This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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Aarudhra Arudra (born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry; 31 August 1925 – 4 June 1998) was an Indian author, poet, lyricist, translator, publisher, dramatist, playwright, and an expert on Telugu literature. He is also known for his works in Telugu ci ...

(1925–1968), Indian

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry * Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet * Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet * Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet *

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (''Mrs. Fordyce Coburn'') (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958) was an American author. She was a frequent contributor to ''The Ladies' Home Journal''. Early life Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was born on September 22, 1 ...

(1872–1958), US poet and fiction writer * Siôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeer *

Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie, (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, w ...

(1881–1938), English poet and literary critic * Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate * Sam Abrams (born 1935), US poet, editor and critic * Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet * Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet *

Dannie Abse Daniel Abse CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...

(1923–2014), Welsh poet in English *

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trau ...

(1947–1997), US

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a ...

novelist,

punk poet Punk literature (also called punk lit and, rarely, punklit) is literature related to the punk subculture. The attitude and ideologies of punk rock gave rise to distinctive characteristics in the writing it manifested. It has influenced the transg ...

and playwright *

Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world. Education and career Ackerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pen ...

(born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist * Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of

speculative poetry Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by it ...

and fiction *

Milton Acorn Milton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986), nicknamed ''The People's Poet'' by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. Early life He was born in Prince Edward Island, and grew up in Charlottetown. He joined th ...

(1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright *

Harold Acton Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in C ...

(1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante * János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost *

Tamás Aczél Tamás Aczél (; 16 December 1921 – 18 April 1994) was a Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian poet, writer, journalist and university professor. Career Aczél was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. He graduated in his hometown in 1939, subsequentl ...

(1921–1994), Hungarian poet *

Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist.Stuart Jeffries and Ronald BerganObituary: Gilbert Adair ''The Guardian'', 9 December 2011. He was critically most famous for the "fiend ...

(1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic *

Virginia Hamilton Adair Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City – September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of ''Ants on the Melon''. Background Mary Virginia Hamilton wa ...

(1919–2004), US poet *

Helen Adam Helen Adam (December 2, 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland – September 19, 1993 in New York City) was a Scottish poet, collagist and photographer who was part of a literary movement contemporaneous to the Beat Generation that occurred in San Francisc ...

(1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer *

Draginja Adamović Draginja Adamović ( sr-cyr, Драгиња Адамовић; 1925–2000) was a Serbian poet. Biography She published three poetry books and was included in three anthologies of poems: "Poetesses of Kragujevac" (1991), "Lyrical humming of Sum ...

(1925–2000), Serbian poet *

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

(1704–1740), US poet *

Léonie Adams Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948. Biography Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in ...

(1899–1988), US poet *

Ryan Adams David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, and poet. He has released 23 albums, as well as three studio albums as a former member of alt-country band Whiskeytown. In 2000, Adams lef ...

(born 1974), US singer-songwriter and writer * Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poet *

Fleur Adcock Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doc ...

(born 1934), New Zealand poet mainly in England *

Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richar ...

(1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician *

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attended ...

(born 1954) US poet and novelist *

Artur Adson Artur Adson ( – 5 January 1977) was an Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic.Don Rubin, Peter Nagy, Philippe Rouyer, ''World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe'', Taylor & Francis, 1995, , p248 Early years Artur Adson (born Karl ...

(1889–1977), Estonian poet * Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet * Mariska Ady (1888–1977), Hungarian poet *

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...

(525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedian * Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BCE), Roman comic poet *

Anastasia Afanasieva Anastasia Valerievna Afanasieva ( uk, Анастасія Валеріївна Афанасьєва; born 1982) is a Ukrainian physician as well as a Russian-speaking poet, writer, and translator. Biography Anastasia Valerievna Afanasieva was born ...

(born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translator *

John Agard John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949 in British Guiana) is an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

(born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer *

Patience Agbabi Patience Agbabi Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word.. Although her poetry hits hard in addressing contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including t ...

(born 1965), British poet and performer * James Agee (1909–1955), US novelist, screenwriter and poet *

Deborah Ager Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor. Life Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as ''32 poems'' or ''32 Poems Magazine'' in 2003 with the poet John Poch. She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the ...

(born 1977), US poet and editor * István Ágh (born 1938), Hungarian poet *

Kelli Russell Agodon Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of ''Two Sylvias Press'' and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran Uni ...

(born 1969), US poet *

Dritëro Agolli Dritëro Agolli (13 October 1931 – 3 February 2017) was an Albanian poet, writer and politician. He studied in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, and wrote primarily poetry, but also short stories, essays, plays, and novels. He was head of the Le ...

(

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

–2017), Albanian poet * Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Spanish poet *

Delmira Agustini Delmira Agustini (October 24, 1886 – July 6, 1914) was an Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century. Biography Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, she began writing when she was ten and had her first book of poems published when she was still a tee ...

(1886–1914), Uruguayan poet *

Ishaaq bin Ahmed Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed bin Muhammad bin al-Hussein al-Hashimi, more commonly known as Sheikh Ishaaq or Sheikh Isaaq (, ) was the semi-legendary Arab forefather of the Somali Isaaq clan-family in the Horn of Africa, whose traditional territory ...

(1095 – 12th century), Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali

Isaaq The Isaaq (also Isaq, Ishaak, Isaac) ( so, Reer Sheekh Isxaaq, ar, بني إسحاق, Banī Isḥāq) is a Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large and densely populated traditional territory. Pe ...

clan-family * Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet *

Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation t ...

(born 1940), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic *

Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short ...

(1889–1973), US poet and author *

Aganice Ainianos Aganice Ainianos ( el, Αγανίκη Αινιάνος Μαζαράκη; 1838–1892) was a Greek poet. Biography Ainianos was born in Athens in 1838. Her father was the Greek politician (1788–1848), a founder of the secret society Filiki Eteria ...

(1838–1892), Greek poet *

Akazome Emon was a Japanese ''waka'' poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period. She is a member both of the and the . Biography Akazome Emon's year of birth is unknown, but she was likely born between Tentoku 1 (957) and Kōhō 1 (964). ...

(956–1041), Japanese poet and historian *

Mark Akenside Mark Akenside (9 November 1721 – 23 June 1770) was an English poet and physician. Biography Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child ...

(1721–1770), English poet and physician * Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German *

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless ( fa, مهدی اخوان ثالث) (March 1, 1929 in Mashhad, Iran – August 26, 1990 in Tehran, Iran), pen name Mim. Omid ( fa, م. امید, meaning ''M. Hope'') was a prominent Iranian poet. He is ...

(1929–1990), Iranian poet *

Bella Akhmadulina Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina ( rus, Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, tt-Cyrl, Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, ...

(1937–2010), Russian poet *

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

(1889–1966), Russian poet *

Jan Nisar Akhtar Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. He was son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson ...

(1914–1976), Indian

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter *

Salman Akhtar Salman Akhtar (born 31 July 1946) is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Biography Salman Akhtar was bo ...

(born 1946), Indian US professor and poet writing in English and Urdu

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* Amina Al Adwan (born 1935), Jordanian writer, poet and critic * Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951-2021), Sudanese poet * Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman *

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist. The poet's Gaelic name means "Alasdair, so ...

(c. 1698–1770),

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well ...

poet * Ave Alavainu (born 1942), Estonian poet * Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader * Alcaeus (4th c. BCE), Athenian comic poet in Greek *

Alcaeus of Messene Alcaeus of Messene (; Greek: ) was an ancient Greek poet, who flourished between 219 and 196 BC. Twenty-two of his short poems or epigrams survive in the Greek Anthology, from some of which his date may be fixed at around the late 3rd/early 2nd c ...

(fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BC), Greek writer of verse epigrams *

Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus of Mytilene (; grc, Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, ''Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios''; – BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical ...

(7th–6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos *

Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892) was a Telugu writer. Biography Allamraju was born in Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh and belonged to the Brahmin caste. His parents were Gangamamba and Rangasai. He studied literature from his guru Guru ( ...

(1831–1892), Indian Telugu poet *

Guru Amar Das Guru Amar Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਮਰ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574), sometimes spelled as Guru Amardas, was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73. Befo ...

(1479–1574), Punjabi poet and

Sikh guru The Sikh gurus ( Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the found ...

* Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956), US poet, scholar and critic * Alcman (fl. 7th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet *

Amos Bronson Alcott Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and a ...

(1799–1888), US poet and teacher *

Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year w ...

(1892–1962), English poet and writer *

Vasile Alecsandri Vasile Alecsandri (; 21 July 182122 August 1890) was a Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat. He was one of the key figures during the 1848 revolutions in Moldavia and Wallachia. He fought for the unification of the Romani ...

(1821–1890), Romanian poet *

Tudur Aled Tudur Aled (c. 1465 – 1525) was a late medieval Welsh poet, born in Llansannan, Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych). He is regarded as a master of cynghanedd. Beginnings It is uncertain when Tudur Aled started to write poetry. A remark by him in his el ...

(c. 1465–1525), Welsh poet writing in Welsh * Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), Central US poet writing in Spanish *

Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates ma ...

(1898–1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...

Josip Murn Aleksandrov Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 – 18 June 1901) was a Slovene language, Slovene Symbolism (arts), symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one o ...

(1879–1901), Slovene symbolist poet *

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...

(born 1966), US poet and writer *

Felipe Alfau Felipe Alfau (24 August 1902 – 18 February 1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet. Most of his works were written in English. Biography Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of four ...

(1902–1999), Catalan US novelist and poet *

Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born poet who immigrated to the United States, and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. His collections include ''A Walk ...

(1949–2001) Indian, Kashmiri and US poet * Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet *

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

(1265–1321), Italian poet * James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet *

August Alle August Alle ( in Viljandi – 8 July 1952 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer.Endel Nirk, Arthur Robert Hone, Oleg Mutt, ''Estonian Literature: Historical Survey with Biobibliographical Appendix'', Published by Perioodika, 1987, p215 Early life ...

(1899–1952), Estonian poet * William Allegrezza (born 1974), US poet, professor and editor *

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. During his fifteen-year-long Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder, most notably ...

(1939–2017), US poet, critic and academic *

Donald Allen Donald Merriam Allen (Iowa, 1912 – San Francisco, August 29, 2004) was an American editor, publisher and translator of American literature. He is best known for his project '' The New American Poetry 1945-1960'' (1960), one of the anthologi ...

(1912–2004), US poet, editor and translator *

Elizabeth Akers Allen Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911), was an American poet and journalist. Her early poems appeared over the signature of "Florence Percy", and many of them were first published in the ''Portland Tra ...

(1832–1911), US author and poet * Ron Allen (1947–2010), US poet and playwright * Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonian poet *

William Allingham William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published ''Di ...

(1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet and man of letters *

Washington Allston Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for ...

(1779–1843), US painter and poet * Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist and critic * Alta (Alta Gerrey; born 1942), US poet and writer *

Natan Alterman Nathan Alterman ( he, נתן אלתרמן, August 14, 1910 – March 28, 1970) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, ...

(1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator *

Alurista Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia (born August 8, 1947), better known by his nom de plume Alurista, is a Chicano poet and activist. Early life and education Urista was born in Mexico City and attended primary school in Morelos. He went to the Unit ...

(born 1947),

Chicano Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States. The label ''Chicano'' is sometimes used interchangeably with ''Mexican American'', although the terms have different meanings. While Mexican-American ident ...

poet and activist *

Al Alvarez Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Background Alfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a ...

(fl. 1929–2019), English poet *

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), '' In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' ...

(born 1950), Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayist *

Betti Alver Elisabet "Betti" Alver ( in Jõgeva – 19 June 1989 in Tartu), was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu. Writing S ...

(1906–1989), Estonian poet *

Moniza Alvi Moniza Alvi (born 2 February 1954) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. Life and education Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father ...

(born 1954), Pakistani-British poet and writer *

Ambroise Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy,This form appeared first in (flourished ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called ', which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of as a crusader. ...

(fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of

Third Crusade The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by ...

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai ( he, יהודה עמיחי; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times. Amichai was awarded the 1957 Shlonsky Prize, the ...

(1924–2000), Israeli poet * Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translator *

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social a ...

(1922–1995), English author and poet *

A. R. Ammons Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993. Poetic themes Ammons wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comi ...

(1926–2001), US author and poet

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Anacreon Anacreon (; grc-gre, Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ...

(570–488 BCE), Greek lyric poet *

Alfred Andersch Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (; 4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980) was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Ma ...

(1914–1980), German writer and publisher * Mir Anees or Anis) (1803–1874), Indian poet in Urdu *

Guda Anjaiah Guda Anjaiah (1 November 1955 – 21 June 2016) was an Indian poet, singer, lyricist, and writer from the state of Telangana. Early life Guda Anjaiah was born to Lakshmaiah and Laskhmamma in the Lingapuram village of the Dandepalli Mandal, Adi ...

(1955–2016),

Indian poet, singer, lyricist and writer from Telangana * Ardan Angarkhaev (born 1946), Russian poet and writer *

Temsüla Ao Temsüla Ao (25 October 1945 – 9 October 2022) was a Naga poet, fiction writer, and ethnographer from India. She was a Professor of English at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) from where she retired in 2010. She served as the Director of ...

(born 1945), Indian

Naga Naga or NAGA may refer to: Mythology * Nāga, a serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions * Naga Kingdom, in the epic ''Mahabharata'' * Phaya Naga, mythical creatures believed to live in the Laotian stretch of the Mekong Riv ...

poet, short story writer, and ethnographer * Ana Paula Arendt (born 1980), Brazilian classical poet * Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writer * Victor Henry Anderson (1917–2001), US poet,

kahuna ''Kahuna'' is a Hawaiian language, Hawaiian word that refers to an expert in any field. Historically, it has been used to refer to doctors, surgeons and dentists, as well as priests, ministers, and sorcerers. Background A ''kahuna'' may be ver ...

and teacher of the

Feri Tradition The Feri Tradition is an initiatory tradition of modern Pagan witchcraft. It was founded in California in the 1960s by the Americans Victor Henry Anderson and his wife Cora Anderson. Practitioners have described it as an ecstatic tradition rath ...

Carlos Drummond de Andrade Carlos Drummond de Andrade () (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his wi ...

(1902–1987), Brazilian poet *

Mário de Andrade Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetr ...

(1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist and critic *

Bernard André Bernard André, O.E.S.A. (1450–1522), also known as Andreas, was a French Augustinian friar and poet, who was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England, and poet laureate. A native of Toulouse, André was tutor to Prince Arthur ...

(1450–1522), French Augustinian poet: poet laureate to Henry VII of England * Peter Andrej (born 1959),

Slovenian Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes The Slovenes, also known as Slovenians ( sl, Sloven ...

poet and musician *

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (6 November 1919 – 2 July 2004) was a Portuguese poet and writer. Her remains have been entombed in the National Pantheon since 2014. Life and career Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was born on 6 November ...

(1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writer * Bruce Andrews (born 1948), US poet of language * Kevin Andrews (1924–1989), Anglo-Greek

philhellene Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") was an intellectual movement prominent mostly at the turn of the 19th century. It contributed to the sentiments that led Europeans such as Lord Byron and Charles Nicolas Fabvier to advocate for Greek i ...

writer and archeologist * Ron Androla (born 1954), US poet *

Guru Angad Guru Angad (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ, pronunciation: ) was the second of the ten Sikh gurus of Sikhism. After meeting Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with ...

(1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet *

Aneirin Aneirin , Aneurin or Neirin was an early Medieval Brythonic war poet. He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th c ...

(fl. 6th c.), Brythonic epic poet * Ralph Angel (1951–2020), US poet and translator * Maya Angelou (1928–2014), US poet * James Stout Angus (1830–1923), Shetland poet mainly in

Shetland dialect Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of mai ...

* Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet in Scots * J. K. Annand (1908–1993), Scottish children's poet * Mika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poet *

David Antin David Abram Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, critic and performance artist. Education and early career Antin was born in New York City in 1932. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, he earned h ...

(1932–2016), US poet and critic * Antler (born 1946), US poet * Susanne Antonetta (born 1956), US poet and author *

Brother Antoninus William "Bill" Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus (September 10, 1912 – June 3, 1994), was an American poet, literary critic, teacher and small press printer. He was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance. Beginnings Everson was bor ...

(1912–1994), US poet *

Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019 he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry.Chairil Anwar Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the " 1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems. Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatr ...

(1922–1949), Indonesian poet *

Johannes Anyuru Johannes Anyuru (born 23 March 1979) is a Swedish poet and author. Biography Anyuru was born in Borås. His father is from Uganda and his mother is Swedish. He debuted in 2003 with ''Det är bara gudarna som är nya'' (Only The Gods Are New) ...

(born 1979), Swedish poet *

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of t ...

(1880–1918), French poet *

Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes ( grc, Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος ''Apollṓnios Rhódios''; la, Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the ''Argonautica'', an epic poem about Jason and t ...

(270 – post–245 BCE), Greek poet and librarian in Alexandria *

Maja Apostoloska Maja Apostoloska ( mk, Маја Апостолоска; born 7 December 1976) is a North Macedonia, Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the "Blaže Koneski" Faculty of Philology in Skopje ...

(born 1976), Macedonian poet * Philip Appleman (1926–2020), US poet and professor * Lajos Áprily (1887–1967), Hungarian poet and translator * Pawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Maltese poet

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Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He ...

(1897–1982), French poet, novelist and editor *

János Arany János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...

(1817–1882), Hungarian poet * Archilochus (c. 680 – c. 645 BCE), Greek lyric poet * Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), US dadaist, critic and poet *

Tudor Arghezi Tudor Arghezi (; 21 May 1880 – 14 July 1967) was a Romanian writer, best known for his unique contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest, he explained that his pen name was related to ''Argesis'', th ...

(1880–1967), Romanian poet * Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet *

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his for ...

(c. 446 – c. 386 BCE), Greek dramatic poet *

Guru Arjan Guru Arjan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ, pronunciation: ; 15 April 1563 – 30 May 1606) was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of ...

(1563–1606), Sikh guru and

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

i poet * Rae Armantrout (born 1947), US language poet *

Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poetr ...

