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Alphabetical list

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ab-Ak

• Dannie Abse (born 1923), English poet
• Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
• Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet
• Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and New Zealand native who has spent most of her life in England
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
• Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
• Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Lucius Afranius (poet) (fl. circa 94 BC), Roman comic poet
• Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
• James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, film critic
• Dritëro Agolli (born 1931), Albanian poet
• Ai (born 1947), American poet whose original name was Florence Anthony
• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
• Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
• Bella Akhmadulina (born 1957), Russian poet
• Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet

Al-Am

• Luigi Alamanni, (1495–1556)
• Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, (1207-1273)
• Alcman (fl. 7th cent. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
• Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
• Claribel Alegria (born 1924), Central American poet
• Vicente Aleixandre, (1898–1984), Nobel Laureate 1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901)
• Muhammad Ali, (born 1942), boxer, war protester, civil rights protester, and poet
• Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321), Italian poet
• James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
• William Allingham, (1824 or 1828-1889)
• Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
• Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
• Al Alvarez (born 1919), English poet
• Amara Sinha (fl. circa AD 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Ambroise, Norman-French poet of the Third Crusade
• Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) English author and poet
• A. R. Ammons(1926–2001) American author and poet

An-Ap

• Anacreon (570 BC-488 BC), Greek lyric poet
• Alfred Andersch, (1914-1980)
• Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet (1805–1875)
• Jon Anderson, (born 1944), English rock music vocalist and lyricist
• Mário de Andrade, (1893-1945), Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer
• Aneirin, medieval (6th century) epic poet
• Antler (poet), (1946-)
• Brother Antoninus
• Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949)
• Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918)
• Apollonius of Rhodes (270-after 245 BC)

Ar-Au

• Louis Aragon, (1897-1982)
• Archilochus, (ca.680-ca.645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
• Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843-1925)
• Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954), American Dada-ist
• Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet)
• Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533)
• Rae Armantrout, (1947-)
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt
• Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831)
• Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859)
• Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)
• Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
• Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist
• John Ashbery, (born 1927)
• Anton Askerc, (1856-1912)
• Farid al-Din Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230)
• Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist
• W. H. Auden, (1907-1973)
• Ausiàs March, (1397-1459)
• Ausonius, (c. 310-395)

Av-Ay

• Margaret Avison (born 1918)
• Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
• Ashok Chakradhar (Born 8th February 1951)

B

Ba

Bab-Bal

• Ken Babstock, Canadian
• Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC)
• Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973)
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• Janos Bacsanyi, (1763-1845)
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (1921-1944)
• Julio Baghy
• Bai Juyi
• Joanna Baillie, (1762-1851)
• Bâkî, (1526–1600), Ottoman poet
• Jesse Ball American poet

Bar-Bax

• Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob
• John Barbour, (c. 1316-1395)
• George Barker, (1913-1991)
• Les Barker
• Richard Barnefield, (1574-1627)
• William Barnes, (1801-1886)
• Elizabeth Barrett(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)
• Charles Baudelaire, (1821-1867)
• James K. Baxter, (1926-1972)

Be

• Francis Beaumont, (1586-1616)
• Joshua Beckman
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, (1836-1870)
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803-1849) (English writer in Germany)
• Aphra Behn, (1640-1689)
• Marvin Bell, (1937-?)
• Gioconda Belli, (born 1948)
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, (Roman dialect)
• Xuan Bello, (born 1965), best-known asturian language poet
• Hilaire Belloc
• Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
• Gottfried Ben
• Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898-1943)
• William Rose Benét, (1886-1950)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Jim Bennett (1951) A Liverpool (UK) poet best known for his work during the era of punk.
• Ilhan Berk
• Daniel Berrigan
• Wendell Berry
• John Berryman
• John Betjeman, (1906-1984)
• Helen Bevington (Dr. Johnson's Waterfall)

Bi-Bl

• Laurence Binyon, (1879-1943)
• Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
• Nevin Birsa, (born 1947)
• Elizabeth Bishop, (1911-1979)
• Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
• Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
• Don Blanding, (fl. mid 20th cen.), American,
• William Blake, (1757-1827), English painter, poet
• Aleksandr Blok, (1880-1921)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• David Blue, Poet and singer-songwriter
• Michael Blumenthal
• Roy Blumenthal, (born 1968)
• Edmund Blunden
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
• Robert Bly

