List of poets

Miron Bialoszewski
Laurence Binyon, (1869-1943)
Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
John Bishop Peale
Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
Jarvis Black
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
Andrej Blatnik, (born 1963)
Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
Michael Blumenthal
Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
Edmund Blunden
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Robert Bly

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Bo

Jean Bodel
Louise Bogan
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)
Berta Bojetu, (1946-1997)
Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
Arna Wendell Bontemps
Philip Booth
Matej Bor, (1913-1956)
Rado Bordon, (1915-1992)
Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
Tadeusz Borowski
Edgar Bowers
Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

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Bra-Bri

William Braithwaite, (1878-1962)
Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
Richard Brautigan, (1935-1984)
Bertolt Brecht, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch poet and playwright
Christopher Brennan, (1870-1932), Australian
Clemens Brentano, (1778-1842)
Clemens von Brentano, (1778-1842)
Vida Brest, (born 1925)
André Breton, (1896-1966)
Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)
John Malcolm Brinnin

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Bro-Bry

Daniel Louis Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
Wladyslaw Broniewski
William Bronk, (died 1999)
Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), British author
Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915)
Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
Joan Brossa, (1919-1998)
Nicole Brossard, (born 1943), formalist poet
Flora Brovina
Sterling A. Brown
Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
George Mackay Brown
William Browne, (1588-1643)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
Joseph Bruchac, editor & publisher, poet, Native American folklorist
Andrej Brvar, (born 1945)
William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
Bryher
Ernest Bryll
Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic

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Bu-By

Georg Büchner
Vincent Buckley, (1927-1988)
Andrej Budal, (1889-1972)
Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994)
Basil Bunting
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993): Byrne, Revolutionary Sonnets, etc.
Ronnie Burk, (1955-2003)
Michael Burkard
Stanley Burnshaw
Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997)
Edwin G. Burrows
Andrzej Bursa
Ray Buttigieg, (born 1955) poet, composer, musician
Ignazio Buttitta, (Sicilian dialect)
Witter Bynner (also under Emanuel Morgan)
Lord Byron, (1788-1824)

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Ca

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Cab-Cap

Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
Dilys Cadwaladr
Caedmon (old English)
Andon Zako Çajupi
Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
Luis de Camões, (author of the Lusíadas)
Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
Jan Campert,(1902-1943), Dutch poet and journalist
Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan, Dutch poet and novelist
Thomas Campion, (1567-1619), composer, poet
Thomas Campbell, (1774-1844)
Melville Henry Cane, (1879-1980)
Ivan Cankar, (1876-1918), author, poet, storyteller, dramatist and essayist
Mary Wedderburn Cannan, (1893-1973)
Edip Cansever
Cao Cao, (155 AD-220 AD)
Cao Pi
Cao Zhi, (192-232)
Andrej Capuder, (born 1942)

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Car-Cav

Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
Will Carleton
Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942)
Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
Hayden Carruth
Anne Carson, (born 1950)
William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
Gaius Valerius Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
Charles Causley
C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)

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Ce-Ci

Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
John Chalkhill
Carrie Chan, (1988-present)
Jean Chapelain, (1595-1674)
Arthur Chapman, (1873-1935)
George Chapman, (1560-1634)
René Char, (1907-1998)
Craig Charles, (born 1964), (Red Dwarf, Captain Butler)
Thomas Chatterton
Geoffrey Chaucer, (ca.1343-1400), Chanticleer the Fox (extract from Canterbury Tales)
Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
John Ciardi, Italian-American poet
Franc Cimperman, (1852-1873)
Josip Cimperman, (1847-1893)

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Cl

Amy Clampitt
John Clare, (1793-1864)
George Elliott Clarke, poet, U of T professor
Paul Claudel, (1868-1955)
Matthias Claudius
Michelle Cliff
Lucille Clifton,
Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819-1861)

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Co

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Coc-Cor

Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
Stan Cohen
Wanda Coleman
Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
William Collins (poet), (1721-1759)
William Congreve (playwright), (1670-1729), English poet
Evan S. Jr. Connell
Leo Connellan (Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country trilogy)
Robert Conquest, historian and poet
Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
Clark Coolidge
Wendy Cope
Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
James D. Corrothers
Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
Jayne Cortez

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Cou-Cow

Jeni Couzyn
Malcolm Cowley, (1898-1989), (Dada)
Abraham Cowley, (1618-1667)
William Cowper, (1731-1800)

