A. R. Ammons (Poet)
Adrienne Rich (Poet, 1929)
Alice Cary (Poet, 1820—1871)
Alice Duer Miller (Poet, 1874—1942)
Allen Ginsberg (Poet, 1926—1997)
Allen Tate (Poet, 1899—1979)
Amiri Baraka (Poet, 1934)
Amy Clampitt (Poet, 1920—1994)
Amy Lowell (Poet, 1874—1925)
Anne Bradstreet (Poet)
Anne Sexton (Poet, 1928—1974)
Anne Stevenson (Poet)
Anthony Hecht (Poet, 1923—2004)
Archibald MacLeish (Poet, 1892—1982)
Archibald McLeish (Poet, 1892—1982)
Arna Bontemps (Poet, 1902—1973)
Arthur Chapman (Poet)
Audre Lorde (Poet, 1934)
B. R. Hayden (Poet)
Bernard Barton (Poet, 1784—1849)
Bryant H. McGill (Poet, 1969)
Carl Sandberg (Poet, 1878—1967)
Carl Sandburg (Poet, 1878—1967)
Carlos Wilcox (Poet, 1794—1827)
Charles Olson (Poet, 1910—1970)
Charles Reznikoff (Poet, 1894—1976)
Charles Simic (Poet, 1938)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Poet, 1945)
Countee Cullen (Poet, 1903—1946)
David Antin (Poet, 1932)
David Lehman (Poet)
Delmore Schwartz (Poet, 1913—1966)
Diane Ackerman (Poet, 1948)
Diane Wakoski (Poet)
Don Marquis (Poet, 1878—1937)
Donald Justice (Poet, 1925—2004)
e. e. cummings (Poet, 1894—1962)
Edgar Allan Poe (Poet, 1809—1849)
Edgar Guest (Poet, 1881—1959)
Edgar Lee Masters (Poet, 1868—1950)
Edward Rowland Sill (Poet, 1841—1887)
Edwin Markham (Poet, 1852—1940)
Elinor Wylie (Poet, 1885—1928)
Elizabeth Bishop (Poet, 1911—1979)
Emily Dickinson (Poet, 1830—1886)
Emma Lazarus (Poet, 1849—1887)
Eugene Field (Poet, 1850—1895)
Ezra Pound (Poet, 1885—1972)
Frank O'Hara (Poet, 1926—1966)
Galway Kinnell (Poet, 1927)

Gary Snyder (Poet, 1930)
George Oppen (Poet, 1908—1984)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (Poet, 1880—1966)
Gregory Corso (Poet, 1930—2001)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Poet, 1917—2000)
Hart Crane (Poet, 1899—1932)
Henry Timrod (Poet, 1829—1867)
Henry Van Dyke (Poet)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet, 1807—1882)
Horace Gregory (Poet, 1898—1982)
Howard Metzenbaum (Poet, 1917—2008)
Howard Nemerov (Poet, 1920—1991)
Ishmael Reed (Poet, 1938)
Jack Prelutsky (Poet, 1940)
James Gates Percival (Poet)
James Laughlin (Poet, 1914—1997)
James Merrill (Poet, 1926—1995)
James Russell Lowell (Poet, 1819—1891)
James Schuyler (Poet, 1923—1991)
James Weldon Johnson (Poet, 1871—1938)
James Whitcomb Riley (Poet, 1849—1916)
Joel Barlow (Poet, 1754—1812)
John Ashbery (Poet, 1927)
John Beecher (Poet)
John Berryman (Poet, 1914—1972)
John Erskine (Poet, 1879—1951)
John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet, 1807—1892)
John Hall Wheelock (Poet, 1886—1978)
John Jay Chapman (Poet, 1862)
Jones Very (Poet)
Joseph Auslander (Poet, 1897—1965)
Joseph Brodsky (Poet, 1940—1996)
Joyce Kilmer (Poet, 1886—1918)
Jupiter Hammon (Poet)
Karl Shapiro (Poet, 1913—2000)
Kenneth Koch (Poet, 1925—2002)
Kenneth Rexroth (Poet, 1905—1982)
Langston Hughes (Poet, 1902—1967)
Laura Riding (Poet, 1901—1991)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Poet, 1919)
Louise Bogan (Poet, 1897—1970)
Lucille Clifton (Poet, 1936)
Lucy Larcom (Poet, 1824—1893)
Margaret Walker (Poet, 1915—1998)
Mari Evans (Poet, 1923)
Marianne Moore (Poet, 1887—1972)
Marilyn Hacker (Poet, 1942)
Mark Strand (Poet, 1934)
Mark Van Doren (Poet, 1894—1972)
Mary Oliver (Poet, 1935)