Bo

• Jean Bodel
• Louise Bogan
• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)
• Eavan Boland, (born 1944)
• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)
• Tadeusz Borowski
• Mark Alexander Boyd, (1563-1601)
• Kay Boyle (A Glad Day)

Br

Bra-Bri

• 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)
• André Breton, (1896-1966)
• Nicholas Breton, (1542-1626)
• Ken Brewer, (born 1941)
• Robert Bridges, (1844-1930)

Bro-Bry

• James Brock, (born 1958)
• Joseph Brodsky, (1940-1996)
• Wladyslaw Broniewski
• William Bronk, (died 1999)
• Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
• 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
• Thomas Edward Brown, (1830-1897)
• George Mackay Brown
• William Browne, (1588-1643)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861)
• Robert Browning, (1812-1889)
• William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878)
• Bryher
• Valeri Bryusov, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic

Bu-By

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

C

Ca

Cab-Cap

• Lydia Cabrera (Cuban poet - anthropoetry)
• Caedmon (old English)
• Cali Xuseen Xirsi
• Musa Cälil (1906-1944), Tatar poet, prisoner of the war
• Barry Callaghan, (born 1937)
• Callimachus (c.305-c.240 BC), Hellenistic poet
• Robert Calvert, (1945-1988)
• Luís 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)

Car-Cav

• Ernesto Cardenal, (born 1925)
• Giosuè Carducci, (1835-1907)
• Thomas Carew, (1595-1639)
• Henry Carey, (1693-1743)
• Bliss Carman, (1861-1929) (Low Tide on Grand Pre)
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)
• Hayden Carruth
• Anne Carson, (born 1950)
• Jared Carter (born 1939)
• William Cartwright, (1611-1643)
• Cyrus Cassells, (born 1957)
• Catullus, (c. 84BC-54BC), Roman poet
• Charles Causley
• C. P. Cavafy, (1863-1933)

Ce-Ci

• Paul Celan, (1920-1970)
• Anica Cernej, (1900-1944)
• Luis Cernuda, (1903-1963)
• John Chalkhill
• 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)
• Billy Childish
• Dario Chioli, Italian poet, born 1956
• Choe Chiwon, Korean (Silla) poet, born 857
• Henri Chopin, (born 1922)
• Chrétien de Troyes, (fl. 12th century)
• Ralph Chubb, (1892-1960), poet, painter, printer
• John Ciardi, Italian-American poet

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)

Co

Coc-Cor

• Jean Cocteau, (1889-1963), French writer
• Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer
• Hartley Coleridge, (1796-1849)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861-1907)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), English poet
• Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate)
• William Collins, (1721-1759)
• William Congreve, (1670-1729), English poet
• Robert Conquest, historian and poet
• Henry Constable, (1562-1613)
• Clark Coolidge
• Wendy Cope
• Tristan Corbière, (1845-1875)
• Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford
• Gregory Corso, Beat poet, "Gasoline", "Bomb".
• Jayne Cortez

Cot-Cow

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

Cr-Cz

• George Crabbe, (1754-1832)
• Hart Crane, (1899-1932), (The Bridge)
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), USA writer
• 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
• Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
• Necati Cumalı
• e e cummings, (1894-1962)
• Allan Cunningham, (1784-1842)
• Allen Curnow, (1911-2001)
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and thinker

D

Da

• Roque Dalton, (1935-1975) Salvadoran poet
• Sapardi Djoko Damono, Indonesian Poet
• David Daniels, (1933- ) Visual Poet
• Jeffrey Daniels, African-American Poet
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, (1863-1938), revolutionary
• Jia Dao
• Rubén Darío, (1867-1916)
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731-1802), British poet and herbalist
• Jibanananda Das,(1899-1954), Bengali poet and author
• René Daumal, (1908-1944)
• Jean Daurat, (1508-1588)
• Alan Davies, American poet
• 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

De

• James Deahl
• Aurora de Albornoz, (1926-1990) 20th century Spanish poet
• Aleš Debeljak, (born 1961)
• Daniel Defoe, (1659/61? - 1731)
• Walter de la Mare, author, poet
• Thomas Dekker, (1575-1641)
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, (1651-1695), 17th Century Mexican Poet
• Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
• François de Malherbe, (1555-1628),
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857), 19th century poet
• Gérard de Nerval, (1808-1855)
• Baltasar del Alcázar, (1530-1606)
• Tory Dent, (1958- ), (What Silence Equals, HIV Mon Amour)
• Regina Derieva, (born 1949)
• Toi Derricotte, (born 1941), African American Poet
• Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
• Aubrey de Vere
• Alfred de Vigny, (1797-1863), 19th century poet