(born 1963), English poet, playwright and novelist * Richard Armour (1906–1989), US poet and author *

Ernst Moritz Arndt Ernst Moritz Arndt (26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany. Arndt had to flee to Swe ...

(1769–1860), German author and poet *

Bettina von Arnim Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 178520 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual art ...

(1785–1859), German writer, composer and visual artist * Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelist * Craig Arnold (1967–2009), US poet and professor *

Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, lit ...

(1822–1888), English poet and cultural critic * Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld (Poet of Earls, c. 1012 – 1070s), Icelandic skald * Jean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, painter and poet *

Franciszka Arnsztajnowa Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (; in full: ''Franciszka Hanna Arnsztajnowa''; 19 February 1865 – August 1942) was a Polish poet, playwright, and translator of Jewish descent.So ''Słownik biograficzny miasta Lublina'' (see Bibliography). Much of her ...

(1865–1942), Polish poet * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French playwright, poet and essayist

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* M. K. Asante (born 1982), US author, poet and professor * John Ashbery (1927–2017), US poet, 1976

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

* Cliff Ashby (1919–2012), English poet and novelist *

Renée Ashley Renée Ashley is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and educator. Presently on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University and an editor of ''The Literary Review'', Ashley is the author of five collections of poetry, two chapbooks and a ...

, US poet and novelist * Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest *

Adam Asnyk Adam Asnyk (11 September 1838 – 2 August 1897), was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era. Born in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated to become an heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institut ...

(1838–1897), Polish poet and dramatist * Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poet * Mina Assadi (born 1942), Iranian poet, author and songwriter * Vishnu Raj Atreya (1944–2020), Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelist * Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and essayist *

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

(1907–1973), Anglo-US poet, essayist *

Imre Augustich Imre Augustich or Agostich ( sl, Imre Augustič September 29/30, 1837 – July 17, 1879) was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist, and representative of Vas county in the National Assembly of Hungary. He was the author of ''Prijátel'' (Friend), ...

(Imre Augustič, 1837–1879), Slovenian/Hungarian poet *

Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander (October 11, 1897 – June 22, 1965) was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941. Lif ...

(1897–1965), US poet, anthologist and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941 *

Ausonius Decimius Magnus Ausonius (; – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala in Aquitaine, modern Bordeaux, France. For a time he was tutor to the future emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him ...

(c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala (

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

) *

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and film director. His notable works include '' The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), '' The Music of Chance'' (1990), '' The Book of Illusions'' (2002), ''The ...

(born 1947), US poet, playwright and essayist *

James Avery James La Rue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Philip Banks in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', Shredder in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', Judge Michael Conover on '' L ...

(1948–2013), US actor, poet and screenwriter *

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

(1918–2007), Canadian poet *

Krayem Awad Krayem Maria Awad (born 1948) is a Vienna-based painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin. He was born in Basir, and later moved to Austria, where he studied from 1968 telecommunications engineering at the Vienna Technical College, and wa ...

(born 1948),

Viennese Viennese may refer to: * Vienna, the capital of Austria * Viennese people, List of people from Vienna * Viennese German, the German dialect spoken in Vienna * Music of Vienna, musical styles in the city * Viennese Waltz, genre of ballroom dance * V ...

painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin * Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet * Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970), Nigerian poet * Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poet * Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet * Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, essayist, critic and translator * Jody Azzouni (born 1954), US philosopher and poet

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Mihály Babits Mihály Babits (; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological pro ...

(1883–1941), Hungarian poet and translator * Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet * Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), US poet and writer of Apache/

descent *

Bacchylides Bacchylides (; grc-gre, Βακχυλίδης; – ) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides. The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been noted ...

(fl. 5th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet *

Bellamy Bach Bellamy Bach was a group pseudonym used by several New York-based writers in the 1980s, some of whom still remain anonymous. Terri Windling has used the pseudonym when writing stories for the anthologies ''The Borderland Series, Bordertown'' and '' ...

(fl. 1980s), joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poets *

Harivansh Rai Bachchan Harivansh Rai Bachchan (; 27 November 1907 19 December 2002) was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is be ...

(fl. 20th c.), Hindi poet * Joseph M. Bachelor (also Joseph Morris, 1889–1947), US author, poet and educator * Simon Bacher (1823–1991), Hebrew poet in Hungary *

Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. Biography Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her f ...

(1926–1973), Austrian poet and author * Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian poet *

George Bacovia George Bacovia (; the pen name of Gheorghe Vasiliu ; – 22 May 1957) was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the local Symbolist movement, launched as a poet by Alexandru Macedonski with the poem and poetry collection ( ...

(1881–1957), Romanian poet * Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldier * Julio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian Esperanto author and poet *

Bai Juyi Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; ; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as g ...

(772–846), Chinese poet of

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

Joanna Baillie Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as ''Plays on the Passions'' (three volumes, 1798–1812) and ''Fugitive Verses'' (1840). Her work shows an interest in moral philoso ...

(1762–1851), Scottish poet and dramatist *

József Bajza József Bajza (31 January 1804 – 3 March 1858) was a Hungarian poet and critic. He was born at Szücsi and was first published in Károly Kisfaludy's ''Aurora'', a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837. He also contributed substantially ...

(1804–1858), Hungarian poet and critic *

Józef Baka Józef Baka (Lithuanian: ''Juozapas Baka'') was a late Baroque poet, Jesuit priest and missionary. Born in March of either 1706 or 1707, probably in Nowogrodek, Baka is regarded as one of the most prominent poets of the 18th century Polish–Lit ...

(1706/1707–1788), Polish/Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priest * Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuania-US translator, editor and poet * David Baker (born 1954), US poet *

Hinemoana Baker Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster. Biography Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson, and descends from the Ng� ...

(born 1968) New Zealand poet and musician *

Bâkî Bâḳî (باقى) was the pen name ( Ottoman Turkish: مخلص ''mahlas'') of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî (محمود عبدالباقى) . Considered one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature and Azerbaijani l ...

(1526–1600), Ottoman-Turkish language poet (pseudonym of Mahmud Abdülbâkî) * John Balaban (born 1943), US poet and translator *

Bálint Balassi Baron Bálint Balassi de Kékkő et Gyarmat ( hu, Gyarmati és kékkői báró Balassi Bálint, sk, Valentín Balaša (Valaša) barón z Ďarmôt a Modrého Kameňa; 20 October 155430 May 1594) was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet. He wrot ...

(1554–1594), Hungarian poet *

Béla Balázs Béla Balázs (; 4 August 1884 in Szeged – 17 May 1949 in Budapest), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory. Career Balázs was th ...

(1884–1949), Hungarian poet and critic * Edward Balcerzan (born 1937), Polish poet, critic and translator * Stanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet and diplomat *

Jesse Ball Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges ...

(born 1978), US poet and novelist *

Zsófia Balla Zsófia Balla (born 15 January 1949) is a Romanian-born Hungarian poet and essayist. She is considered to be one of the most prominent female poets in Hungary. Biography Balla was born in the Romanian city of Cluj to ethnic Hungarian parents. Her ...

(born 1949), Hungarian poet from Romania * Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), US poet and suffragist *

Konstantin Balmont Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( rus, Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐlʲˈmont, a=Konstantin Dmitriyevich Bal'mont.ru.vorb.oga; – 23 December 1942) was a Rus ...

(1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator *

Russell Banks Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usua ...

(born 1940), US fiction writer and poet *

Anne Bannerman Anne Bannerman (31 October 1765 – 29 September 1829) was a Scottish poet. She was part of the Edinburgh literary circle which included John Leyden, Jessie Stewart, Thomas Campbell, and Robert Anderson. Her work was popular in her lifetime ...

(1765–1829), Scottish poet * Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet and dramatist *

Marcin Baran Marcin Baran (born 1963 in Kraków) is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine '' bruLion'' (sometimes spelled ''brulion ...

(born 1963), Polish poet and journalist *

Stanisław Barańczak Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to- Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare a ...

(1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator *

Anna Laetitia Barbauld Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly , as in French, Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A " woman of letters" who published in mu ...

(1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's author *

Porfirio Barba-Jacob Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer. Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora B ...

(1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer *

John Barbour John Barbour may refer to: * John Barbour (poet) (1316–1395), Scottish poet * John Barbour (MP for New Shoreham), MP for New Shoreham 1368-1382 * John Barbour (footballer) (1890–1916), Scottish footballer * John S. Barbour (1790–1855), U. ...

(c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet, first major writer in

Scottish English Scottish English ( gd, Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard ...

Alexander Barclay Dr Alexander Barclay (c. 1476 – 10 June 1552) was a poet and clergyman of the Church of England, probably born in Scotland. Biography Barclay was born in about 1476. His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who w ...

(c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet * George Barker (1913–1991), English poet and author *

Les Barker Les Barker (30 January 1947 – 14 January 2023) was an English poet, who was famous for his comedic poetry and parodies of popular songs, but he also produced some very serious thought-provoking written works. Work Barker was born in Manc ...

(born 1947), English poet *

Coleman Barks Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English ...

(born 1937), US poet *

Christine Barkhuizen le Roux Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (18 November 1959 – 18 November 2020) was a South African Afrikaans writer of poems, novels and short stories. A Bachelor of Arts English, Psychology and Theology graduate of Stellenbosch University, she made her deb ...

(1959–2020), South African poet * Mihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c. 1778–1824), Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary *

Mary Barnard Mary Ethel Barnard (December 6, 1909 – August 25, 2001) was an American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator. She is known for her elegant rendering of the works of Sappho, a translation which has never gone out of print. ''Paideu ...

(1909–2001), US poet, biographer and translator *

Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel ''Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist liter ...

(1892–1982), US writer *

William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a co ...

(1801–1886), English writer, poet and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

* Catherine Barnett (born 1960), US poet and educator *

Richard Barnfield Richard Barnfield (baptized 29 June 1574 – 1620) was an English poet. His obscure though close relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the "rival poet" mentioned in ...

(1574–1620), English poet *

Willis Barnstone Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, religious scholar, and translator. He was born in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Oakland, California. He has translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, ...

(born 1927), US poet and literary translator * Maria Barrell (died 1803), poet, playwright and writer of periodicals *

Laird Barron Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine '' Melic Review''. He lives in Ups ...

(born 1970), US poet, author * Sándor Barta (1897–1938), Hungarian poet executed in USSR *

Bernard Barton Bernard Barton (31 January 1784 – 19 February 1849), was known as the Quaker poet. His main works included ''The Convict's Appeal'' (1818), in which he protested against the death penalty and the severity of the criminal code. Family Bernard ...

(1784–1849), English poet and Quaker *

Bertha Hirsch Baruch Bertha Hirsch Baruch was a German born American writer, social worker, and suffragist. Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She immigrated to New London, Connecticut with her father in 1876. Baruch wrote poetry in her teens and wa ...

(fl. late 18th – early 19th c.), US writer, poet and suffragist * Todd Bash (born 1965), US

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

playwright, poet and writer * Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese

renku , or , is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ''ushin'' renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns provi ...

and

haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or s ...

poet * Michael Basinski (born 1950), US text,

visual The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (th ...

and sound poet *

Ellen Bass Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and co-author of '' The Courage to Heal''. Life Bass grew up in Pleasantville, New Jersey, where her parents owned a liquor store. Her family later moved to Ventnor City, New Jersey. She atte ...

(born 1947), US poet *

Arlo Bates Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman. Biography Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Bosto ...

(1850–1918), US author, poet and educator * David Bates (1809–1870), US poet * Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), US poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate *

János Batsányi János Batsányi (9 May 1763 in Tapolca – 12 May 1845 in Linz) was a Hungarian poet. In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hung ...

(1763–1845), Hungarian poet *

Dawn-Michelle Baude Dawn-Michelle Baude (born January 15, 1959) is an American poet, journalist and educator. Biography Born in southern Illinois, Baude moved to San Diego, California, in 1977 with her first husband Angelo Kolokithas (divorced 1979). Baude received ...

(born 1959), US poet, journalist and educator *

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...

(1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translator *

Cirilo Bautista Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018) was a Filipino poet, critic and writer of nonfiction. A National Artist of the Philippines award was conferred on him in 2014. Early life and education Bautista was born in Manila on July 9, 19 ...

(1941–2018), Philippines poet, writer and critic * Charles Baxter (born 1947), US writer and poet * James K. Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poet

Be

Jan Beatty Jan Beatty is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and the Creative Achievement Award in Literature. Life Born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her Bac ...

(born 1952), US poet * Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet and dramatist * Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet * Joshua Beckman (living), US poet *

Matija Bećković Matija Bećković ( sr-cyr, Матија Бећковић, ; born 29 November 1939) is a Serbian poet, writer and academic. Life Bećković was born in Senta, in the multiethnic province of Vojvodina (then Danube Banate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia), ...

(born 1939), Serbian writer and poet *

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (), was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented ...

(1836–1870), Spanish poet and fiction writer *

Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Biography Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister o ...

(1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physician *

Patricia Beer Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic. Biography She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. Her mother died when she was fourteen and it affected her entire life and the way ...

(1919–1999), English poet and critic * Aphra Behn (1640–1689),

English Restoration The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars came to ...

dramatist; early professional female writer * Ferenc Békássy (1893–1915), Hungarian poet * Erin Belieu (born 1967), US poet *

Marvin Bell Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Biography Bell was raised in Center Moriches, Long Island. He served in the U.S. Army from 196 ...

(1937–2020), US poet and teacher; first Poet Laureate of State of Iowa * Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist *

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli (7 September 1791 – 21 December 1863) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome. Biography Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Bell ...

(1791–1863), Italian sonneteer in Romanesco *

Xuan Bello Xuan Bello Fernán (born 1965 in Tineo, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish poet and one of the best-known contemporary Asturian writers. Life and work Poetry In 1982, at barely 16 years old, he published his first book of poems in Asturian, ''N ...

(born 1965), Asturian poet *

Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. H ...

(1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian *

Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev ( rus, Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ bʊˈɡajɪf, a=Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev.ru.vorb.oga), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely ( rus, Андр� ...

(1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet and critic *

Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'' (1928), for which he receiv ...

(1898–1943), US author, poet and fiction writer *

William Rose Benét William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 – May 4, 1950) was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét. Early life and education He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Col. James Walker Benét a ...

(1886–1950), US poet, writer and editor * Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), English poet, biographer and novelist *

Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951. Biography and work Family and beginnings Go ...

(1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

poet *

Gwendolyn B. Bennett Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to '' Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life'', which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often ...

(1902–1981), African-US writer and poet * Jim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Liverpool punk era *

Richard Berengarten Richard Berengarten (born 4 June 1943) is an English poet. Having lived in Italy, Greece, the US and the former Yugoslavia, his perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences. His ...

(born 1943) English poet, writer and translator * Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer and critic *

İlhan Berk İlhan Berk (18 November 1918 – 28 August 2008) was a leading Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; ''"The second new generation"'') and was very influential among Turkish l ...

(1918–2008), Turkish poet *

Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein may refer to: * Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), American composer of film and television scores * Charles Bernstein (poet) Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary sc ...

(born 1950), US poet and scholar *

Béroul Béroul was a Norman or Breton poet of the 12th century. He wrote ''Tristan'', a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult of which a certain number of fragments (approximately 3000 verses) have been preserved; it is the earlies ...

(12th c.), Norman poet of episodic ''Tristan'' *

Daniel Berrigan Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's active protest against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admi ...

(1921–2016), US poet, priest and peace activist *

Ted Berrigan Ted Berrigan (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet. Early life Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army. After ...

(1934–1983), US poet * James Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican poet based in England *

Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of ...

(born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmer *

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

(1914–1972), US poet and scholar *

Dániel Berzsenyi Dániel Berzsenyi (; 7 May 1776 in Hetye (now Egyházashetye) – 24 February 1836 in Nikla) was a Hungarian poet.Trencsenyi, Balazs & Michal Kopecek, eds. ''Discourse of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe.'' New York: Central E ...

(1776–1836), Hungarian poet * Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker * John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster *

Elizabeth Beverley Elizabeth Beverley (1792 – 19 November 1832, in Lambeth) It is not known who R. Beverley was, but his wife wrote a poem on "my Child's being unfortunately burnt to death," implying that grief at this hastened her husband's death as well.''The F ...

(fl. 1815–1830), English poet, writer and entertainer * Helen Bevington (1906–2001), US poet, prose writer and educator *

L. S. Bevington Louisa Sarah Bevington (14 May 1845 – 28 November 1895) was an English Anarchism, anarchist, essayist and poet. Among those who attended her funeral was Peter Kropotkin. Early life and works Bevington was born in St John's Hill, Battersea, S ...

(1845–1895), English anarchist poet and essayist

Bh–Bl

Subramanya Bharathi C. Subramania Bharathi Birth name: C. Subramaniyan, the person's given name: Subramaniyan, father's given name: Chinnaswami. (C. Subramaniyan by the prevalent patronymic initials as prefix naming system in Tamil Nadu and it is Subramaniyan C ...

(1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and Indian independence activist * Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet in Gujarati * Źmitrok Biadula (1886–1941),

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

ian poet, prose writer and independence activist *

Miron Białoszewski Miron Białoszewski (; born 30 June 1922, Warsaw; died 17 June 1983, Warsaw) was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor. Biography Białoszewski studied linguistics at the clandestine courses of the University of Warsaw during the Germ ...

(1922–1983), Polish poet, novelist and playwright * Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, critic and translator *

Biernat of Lublin Biernat of Lublin ( Polish: ''Biernat z Lublina'', Latin ''Bernardus Lublinius'', ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most int ...

(c. 1465 – post-1529), Polish poet and fabulist * Laurence Binyon (1879–1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar *

Earle Birney Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honour, for his poetry. Life Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Eri ...

(1904–1995), Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatist * Nevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poet * Balázs Birtalan (1969–2016), Hungarian poet and publicist *

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...

(1911–1979), US poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate *

Ram Prasad Bismil Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, a ...