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Cr-Cz

George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
Christopher Pearce Cranch, (19th c. American)
Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
Douglas Crase
Richard Crashaw, (1613-1649)
Robert Creeley, (born 1926), (A Form of Women - Black Mountain School)
Octave Crémazie
Charles Cros, (1842-1888), French poet and inventor
Aleister Crowley, (1875-1947), English Occultist and poet
Cui Hao, Tang Dynasty, Chinese poet
Marij Cuk, (born 1952)
Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
E. E. Cummings, (1894-1962)
Valentin Cundric, (born 1938)
Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
J. V. Cunningham
Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker
Leona Czwartkowski

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D

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Da

Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
Kate Daniels
Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
Jia Dao
Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
René Daumal, (1908-1944)
Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
W. H. Davies
William Davenant, (1606-1668)
Donald Davidson, (1893-1968)
John Davies, (1569-1626), historian
Edward Davison, (organized Colorado Writers 1937 conference)
Peter Davison, (born 1951), (son of Edward)
Denis Davydov, (1784-1839)
Cecil Day-Lewis

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De

James Deahl
Ales Debeljak, (born 1961)
Anton Debeljak, (1887-1952)
Tine Debeljak, (born 1913)
Walter de la Mare, author, poet
DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, poet & editor (Erotique Noire/Black Erotica)
Madeline DeFrees
Marie de France
Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
Milan Dekleva, (born 1946)
Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
Jeronim De Rada
Jure Detela, (1951-1992)
Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
Aubrey de Vere
Feliks Dev, (1732-1786)
William F. DeVault, (1955-), American Author
Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

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Di-Do

Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
James Dickey, (1923-1997)
Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
Henry Austin Dobson
Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
Alenka Jenstrle Dolezal, (born 1959)
John Donne, (1572-1631)
Maura Dooley
Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
Ivan Dornik, (1892-1968)
Gavin Douglas
Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
Rita Dove
Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)

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Dr

Leah B. Drake
Jane Draycott
Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
Ciril Drekonja, (1896-1944)
Aleksander Stavre Drenova, (1872-1947), Albanian poet
John Drinkwater, (1882-1937)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, (1797-1848), German poet
William Drummond, (1585-1649)
William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant
John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet and playwright

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Du-Dy

Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
Joze Dular, (1915-2000)
Du Fu, the Poet Saint
Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
Alan Dugan
Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
Edouard Dujardin (We'll to the Woods No More)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, (1872-1906)
William Dunbar, (1465-1520)
Robert Duncan (Black Mountain School)
Douglas Dunn, (born 1942)
Stephen Dunn
Helen Dunmore, poet, novelist
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, (1878-1957), Irish poet
Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), (A Private Country: Poems)
Stuart Dybek
Bob Dylan, born 1941

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Ea-Er

Charles F. Easton
Richard Eberhart
Russell Edson
Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
Fran Eller, (1873-1956)
Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
Paul Eluard, French poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
William Empson, (1906-1984)
Michael Ende, (1929-1995), German poet
R.M. Engelhardt, (born 1964), American poet
Paul Engle
Ennius
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, (born 1929), German poet
Louise Erdrich, (born 1954), author
Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)

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Es-Ew

Maggie Estep, American slam poet
Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
Florbela Espanca, (poet)
Salvador Espriu, writer
Abbie Huston Evans
Mari Evans
William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
Richard Everswine
Gavin Ewart

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F

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Fe-Fo

Fenggan
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
Thomas Ferril
Afanasiy Fet, (1812-1892)
Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
Robert Fitzgerald
John Fletcher, (1579-1625)
John Gould Fletcher, (1886-1950), Imagist poet
F. S. Flint (Imagist manifestos)
Theodor Fontane, (1819-1898)
John Forbes, (1950-1998), Australian poet
Carolyn Forché, born 1950
Ford Madox Ford, (1873-1939), promoter of many other writers.
John Ford, (1586-1639), playwright and poet.
France Forstneric, (born 1958), mathematician.
Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

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Fr-Fu

Janet Frame, (born 1924)
Robert Francis
Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
Naim Frashëri
Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
Ervin Fritz, (born 1940)
Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
Anton Funtek, (1862-1932)
Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

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G

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Ga-Gl

Jean Garrigue
Samuel Garth
George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
David Gascoyne
Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
Albert Gazeley,(1937), poet and writer
Stefan George, (1868-1933)
Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
Lapo Gianni
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Richard Gilder
Gary Gildner (Letters from Vicksburg)
Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997), US eccentrical writer
Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
Janko Glazer, (1893-1975)
Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
Louise Glück Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Goran Gluvi&, (born 1957)