Di-Do

• Diane Di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
• Souéloum Diagho (contemporary Tuareg poet)
• Jennifer K Dick, (b 1970), American Poet
• Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886), American poet
• James Dickey, (1923-1997)
• Blaga Dimitrova
• Paul Dirmeikis, (1954- ), French poet
• Thomas M. Disch, (1940- ), American poet, novelist
• Henry Austin Dobson
• Stephen Dobyns, American author, novelist, poet
• Will Dockery Poet, songwriter
• Antonia Donatiello, (born 1950), Italian writer and poet
• John Donne, (1572-1631)
• Hilda Doolittle, (1886-1961), U.S. Imagist poet
• Gavin Douglas
• Keith Douglas, (1920-1944)
• Rita Dove
• Ernest Dowson, (1867-1900)

Dr

• Jane Draycott
• Michael Drayton, (1563-1631)
• 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

Du-Dy

• Joachim du Bellay, (c. 1522-1560)
• W.E.B. DuBois, (1868-1963), writer, activist
• Du Fu, the Poet Saint
• Du Mu, (803-852), Chinese poet
• Alan Dugan
• Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
• 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

E

Ea-Er

• Richard Eberhart
• Russell Edson
• Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788-1857)
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
• T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), writer
• Ebenezer Elliott, (1781-1849)
• Royston Ellis, English poet inspired by Beat Generation
• Ana Elsner, multi-lingual American poet
• Paul Eluard, French poet
• Claudia Emerson, (born 1957) American poet
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American author
• Gevorg Emin, (1918-1998), Armenian poet
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
• William Empson, (1906-1984)
• Yunus Emre
• 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
• Haydar Ergülen
• Max Ernst, (1891-1976), (Dada)
• Mehmet Erte

Es-Ew

• Maggie Estep, American slam poet
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, (died 1220)
• Clayton Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing)
• Florbela Espanca, (poet)
• Salvador Espriu, writer
• Euripides (480-406 BC), Athenian tragedian
• Mari Evans
• William Everson (In The Fictive Wish)
• Gavin Ewart

F

• Faruk Iremet (1965-), Swedish, Zazaish and Turkish poet

Fe-Fo

• Fenggan
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925)
• Annie Finch, American poet, librettist, translator, born 1956
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809-1883)
• Robert Fitzgerald (1910 - 1985)
• 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.
• John M. Ford, (1957-2006), novelist and poet.
• Ugo Foscolo, (1778-1827)
• Hristo Fotev, (1934-2002), Bulgarian poet
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan

Fr-Fu

• Janet Frame, (born 1924)
• Robert Francis, (1901-1987)
• Veronica Franco, (1546-1591)
• Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania—October 20, 1900
• Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
• Erich Fried, (1921-1988)
• Max Frisch, (1911-1991), Swiss poet
• Robert Frost, (1874-1963), American poet
• Gene Frumkin, (1928-2007), American poet
• Alice Fulton, (born 1952), Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
• Fazil Jamili, (born 1968), Urdu Poet, Journalist from Pakistan
• Fuzûlî, (1483?–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

G

Ga-Gl

• Asadulla Khan Ghalib, (1796-1869) Urdu & Persian Poet
• Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808-1876)
• Jean Garrigue (1914 - 1972)
• Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719)
• George Gascoigne, (1525-1577)
• David Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
• Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872)
• John Gay, (1685-1732), songwriter, poet
• Stefan George, (1868-1933)
• Paul Gerhardt, (c. 1606-1676)
• Aaref Ghazvini, (1882- 1934)
• Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946)
• Khalil Gibran, (The Prophet) (1883-1931)
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson (October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962)
• Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997)
• Dana Gioia (essays on poetry)
• Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
• Giuseppe Giusti, (1809-1850)
• Denis Glover, (1912-1980)
• Louise Glück, (1943 - ) Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Go