(1897–1927), poet and revolutionary writing 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 Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an American literary critic and poet. Life Blackmur was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Cambridge High and Latin School, but was expelled in 1918. An ...

(1904–1965), US literary critic and poet *

Lucian Blaga Lucian Blaga (; 9 May 1895 – 6 May 1961) was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period. Biography Blaga was born on 9 May 1895 ...

(1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright *

Lewis Blake Lewis Blake (born June 1946) is a British poet and artist. He is a member of the Cambridge School of poetry, and, to a certain extent, the British Poetry Revival. Life Blake was born in Reydon, near Southwold in Suffolk in June 1946. He was educ ...

(born 1946), English poet *

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

(1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmaker *

Don Blanding Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894—June 9, 1957) was an American poet, sometimes described as the "poet laureate of Hawaii." He was also a journalist, cartoonist, author and speaker. Early life Blanding was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma ...

(1894–1957), US poet, journalist, writer and speaker * Adrian Blevins (born 1964), US poet *

Mathilde Blind Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 in Mannheim, Germany – 26 November 1896, in London), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aest ...

(1841–1896), German-born English poet and writer *

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

(1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet *

Benjamin Paul Blood Benjamin Paul Blood (November 21, 1832 – January 15, 1919) was an American philosopher, mystic and poet. His idiosyncratic work explored his development of his pluralist philosophy, culminating in the posthumously published book ''Pluriverse' ...

(1832–1919), US philosopher and poet * Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English laboring-class poet *

Roy Blumenthal Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s. He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free Pamphlet, pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run ...

(born 1968), South African poet *

Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was a ...

(1896–1974), English poet, author and literary critic *

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922), sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the Arabian horse bloodlines ...

(1840–1922), English poet and writer *

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ' ...

(1926–2021), US poet, author and leader of

mythopoetic men's movement The mythopoetic men's movement was a body of self-help activities and therapeutic workshops and retreats for men undertaken by various organizations and authors in the United States from the early 1980s through the 1990s. The term ''mythopoetic ...

Bo–Bri

Johannes Bobrowski Johannes Bobrowski (originally ''Johannes Konrad Bernhard Bobrowski''; 9 April 1917 – 2 September 1965) was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist. Life Bobrowski was born on 9 April 1917Bobrowski, Johannes (1984). ''S ...

(1917–1965), East German author and poet * Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet *

Jean Bodel Jean Bodel (c. 1165 – c. 1210), was an Old French poet who wrote a number of ''chanson de geste, chansons de geste'' as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras. Writings Bodel wrote ("Song of the Saxons") about the war of King Charlemagne wi ...

(1165–1210),

Old French Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intellig ...

poet *

Ádám Bodor Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin. Life and writing Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed i ...

(born 1936), Hungarian poet from Romania *

Louise Bogan Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, ...

(1897–1970), US poet; fourth US Poet Laureate *

Matteo Maria Boiardo Matteo Maria Boiardo (, ; 144019/20 December 1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet, best known for his epic poem ''Orlando innamorato''. Early life Boiardo was born in 1440,

(1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet *

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (, ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the ...

(1636–1711), French poet and critic * Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US poet *

Christian Bök Christian Bök, FRSC (; born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for unusual and experimental works. He is the author of '' Eunoia'', which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Life and work He was born "Christian Bo ...

(born 1966), experimental Canadian poet *

Osbern Bokenam Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464, also spelt Bokenham) was an English Augustinian (Austin) friar and poet. He was a follower of Geoffrey Chaucer. Life Osbern Bokenam was born, according to his own account, on 6 October 1393. His name sugges ...

(c. 1393 – c. 1464), English poet and friar *

Eavan Boland Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of w ...

(1944–2020), Irish poet * Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, biographer and journalist *

Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972). ...

(1917–1985), German novelist * Edmund Bolton (c. 1575 – c. 1633), English historian and poet *

Nozawa Bonchō was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Bonchō was one of Matsuo Bashō's leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Bashō school's '' Monkey's Raincoat'' ...

(c. 1640–1714), Japanese

haikai ''Haikai'' ( Japanese 俳諧 ''comic, unorthodox'') may refer in both Japanese and English to ''haikai no renga'' ( renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. ...

poet *

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have ...

(1906–1945), German poet and Lutheran theologian * Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), US poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance *

Luke Booker Rev. Luke Booker (20 October 1762 – 1 October 1835) LL.D., FRLS was an English Anglican clergyman, poet and antiquary, with a long list of published sermons and poetry. As a cleric he was strongly linked with the town of Dudley, then an excl ...

(1762–1835), English poet, cleric and antiquary * Kurt Boone (born 1959), US poet *

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...

(1899–1986), Argentine fiction writer, essayist and poet *

Tadeusz Borowski Tadeusz Borowski (; 12 November 1922 – 3 July 1951) was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature. Early life Borow ...

(1922–1951), Polish writer and journalist *

Hristo Botev Hristo Botev ( bg, Христо Ботев, ), born Hristo Botyov Petkov (Христо Ботьов Петков; – ), was a Bulgarian revolutionary and poet. Botev is considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and nationa ...

(1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary *

Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 187425 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and ...

(1874–1948), English poet and verse dramatist *

David Bottoms David Bottoms (born 1949 in Canton, Georgia) is an American poet. Biography Bottoms' first book, ''Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump'', was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American ...

(born 1949), US poet;

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

Poet Laureate *

Cathy Smith Bowers Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor. She teaches poetry in an M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. Bowers was named by Governor Bev Perdue as the sixth North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012. She has ...

(born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012 * Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner *

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pen name, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy; 21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941) was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics ...

(1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translator * Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary *

Kay Boyle Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. Early years The granddaughter of a publisher, Boyle was ...

(1902–1992), US writer, educator and political activist * Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poet * Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672) America's first published poet *

Di Brandt Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) (née Janzen) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farmin ...

(born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic *

Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include ''Empire of Dreams'' (1988), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011). Braschi writes cross-genr ...

(born 1953), US poet born in Puerto Rico * Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbadian writer * Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), US fiction writer and poet * Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet and lyricist *

Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (16 March 1585 – 23 August 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age. Life Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March 1585 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic ...

(1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright *

Radovan Brenkus Radovan Brenkus (born 30 January 1974, Bardejov) is a Slovak writer, translator and critic. Biography The author finished the study at Science faculty of P. J. Šafárik University, in mathematics and physics. He worked as a teacher in Koši ...

(born 1974), Slovak writer and poet *

Christopher Brennan Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. Biography Brennan was born in Haymarket, an inner suburb of Sydney, to Christopher Brennan (d. 1919), a brewer, and his wife ...

(1870–1932), Australian poet and scholar *

Joseph Payne Brennan Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connect ...

(1918–1990), US poet and writer of fantasy and horror fiction *

Clemens Brentano Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano ; ; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz ...

(1778–1842), German poet and novelist * André Breton (1896–1966), French writer, poet and founder of Surrealism *

Nicholas Breton Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (c. 1545/53 – c. 1625/6) was a poet and prose writer of the English Renaissance. Life Nicholas belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex. His father, William Breton, a London merchant ...

(1545–1626), English poet and novelist *

Ken Brewer Kenneth Wayne Brewer (November 28, 1941 – March 15, 2006) was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico U ...

(1941–2006), US poet and scholar; Utah Poet Laureate *

Breyten Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach (; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet lau ...

(born 1939), South-African/French writer, poet and painter *

Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is ...

(1844–1930), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom *

Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 16 October 1946) is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The Eleme ...

(born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author

Bro–By

* Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), US poet and translator *

Eve Brodlique Eve Brodlique Summers (, Brodlique; pen names, Willice Wharton, Peg Woffington, Evelyn; 1867 – 10 October 1949) was a British-born Canadian/American author and journalist. One of the best-known newspaper women on the Continent, she filled ever ...

(1867-1949), British-born Canadian/American poet, author and journalist * Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayist * Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldier *

William Bronk William Bronk (February 17, 1918 – February 22, 1999) was an American poet. For his book, ''Life Supports'' (1981), he won the National Book Award for Poetry. He was also a veteran of World War II and a businessman. After teaching at Union Co ...

(1918–1999), US poet *

Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (born Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish cl ...

(1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë sisters *

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...

(1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of three Brontë sisters * Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English 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 and

Pietist Pietism (), also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christianity, Christian life, including a social concern for ...

bishop *

Joan Brossa Joan Brossa (; 19 January 1919 – 30 December 1998) was a Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist. He wrote only in the Catalan language. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Se ...

(1919–1998), Catalan poet, playwright and artist *

Nicole Brossard Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a leading French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. Sh ...

(born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist *

Olga Broumas Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. Biography Born and raised on the island of Syros, Brouma ...

(born 1949), Greek poet in United States * Flora Brovina (born 1949),

Kosovar Albanian The Albanians of Kosovo ( sq, Shqiptarët e Kosovës, ), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovar/Kosovan Albanians or Kosovars/Kosovans, constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub- ...

poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist *

Petrus Brovka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka ( be, Пётр Усці́навіч Бро́ўка, russian: Пётр Усти́нович Бро́вка; , Putilkovichi24 March 1980, Minsk) was a Soviet Belarusian poet, more commonly recognized by his literary pseudon ...

(aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusian poet *

George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century. Biography Early life and caree ...

(1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist * James Brown known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist * Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-US academic writer and poet *

Thomas Edward Brown Thomas Edward Brown (5 May 183029 October 1897), commonly referred to as T. E. Brown, was a late- Victorian scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and electi ...

(1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian * Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist * William Browne (1590–1643), English poet * Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet * Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright *

William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the ''New York Evening Post''. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry ...

(1794–1878), US

romantic poet Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18t ...

and journalist * Colette Bryce (born 1970),

Northern Irish Northern Irish people is a demonym for all people born in Northern Ireland or people who are entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence. Most Northern Irish people either identify as Northern ...

poet *

Bryher Bryher ( kw, Breyer "place of hills") is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, with a population of 84 in 2011, spread across . History The name of the island is recorded as ''Brayer'' in 1336 and ''Brear'' in 1500. Ge ...

(aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet and memoirist * Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, novelist and critic *

Jan Brzechwa Jan Brzechwa (), (15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966) was a Polish poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature. He was born Jan Wiktor Lesman to a Polish family of Jewish descent.

(1898–1966), Polish poet and children's writer *

Dugald Buchanan Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan in Gaelic) (Ardoch Farm, Strathyre (near Balquhidder) in Perthshire, Scotland 1716–1768) was a Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic. He helped the Rev. James Stuart or Stewart of Killin to t ...

(Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scottish poet in Scots and Scottish Gaelic * Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist *

Georg Büchner Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büch ...

(1813–1837), German writer, poet and dramatist * August Buchner (1591–1661), German Baroque poet and professor *

Vincent Buckley Vincent Thomas Buckley (8 July 1925 – 12 November 1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic. Life Buckley was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria to Patrick Buckley, a carter and sometime farm labourer, and his wife Fr ...

(1927–1988), Australian poet, essayist and critic * David Budbill (1940–2016), US poet and playwright * Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), US poet *

Teodor Bujnicki Teodor Bujnicki (13 December 1907 – 27 November 1944) was a Polish poet, and member of the literary group ''Żagary''. During World War II, Bujnicki was condemned for "collaboration with Soviet occupants" in Vilnius after Lithuania's incorporati ...

(1907–1944), Polish poet *

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

(1920–1994), US poet, novelist and short story writer *

Ivan Bunin Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; rus, Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn, a=Ivan Alyeksyeyevich Bunin.ru.vorb.oga; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the ...

(1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist *

Basil Bunting Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditio ...

(1900–1985), English modernist poet *

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...

(1917–1993), English writer, poet and playwright *

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...

(1759–1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist * Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), US poet *

John Burnside John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (''Black C ...

(born 1955), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes *

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

(1914–1997), US novelist, poet and essayist *

Andrzej Bursa Andrzej Bursa (21 March 1932 – 15 November 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Krak ...

(1932–1957), Polish poet and writer *

Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun pros ...

(1716–1783), Japanese

poet and painter *

Raegan Butcher CrimethInc., also known as CWC, which stands for either "CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective" or "CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective", is a Decentralization, decentralized anarchist collective of autonomous Clandestine cell system, cells. * * * Cr ...

(born 1969), US poet and singer *

Ray Buttigieg Ray Buttigieg (born May 1, 1955) is a poet and musician. He attended Qala primary school, then the Lyceum in Victoria, Gozo. He then moved to the United States and continued his studies in New York, where he settled permanently. By the age of 2 ...

(born 1955), poet, composer and musician *

Ignazio Buttitta Ignazio Buttitta (19 September 1899 – 5 April 1997) was an Italian poet who wrote predominantly in Sicilian. Biography Born at Bagheria, Italy into a merchant's family, after having taken part in World War I Buttitta joined the Italian Social ...

(1899–1997),

Sicilian language Sicilian ( scn, sicilianu, link=no, ; it, siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. A variant, ''Calabro-Sicilian'', is spoken in southern Calabria, where it is called Southern Calabro ...

poet * Anthony Butts (born 1969), US poet *

Kathryn Stripling Byer Kathryn Stripling Byer (November 25, 1944 – June 5, 2017), also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to ho ...

(1944–2017), US poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09 *

Witter Bynner Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures the ...

(also Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968), US poet, writer and scholar *

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

(1788–1824), English poet and literary figure

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Lydia Cabrera Lydia Cabrera (May 20, 1899, in Havana, Cuba – September 19, 1991, in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban independent ethnographer. Cabrera was a Cuban writer and literary activist. She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. D ...

(1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet *

Dilys Cadwaladr Dilys Cadwaladr (19 March 1902 – January 1979) was a Welsh-language poet and fiction writer. Her work also gained readers in English translation. First female crowned bard Dilys Cadwaladr is notable for being the first woman to win the Crown ...

(1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in Welsh *

Cædmon Cædmon (; ''fl. c.'' 657 – 684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he wa ...

(fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name * Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic *

Scott Cairns Scott Clifford Cairns (born 1954 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. Formal education Cairns earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University (1977), a Master of Arts degree from H ...

(born 1954), US poet, memoirist and essayist * Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator *

Angus Calder Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish writer, historian, and poet. Initially studying English literature, he became increasingly interested in political history and wrote a landmark study on Britain during t ...

(1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator * Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), Spanish dramatist, poet and writer of Spanish Golden Age *

Musa Cälil Musa Cälil ( tt-Cyrl, Муса Җәлил, translit=Musa Çəlil, ; russian: Муса Джалиль; 25 August 1944) was a Soviet–Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union awarded simultaneously the Hero of t ...

(1906–1944), Soviet

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

poet *

Barry Callaghan Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ''Exile'' Quarterly. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story write ...

(born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist *

Michael Feeney Callan Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet. An award winner for his short fiction and also for non-fiction, he joined BBC television drama as a story editor, and wrote screenplays for '' The Professionals'', and for American television. ...

(born 1955), Irish poet, novelist and biographer *

Callimachus Callimachus (; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works in a wide varie ...

(c. 305 – c. 240 BCE),

Hellenistic In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

poet, critic and scholar at Library of

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...

* Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musician * Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poet *

Luís de Camões Luís Vaz de Camões (; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, ; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespear ...

(c. 1524–1580), early Portuguese poet * Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, born 1952), Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actor * David Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot * Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist * Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet * Jan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist * Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist *

Thomas Campion Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, studied law in Gray's inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques ...

(1567–1619), English composer, poet and physician *

Matilde Camus Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction. Life and career Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was born in Santander, Cantabria Santander () is the capital of t ...

(1919–2012), Spanish poet and researcher * Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), US poet and lawyer *

Ivan Cankar Ivan Cankar (, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slov ...

(1876–1918), Slovene playwright, essayist and poet *

May Wedderburn Cannan May Wedderburn Cannan (14 October 1893 – 11 December 1973) was a British poet who was active in World War I. Biography Early life May was the second of three daughters of Charles Cannan, Dean of Trinity College, Oxford (he was in charge at ...

(1893–1973), English poet *

Edip Cansever Edip Cansever (pronounced ; August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet. Biography Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in Grand Bazaar, Istanbul The Grand ...

(1928–1986), Turkish poet * Cao Cao (155–220), Chinese poet and warlord *

Cao Pi Cao Pi () ( – 29 June 226), courtesy name Zihuan, was the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was the second son of Cao Cao, a warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty, but the eldest ...

(formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet and first emperor of state of

Cao Wei Wei ( Hanzi: 魏; pinyin: ''Wèi'' < Middle Chinese: *''ŋjwei^C'' <

Cao Zhi Cao Zhi (; ; 192 – 27 December 232), courtesy name Zijian (), posthumously known as Prince Si of Chen (陈思王), was a prince of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China, and an accomplished poet in his time. His style o ...

(192–232),

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

poet; third son of Cao Cao *

Vahni Capildeo Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo; born 1973) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. ...

(born 1973),

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

ian poet *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

(1925–2020), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priest *

Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, h ...

(1835–1907), Italian poet and teacher *

Thomas Carew Thomas Carew (pronounced as "Carey") (1595 – 22 March 1640) was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets. Biography He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Rive ...

(1595–1639), English

Cavalier poet The cavalier poets was a school of English poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Charles, a connoisseur of the fine arts, supported poets who created the art ...

* Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter * Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), English didactic poet *

Bliss Carman William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada, Car ...

(1861–1929), Canadian-US poet associated with Confederation Poets * Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyer *

Jim Carroll James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work '' The Basketball Diaries'', which inspired a 1995 film of ...

(1949–2009), US author, poet and punk musician *

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

(born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician and photographer *

Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University. Life Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. He gra ...

(1921–2008), US poet and literary critic * Ann Elizabeth Carson (born 1929), Canadian poet, artist and feminist *

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

(born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translator *

Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Carter (pen name Eliza; 16 December 1717 – 19 February 1806) was an English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, and polymath. As one of the Bluestocking Circle that surrounded Elizabeth Montagu,Encyclopaedia BritannicRet ...

