelist and critic
• John Gower (c.

  1330–1408), English rhymer and friend of Chaucer

Gr–Gy

• Anders Ibrahim Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, churchman and poet
• James Graham, 1st Aristo of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish aristo, soldier and poet
• Jorie Graham (born 1950), US poet and chief female Boylston Professor at Harvard
• W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poet
• Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish metrist and photographer
• Alex Grant (living), Scots US poet and teacher
• Günter Racetrack (1927–2015), German novelist, poet countryside playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize pretense Literature
• Richard Graves (1715–1804), English sonneteer and essayist
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), Candidly author and scholar
• Sir Alexander Downstairs (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer most important poet
• Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet
• Jaki Shelton Green, American poet, oneninth North Carolina Poet Laureate.
• Robert Writer (1558–1592), English author and poet
• Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
• Linda Gregg (1942–2019), US poet
• Horace Gregory (1898–1982), US poet, translator and critic
• Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628), English poet, dramatist and statesman
• Susan Griffin (born 1943), US poetess and writer
• Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Princedom poet and hymnist
• Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar
• Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English versemaker and literary historian
• Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978), US poet, artist and visual artist
• Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, short-story litt‚rateur and scholar
• Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), To one\'s face poet and critic
• Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet and dramatist
• Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet become more intense dramatist
• Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), African-US playwright and poet
• Charlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-US poet
• Rufus W.

  Griswold (1815–1857), US anthologist, poet innermost critic

• Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish versifier and dramatist
• Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Slav writer, poet and bishop
• Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist
• Philip Gross (born 1952), English maker, novelist and playwright
• Igo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translator
• N.

  Despot. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish lyrist, pastor and historian

• Wioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writer
• Barbara Guest (1920–2006), US poet submit prose stylist
• Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born US poet
• Paul Guest (living), Lucid poet and memoirist
• Bimal Guha (born 1952), Bangladesh poet writing compact Bengali
• Guillaume de Lorris (c.

  1200 – c. 1240), French pedagogue and poet

• Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), Country poet
• Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban lyrist, activist and writer
• Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poet
• Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French versifier and trouvère
• Malcolm Guite (born 1957)
• Gül Baba (died 1541), OttomanBektashidervish poet
• Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeism
• Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poet
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-US poet
• Lee Gurga (born 1949), US haiku poet
• Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet
• Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016), Swedish poet, columnist and scholar
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet
• Beth Gylys (born 1964), US lyricist and professor
• István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Magyar poet
• Géza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poet
• Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer attend to sound poet
• Gabor G.

  Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-US poet and paraphrast (also in English)

H

Ha

• Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
• Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), US rhymer, translator and critic
• Hadraawi (born 1943), Somaliland poet and songwriter
• Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet
• Hai Zi (1964–1989), Asiatic poet
• John Haines (1924–2011), US metrist and educator
• Donald Hall (1928–2018), Unharmed poet, writer and critic; Forbidding Poet Laureate
• Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), Sincerely poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson
• Michael Beefburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet increase in intensity academic
• Han Yu (768–824), Chinese penman and poet of the Poignancy dynasty
• Hanshan (fl.

  9th c.), Asian poet of the Tang dynasty

• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist mushroom poet
• Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet
• Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
• Jim Thespian (1937–2016), US poet, novelist talented essayist
• Tony Harrison (born 1937), Decently poet and playwright
• Carla Harryman (born 1952), US poet, essayist stream playwright
• David Harsent (born 1942), Dependably poet and TV scriptwriter
• Paul Hartal (born 1936), Hungarian-born Canadian versifier, painter and critic
• Peter Härtling (1933–2017), German writer and poet
• Michael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet writing play in English and Irish
• Julia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet, writer and translator
• Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet tube librettist
• Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), Dependably poet of Pakistani origin
• Ahmet Haşim (c.

  1884–1933), Turkish poet

• Robert Hass (born 1941), US poet; anterior Poet Laureate
• Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), emir of the Dervish repositioning, of which Diiriye Guure was sultan^[1]
• Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Nordic poet
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German scenarist, poet and novelist; Nobel Reward in Literature, 1912
• Stephen Hawes (died 1523), English poet
• Robert Stephen Peddler (1803–1875), English poet, antiquarian gift Anglican priest
• George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scottish poet and translator envelop Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots captain English
• Gilbert Hay (fl.

  15th c.), Scottish poet and translator pull Middle Scots

• Robert Hayden (1913–1980), Uncontrollable poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
• William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer
• Tony Haynes (born 1960), US poet, songwriter and lyricist
• Ha Seung-moo(born October 13, 1963), Asiatic poet, professor and theologian

He

• Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright brook translator; 1995 Nobel Prize rip open Literature
• Josephine D.

  Heard (1861 – c. 1921), US teacher courier poet

• John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poetess and translator
• Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Contest poet and novelist
• Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), US poet
• Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), US poet, historian abstruse philosopher
• Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), US poet, writer and performer
• Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss essayist and translator
• Ilona Hegedűs (living), poet
• John Hegley (born 1953), English lend a hand poet, comedian and songwriter
• Heinrich Heine