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Go

Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
Cvetko Golar, (1879-1965)
Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (see also Goody)
Pavel Golia, (1887-1959)
Eugen Gomringer
Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
Justin Gonsales(1995) smarter than tyres lindsay who goes to agua fria high school
Ray Gonzalez, (After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the 90s)
Lorna Goodison
Vojko Gorjan, (1949-1975)
Sergei Gorodetsky
Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet

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Gr

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Gra-Gri

Alojz Gradnik, (1882-1968)
Niko Grafenauer, (born 1940)
Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
Richard Graves, (1715-1804), British poet and essayist
Robert Graves, (1895-1985), British author
Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), British poet
Robert Greene, (1560-1592)
Simon Gregorcic, (1844-1906)
Pankracij Gregorec, (1867-1920)
Barbara Gregoric, (born 1964)
Horace Gregory
Eamon Grennan
Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
Franz Grillparzer
Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
Uri Tsvi Grinberg
Angelina Weld Grimke
Charlotte Forten Grimke

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Gu-Gy

Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
Louise Imogen Guiney
Guido Guinizelli
Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
Ramon Guthrie
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

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H

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Ha

Rachel Hadas
Hafez
Judith Hall
Suheir Hammad, Palestinan-American poet and political activist
Dennis M. Hammes {born 1945}
Walter Hampson,1864-1932 Yorkshire dialect author and poet
Han Yu
Han-Shan
Hanson, Brant (born 1993)
Matjaz Hanzek, (born 1949)
Jerzy Harasymowicz
Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
Frances E. W. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
Michael S. Harper
Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
Milka Hartman, (born 1902)
Gwen Harwood
Matthea Harvey
Alamgir Hashmi
Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
Fany Hausmann, (1818-1862)
Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
Robert Hayden

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He

Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
John Heath-Stubbs
Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
Essex Hemphill
William Ernest Henley, (1849-1903)
Adrian Henri
George Herbert, (1593-1633), public orator and poet
Zbigniew Herbert
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder, (1744-1803)
Miguel Hernandez, (1910-1942)
Antoine Héroet, (died 1568)
Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), English poet
Phoebe Hesketh, (1909-2005), English poet
Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf
Dorothy Hewett, novelist, poet
Thomas Heywood, (157?-1650)

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Hi-Hr

William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
Rita Ann Higgins, poet, member of Aosdána
Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
Ellen Hinsey, poet
Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
Branko Hofman, (born 1929)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, (1874-1929)
James Hogg, (1770-1835)
Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770-1843)
John Hollander, born 1929
Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894), USA scholar
Homer, epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Hugh Hood, Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
Thomas Hood, (1798-1845)
A. D. Hope
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
George Moses Horton
Jurij Houdlin, (born 1973)
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
Dale M. Houstman
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe
Ivan Hribovsek, (1923-1945)

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Hu

Langston Hughes, (1902-1967)
Ted Hughes, (1930-1998)
Richard Hugo
Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and playwright
Vicente Huidobro, (1893-1948)
Lynda Hull, (1954-1994)
Alexander Hume, (1560-1609)
James Henry Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), English poet
Constantijn Huyghens

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I

Jean Ingelow

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J

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Ja-Je

Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
Clive James
Gustav Janus, (born 1939)
Miran Jarc, (1900-1942)
Urban Jarnik, (1784-1844)
Randall Jarrell
Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
Elizabeth Jennings
Vida Jeraj, (1875-1932)
Luka Jeran, (1818-1896)
Marjetka Jersek
Milan Jesih, (born 1950)

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Ji-Ju

Jia Dao
Edmund John
Fenton Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Helene Johnson
James Weldon Johnson, (1871-1938), author, poet, folklorist, and civil rights leader
Lionel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)
David Jones, (1895-1974), artist and poet
Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
James T. Jones (Map of Mexico City: Kerouac as Poet)
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904)
James Joyce, (1882-1941)
Frank Judge, (born 1946), editor & publisher, poet, translator and film critic
Jamal Jumá, (born 1956)
Donald Justice, (1925-2004), poet and artist
Juvenal

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K

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Ka-Kh

Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
Ali Ibrahim Kalyanaraman, (1977-Present)
Ivana Kampus, (born 1945)
Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
Miha Kastelic, (1796-1868)
Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
John Keats, (1795-1821)
Weldon Kees
Harry Kemp
X. J. Kennedy
Jozef Kenda, (1859-1929)
Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
Dragotin Kette, (1876-1899)
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Khushal Khan Khattak
Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)
Nguyen Khuyen (Vietnamese)