• Gérald Godin, (1938-1994), Quebec poet and politician
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
• Octavian Goga (1881-1938) Romanian poet
• Lea Goldberg, (1911-1970)
• Rumer Godden (In Noahs Ark)
• Ziya Gökalp
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
• Pavel Golia (1887-1959)
• Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet
• Lorna Goodison (born 1947) Jamaican poet
• Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-1967)
• Herman Gorter (1864-1927), Dutch poet

Gr

Gra-Gri

• 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, (1558-1592)
• Horace Gregory
• Eamon Grennan
• Fulk Greville, (1554-1628)
• Bill Griffiths, (born 1948)
• Franz Grillparzer
• Nicholas Grimald, (1519-1562)
• Angelina Weld Grimke
• Charlotte Forten Grimke

Gro-Gy

• Stanisław Grochowiak
• Philip Gross
• Igo Gruden, (1893-1948)
• Edgar Guest, (American poet of the 1920s)
• Jorge Guillen, (1893-1984)
• Nicolas Guillén, (1902-1989), (Cuban poet)
• Guido Guinizelli
• Guiot de Provins, (French poet of the 12th century)
• Gül Baba
• Nikolay Gumilyov, (1886-1921)
• Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola, (1589-1638)
• Thom Gunn, (born 1929)
• Ivor Gurney, (1890-1937)
• Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1950- )
• Brion Gysin, (1916-1986)

H

Ha

• Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame 'Hadrawi'
• Hafez
• Han Yu
• Han-Shan
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), English poet
• Tony Harrison, (born 1937)
• Carla Harryman, (born 1952)
• Gwen Harwood
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Ahmet Haşim
• Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862-1946)
• Stephen Hawes, (died 1523)
• Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803-1875), Cornish poet/vicar
• Robert Hayden

He

• Seamus Heaney, (born 1939), Saoi of Aosdána
• John Heath-Stubbs
• Anne Hébert, poet and novelist
• Anthony Hecht, (1923-2004)
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• John Hegley, also performs as half of the "Popticians"
• Heinrich Heine, (1797-1856)
• Felicia Hemans, (1793-1835)
• 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
• Hesiod, ancient Greek 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)

Hi-Hr

• William Heyen, poet, literary critic, novelist
• Dick Higgins, (1938-1998), Fluxus poet, and publisher
• Scott Hightower, (born 1952)
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932)
• Nazım Hikmet
• Ellen Hinsey, poet
• H.L. Hix, American poet
• Rolf Hochhuth, (born 1931), playwright
• 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 (July 21, 1907 - July 13, 2000)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889)
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus
• George Moses Horton
• Joan Houlihan
• A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517-1547)
• Richard Howard
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe

Hu

• Mohammad Nurul Huda, a modern poet from Bangladesh
• 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
• Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)

I

• Avetik Isahakyan, (1875-1957), an Armenian lyric poet

J

Ja-Ju

• Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
• Clive James
• Randall Jarrell
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• Simon Jenko, (1835-1869)
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Jia Dao
• John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish mystic and poet
• Edmund John
• 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
• Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
• Anthony Joseph
• 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 (late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE) Roman satirist

K

Ka-Kh

• Kábir,
• Uuno Kailas (1901-1933), Finnish
• Kálmán Kalocsay, (1891-1976)
• Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
• Orhan Veli Kanik
• Andreas Karavis, (born 1932)
• Erich Kästner, (1899-1974), poet, novelist
• Bob Kaufman (coined "Beatnik")
• Patrick Kavanagh, (1904-1967)
• John Keats, (1795-1821)
• Weldon Kees
• Arthur Kelton, (d. 1549/1550)
• X. J. Kennedy
• Jack Kerouac, (1922-1969), US writer
• Frederick Kesner (born 1967) Australian poet
• Keorapetse Kgositsile
• Khushal Khan Khattak
• Omar Khayyám, (1048-1122)
• Velemir Khlebnikov, (1885-1922)
• Vladislav Khodasevich, (1886-1939)

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
• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
• Eila Kivikk'aho (1921-2004)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, (1724-1803)
• Etheridge Knight

Ko

Kob-Ky

• Jan Kochanowski (1530-84)
• Kenneth Koch (NY Poet school)
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize recipient, (Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, etc.)
• Faik Konica
• Ted Kooser
• Koroglu
• Srecko Kosovel (1904-1926)
• Taja Kramberger (born 1970)
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
• Ruth Krauss
• Miroslav Krleža (1589-1638), poet, novelist