(1717–1806), English poet and

bluestocking ''Bluestocking'' is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), the "Queen of the Blues", including E ...

* Jared Carter (born 1939), US poet and editor * William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman * Neal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement *

Cyrus Cassells Cyrus Cassells (born 1957) is an American poet and professor. Life and work Cassells was born in Dover, Delaware, grew up in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, and began writing poetry in high school. He graduated in 1979 from Stanford Un ...

(born 1957), US poet and professor *

Rosalía de Castro María Rosalía Rita de Castro (; 23 February 1837 – 15 July 1885), was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism. Widely regarded as the greatest Galic ...

(1837-1885), Galician poet *

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His ...

(c. 84–54 BCE), Latin poet under the

Roman Republic The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Ki ...

Charles Causley Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a British poet, school teacher and writer. His work is often noted for its simplicity and directness as well as its associations with folklore, legends and magic, espec ...

(1917–2003), Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer *

C. P. Cavafy Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης ; April 29 (April 17, Old Style, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), ...

(1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant * Guido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florentine poet and friend of Dante Alighieri * Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician and actor *

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. Her husband, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was Royalist co ...

(1623–1673), English writer, aristocrat and scientist

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* Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator * Thomas Centolella (living), US poet *

Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European mo ...

(1887–1961), French poet and author * Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poet *

Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda Bidón (September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile t ...

(1903–1963), Spanish poet and literary critic *

Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He founded the Par ...

(1913–2008), French poet, author and politician from

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...

* Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Portuguese

surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

poet * Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Cuban poet *

Ashok Chakradhar Born on February 8, 1951 in Ahirpada Mohalla of Khurja (Uttar Pradesh)Ashok Chakradhar is an Indian author, poet and former head of the department of Hindi at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University). After serving for 29 years, he took volun ...

(born 1951), Hindi author and poet * John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet *

Jean Chapelain Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Chapelain acquired considerable prestige as a l ...

(1595–1674), French poet and critic * Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), US

cowboy poet Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry that grew from a tradition of cowboys telling stories. Authorship Contrary to common belief, cowboy poetry does not actually have to be written by cowboys, though adherents would claim that authors should have so ...

and columnist *

George Chapman George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakesp ...

(1559–1634), English dramatist, translator and poet *

Fred Chappell Fred Davis Chappell (born May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1 ...

(born 1936), US author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002 * René Char (1907–1998), French poet * Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465), poet *

Craig Charles Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, comedian, television and radio presenter. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera ''Coronation ...

(born 1964), English writer, poet and comedian *

Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Altho ...

(1752–1770), English poet and forger of

medieval poetry Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours and the minnesänger are known for their lyric poetry about courtly love. Among the most famous of secular poetry is ''Carmina Burana'', a manuscr ...

* Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, philosopher and alchemist *

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (16 August 1904 – 15 February 1948) was an Indian poet. One of her most popular poems is "Jhansi ki Rani" (about the courageous Queen of Jhansi).'' Biography Subhadra Chauhan was born in Nihalpur village in Prayagraj ...

(1904–1948), Indian poet writing in Hindi * Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), US writer, poet and Franciscan priest * Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist * Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945),

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...

poet and novelist * Andrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-US poet and children's author *

Kelly Cherry Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was a novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary criticG. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and poet *

Choe Chiwon Choe Chiwon (; 857–10th century) was a Korean philosopher and poet of the late medieval Unified Silla period (668-935). He studied for many years in Tang China, passed the Tang imperial examination, and rose to the high office there before r ...

(born 857), Korean (

Silla Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms ...

) poet *

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiy ...

(1703–1775), female Japanese haiku poet of Edo period *

Henri Chopin Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008) was a French avant-garde poet and musician. Life Henri Chopin was born in Paris, 18 June 1922, one of three brothers, and the son of an accountant. Both his siblings died during the war. One was sh ...

(1922–2008),

poet and musician * Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240 – c. 1305), French writer * Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poet *

Ralph Chubb Ralph Nicholas Chubb (8 February 1892 – 14 January 1960) was an English poet, Printer (publisher), printer and artist. Heavily influenced by Walt Whitman, Whitman, William Blake, Blake, and the Romanticism, Romantics, his work was the creati ...

(1892–1960), poet, painter and printer * Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satirist *

John Ciardi John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(1916–1986) Italian-US poet, translator and etymologist *

Colley Cibber Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ''Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber'' (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling ...

(1671–1757), English playwright and Poet Laureate *

Jovan Ćirilov Jovan Ćirilov (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Ћирилов; ; 30 August 1931 – 16 November 2014) was a Serbian theatrologist, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, and poet. Biography Ćirilov was born in Kikinda. the only son of Milivoj � ...

(1931–2014), Serbian drama expert, writer and poet * Carson Cistulli (born 1979), US poet, essayist and English professor *

Hélène Cixous Hélène Cixous (; ; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. She is known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, her work dealing with multiple genres: theater, literary a ...

(born 1937), French feminist writer, poet and playwright * Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), US poet and author *

Kate Clanchy Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher. Early life She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at Ge ...

(born 1965), Scottish poet and writer *

John Clanvowe Sir John Clanvowe (c. 1341 – 17 October 1391) was a Welsh diplomat, poet and chamber knight to Richard II. He was born to a Marcher family and was possibly of mixed Anglo-Welsh origin, holding lands that would lie in the present-day Radnorshi ...

(c. 1341–1391), Anglo-Welsh poet and diplomat *

John Clare John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th ce ...

(1793–1864), English poet * Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright * Austin Clarke (1896–1974), Irish poet *

George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known larg ...

(born 1960), Canadian poet and academic *

Gillian Clarke Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English. She co-founded Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales. Life Gillian Clarke was born on 8 J ...

(born 1937), Welsh poet and playwright in English *

Paul Claudel Paul Claudel (; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Early lif ...

(1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat * Claudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius *

Matthias Claudius Matthias Claudius (15 August 1740 – 21 January 1815) was a German poet and journalist, otherwise known by the pen name of “Asmus”. Life Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena. He spent the greater part of his li ...

(Asmus, 1740–1815), German poet *

Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian literature, Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, a ...

(1929–2008), Belgian author, poet and film director * Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), US humorist, poet and author *

Jack Clemo Reginald John Clemo (11 March 1916 – 25 July 1994) was a British poet and writer who was strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his strong Christian belief. His work was considered to be visionary and inspired by the rugged Cor ...

(1916–1994), English Christian poet * Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US author of fiction, prose poems and literary criticism *

Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Li ...

(1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland * Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist and assistant to

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, i ...

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* Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), US poet and story writer * Robbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poet *

Alison Cockburn Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn (8 October 171222 November 1794) was a Scottish people, Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment, enlightenme ...

(1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialite *

Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...

(1889–1963), French writer *

Judith Ortiz Cofer Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016) was a Puerto Rican author. Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult ficti ...

(1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

(1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist * Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poet *

Hartley Coleridge Hartley Coleridge, possibly David Hartley Coleridge (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849), was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet a ...

(1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayist * Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, essayist and poet *

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake ...

(1772–1834), English poet * Edward Coletti (born 1944), Italian-US poet *

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

(born 1941), US poet; US Poet Laureate 2001–2003 * William Collins (1721–1759), English poet *

William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period. He was also a mi ...

(1670–1729), English playwright and poet * Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright *

Paul Conneally Paul Terence Conneally (born 1959 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) is a poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough, UK. Poetry and art In the field of poetry Conneally is best known for his haiku and haiku-related forms including haibun and ...

(born 1959), English poet, artist and musician *

Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British historian and poet. A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books ...

(1917–2015), Anglo-US historian and poet *

Henry Constable Henry Constable (1562 – 9 October 1613) was an English poet, known particularly for ''Diana'', one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the continent for some years. He returned to E ...

(1562–1613), English poet *

David Constantine David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became ...

(born 1944), English poet and translator

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Clark Coolidge Clark Coolidge (born February 26, 1939) is an American poet. Background As a teenager, Coolidge attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. Coolidge attended Brown University, where his father taught in the music department. After ...

(born 1939), US poet *

Wendy Cope Wendy Cope (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon. Biography Cope was born in Erith in Kent (no ...

(born 1945), English poet *

Robert Copland Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547), English printer and author, is said to have been a servant of William Caxton, and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde. The first book to which his name is affixed as a printer is ''The Boke of Justices of Peace' ...

(fl. 1508–1547), English printer, author and translator *

Julia Copus Julia Copus FRSL (born 1969) is a British poet, biographer and children's writer. Biography Copus was born in London and grew up with three brothers, two of whom went on to become musicians. She attended The Mountbatten School, a comprehensi ...

(born 1969), English poet and biographer * Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet in

Guernésiais Guernésiais, also known as ''Dgèrnésiais'', Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois". As one of the langues d'oïl, it has it ...

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29 ...

(1845–1875), French poet * Cid Corman (1924–2004), US poet, translator and editor * Alfred Corn (born 1943), US poet and essayist *

Frances Cornford Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet. Life She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856-1903), and born into the Darw ...

(1886–1960), English poet *

F. M. Cornford Francis Macdonald Cornford (27 February 1874 – 3 January 1943) was an English classical scholar and translator known for work on ancient philosophy, notably Plato, Parmenides, Thucydides, and ancient Greek religion. Frances Cornford, his wif ...

(1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances Cornford *

Joe Corrie Joe Corrie (13 May 1894 – 13 November 1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working class plays. He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1894. His family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Co ...

(1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright *

Gregory Corso Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burrou ...

(1930–2001), US Beat poet *

Jayne Cortez Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1934 – December 28, 2012) was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist whose voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and ...

(1936–2012), US poet and performance artist *

George Coșbuc George Coșbuc (; 20 September 1866 – 9 May 1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy. In 19 ...

(1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacher * Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translator *

Abraham Cowley Abraham Cowley (; 161828 July 1667) was an English poet and essayist born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his ''Works'' published between 1668 and 1721. Early ...

(1618–1667), English poet *

Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, ''Blue Juniata'' (1929), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return ...

(1898–1989), US

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...

, poet and critic *

William Cowper William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and sce ...

(1731–1800), English poet and hymnist *

George Crabbe George Crabbe ( ; 24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. In the 177 ...

(1754–1832), English poet, naturalist and clergyman * Hart Crane (1899–1932), US modernist poet *

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

(1871–1900), US novelist, short story writer and poet *

Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature. Crashaw was the son of a famous ...

(1613–1649), English Metaphysical poet *

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

(1926–2005), US poet *

Octave Crémazie Octave Crémazie (April 16, 1827 – January 16, 1879) was a French Canadian poet and bookseller born in Quebec City. Recognized both during and after his lifetime for his patriotic verse and his significant role in the cultural development of ...

(1827–1879), French Canadian poet *

Ann Batten Cristall Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848) was an English poet and schoolteacher on friendly terms with Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Letitia Barbauld and several other writers of her period. A recent critic has noted in her work "technical virtuosity, masked ...

(1769–1848), English poet *

Charles Cros Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 – August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the field ...

(1842–1888), French poet and inventor *

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...

(1875–1947), English occultist and poet * Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), English poet * György Csanády (1895–1952), Hungarian poet and journalist *

Sándor Csoóri Sándor Csoóri (3 February 1930 – 12 September 2016) was a Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician. Biography In 1950, he graduated from the Reformed College in the town of Pápa ( :hu:Pápai Református Kollégium) and then studied ...

(1930–2016), Hungarian poet, essayist and politician *

Cui Hao Cui Hao () (died 450 CE), courtesy name Boyuan (伯淵), was a ''shangshu'' of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. Largely because of Cui's counsel, Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei was able to unify northern China, ending the Sixteen K ...

(c. 704–754), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet *

Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. Early life Childhood Countee LeRoy Porter ...

(1903–1946), US poet * Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist and poet *

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

(1894–1962), US poet, essayist and playwright * Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and author * James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), US poet, literary critic and teacher *

Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Life Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...

(1911–2001), New Zealand poet and journalist *

Ivor Cutler Ivor Cutler (born Isadore Cutler, 15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions record ...

(1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist *

Józef Czechowicz Józef Czechowicz (15 March 1903 – 9 September 1939) was an avant-garde Polish poet. Known as a nostalgic, catastrophic author, he was also the leader of the literary avant-garde and bohemians in Lublin.Pietrasiewicz, Tomasz and Aleksandra Ziń ...

(1903–1939), Polish poet * Gergely Czuczor (1800–1866), Hungarian poet, monk and academic *

Tytus Czyżewski Tytus Czyżewski (28 December 1880 in Przyszowa – 5 May 1945 in Kraków) was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists, mefedroniarz and Colorist. Biography In 1902 he studied at the Acade ...

(1880–1945), Polish poet, playwright and painter

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Dalpatram Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi (21 January 1820 – 25 March 1898) was a Gujarati language poet during 19th century in India. He was the father of Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, a poet. He led social reform movements in Ahmedabad, and wrote articles again ...

(Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi) (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati language poet *

Roque Dalton Roque is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing cr ...

(1935–1975), Salvador poet * Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020), Indonesian poet *

Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late- Elizabethan and early- Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle ''Delia'', the epi ...

(1562–1619), English poet and historian * David Daniels (1933–2008), US visual poet * Jeffrey Daniels (living), African-US poet *

Thomas d'Angleterre Thomas of Britain (also known as Thomas of England) was a poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem ''Tristan'', a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of v ...

, 12th-century poet in

* Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist * Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet and writer *

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as ''modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

(1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet initiating ''

modernismo ''Modernismo'' is a literary movement that took place primarily during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century in the Spanish-speaking world, best exemplified by Rubén Darío who is also known as the father of ''Modernismo''. The ter ...

'' *

Keki Daruwalla Keki N. Daruwalla (born 24 January 1937Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English poet and herbalist *

Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish ( ar, محمود درويش, Maḥmūd Darwīsh, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine ...

(1941–2008), Palestinian poet and author *

Elizabeth Daryush Elizabeth Daryush (8 December 1887 – 7 April 1977) was an English poet. Life Daryush was the daughter of Robert Bridges; her maternal grandfather was Alfred Waterhouse. She married Ali Akbar Daryush, a Persian government official whom she ...

(1887–1977), English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges *

Jibanananda Das Jibanananda Das () (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' ('Poet of Beautiful Bengal'), Das is the most read poet after Rabindr ...

(1899–1954), Bengali poet and author *

Petter Dass Petter Pettersen Dass (c. 1647 – 17 August 1707) was a Lutheran priest and the foremost Norwegian poet of his generation, writing both baroque hymns and topographical poetry. Biography He was born at Northern Herøy (Dønna), Nordland, No ...

(died 1707), Norwegian poet * Mina Dastgheib (born 1943), Iranian poet *

René Daumal René Daumal (; 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel '' Mount Analogue'' (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner ...

(1908–1944), French para-

writer and poet *

Jean Daurat Jean Daurat ( Occitan: Joan Dorat; Latin: Auratus) (3 April 15081 November 1588) was a French poet, scholar and a member of a group known as '' The Pléiade''. Early life He was born Joan Dinemandy in Limoges and was a member of a noble family. ...

(1508–1588), French poet, scholar and ''

La Pléiade La Pléiade () was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad ...

'' member *

William Davenant Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned b ...

(1606–1668), English poet and playwright *

Guy Davenport Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...

(1927–2005), US writer, translator and illustrator * Donald Davidson (1893–1968) US poet, essayist and critic * John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelist * Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), US poet *

Donald Davie Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley, ...

(1922–1995), English poet and critic *

Alan Davies Alan Roger Davies (; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2016) and as the only per ...

(born 1951), US poet, critic and editor * Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist and communist *

Sir John Davies Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised)8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal ...

(1569–1626), English poet, lawyer and politician * W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and 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, essayist and editor; son of poet Edward Davison *

Denis Davydov Denis Vasilyevich Davydov ( rus, Дени́с Васи́льевич Давы́дов, p=dʲɪˈnʲis vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ dɐˈvɨdəf, a=Dyenis Vasilyevich Davydov.ru.vorb.oga; – ) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who in ...

(1784–1839), Russian soldier-poet of

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

Dayaram Dayaram (1777–1853) was a Gujarati poet of medieval Gujarati literature and was the last poet of the old Gujarati school. He is known in Gujarati literature for his literary form called ''Garbi'', a lyric song. He was a follower of Pushtimarg ...

(1777–1853),

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label= Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old ...

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 poet and publisher * Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian poet and novelist * John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist * Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian critic, poet and essayist *

Jean Louis De Esque Jean Louis De Esque (1879-1956) was an author and poet. Several of his works were published under Connoisseur's Press in Jersey City, New Jersey. He also wrote under the pseudonym "Stewart."Madeline DeFrees Madeline DeFrees (also known as, Sister Mary Gilbert; November 18, 1919 – November 11, 2015) was an American poet, teacher, and Roman Catholic nun. Biography Born in Ontario, Oregon, Madeline DeFrees lived in Seattle, Washington. She joined t ...

(1919–2015), US poet *

Jacek Dehnel Jacek Maria Dehnel (born 1 May 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Life and work He graduated from the Stefan Żeromski High School No. 5 in Gdańsk, where he excelled in Humanities. Dehnel studied at t ...

(born 1980), Polish poet, translator and painter * Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer *

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Sor may refer to: * Fernando Sor (1778–1839), Spanish guitarist and composer * Sor, Ariège, a French commune * SOR Libchavy, a Czech bus manufacturer * Sor, Azerbaijan, a village * Sor, Senegal, an offshore island * Sor River, a river in the Oro ...

(1651–1695), Mexican poet *

Baltasar del Alcázar Baltasar del Alcázar (1530 in Seville, Spain–16 February 1606 in Ronda) was a Spanish poet. He was the sixth child of Luis del Alcázar. His poetry was about life and love, most of it spiced with a keen sense of humor. Works A short example ...

(1530–1606), Spanish poet *

Walter de la Mare Walter John de la Mare (; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of ...