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Ki-Kn

Joyce Kilmer, (1886-1918)
Amy King
Henry King, (1592-1669)
William King, (1663-1712)
Gottfried Kinkel, (1815-1882)
Galway Kinnell (born 1927, Body Bags)
John Kinsella (born 1963)
Thomas Kinsella
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), Just So Stories
Milan Klec, (born 1954)
Marjan Klinar, (1922-1983)
Mile Klopcic, (1905-1984)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
Nikolai Klyuev
Majda Kne, (born 1954)
Etheridge Knight

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Ko

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Kob-Kor

Fran Kobal, (1881-1937)
Josip Kobal, (1870-1888)
Andrej Kocbek
Edvard Kocbek, (1904-1981)
Matjaz Kocbek, (born 1946)
Jan Kochanowski, (born 1530)
Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
Anton Koder, (1851-1918)
Andrej Kokot, (born 1936)
Miklavz Komelj, (born 1970)
Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948), poet, Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
Faik Konica
Ted Kooser
Sonja Koranter, (born 1948)
Barbara Korun

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Kos-Koz

Jovan Koseski, (1798-1884)
France Kosmac, (1922-1974), poet, film director, publicist.
Srecko Kosovel, (1904-1926)
Miroslav Kosuta, (born 1936)
Vladimir Kos, (born 1924)
Jure Kovic
Kajetan Kovic, (born 1931)
Barbara Kozak

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Kr-Ky

Lojze Krakar, (1929-1995)
Taja Kramberger, (born 1970)
Ruth Krauss
Marko Kravos, (born 1943)
Miroslav Krleža, (1589-1638), poet, novelist, etc
Ernest Kroll
Krystowczyk Monika, poet and painter
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz
Kyurai Shinichiro, (1707-1785), "new haiku" poet

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L

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La

Aquiles La Grave
Jarkko Laine Finnish poet
Philip Lamantia
Alphonse de Lamartine
Charles Lamb, (1775-1834)
Steven Curtis Lance, romantic poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Walter Savage Landor, (1775-1864), (English writer in Italy)
Joseph Langland
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985)
Newoka LaShelle author of Ode Poet Valley
James Laughlin
Comte de Lautréamont, (1846-1870)
Lawes
D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Henry Lawson, prose and poetry
Layamon
Irving Layton, (born 1912), sex machine poet!

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Le

Edward Lear, (1812-1888), A Book of Nonsense
Jan Lechon
Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
Dennis Lee, writer of children's poetry
William Ellery Leonard
Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), Italian poet
Eleanor Lerman
Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, novelist
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, (1814-1841), poet, author and painter
Boleslaw Lesmian
Rika Lesser
Gotthold Lessing, playwright, poet
Anton Levec
Peter Levec, (born 1923)
Denise Levertov (Black Mountain triumvirate)
Jernej Levicnik, (1808-1883)
Philip Levine
Larry Levis
Zlatka Levstek, (born 1944)
D. A. Levy, (1942-1968), artist, poet, and publisher
William Levy
Saunders Lewis, (1893-1985)
Wyndham Lewis, (1884-1957)

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Li

Li Hou Zhu, (931-978)
Tyrese Lindsay freshmen in high school, class of '09, and goes to agua fria
José Lezama Lima (Cuban)
Tim Liardet
Ewa Lipska
Florjan Lipus, (born 1937)
Li Po, (701-762), the Poet Immortal
Li Qiao
Li Qingzhao
Li Shangyin
Li Yu
Joseph C. Lincoln
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, (1906-2001)
Vachel Lindsay, (1879-1931)
James Little, (born 1942), physician in North Carolina
Alan Llwyd
Thomas Lodge, (1556-1625)
Andrus Lomp Estonian poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807-1882), American
Federico García Lorca
Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa-Warrior)
Richard Lovelace, (1618-1658)
Robert Lowell
Amy Lowell, (1874-1925)
Mina Loy (Dada)
Lu You
Gherasim Luca
Lucilius
Mihael Lotric, (born 1937)
Joza Lovrencic, (1890-1952)
Maria White Lowell, (1821-1853), American
Lucan
Lucretius, (98?-55 BC), physicist
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
Frank L. Ludwig (born 1964 in Hamburg), Irish
Luo Binwang
Mario Luzi
John Lydgate, (1370-1450)
John Lyly, (1553-1606)
George Lyttelton, (1709-1773)