(1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist *Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of Parnassian poets, Parnassian movement *Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet in English and Shetland dialect *François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic and translator *Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poet *Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translator *Sir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtier *Tory Dent (1958–2005), US poet, critic and commentator *Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poet *Regina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writer *Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopher *Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-US poet *Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet *John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist *Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), US poet, critic and novelist *Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright and poet *Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet praised also for lost plays *Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet, playwright and novelist *Lakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayist *Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist *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 *Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto *Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), US poet *James Dickey (1923–1997), US poet and novelist; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to Library of Congress *Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), US poet *Matthew Dickman (born 1975), US poet, twin of Michael Dickman *Michael Dickman (born 1975), US poet *Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and politician *Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist 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, novelist and poet *Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian playwright, poet and politician *Hendrik Doeff (1777-1835), Dutch lexicographer and poet (in Japanese) and Commissioner in the Dejima trading post *Gojko Đogo (born 1940), Serbian poet *Pete Doherty (born 1979), English musician, songwriter 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, satirist and Anglican cleric *H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), US Imagist poet *Ap Chuni Dorji, Bhutanese poet *Edward Dorn (1929–1999), US poet and teacher *Tishani Doshi (born 1975), Indian English poet and journalist *Mark Doty (born 1953), US poet and memoirist *Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and children's writer *Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer and traveler *Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), US poet and author *Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, 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 of Elizabethan era *Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet *John Drinkwater (playwright), John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist *Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet *William Drummond of Hawthornden, William Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poet *William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poet *Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poet *John Dryden (1631–1700), English poet, critic and playwright *Toru Dutt (1856–1877), Indian poet and translator writing in French and English

Du–Dy

*Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poet *Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet, critic and

member *W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), US writer and activist *Norman Dubie (born 1945), US poet *Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat *Du Fu (712–770), Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty *Du Mu (803–852), Chinese poet of late Tang Dynasty *Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom *Alan Dugan (1923–2003), US poet *Sasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright and translator *Richard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poet *Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-US poet, novelist and playwright *William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scots makar *Robert Duncan (poet), Robert Duncan (1919–1988), US poet *Camille Dungy (born 1972), US poet, academic and essayist *Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic and critic *Stephen Dunn (1939–2021), US poet *Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writer *Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poet *Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), English novelist, poet and dramatist *Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatist *Stuart Dybek (born 1942), US poet, writer *Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English 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 *Hushang Ebtehaj, Houshang Ebtehaj (1928–2022), Iranian poet *Russell Edson (1935–2014), US poet, novelist and illustrator *Terry Ehret (born 1955), US poet *Max Ehrmann (1872–1945), American writer, poet, and attorney *Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and novelist *Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poet *George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, journalist and translator *T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), US/English publisher, playwright and critic *Ebenezer Elliott ("Corn Law rhymer", 1781–1849), English poet *Royston Ellis (born 1941), English poet *Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet *Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet *Claudia Emerson (1957–2014), US poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia *Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US essayist, lecturer and poet *Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet, essayist and translator *Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian poet, novelist and journalist *William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet *Yunus Emre (c. 1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic *Michael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy and children's writer and poet *Leszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish, poet, fiction writer and translator *Paul Engle (1908–1991), US poet, novelist and playwright *Ennius (c. 239 – c. 169 BCE), father of Latin poetry in Rome *D. J. Enright (1920–2002), English poet, novelist and critic *Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German writer, poet and translator *János Erdélyi (1814–1868), Hungarian poet and philosopher *Louise Erdrich (born 1954), US novelist, poet and children's writer featuring Native US heritage *Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poet *Max Ernst (1891–1976), German poet and artist *Yerrapragada, Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Telugu poet *Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220), German Minnesinger poet and knight *Clayton Eshleman (1935–2022), US poet, translator and editor *Martín Espada (born 1957), US poet and teacher *Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet *Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalonia, Catalan 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 and musician *Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), US poet and editor *Euripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian *Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelist *Mari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poet *William Everson (poet), William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), US poet and critic *Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet *Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007), South African/Dutch poet; poetry in Afrikaans

F

Fa–Fn

*Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymnist and theologian *Kinga Fabó (1953–2021), Hungarian poet and essayist *Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), Indian/Pakistani 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 poet and scriptwriter *Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright and poet *John Farrell (poet), J. P. Farrell (born 1968), US poet and musician *Forugh Farrokhzad, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Iranian poet *Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poet, novelist and playwright *Károly Fellinger (born 1963) Hungarian poet in Slovakia *Fenggan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese Zen monk poet under Tang Dynasty *Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translator *James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), James Fenton (1931–2021), Northern Irish linguist and poet in Ulster Scots *James Fenton, James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist and literary critic *Ferdowsi (935–1020), Persian poet *Teréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poet *Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scottish poet *Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), US poet, painter and activist *Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator and poet *Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006), Polish poet, writer and translator *Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist, dramatist and poet *Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine poet and musician *Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English nature poet *Annie Finch (born 1956), US poet, librettist and translator *Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer and gardener *Roy Fisher (1930–2017), English poet and jazz pianist *Edward FitzGerald (poet), Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' *Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), US poet, critic and translator *Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child poet and diarist *Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet, diplomat and MP *Giles Fletcher, Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet *John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher (1579–1625), English playwright and poet *John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), US Imagist poet *Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother of Giles the younger *F. S. Flint (1885–1960), English poet and translator

Fo–Fu

*Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author and poet *Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poet and realist writer *John Forbes (poet), John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet *Carolyn Forché (born 1950), US poet, editor and translator *Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet and critic *John Ford (dramatist), John Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poet *John M. Ford (1957–2006), US SF and fantasy writer, game designer and poet *Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poet and critical theorist *Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet *William Fowler (makar), William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer and translator *Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand author *Anatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist and novelist *Robert Francis (poet), Robert Francis (1901–1987), US poet *Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan *G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, critic and academic *Gregory Fraser (born 1963), US poet, editor and professor *Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writer *Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician and playwright *Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwright *Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), US poet 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 – c. 1405), French chronicler and court poet *Robert Frost (1874–1963), US poet *Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), US poet and teacher *John Fuller (poet), John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller *Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet *Alice Fulton (born 1952), US poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner *John Furnival (1933–2020), British visual and concrete poet *Milán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright *Fuzûlî (c. 1483–1556), Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turks, Ottoman poet

G

Ga–Go

*Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), Polish poet *Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), Polish poet and stage writer *Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet *James Galvin (poet), James Galvin (born 1951), US poet *Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, essayist and inventor *János Garay (1812–1853), Hungarian poet and journalist *Robert Garioch (wrote as Robert Garioch Sutherland, 1909–1981), Scottish poet and translator *Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), US novelist, poet and essayist *Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and editor *Richard Garnett (writer), Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English 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 and would-be courtier *David Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet of the Surrealist movement *Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, dramatist and novelist *John Gay (1685–1732), English poet and dramatist *Yehonatan Geffen (born 1947), Israeli author, poet and playwright *Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991), US writer, poet and cartoonist *Juan Gelman (1930–2014), Argentinian poet, writer and translator *Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translator *Dan Gerber (born 1940), US poet *Ágnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian poet, novelist and translator *Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymnist *Cezary Geroń (1960–1998), Polish poet, journalist and translator *Ghalib, Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869) Indian poet in Urdu and Persian *Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), US children's author, poet and feature writer *Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), US poet, fiction writer and critic *Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-US artist, poet 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. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poet *Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poet *Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), US Beat Generation poet *Dana Gioia (born 1950), US writer, critic and poet *Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), US poet, writer and educator *Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright and religious thinker *Lilius Giraldus, Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar and poet *Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poet *Denis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poet and publisher *Louise Glück (born 1943), US poet; US Poet Laureate *Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian poet in Punjabi language, Punjabi, Urdu, etc. *Cyprian Godebski (poet), Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelist *Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Canadian poet in French *Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), US poet *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist and politician *Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright and translator *Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Hebrew-language poet, playwright and writer *Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English children's writer and poet *Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer and poet *Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet *Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright *George Gomori (writer), George Gomri (born 1934), Hungarian poet and journalist (also in English) *Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poet *Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet *Paul Goodman (writer), Paul Goodman (1911–1972), US novelist, playwright and poet *Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet and translator *Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet and politician *Gábor Görgey (born 1929), Hungarian poet and politician *Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poet *Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), US performance poet and artist *Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist *Edmund Gosse, Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author and critic *Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French poet, novelist and critic *John Gower (c. 1330–1408), English poet and friend of Chaucer

Gr–Gy

*Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, priest and poet *James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier and poet *Jorie Graham (born 1950), US poet and first female Boylston Professor at Harvard *W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poet *Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographer *Alex Grant (poet), Alex Grant (living), Scottish US poet and teacher *Günter Grass (1927–2015), German novelist, poet and playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature *Richard Graves (1715–1804), English poet and essayist *Robert Graves (1895–1985), English author and scholar *Alexander Gray (poet), Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer and poet *Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet *Robert Greene (dramatist), Robert Greene (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 poet and writer *Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnist *Bill Griffiths (poet), Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar *Jane Griffiths (poet), Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historian *Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978). American poet, photographer and visual artist *Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, short-story writer and scholar *Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), English poet and critic *Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet and dramatist *Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and 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 and critic *Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist *Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Serbian writer, poet and bishop *Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist *Philip Gross (born 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright *Igo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translator *N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, pastor and historian *Wioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writer *Barbara Guest (1920–2006), US poet and prose stylist *Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born US poet *Paul Guest (living), US poet and memoirist *Bimal Guha (born 1952), Bangladesh poet writing in Bengali *Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240), French scholar and poet *Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), Spanish poet *Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban poet, activist and writer *Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poet *Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvère *Malcolm Guite (born 1957) *Gül Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet *Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeist poetry, 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, novelist and scholar *Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet *Beth Gylys (born 1964), US poet and professor *István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poet *Géza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poet *Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer and sound poet *Gabor G. Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-US poet and translator (also in English)

H

Ha

*Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar *Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), US poet, translator and critic *Hadraawi (born 1943), Somaliland poet and songwriter *Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet *Hai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poet *John Haines (1924–2011), US poet and educator *Donald Hall (1928–2018), US poet, writer and critic; US Poet Laureate *Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of ''In Memoriam A.H.H.'' by Alfred Tennyson *Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet and academic *Han Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet of Tang dynasty *Hanshan (poet), Hanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty *Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet *Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet *Wilson Harris, Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist *Jim Harrison (1937–2016), US poet, novelist and essayist *Tony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwright *Carla Harryman (born 1952), US poet, essayist and playwright *David Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriter *Paul Hartal (born 1936), Hungarian-born Canadian poet, painter and critic *Peter Härtling (1933–2017), German writer and poet *Michael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet writing in English and Irish *Julia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet, writer and translator *Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist *Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani origin *Ahmet Haşim (c. 1884–1933), Turkish poet *Robert Hass (born 1941), US poet; former Poet Laureate *Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), emir of the Dervish movement (Somali), Dervish movement, of which Las Anod#Diiriye Guure, Diiriye Guure was sultan *Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian poet *Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist, poet and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1912 *Stephen Hawes (died 1523), English poet *Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), English poet, antiquarian and Anglican priest *George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scots poet and translator in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English *Gilbert Hay (poet), Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th c.), Scottish poet and translator in Middle Scots *Robert Hayden (1913–1980), US poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate *William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer *Tony Haynes (American musician), Tony Haynes (born 1960), US poet, songwriter and lyricist

He

*Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature *Josephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921), US teacher and poet *John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translator *Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelist *Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), US poet *Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), US poet, historian and philosopher *Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), US poet, writer and performer *Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator *Ilona Hegedűs (living), poet *John Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian and songwriter *Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, essayist and literary critic *Lyn Hejinian (born 1941), US poet, essayist and translator *Acharya Hemachandra (1089–1172), Jain scholar, poet and polymath *Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poet *Marian Hemar (1901–1972), Polish poet, songwriter and playwright *Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), US poet and activist *Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter and catalyst for folk revival in Scotland *William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, critic and editor *Adrian Henri (1932–2000), English poet and painter *Robert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poet *Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, historian, poet and philosopher; brother of George Herbert *George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet *Mary Sidney, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (née Sidney), early English woman in literature *Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist *Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian and literary critic *Miguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright of Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements *Herodas or Herondas (3rd c. BCE), Greek poet and author of humorous dramatic scenes in verse *Antoine Héroet (died 1568), French poet *Robert Herrick (poet), Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet *Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish-born English poet and critic *Hesiod (fl. 750–650 BCE), Ancient Greek poet *Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet *Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter *Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright *John Hewitt (poet), John Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Irish poet *William Heyen (born 1940), US poet, literary critic, novelist *Thomas Heywood (c. 1570s – 1641), English playwright, actor and author

Hi–Hy

*Dick Higgins (1938–1998), English poet and publisher *Scott Hightower (born 1952), US poet and teacher *Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright and novelist *Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), English poet and professor *Selima Hill (born 1945), English poet *Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist *Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), US poet *Hipponax (6th c. BCE) of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poet *Hirato Renkichi (1893–1922), Japanese avant-garde poet *Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), Dutch poet *Jane Hirshfield (born 1953), US poet *George Hitchcock (poet), George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), US poet, playwright and painter *H. L. Hix (born 1960), US poet and academic *Marian Hluszkewycz (1877–1935), Russian poet *Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368 – 1426), English poet and clerk *Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet and translator in English *Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, poet and dramatist *James Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet and novelist *David Holbrook (1923–2011), English writer, poet and academic *Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German lyric poet *Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and novelist *Barbara Holland (1933–2010), US author *John Hollander (1929–2013), Jewish-US poet and literary critic *Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet *Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), US poet, professor and author *Homer (fl. 8th c. BCE), Greek epic poet *Thomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood *A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian satirical poet and essayist *Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and Jesuit priest *Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BCE), Roman lyric poet *George Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-US poet *Joan Houlihan, US poet *A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet and classicist *Libby Houston (living), English poet, botanist and rock climber *Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English Renaissance poet *Richard Howard (1929–2022), US poet, critic and essayist *Fanny Howe (born 1940), US poet and fiction writer *Susan Howe (born 1937), US poet, scholar and essayist *Hrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and first known female dramatist, from Lower Saxony *Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), Bangladeshi poet in Bengali *John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet in Welsh *Langston Hughes (1902–1967), US poet, novelist and playwright *Ted Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom *Richard Hugo (1923–1982), US poet *Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist and dramatist *Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poet *Lynda Hull (1954–1994), US poet *Keri Hulme (1947–2021), New Zealand poet and fiction writer *Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917), English critic and poet *Alexander Hume (1560–1609), Scottish poet *Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), English critic, essayist and poet *Sam Hunt (poet), Sam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poet *Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet *Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, poet and travel writer *Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), US poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–1983

I

*Khadijah Ibrahiim (fl. 2022), British poet *Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director and poet *Ibycus (fl. late 6th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet *Ikkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet *Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet *Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), Hungarian poet and novelist *Maria Ilnicka (1825 or 1827–1897), Polish poet, novelist and translator *Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Indian poet in Urdu and Persian *Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poet *Sabit Ince (born 1954), Turkish lyric poet *Inge Israel (1927–2019), Canadian poet and playwright *Wacław Iwaniuk (1912–2001), Polish poet and journalist *Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Eleuter, 1894–1980), Polish poet, dramatist and translator *Sergey Izgiyaev (1922–1972), Russian poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jews, Mountain Jewish descent

J

*FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet *Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet in Scots *Rolf Jacobsen (poet), Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet and writer *Ada Jafarey (1924–2015) Pakistani poet in Urdu *Richard Jago (1715–1781), English poet *Đura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter and dramatist *James I of Scotland, James I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair *James I of England, James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots and of England and Ireland *Christine James (born 1954), Welsh poet and academic *Clive James (1939–2019), Australian author, poet and memoirist *Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet and translator *Klemens Janicki (1516–1543), Polish poet in Latin *Janus Pannonius (1434–1472), Hungarian/Slavonian poet in Latin *Patricia Janus (1932–2006), US poet and artist *Mark Jarman, Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), US poet and critic *Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), US poet, children's author and novelist; US Poet Laureate *Bruno Jasieński (1901–1938), Polish poet, novelist and playwright *Mieczysław Jastrun (1903–1983), Polish poet and essayist *László Jávor (1903–1992), Hungarian poet *Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), US poet *Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet and writer *Rod Jellema (1927–2018), US poet, teacher and translator *Simon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writer *Elizabeth Jennings (poet), Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poet *Jia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet active under Tang Dynasty *John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet *Edmund John (1883–1917), English poet *Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), US poet *Helene Johnson (1906–1995), African-US poet *James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), US author, poet and folklorist *Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist and critic *Emily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk language, Mohawk: Tekahionwake) (1861–1913), Canadian writer, performer and poet marking First Nations in Canada, First Nations heritage *Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist and lexicographer *George Benson Johnston (1913–2004), Canadian poet, translator and academic *Anna Jókai (1932–2017), Hungarian poet and prose writer *David Jones (artist-poet), David Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poet *Edward Smyth Jones (1881–1968), African-American poet *Richard Jones (poet), Richard Jones (living), English US poet *Ben Jonson (1573–1637), English poet and dramatist *June Jordan (1936–2002), US poet and educator *Anthony Joseph (born 1966), British/Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician *Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), English poet *Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet, physician *James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet *Attila József (1905–1937), Hungarian poet *Frank Judge (1946–2021), US editor, poet and film critic *Ferenc Juhász (poet), Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), Hungarian poet *Gyula Juhász (poet), Gyula Juhász (1883–1937), Hungarian poet *Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher *Donald Justice (1925–2004), US poet *Juvenal (fl. 1st c. – 2nd c. CE), Roman poet and satirist *Jumoke Verissimo (born 1979), Nigerian poet *Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English