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M

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Mac-Mak

Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978)
Cynthia MacDonald
George MacDonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scots Gaelic poet
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian writer, poet
Arthur Machen, (1863-1947), Irish poet
Compton Mackenzie
Nathaniel Mackey
Archibald MacLeish, (1892-1982)
Louis MacNeice, (1907-1963)
Haki R. Madhubuti
Aarne Mäe Estonian poet
France Magajna, (born 1957)
John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), (aviation poet, combat pilot officer)
Patrick Magee, (1986-Present), poet, writer, musician
Derek Mahon (Northern Irish poet)
Rudolf Maister, (1874-1934), general and poet.
Clarence Major
Svetlana Makarovic, (born 1939)
Peter Makuck

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Mal-Mar

Stephane Mallarme, (1842-1898)
David Mallet
Sir Thomas Malory
Miroslav Malovrh, (1861-1922)
Goffredo Mameli, (1827-1849), Italian patriot, poet and writer
Osip Mandelstam, (1891-1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet
James Clarence Mangan
Bill Manhire, (born 1946)
Manilius
Heinrich Mann, (1871-1950)
Klaus Mann, (1906-1949)
Thomas Mann, (1875-1955), author
Robert Mannyng of Brunne, (1269-1340)
Alessandro Manzoni, (1785-1873), poet, novelist
Joan Maragall, (1860-1911), writer
Ausias March, (1397-1459), poet of the 15th century
Giambattista Marini, (1569-1625)
Edwin Markham
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), English playwright
Clément Marot, (1496-1544)
Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
Andrew Marvell, (1621-1678)

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Mas-Maz

John Masefield, (1878-1967)
Edgar Lee Masters, (1869-1950)
Basho Matsuo, (1644-1694), haiku poet
Neza Maurer, (born 1930)
Blaz Mavrel
Glyn Maxwell, (born 1962)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, (1893-1930)
Karl May, (1842-1912), German poet
Gail Mazur

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Mc

James McAuley
Linda McCarriston
J. D. McClatchy
Michael McClure (Dark Brown - beat)
John McCrae, (1872-1918), In Flanders' Fields
Colleen McElroy
Bryant H. McGill
Phyllis McGinley
William Topaz McGonagall, (died 1902)
Roger McGough, (born 1937), comedian, poet
Campbell McGrath
Thomas McGrath (Movie at the End of the World)
Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, aka Duncan Ban McIntyre
James McIntyre, (1827-1906), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
Claude McKay
Don McKay
Irene McKinney
Rod McKuen
Sandra McPherson

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Me

Meisetsu, (1847-1926 - haiku poet)
Meng Houran
Norman MacCaig
Anton Medved, (1869-1910)
Mei Yaochen
Vladimir Memon
Janez Menart, (born 1929)
Meng Haoran
George Meredith, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
Ace Mermolja, (born 1951)
Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
James Merrill, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
Thomas Merton, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
W.S. Merwin, (The Miner's Pale Children)
Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
Charlotte Mew, (1869-1928)

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Mi-Ml

Henri Michaux, poet and painter
Adam Mickiewicz, (1798-1855), outstanding Polish poet and writer
Agnes Miegel, (1879-1964)
Josephine Miles
Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
Spike Milligan, (1918-2002), (The Goon Show)
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004)
Alice Duer Miller
Grazyna Miller, poet and translator Italian -Polish,
John Milton, (1608-1674), English poet
Ivan Minatti, (born 1924)
Gaston Miron, Quebec poet
Thor Misen, US Poet
Gabriela Mistral, (1889-1957), Winner of the nobel prize for literature.
Adrian Mitchell
S. Weir Mitchell, American novelist, poet
Ndre Mjeda
Iztok Mlakar

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Mo

Stefan Modrinjak, (1774-1827)
Matti Moguči Estonian poet
Harold Monro
Harriet Monroe (Poetry magazine)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715), creator of the Bank of England
Eugenio Montale (Nobel Laureate)
Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
Merrill Moore (& R. Lowell's mother's psychiatrist)
Dom Moraes
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon, poetess
Thomas Moore, (1779-1852)
Frederick Morgan
John Morgan, (1688-1733)
Christian Morgenstern, (1871-1914)
William Morris, (1834-1896), (Norse sagas & old French matter)
Jim Morrison {poet, songwriter}
Stephen Morse (1945 - )(American Small Press Poet and Publisher)
Howard Moss
Andrew Motion, (poet laureate 1999-)
Enrique Moya, (poet, fiction writer, essayist, born 1958)
Brane Mozetic, (born 1958)