K

Ka–Kh

*Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet and diplomat *Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and Sant (religion), sant of India *Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and novelist *Kālidāsa (fl. c. 4th c.), Sanskrit poet *Kambar (poet), Kambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil language, Tamil poet *Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, translator and critic *Kannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author and lyricist *Jim Kacian (born 1953), US haiku poet and editor *Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author and translator *Chester Kallman (1921–1975), US poet, librettist and translator *László Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translator *Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian and Esperanto poet *Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer and critic *Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-US poet, critic and translator *Orhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poet *Sándor Kányádi (1929–2018), Hungarian poet and translator from Romania *Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Estonian poet, philosopher and critic *Adeena Karasick (born 1965), Canadian/US poet, media artist and essayist *Vim Karenine (born 1933), US poet, essayist and novelist *György Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and critic *Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), Polish poet *Mary Karr (born 1955), US poet, essayist and memoirist *Siavash Kasrai (1927–1996), Iranian poet *Julia Kasdorf (born 1962), US poet *Laura Kasischke (born 1961), US poet and fiction writer *Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1926), Polish poet, playwright and critic *Lajos Kassák (1887–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and painter *Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German author, poet and satirist *József Katona (1791–1830), Hungarian playwright and poet *Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), US beat poet and surrealist *Shirley Kaufman (1923–2016), US poet and translator *Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadians, Indo-Canadian poet and photographer *Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), Irish poet and novelist *Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poet *Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Bengali language, Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary *John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet *Weldon Kees (1914–1955), US poet, novelist and critic *Isabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelist *Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), rhymer on Welsh history *Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), US poet *Walter Kennedy (poet), Walter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish Makar (National Poet for Scotland), makar *X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), US poet, anthologist and children's writer *Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), US poet and translator *Géza Képes (1909–1989), Hungarian poet and translator *Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), US novelist and poet *Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War II *Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poet *Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet *Dilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poet *Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun people, Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior and tribal chief *Omar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet *Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary critic *Syed Mahmood Khundmiri, Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian poet and humorist in Urdu *Amir Khusrow, Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), Sufism, Sufi poet, scholar and musician

Ki–Ky

*Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet *Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and poet *Emelihter Kihleng Pohnpeian poet and academic *Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski (born 1954), Polish poet and politician *Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707), Japanese

poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō *Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), US writer and poet *Edward King (British poet), Edward King (1612–1637), Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas *Henry King (poet), Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishop *William King (poet), William King (1663–1712), English poet *Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymnist *Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionary *Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982 *John Kinsella (poet), John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist and essayist *Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021), Irish poet, translator and editor *Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English fiction writer and poet *Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian fiction writer and poet *Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist and playwright *Atala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poet *Iya Kiva (born 1984), Ukrainian poet *Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet *Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985 *Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and fiction writer *August Kleinzahler (born 1949), US poet *Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poet *Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet and Jesuit *Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-US poet *Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet *Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poet *Kenneth Koch (1925–2002), US poet, playwright and professor *Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish poet *Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writer *István Koháry (1649–1731), Hungarian poet *Ferenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), Hungarian poet *Aladár Komját (1891–1937), Hungarian poet *Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947), US poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994 *Béla Kondor (1931–1972), Hungarian poet, prose writer and painter *Faik Konitza (1875–1942), Albanian poet *Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish poet and athlete *Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish poet, novelist and children's writer *Ted Kooser (born 1939), US poet; US Poet Laureate 2004–2006 *Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876–1901), Polish poet and translator *Julian Kornhauser (born 1946), Polish poet, novelist and critic *Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish poet, playwright and translator, father of Joseph Conrad *Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), Slovene

poet *József Kossics (Jožef Košič, 1788–1867), Hungarian/Slovene poet and priest *Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serbian poet, writer and polyglot *Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936), Hungarian poet and prose writer *Gopi Kottoor (born 1956), Indian poet, playwright and editor *Urszula Kozioł (born 1931), Polish poet *Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovene poet, translator and anthropologist *Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), Polish poet and novelist *Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859), Polish poet *Zlatko Krasni (1951–2008), Serbian poet *Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), US poet and children's book author *

(born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor and poet *Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), US writer; Poet Laureate of Virginia *Katarzyna Krenz (born 1953), poet, novelist and painter *Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian/Yugoslav poet and novelist *Antjie Krog (born 1952), South African poet, academic and writer *Józef Krupiński (1930–1998), Polish poet *Ryszard Krynicki (born 1943), Polish poet and translator *Marilyn Krysl (born 1942), US poet and fiction writer *Andrzej Krzycki (1482–1537), Polish poet and archbishop Kupala Janka

*Žofia Kubini (fl. 17th c.), Hungarian poet in early Czech *Paweł Kubisz (1907–1968), Polish poet and journalist *Péter Kuczka (1923–1999), Hungarian poet and critic *Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian/Irish novelist, poet and translator *Endre Kukorelly (born 1951), Hungarian poet and journalist *Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82 *Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000 *Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Republic of Belarus, Belarus poet *Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), US counterculture poet and author *Jalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writer *Dharanendra Kurkuri (born 1942), Kannada poet, translator, and columnist *Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet *Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet *Kusumagraj (1912–1999), Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist *Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), Turkish writer and poet *Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), US poet *Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English poet *Kyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Japanese poet

L

La

*Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist *Ilmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poet *Pierre Labrie (born 1972), Canadian poet in French *László Ladányi (1907–1992), Hungarian-Israeli poet and writer *Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), Franco-Uruguayan poet *Jarkko Laine (1947–2006), Finnish poet, writer and playwright *Ivan V. Lalić (1931–1996), Serbian poet *Philip Lamantia (1927–2005), US poet and lecturer *Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), US poet and hip-hop artist *Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician *Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poet *Peter Lampe (born 1954), German scholar, writer and poet *Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802–1838), English poet and novelist. *Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English writer and poet *Antoni Lange (1863–1929), Polish poet, philosopher and translator *William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386) probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman *Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), English poet *Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (c. 1510–1556), Hungarian poet and historian *Laozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th c. BCE), Chinese philosopher and poet *Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet *Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), US poet *Bruce Larkin (born 1957), US children's author and poet *Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelist *Claudia Lars (1899–1974), El Salvador, Salvadoran poet *Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright *Lasus of Hermione (6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Ermioni, Hermione in Argolid *Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist *James Laughlin (1914–1997), US poet and publisher *Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), US poet, essayist and professor *Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan/French poet *Dorianne Laux (born 1952), US poet *Christine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelist *D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet and critic *Henry Lawson (1867–1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson *Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet and feminist *Robert Lax (1915–2000), US poet *Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepalese poet and scholar *Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942), Polish poet

Le

*Edward Lear (1812–1888), English poet, artist and illustrator *Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist *Joanna Lech (born 1984), Polish poet and novelist *Jan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish poet, critic and diplomat *Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poet *David Lee (poet), David Lee (born 1966), US poet *Dennis Lee (author), Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor and critic *David Lehman (born 1948), US poet and editor *Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translator *Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist *Brad Leithauser (born 1953), US poet, novelist and essayist *Alexander Lenard (1910–1972) Hungarian writer and poet *Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright *Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet *Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957), Polish poet and translator *Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804), Scottish poet and novelist *John Leonard (Australian poet), John Leonard (born 1965), Australian poet *Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet, essayist and philologist *Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Russian writer, poet and painter *Ben Lerner (born 1979), US poet, novelist and critic *Bolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet and artist *Rika Lesser (born 1953), US poet and translator *Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher and dramatist *Denise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born US poet *Dana Levin (poet), Dana Levin (born 1965), US poet and teacher *Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine (1928–2015), US poet; 2011–2012 US Poet Laureate *Larry Levis (1946–1996), US poet *D. A. Levy (1942–1968), US poet, artist and publisher *William Levy (author), William Levy (1939–2019), US poet, fiction writer and editor *Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poet *Alun Lewis (poet), Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in English *C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Northern Irish novelist, poet and essayist *Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet; inaugural National Poet of Wales *J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), US children's poet *Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist and critic *Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and author

Li–Ly

*Li Houzhu (937–978), Chinese poet and ruler of Tang dynasty, Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975 CE) *José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), Cuban writer and poet *Tim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic and professor *Li Bai (701–762), Chinese Tang dynasty poet *Jerzy Liebert (1904–1931), Polish poet *Li Jiao (Tang Dynasty), Li Jiao, poet under Tang and Zhou dynasty, Zhou dynasties *Li Qingzhao (1084–1151), Chinese Song dynasty writer and poet *Li Shangyin (813–858), Chinese late Tang-dynasty poet *Tim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayist *Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), US author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh *Jack Lindeman (fl. late 20th c.), US poet and critic *Sarah Lindsay (born 1958), US poet *Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet *Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), US poet *Ewa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poet *László Listi (1628–1662), Hungarian poet *Józef Łobodowski (1909–1988), Polish poet and political thinker *Terry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist and academic *Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and writer *Iain Lom (c. 1624 – c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poet *Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), US poet and educator *Michael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poet *Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and stage director *Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-US writer, poet and librarian *Richard Lovelace (poet), Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poet *Amy Lowell (1874–1925), US poet *James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), US poet, critic and diplomat *Robert Lowell (1917–1977), US poet; 1947 US Poet Laureate *Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), US poet and abolitionist *Solomon Löwisohn (1788–1821), Hungarian Jewish poet and historian in Hebrew and German *Mina Loy (1882–1966), English poet, playwright and novelist *Lu You (1125–1209), Chinese Song dynasty poet *Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1642–1702), Polish poet, writer and politician *Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), Romanian poet and surrealist *Lucan (39–65 CE), Roman poet *Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), English writer, poet and broadcaster *Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Roman satirist *Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st c. CE), poet and Procurator (Ancient Rome), Procurator of Sicily *Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BCE), Roman poet and philosopher *Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), US author, journalist and explorer *Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian poet and politician *Luo Binwang (640–684), Chinese Tang-dynasty writer and poet *Thomas Lux (1946–2017), US poet *Mario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poet *John Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poet *John Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet and dramatist *David Lyndsay (poet), Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet *Sandford Lyne (1945–2007), US poet, educator and editor *George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, George Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman and arts patron

M

Ma

*Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet and historian *George MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelist *Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scottish poet *Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864-1922), Canadian poet and writer *Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scottish poet *George MacDonald (1824–1905), Scottish poet and novelist *Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scottish Gaelic poet *Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian writer and poet *Antonio Machado (1875–1939), Spanish poet *Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh author and mystic *Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist and poet *Archibald MacLeish (1892–1987), US modernist poet and writer *Aonghas MacNeacail (born 1942), writer in

*Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Irish poet and playwright *Hector Macneill (1746–1818), Scottish poet and songwriter *James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish writer and poet *Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-US writer, poet and educator *Jayanta Mahapatra (born 1928), Indian English poet *John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1941), US poet and aviator *Eric Magrane (born 1975), US poet and geographer *Derek Mahon (1941–2020), Northern Irish poet *Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene poet and activist *Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi language, Marathi and Hindi poet and playwright *János Majláth (1786–1855), Hungarian historian and poet *Clarence Major (born 1936), US poet, painter and novelist *Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professor *Majeed Amjad (1914–1974), Indian/Pakistani poet in Urdu *Antoni Malczewski (1793–1826), Polish poet *Marcin Malek (born 1975), Polish poet, writer and playwright *Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan) (1898–1982), Indian Urdu poet *Madayyagari Mallana (fl. 15th c.),

poet *Stéphane Mallarmé, Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and critic *David Mallet (writer), David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet *Thomas Malory (1405–1471), English author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' *Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer *Osip Mandelstam (also Mandelshtam, 1891–1938), Russian poet *James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), Irish poet *Bill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet and fiction writer; New Zealand Poet Laureate *Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st c. CE), Roman poet and astrologer *Maurice Manning (poet), Maurice Manning (born 1966), US poet *Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and author *Robert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and monk in Middle English, French and Latin *Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher *Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), Polish poet and blogger *Manuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th c.), royal poet in Persia *Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist *Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian/US poet and novelist *Ausiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knight *Morton Marcus (poet), Morton Marcus (1936–2009), US poet and author *Mareez (1917–1983), Indian poet in Gujarati *Paul Mariani (born 1940), US poet and academic *Marie de France (fl. 12th c.), poet probably French-born and resident in England *Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet and editor *Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), Italian poet *E. A. Markham (1939–2008), Montserrat poet, playwright and novelist *Edwin Markham (1852–1940), US poet *Đorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Serbian poet *Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet and translator *Clément Marot (1496–1544), French Renaissance poet *Don Marquis (1878–1937), US novelist, poet and playwright *Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and cleric *John Marston (playwright), John Marston (1576–1634), English playwright, poet and satirist *José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer *Martial (40 – c. 102 CE), Roman epigrammatist *Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist *Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish sailor, author and poet *Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), English metaphysical poet and politician *John Masefield (1878–1967), English poet and writer; UK Poet Laureate (1930–1967) *Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950), US poet, biographer and dramatist *Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.), Welsh poet in Welsh *János Mattis-Teutsch (1884–1960), Hungarian-Romanian poet and artist *Glyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright and librettist *Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian/Soviet poet and playwright *Karl May (1842–1912), German writer, poet and musician *Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), US poet and prose writer *Ben Mazer (born 1964), US poet and editor

Mc–Me

*James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian poet and critic *Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/US poet and critic *J. D. McClatchy (1945–2018), US poet and critic *Michael McClure (1932–2020), US poet, playwright and novelist *John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician and artist *Walt McDonald (1934–2022), US poet; Poet Laureate of Texas *Dermit McEncroe (fl. early 18th-century), Irish doctor and poet *Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet and comedian *William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), Scottish writer of doggerel *Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and poet *Campbell McGrath (born 1962), US poet *Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet and novelist *Thomas McGrath (poet), Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), US poet *Heather McHugh (born 1948), US poet, translator and educator *Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Duncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish poet in Scottish Gaelic *James McIntyre (poet), James McIntyre (1827–1906), Canadian writer of doggerel *Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-US writer and poet *Don McKay (poet), Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor and educator *Rod McKuen (1933–2015), US poet, composer and singer *James L. McMichael, James McMichael (born 1939), US poet *Ian McMillan (poet), Ian McMillan (born 1956), English poet, playwright and broadcaster *Meera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic poet and Krishna devotee *Narsinh Mehta (c. 1414 – c. 1481), Indian poet-saint of Gujarat *Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese Song dynasty poet *Peter Meinke (born 1932), US poet and fiction writer *Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian poet *Herman Melville (1819–1891), US fiction writer and poet *Meng Haoran (689 or 691–740), Chinese Tang dynasty poet *George Meredith (1828–1909), English poet and novelist *Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet *Alda Merini (1931–2009) Italian writer and poet *Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), US poet writing mainly in French *James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry *Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk *W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate *Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer *Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet *Henry Meyer (poet), Henry Meyer (1840–1925), US poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch *Ferenc Mező (1885–1961), Hungarian poet

Mi–Mo

*Henri Michaux (1899–1984), Belgian/French poet, writer and painter *Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564), Italian poet and sculptor *Tadeusz Miciński (1873–1918), Polish poet and playwright *Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet, essayist and publicist *Veronica Micle (1850–1889), Austrian/Romanian poet *Christopher Middleton (d. 1628), Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translator *Christopher Middleton (navigator), Christopher Middleton (c. 1690–1770), Royal Navy officer and navigator *Christopher Middleton (poet), Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), English poet *Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), English poet and playwright *Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German writer and poet *Josephine Miles (1911–1985), US poet and critic *Jennifer Militello, US poet and professor *Branko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poet *Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), US lyric poet, playwright and feminist *Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), US writer and poet *Grazyna Miller (1957–2009), Italian/Polish poet and translator *Jane Miller (born 1949), US poet *Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), US poet *Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), US poet *Thomas Miller (poet), Thomas Miller (1807–1874), English poet *Vassar Miller (1924–1998), US writer and poet *Spike Milligan (1918–2002), Irish comedian, poet and musician *Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet; 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature *John Milton (1608–1674), English poet and polemicist *Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet *Marijane Minaberri (1926–2017), French/Basque poet and radio broadcaster *Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist and novelist *Matthew Minicucci (born 1981), US poet and teacher *Mir Taqi Mir (1725–1810), Indian poet in Urdu *Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Chilean poet and feminist; 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature *Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwright. *Silas Weir Mitchell (physician), Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), US physician and writer *Stephen Mitchell (translator), Stephen Mitchell (born 1943) US poet, translator and anthologist *Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), US poet *Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg dialect, Gheg poet *Stanisław Młodożeniec (1895–1959), poet *Anis Mojgani (born 1977), US spoken-word poet and visual artist *Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwright *Molla (poet), Atukuri Molla (1440–1530), Indian

poet *Harold Monro (1879–1932), English poet *Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), US scholar, critic and poet *John Montague (poet), John Montague (1929–2016), Irish poet *Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesman *Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, writer and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature *Lenore Montanaro (born 1990), US poet *Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar *Alan Moore (poet), Alan Moore (born 1960), Irish writer and poet *Marianne Moore (1887–1972), US poet and writer *Merrill Moore (1903–1957), US psychiatrist and poet *Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer and songwriter *Dom Moraes (1938–2004), Goan writer, poet and columnist *Kelly Ana Morey (born 1968), New Zealand novelist and poet *Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translator *J. O. Morgan (born 1978), Scottish poet *John Morgan (poet), John Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet *Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975), US poet and author *Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German author and poet *Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), German poet *William Morris (1834–1896), English writer, poet and designer *Jim Morrison (1943–1971), US songwriter and poet *Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693), Polish poet *Zbigniew Morsztyn (c. 1628–1689), Polish poet *Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarus poet *Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), US poet, actor and musician *Moschus (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet *Howard Moss (1922–1987), US poet, dramatist and critic *Andrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1999–2009 *Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer and critic

Mu–My

*Micere Githae Mugo (born 1942), Kenyan playwright, author and poet *Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish essayist, poet and, playwright *Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadians, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator *Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet *Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer *Laura Mullen (born 1958), US poet *Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writer *George Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian archeologist, historian and poet *Sheila Murphy (born 1951), US text and visual poet *George Murray (poet), George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet *Joan Murray (born 1945), US poet, writer and playwright *Les Murray (poet), Les Murray (1938–2019), Australian poet, anthologist and critic *Richard Murphy (poet), Richard Murphy (1927–2018), Irish poet *Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer *Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet, prose writer and polyglot *Nikola Musulin (fl. 19th c.), Serbian poet *Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poet *Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), Tanzanian poet, author and Christian minister *Lam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet in Polish and Vietnamese

N

*Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist and poet in Russian and English *Daniel Naborowski (1573–1640), Polish poet *Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991), Hungarian poet and translator *Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet *Lajos Parti Nagy (born 1953), Hungarian poet, playwright and critic *László Nagy (poet), László Nagy (1925–1978), Hungarian poet and translator *Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet *Nannaya (c. 11th c.), earliest known Telugu author *Philip Nanton (living), Vincentian poet *Adam Naruszewicz (1733–1796), Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatist *Ogden Nash (1902–1971), US poet known for light verse *Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), English playwright, poet and satirist *Imadaddin Nasimi (died c. 1417), Azerbaijani poet *Momčilo Nastasijević (1894–1938), Serbian poet, novelist and dramatist *Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist and poet *Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist and children's writer *Nedîm (c. 1681–1730), Ottoman poet *John Neal (writer), John Neal (1793–1876), US writer, critic, activist and poet *Henry Neele (1798–1828), English poet and scholar *John Neihardt (1881–1973), US poet, historian and ethnographer *Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet *Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), US poet, translator and children's writer *Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1963–1964 *István Péter Németh (born 1960), Hungarian poet and literary historian *Condetto Nénékhaly-Camara (1930–1972), Guinean poet and playwright *Jan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech journalist, writer and poet *Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971 *Neşâtî (died 1674), Ottoman Sufism, Sufi poet *Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938), English historian and poet *John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer, poet and hymnist *Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian US poet *Nguyễn Du (1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in ancient Chữ Nôm script *B. P. Nichol (bpNichol, 1944–1988), Canadian poet *Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), poet and king of Montenegro *Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet *Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), English poet *Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), US poet *Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758–1841), Polish poet, playwright and statesman *Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet and philologist *Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911–1938), Albanian poet and writer *Nizami Ganjavi, Nisami (1141–1209), Persian poet *Nishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet *Moeen Nizami (born 1965), Pakistani poet, scholar and writer *Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813–1851), Serbian poet, playwright and prince-bishop *Yamilka Noa (born 1980), Cuban–Costa Rican poet *Gábor Nógrádi (born 1947), Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelist *Christopher Nolan (author), Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and author *Fan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian/US writer, diplomat and historian *Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer and professor *Harry Northup (born 1940), US actor and poet *Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer, feminist and reformer *Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist and artist *Alice Notley (born 1945), US poet *Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801), German poet and novelist *Franciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet and conservationist *Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poet *Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poet *Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter *Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-US poet, songwriter and novelist *Robert Nye (1939–2016), English poet, novelist and children's writer *Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic

O

*Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian philosopher, writer and poet *Sean O'Brien (writer), Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic and playwright * D. Michael O'Connor aka Damond Jiniya(Born 1974),North American singer, writer and poet *Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and poet *Antoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885), Polish poet *Ron Offen (1930–2010), US poet, playwright and producer *Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012), Irish poet *Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), US writer, poet and art critic *Hisashi Okuyama (born 1941), Japanese poet *Sharon Olds (born 1942), US poet *Mary Oliver (1935–2015), US poet *Charles Olson (1910–1970), US modernist poet *Saishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poet *Onomacritus (c. 530–480 BCE), Attica, Attic poet, priest and seer *George Oppen (1908–1984), US poet *Artur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poet *Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), US poet and painter *Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poet *Władysław Orkan (1875–1930), Polish poet *Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), US poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg *Gregory Orr (poet), Gregory Orr (born 1947), US poet *Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer and screenplay author *Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet *Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese Song Dynasty historian, essayist and poet *Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE), Roman poet *Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldier *İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar

P

Pa

*Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author and critic *Ron Padgett (born 1942), US poet, writer and translator *Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor *Grace Paley (1922–2007), US short story writer and poet *Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poet *Palladas (fl. 4th c.), Greek poet *Michael Palmer (poet), Michael Palmer (born 1943), US poet and translator *Sima Pandurović (1883–1960), Serbian poet *Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Indian poet in Hindi *Daniele Pantano (born 1976), Swiss poet, translator, editor and scholar *William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist in Welsh *Park Yong-rae (1925–1980), Korean poet *Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), US poet, fiction writer and satirist *Amy Parkinson (1855-1938), British-born Canadian poet *Thomas Parnell (1679–1718), Irish poet and clergyman *Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean mathematician and poet *Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), Italian poet *Ámbar Past (born 1949), Mexican poet, visual artist *Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist and translator *Leon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satirist *Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (born 1954), Puerto Rican poet and fiction and literature writer *Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972), US poet and novelist *Ravji Patel (1939–1968), Indian poet *Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author *Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician *Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), English poet and critic *Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet *Lekhnath Paudyal (1885–1966), Nepalese poet *Paul I, Prince Esterházy (1635–1713) Austro-Hungarian poet *Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist and critic *Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet and dramatist *Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer, poet and diplomat

Pe–Pl

*Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet and novelist *Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish poet and writer *James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), US poet and publisher *Allasani Peddana (fl. 15th/16th cc.),

poet *Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist and editor *Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), US poet *Gabino Coria Peñaloza (1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricist *Sam Pereira (living), US poet *Lucia Perillo (1958–2016), US poet *Persius (34–62 CE), Roman poet and satirist of Etruria, Etruscan origin *Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic *Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), The Gambia, Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist *Robert Peters (playwright), Robert Peters (1924–2014), US poet, scholar and playwright *Pascale Petit (poet), Pascale Petit (born 1953), French-Welsh poet and artist *Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet *Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and prose writer *Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist *Veljko Petrović (poet), Veljko Petrović (1884–1967), Serbian poet, prose writer and theorist *Mirko Petrović-Njegoš (1820–1867), Serbian and Montenegrin poet, soldier and diplomat *Mario Petrucci (born 1958), English poet, author and translator of Italian origin *Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), English poet and politician *Katherine Philips (1632–1664), Anglo-Welsh poet *Savitribai Phule (1831–1897), Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra *Pi Rixiu (c. 834–883), Tang Dynasty poet *Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and film maker *Pindar (522–443 BCE), Theban lyric poet in Greek *Robert Pinsky (born 1940), US poet, critic and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet Laureate *Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet *Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet and philosopher *Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), US poet and novelist *William Plomer (1903–1973), South African novelist, poet and editor in English

Po–Pu

*Jacek Podsiadło (born 1964), Polish poet, translator and essayist *Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), US author, poet and critic *Suman Pokhrel (born 1967), Nepalese poet, playwright and artist *Wincenty Pol (1807–1872), Polish poet and geographer *Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English poet *Edward Pollock (1823–1858), US poet *John Pomfret (poet), John Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet and clergyman. *Marie Ponsot (1921–2019), US poet, critic and essayist *Vasko Popa (1922–1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descent *Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet *Antonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian Argentinian poet *Judith Pordon (born 1954), US poet, writer and editor *Peter Porter (poet), Peter Porter (1929–2010), Australian poet based in England *Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writer *Roma Potiki (born 1958), New Zealand poet and playwright *Wacław Potocki (1621–1696), Polish poet and moralist *Ezra Pound (1885–1972), US expatriate poet and critic *Alishetty Prabhakar (1952–1993), Telugu poet *Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972), Indian poet, translator and activist *Adélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet *Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English politician and poet *Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Indian poet in Hindi *E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poet *Petar Preradović (1818–1872), Croatian poet, writer and general *France Prešeren (1800–1849), Carniolan Romantic poet *Jacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet and screenwriter *Richard Price (poet), Richard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist and translator *Robert Priest (born 1951), English-born Canadian poet, children's author and singer/songwriter *F. T. Prince (1912–2003), English poet and academic *Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat *Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet *Sextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BCE), Latin elegiac poet *Kevin Prufer (born 1969), US poet, academic and essayist *J. H. Prynne (born 1936), English poet *Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940), Polish poet, novelist and playwright *Zenon Przesmycki (Miriam, 1861–1944), Polish poet, translator and critic *Jeremi Przybora (1915–2004), Polish poet, writer and singer *Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet known for ''Morgante'' *Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist and playwright

Q

*Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher *Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar *Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), Indian poet, writer and politician *Aref Qazvini (1882–1934), Iranian poet, lyricist and musician *Qu Yuan (343–278 BCE), Chinese poet *Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poet *Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

R

Ra–Re

*Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist *Branko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poet *Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971) poet from Botswana *Sam Ragan (1915–1996), US poet, journalist and writer *Shamsur Rahman (poet), Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnist *Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet *Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic and scholar *Samina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer and broadcaster *Milan Rakić (1876–1938), Serbian poet *Carl Rakosi (1903–2004), US Objectivist poet *Martin Rakovský (c. 1535–1579), Hungarian poet and scholar *Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translator *Maraea Rakuraku (living), New Zealand Māori poet, playwright and short story writer *Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English writer, poet and explorer *Tenali Rama (16th c., CE), Telugu poet *Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu (16th c., CE), Telugu poet *Ramarajabhushanudu (mid 16th c. CE), Telugu poet and musician *Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh guru and Punjabi poet *Simón Darío Ramírez (1930–1992), Venezuelan poet *Allan Ramsay (poet), Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright and publisher *Dudley Randall (1914–2000), African-US poet and publisher *Thomas Randolph (poet), Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatist *John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), US poet, essayist and editor *Addepalli Ramamohana Rao (1936–2016), Telugu poet and literary critic *Ágnes Rapai (born 1952), Hungarian poet, writer and translator *Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet writing in Urdu *Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), US poet and critic *Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet and translator *Tom Raworth (1938–2017), British poet and visual artist *Herbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet and arts critic *Peter Reading (1946–2011), English poet *Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet *James Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright and professor *Malliya Rechana (mid-10th c. CE), Telugu poet *Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poet *Beatrice Redpath (1886-1937), Canadian poet and short story writer *Henry Reed (poet), Henry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator and radio dramatist *Ishmael Reed (born 1938), US poet, playwright and novelist *Ennis Rees (1925–2009), US poet, professor and translator *James Reeves (writer), James Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer and writer on song *Abraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author and children's author *Christopher Reid (writer), Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist and cartoonist *James Reiss (1941–2016), US poet *Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569), Polish poet and prose writer *Robert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet and amateur naturalist *Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960), French poet of Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism *Jacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586–1658), Dutch poet, theologian and church historian *Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), US poet, translator and critical essayist *Sydor Rey (1908–1979), Polish poet and novelist *Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), US Objectivism (philosophy), Objectivist poet *Raees Warsi (born 1963), Pakistani poet, writer and lyricist writing in Urdu

Ri–Ry

*Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (1925–2009), Ecuadorian poet *Anne Rice (1941–2021), US fiction writer *Stan Rice (1943–2002), US poet and artist; husband of Anne Rice *Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), US poet, essayist and feminist *John Richardson (poet), John Richardson (1817–1886), English Lake District poet *Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic and journalist *Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born US anarchist poet and editor *Laura Riding (1901–1981), US poet, critic and novelist *Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editor *James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), US writer and poet *John Riley (poet), John Riley (1937–1978), English poet of British Poetry Revival *Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet *Gopal Prasad Rimal (1918–1973), Nepali poet and playwright *Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet of Decadent movement *Alberto Ríos (born 1952), US poet and professor *Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar in Urdu and Persian *Emma Roberts (author), Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet *Michael Roberts (writer), Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editor *Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), US poet *Mary Robinson (poet), Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist *Peter Robinson (poet), Peter Robinson (born 1953), English poet *Roland Robinson (poet), Roland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writer *Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898), Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist *W R Rodgers (1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist and Presbyterian minister *José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971), Panamanian poet and artist *Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), US poet *Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poet *Rognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saint *Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), US poet *Géza Röhrig (born 1967), Hungarian poet and actor *Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980), Slovak writer *David Romtvedt (living), US poet *Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet *Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poet *Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009), US poet, artist and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group *Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), US poet, writer and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group *Michael Rosen (born 1946) UK children's poet and former children's poet laureate *Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet *Barbara Rosiek (1959–2020), Polish poet, writer and psychologist *Alan Ross (1922–2001), English poet, cricket writer and editor *Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet *Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), English poet, illustrator and painter *Andrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet *Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist and playwright *Nicholas Rowe (writer), Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715 *Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), English poet and pamphleteer *Susanna Roxman (1946–2015), English poet born in Sweden *Istvan Rozanich (1912–1984), Hungarian poet exiled in Venezuela *Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and writer *Ljubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poet *Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator and academic *Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), US poet and political activist *Zygmunt Rumel (1915–1943), Polish poet and partisan *Rumi, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist and Sufi mystic *Paul-Eerik Rummo (1942 in poetry, 1942), Estonian poet *Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet in Swedish *Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), US poet and comedian *Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwright *Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (1935–2022), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist *Ryōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

Sa–Se

*Umberto Saba (1883–1957), Italian poet and novelist *Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), Mexican poet *Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature *Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638–1706), English poet and courtier *Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), English statesman, poet and dramatist *Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English author, poet and gardener *Saadi Shirazi, Saʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet *Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), US poet, novelist and children's writer *Ali Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist and translator *Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c. 1491–1558), French Renaissance poet *Akim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist seen as first Nanai language writer *Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-US poet associated with Black Arts Movement *Michal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet *Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), US poet, writer and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes *Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples *Ann Sansom, English poet and writing tutor *Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924), Bosnian Serb poet *Taneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet *Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer *Sappho (c. 630–612 – c. 570 BCE), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos *Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English *Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet in Latin *William Saroyan (1908–1981), US author of Armenian descent *Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poet *Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, fiction writer and literary critic *Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), US poet and artist *William Saunders (poet), William Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet in Welsh *Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet *Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), US poet, writer and playwright *Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet *Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), US poet, architect and fiction writer *Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet in French *Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher and playwright *Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator *Dennis Schmitz (1937–2019), US poet *Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910-1992), Surinamese poet and community leader, wrote in Sranan Tongo and English *Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatist *Philip Schultz (born 1945), US poet *James Schuyler (1923–1991), US poet *Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), US poet and fiction writer *Alexander Scott (16th-century poet), Alexander Scott (c. 1520–1582/1583), Scottish poet *Alexander Scott (20th-century poet), Alexander Scott (1920–1989), Scottish poet and playwright *Frederick George Scott (1861–1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. Scott *F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, academic and constitutional expert *Tom Scott (poet), Tom Scott (1918–1995), Scottish poet *Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet *Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), US soul musician and jazz poet *George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician *Peter Seaton (1942–2010), US Language poet *Władysław Sebyła (1902–1940), Polish poet *Johannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poet *Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639–1701), English poet, wit and dramatist *George Seferis (pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs) (1900–1971), Greek poet and Nobel laureate *Hugh Seidman (born 1940), US poet *Rebecca Seiferle (living), US poet *Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature *Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist and journalist *Semonides of Amorgos (c. 7th c. BCE), Greek iambic and elegiac poet *Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist *Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poet *Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet *Anne Sexton (1928–1974), US poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry *John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, fiction and children's writer

Sh–Sj

*Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–1692 *Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565–1612), sultan of Golkonda and poet in Persian, Telugu and Urdu *Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author *Parveen Shakir (1952–1994) Pakistani poet, teacher and a civil servant of the government of Pakistan *William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwright *Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), US rapper, actor and black activist *Otep Shamaya (born 1979), US singer-songwriter, actress and poet *Ahmad Shamlou (1925 - 2000), Iranian poet *Paata Shamugia (born 1983), Georgian poet *Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), US playwright and poet *Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer *Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), US poet; US Poet Laureate, 1946–1947 *Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), US poet *Luci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poet *Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet *William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet *Bhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poet *Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artist *Mustafa Sheykhoghlu (1340/1341 – ~1410), Turkish poet and translator *Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet and literary critic *Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet *James Shirley (1596–1666), English dramatist *Avraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor *Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet, courtier and soldier *Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-US poet, critic and philosopher *Robert Siegel (author), Robert Siegel (1939–2012), US poet and novelist *August Silberstein (1827–1900), Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in German *Jon Silkin (1930–1997), English poet *Ron Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetry *Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writer *Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist *Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-US poet; US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008 *Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea (island), Kea *Louis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poet *Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), US poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000 *Burns Singer (1928–1964), US poet raised in Scotland *Marilyn Singer (born 1948), US children's writer and poet *Ervin Šinko (1898–1967), Croatian-Hungarian poet and prose writer *Lemn Sissay (born 1967), English author and broadcaster *Charles Hubert Sisson (1914–2003), English poet and translator *Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic; eldest of three literary Sitwells *Sjón (born 1962), Icelandic author and poet

Sk–Sp

*Egill Skallagrímsson (c. 910 – c. 990), Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, protagonist of Egil's Saga *John Skelton (poet), John Skelton (1460–1529), English poet *Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-US poet *Ed Skoog (born 1971), US poet *Jan Stanisław Skorupski (born 1938), Polish poet, essayist and esperantist *Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet *Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist and folklorist *Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet and journalist *Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovene bishop, author and culture advocate *Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976), Polish poet, playwright and artist *Michaël Slory (1935–2018), Surinamese poet in Sranan Tongo, also in English, Dutch and Spanish *Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet *Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet *Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet and playwright *Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer *Bruce Smith (poet), Bruce Smith (born 1946), US poet *Charlotte Smith (writer), Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist *Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), US poet, sculptor and author *Margaret Smith (poet), Margaret Smith (born 1958), US poet, musician and artist *Patti Smith (born 1946), US singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist *Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist *Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scottish poet in Braid Scots *Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), US poet *William Jay Smith (1918–2015), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–1970 *Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author *William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), US poet *Gary Snyder (born 1930), US poet, essayist and environmentalist *Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet in Swedish *Iio Sōgi, Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet *David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist and travel writer *Marie-Ange Somdah (born 1959), Burkinabe poet and writer *William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet *Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian *Charles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poet *Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-US author and poet *William Soutar (1898–1943), Scottish poet in English and Braid Scots *Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poet *Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Romantic poet and UK Poet Laureate, 1813–1843 *Robert Southwell (jesuit), Robert Southwell (1561–1595), English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionary *Wole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature *Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), English poet, translator and editor *Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist. and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965–66 *Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet

St–Sz

*Edward Stachura (1937–1979), poet, prose writer and translator *Leopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poet *William Stafford (poet), William Stafford (1914–1993), US poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–1971 *A. E. Stallings (born 1968), US poet and translator *Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), English academic, poet and literary critic *Harold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet and novelist *Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poet *Ann Stanford (1916–1987), US poet *Anna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poet *George Starbuck (1931–1996), US neo-Formalist poet *Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960), Polish poet and novelist *Statius (c. 45–96, CE), Roman poet *Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand novelist, poet and critic *Stesichorus (c. 640–555 BCE), Greek lyric poet *Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovenes physicist, mathematician and poet in Austria *Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poet *Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), US modernist in prose and poetry *Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of fantastic fiction *Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), US poet and advocate *George Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomat *Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish poet and art critic *Gerald Stern (1925–2022), US poet *Marinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poet *C. J. Stevens (1927–2021), US writer of poetry, fiction and biography *Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), US modernist poet *Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer *Margo Taft Stever, US poet *Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), US classical scholar and poet *James Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and folklorist *Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet *Dejan Stojanović (writer), Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-US poet, writer and philosopher *Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), US poet and philanthropist *Ruth Stone (1915–2011), US poet, author and teacher *Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), US poet and editor *Edward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet linked with Imagism *Theodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poet *Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin US Modernist poet *Mark Strand (1934–2014), Canadian-born US poet, essayist and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–1991 *Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet and novelist *Joseph Stroud (born 1943), US poet *Jesse Stuart (1907–1984), US writer of fiction and poetry *Jacquie Sturm (born Te Kare Papuni) (1927–2009), New Zealand poet, fiction writer and librarian Wisława Szymborska 2009

*Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty writer, poet and artist *Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 CE), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi Dynasty *John Suckling (poet), Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of card game cribbage *Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), Islamic poet and Ottoman ruler *Robert Sullivan (poet), Robert Sullivan (born 1967) New Zealand Māori poet, academic and editor *Jovan Sundečić (1825–1900), Serbian poet *Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), Turkish poet and writer *Abhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright and critic *Pingali Surana (16th c.),

poet *Robert Sward (1933–2022), US and Canadian poet and novelist *Cole Swensen (born 1955), US poet, translator and copywriter *Karen Swenson (born 1936), US poet *May Swenson (1913–1989), US poet and playwright *Marcin Świetlicki (born 1961), Polish poet, prose writer and musician *Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and pamphleteer *Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright and novelist *Anna Świrszczyńska (also Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poet *Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet *Arthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and editor *John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet and folklore collector *Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), Polish poet and translator in Russian Empire *Lőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), Hungarian poet and literary translator *Fruzina Szalay (1864–1926), Hungarian poet and translator *Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581), poet in Polish and Latin *Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese US poet *Bertalan Szemere (1812–1869), Hungarian poet and politician *Gyula Szentessy (1870–1905), Hungarian poet *George Szirtes (born 1948), Hungary-born British poet and translator *Janusz Szpotański (1929–2001), Polish poet, satirist and translator *Włodzimierz Szymanowicz (1946–1967), Polish poet and painter *Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator; 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature *Szymon Szymonowic (1558–1629), Polish poet

T

Ta–Te

*Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature *Judit Dukai Takách (Malvina, 1795–1836), Hungarian poet *Bogi Takács (born 1983), Hungarian poet and fiction writer in US *Taliesin (fl. 6th c.), British poet of post-Roman period *Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915–1983), Tamil poet, editor and critic *Maxim Tank (1912–1996), Belarus poet *Tao Yuanming, Tao Qian (365–427), Chinese poet *Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic *Alain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter and critic *Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet *Allen Tate (1899–1979), US poet, essayist and commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–1944 *James Tate (writer), James Tate (1943–2015), US poet *Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet *Tracey Tawhiao (born 1967), New Zealand Maori poet and artist *Apirana Taylor (born 1955), New Zealand poet, novelist and story-teller *Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician and pastor *Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writer *Henry Taylor (dramatist), Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatist *Henry S. Taylor (born 1942), US poet *Jane Taylor (poet), Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist *Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), US lyric poet *Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet *Telesilla (fl. 510 BCE), Greek poet *Raipiyel Tennakoon (1899–1965), Sri Lankan poet *William Tennant (poet), William Tennant (1784–1848), Scottish scholar and poet. *Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850–1892 *Vahan Terian (1885–1920), Armenian poet, lyricist and public activist *Elaine Terranova (born 1939), US poet *Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-US poet; author of oldest known work by African American *A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), English poet *Neyzen Tevfik (1879–1953), Turkish poet, satirist and performer

Th–To

*Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), Hungarian poet and politician *Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), US writer and poet *John Thelwall (1764–1834), English poet and essayist *Theocritus (fl. 3rd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet *Antony Theodore (born 1954), German pastor poet and educator *Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet *Nandi Thimmana (15th – 16th cc.),

poet *Thiruvalluvar (around 31 BCE), Tamil poet and philosopher *Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer in English *Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas (1878–1917), Welsh poet and essayist in English *Lorenzo Thomas (poet), Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), US poet and critic *R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet in English and Anglican priest *John Thompson (Canadian poet), John Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poet *John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), US poet, journalist, editor and publisher *Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and ascetic *James Thomson (poet), James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright *James Thomson (B.V.), James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poet *Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), US author, poet and philosopher *Georg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymn writer *Maria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymn writer *Joseph Thurston (poet), Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), English poet *Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), English poet and writer *Tibullus (c. 54–19 BCE), Latin poet and elegy writer *Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), English conspirator and poet *Thomas Tickell (1685–1740), English poet and man of letters *Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, translator, editor and critic *Tikkana (1205–1288),

poet, translator of Mahabharata *Gary Tillery (born 1947), US writer, poet and artist *Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poet *Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poet *Nick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet and broadcaster *Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), US Modernist poet, educator and columnist *Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), English poet and translator *Jean Toomer (1894–1967), US poet and novelist *Mihály Tompa (1819–1868), Hungarian poet and pastor *Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), Peruvian poet *Kálmán Tóth (poet), Kálmán Tóth (1831–1881), Hungarian poet *Krisztina Tóth (writer), Krisztina Tóth (born 1967), Hungarian poet and translator *Sándor Tóth (1939–2019), Hungarian poet and journalist *Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), English poetic dramatist *Ann Townsend (born 1962) US poet and essayist

Tr–Tz

*Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), English poet, clergyman and religious writer *Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian Expressionist poet *Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), US poet *Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian writer and poet *William S. Tribell (born 1977), American poet *Duško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writer *Calvin Trillin (born 1935), US humorist, poet and novelist *Geeta Tripathee (born 1972), Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist and scholar *Suryakant Tripathi (1896–1961), Indian poet in Hindi and Bengali *Quincy Troupe (born 1939), US poet, editor and professor *Tõnu Trubetsky (Tony Blackplait) (born 1963), Estonian glam punk musician and poet *Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian/Soviet poet *Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer *Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893), English poet and religious writer *Tulsidas (1497/1532–1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher *Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian writer and public activist *Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet, critic and publisher *George Turberville (c. 1540 – c. 1597), English poet *Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson *Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet and mental health worker *Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), English poet and farmer *Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008), New Zealand Māori poet *Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent *Jan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priest *Chase Twichell (born 1950), US poet, professor and publisher *Pontus de Tyard (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priest *Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poet *Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artist

U

*Kornel Ujejski (1823–1897) Polish poet and political writer *Erzsi Újvári (1899–1940), Hungarian poet *Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), US beat poet *Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885–1945),

poet *Jeff Unaegbu (born 1979), Nigerian writer, actor and documentary film maker *Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish essayist, novelist and poet *Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), Italian poet, critic and academic *Unorthodox Australian Poet (born 1965), Australian poet *Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), US poet, anthologist and critic; US Poet Laureate 1961–1962 *John Updike (1932–2009), US novelist, poet and critic *Allen Upward (1863–1926), Irish-English Imagist poet and teacher *Amy Uyematsu (born 1947), Japanese-US poet

V

*János Vajda (poet), János Vajda (1827–1897), Hungarian poet and journalist *Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French Symbolist author and poet *Alfonso Vallejo (1943–2021), Spanish artist, playwright and poet *César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet, writer and playwright *Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French-Swiss poet and writer *Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature *Cor van den Heuvel, Cor Van den Heuvel (born 1931), US haiku poet, editor and archivist *Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–1993 *Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer and fashion designer *Nikola Vaptsarov (1909–1942), Bulgarian poet *Varand (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer and professor of literature *Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987), Indian poet writing in Hindi *Dimitris Varos (1949–2017), modern Greek poet, journalist and photographer *Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet *Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556), English poet *Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), African-American poet, painter and sculptor *Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – after 1570), Portuguese poet and courtier *Vazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili) (1861–1915), Georgia (country), Georgian poet and writer *Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003), US poet and educator *Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright *Attila Végh (poet), Attila Végh (born 1962), Hungarian poet and philosopher *Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458), Italian poet in Latin *Vemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu poet *Gavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. 1680–1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet and illuminator *Helen Vendler (born 1933), US poetry critic and professor *Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), Catalan language, Catalan poet in Spain *Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet associated with Symbolist movement *Paul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poet *Veturi (1936–2010), Telugu poet and songwriter *Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937), French symbolist poet *Peter Viereck (1916–2006), US poet, professor and political thinker *Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Canadian Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter *Judit Vihar (born 1944), Hungarian poet and literary historian *Jose Garcia Villa (1908–1997), Philippines poet, literary critic and painter *Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), Mexican poet and playwright *François Villon (c. 1431–1464), French poet, thief and barroom brawler *Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70–19 BCE), ancient Roman poet *Roemer Visscher (1547–1620), Dutch writer and poet *Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805), Hungarian poet *Mihailo Vitković (1778–1829), Hungarian poet in Serbian and lawyer *Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230), celebrated Middle High German lyric poet *Vincent Voiture (1597–1648), French poet *Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer *Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch playwright and poet *Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010), Soviet Russian poet *Stanko Vraz (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian language poet *Vyasa, considered author of ''Mahabharata'' and some Vedas

W

Wa–Wh

*Wace (c. 1110 – post-1174), Norman poet *Sidney Wade (born 1951), US poet and professor *John Wain (1925–1994), English poet, novelist and critic *Diane Wakoski (born 1937), US poet linked with deep image, confessional and Beat generation poets *Derek Walcott (1930–2017), Saint Lucia poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature *Anne Waldman (born 1945), US poet *Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-US poet, translator and publisher *Arthur Waley (1889–1966), English orientalist and Sinologist, poet and translator *Alice Walker (born 1944), US author, poet and activist *Margaret Walker (1915–1998), African-US writer *Edmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politician *Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer *Robert Walser (writer), Robert Walser (1878–1956), German-speaking Swiss writer *Wan Shenzi (1856–1923), Chinese couplet writer *Connie Wanek (born 1952), US poet *Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), Wang Wei (王維, 701–761), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician and painter *Wang Wei (17th-century poet), Wang Wei (王微, 1597–1647), Chinese priestess and poet *Emily Warn, US poet *Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poet *Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), US poet, novelist and critic *Lewis Warsh (1944–1920), US poet, writer and visual artist *Thomas Warton (1728–1790), English literary historian, critic and poet *Albert Wass (1908–1998), Hungarian poet and novelist exiled in US *Aleksander Wat (1900–1967), Polish poet and memoirist *Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Welsh poet, translator and painter *Thomas Watson (poet), Thomas Watson (1555–1592), English lyric poet in English and Latin *Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972), Australian poet *George Watsky (born 1986), US poet and rapper *Barrett Watten (born 1948), US poet, editor and educator linked with Language poets *Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English hymnist and logician *Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), English critic and poet *Tom Wayman (born 1945), Canadian poet, author and educator *Adam Ważyk (1905–1982), Polish poet and essayist *Francis Webb (poet), Francis Webb (1925–1973), Australian poet *John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634), English dramatist *Rebecca Wee, US poet and professor *Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), US Language poet *Sándor Weöres (1913–1989), Hungarian poet and translator *Wei Yingwu (737–792), Chinese poet *Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), Chinese poet *Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), US poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate *Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English Methodist leader and hymnist *Gilbert West (1703–1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologist *Philip Whalen (1923–2002), US poet, Zen Buddhist and figure in San Francisco Renaissance *Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet *Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Norwegian-Danish poet *Mary Whateley (1738–1825), English poet and playwright *Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-US poet *Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932), US songwriter, performer and poet *E. B. White, E.B. White (1899–1985), US essayist, author and humorist *Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), English poet *James L. White (poet), James L. White (1936–1981), US poet, editor and teacher *Walt Whitman (1819–1892), US poet, essayist and humanist *Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), English poet *Reed Whittemore (1919–2012), US poet, biographer and critic *John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), US poet

Wi–Wy

*Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884–1947), English poet raised in Australia *Les Wicks (born 1955), Australian poet, publisher and editor *Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator *John Wieners (1934–2002), US lyric poet *Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), Polish poet and journalist *Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–1988 *Jane Wilde (1826–1896), Irish poet and nationalist *Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, playwright and poet *John Wilkinson (poet), John Wilkinson (born 1953), English poet *William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126), earliest troubadour poet whose work survives *Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), Anglo-Scottish poet, writer and missionary *Emmett Williams (1925–2007), US poet and visual artist *Jonathan Williams (poet), Jonathan Williams (1929–2008), US poet, publisher and essayist *Heathcote Williams (1941–2017), English poet, political activist and dramatist *Miller Williams (1930–2015), US poet, translator and editor *Oscar Williams (poet), Oscar Williams (1900–1964), Jewish Ukrainian-US anthologist and poet *Saul Williams (born 1972), African-US singer, poet, writer and actor *Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), African-US poet, novelist and social critic *Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh poet in Welsh *William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician linked with modernism and imagism *William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist *Clive Wilmer (born 1945), English poet *John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English poet, courtier and satirist *Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), US poet and editor *Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901-1946) US-born Canadian poet, writer, editor *Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, 1945–2022), US political and cultural writer, essayist and poet *Christian Wiman (born 1966), US poet and editor *David Wingate (poet), David Wingate (1828–1892), Scottish poet *Yvor Winters (1900–1968), US poet and literary critic *George Wither (1588–1667), English poet, pamphleteer and satirist *Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy, 1885–1939), Polish poet, writer and philosopher *Stefan Witwicki (1801–1847), Polish poet *Woeser (born 1966), Tibetan activist, poet and essayist *Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971), Polish poet *Grażyna Wojcieszko (born 1957), Polish poet and essayist *Christa Wolf (1929–2011), German literary critic, novelist and poet *Charles Wolfe (poet), Charles Wolfe (1791–1823), Irish poet *Hans Wollschläger (1935–2007), German writer, translator and historian *Sholeh Wolpe (born 1962), Iranian-US poet, literary translator and playwright *Maryla Wolska (Iwo Płomieńczyk, 1873–1930), Polish poet *George Woodcock (1912–1995), Canadian poet and writer of biography and history *Gregory Woods (born 1953), English poet who grew up in Ghana *Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth *William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet *Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), English poet *Carolyn D. Wright (1949–2016), US poet *Charles Wright (poet), Charles Wright (born 1935), US poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry *David Wright (poet), David Wright (1920–1994), South African-born poet and author *Franz Wright (1953–2015), US poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry *James Wright (poet), James Wright (1927–1980), US poet, father of Franz Wright *Jay Wright (poet), Jay Wright (born 1935), African-US poet, playwright and essayist *Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet and environmentalist *Lady Mary Wroth (1587 – c. 1651), English poet *Thomas Wyatt (poet), Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English ambassador and lyric poet *Józef Wybicki (1747–1822), Polish poet and national-anthem writer *Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), US poet and novelist *Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), Welsh poet in Welsh *Edward Alexander Wyon (1842−1872), English architect and poet *Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), Polish poet, playwright and painter

X

*Xenokleides (4th c. BCE), Athenian poet *Xin Qiji (1140–1207), Chinese poet *Cali Xuseen Xirsi (also Yam Yam) (1946–2005), Somali poet active in 1960s *Xu Zhimo (1897–1931), Chinese poet *Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947–2018), Uzbek poet

Y

*Jūkichi Yagi (1898–1927), Japanese religious poet *Leo Yankevich (born 1961), US poet and editor *Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poet *Raushan Yazdani (1918–1967), Bengali poet and researcher *W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature *Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), Russian lyrical poet *Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet Russian poet, dramatist and film director *Lin Yining (1655 – c. 1730), Chinese poet, painter and composer *Akiko Yosano (1878–1942), Japanese poet, feminist and pacifist *Nima Yooshij (1895–1960), Iranian poet *Andrew Young (poet, born 1885), Andrew Young (1885–1971), Scottish poet and clergyman *Edward Young (1681–1765), English poet *Ian Young (writer), Ian Young (born 1945), English/Canadian poet *Kevin Young (poet), Kevin Young (born 1970), US poet and teacher *Marguerite Young (1908–1995), US author of poetry, fiction and non-fiction *Simpson Charles Younger (1850–1943), baseball player, soldier during the American Civil War, Civil Rights campaigner, and poet *A. W. Yrjänä (Aki Ville Yrjänä; born 1967), Finnish poet, musician and songwriter *Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Chinese poet, scholar and gastronome

Z

*Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828), Polish poet *Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021), Polish poet, novelist and essayist *Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886), Polish poet *Wacław Michał Zaleski (1799–1849), Polish poet, critic and politician *Andrea Zanzotto (1921–2011), Italian poet *Matthew Zapruder (born 1967), US poet, translator and professor *Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), US lyric poet *Kazimiera Zawistowska (1870–1902), Polish poet and translator *Abd al-Wahhab Abu Zayd (living), Saudi poet and translator *Piotr Zbylitowski (1569–1649), Polish poet and courtier *Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (born 1979), Polish poet and journalist *Emil Zegadłowicz (1888–1941), Polish poet, playwright and translator *Ludwig Zeller (1927–2019) Chilean poet *Robert Zend (1929–1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and artist *Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), English writer, Dub poetry, dub poet and Rastafarian *Hristofor Zhefarovich (c. 1690–1753), Serbian painter, writer and poet *Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930), German-US poet in Pennsylvania Dutch *Narcyza Żmichowska (Gabryella, 1819–1876), Polish poet and novelist *Radovan Zogović (1907–1986), Serbian/Montenegrin poet *Miklós Zrínyi (1620–1664), Hungarian poet and statesman *Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609), pre-Islamic Arabian poet *Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), US objectivist poets *Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915), Polish poet, novelist and philosopher *Juliusz Żuławski (1910–1999), Polish poet, critic and translator *Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Swish poet, hymnist and Reformation leader *Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975), Polish poet, playwright and novelist in Russia and Canada

References

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