237 poets listed alphabetically - American Poems


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237 poets listed alphabetically - American Poems
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Alphabetical listing of poets featured on American Poems
Photo Poet Lived Deborah Ager (1971 - ) Ai (1947 - ) Conrad Aiken (1889 - 1973) Catherine Anderson (1954 - ) Jon Anderson (0 - ) Maggie Anderson (1948 - ) Ralph Angel (1951 - ) Maya Angelou (1928 - ) Christianne Balk (0 - ) Erin Belieu (1965 - ) Marvin Bell (1937 - ) David Berman (1967 - ) April Bernard (1956 - ) D.C. Berry (1942 - ) Wendell Berry (1934 - ) John Berryman (1914 - 1972) Frank Bidart (1939 - ) Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970) Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973) Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672) Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984) William Bronk (1918 - 1999) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000) Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) Ellis Parker Butler (1869 - 1937) Nick Carbo (1964 - ) Ioanna Carlsen (0 - ) Jim Carroll (1950 - ) Hayden Carruth (1921 - ) Raymond Carver (1938 - 1988) Karen Chase (0 - ) Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994) Lucille Clifton (1936 - ) Billy Collins (1941 - ) Martha Collins (1940 - ) Geraldine Connolly (1947 - ) Gregory Corso (1930 - 2001) Hart Crane (1899 - 1932) Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962) H. D. (1886 - 1961) Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) Annie Dillard (1945 - ) Stephen Dobyns (1941 - ) Mark Doty (1953 - ) Ben Doyle (1973 - ) Norman Dubie (1945 - ) Laurie Duesing (0 - ) Alan Dugan (1923 - 2003) Denise Duhamel (1961 - ) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) Stephen Dunn (1939 - ) Cornelius Eady (1954 - ) Russell Edson (1935 - ) T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) James A. Emanuel (1921 - ) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Maggie Estep (1962 - ) Jenny Factor (0 - ) Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 - ) Edward Field (1924 - ) Nick Flynn (1960 - ) Aaron Fogel (1947 - ) Carolyn Forché (1950 - ) Chris Forhan (0 - ) Robert Francis (1901 - 1987) Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832) Daisy Fried (1967 - ) Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) Heather Fuller (0 - ) Stanley Gemmell (1972 - ) Jack Gilbert (1925 - ) Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) Elton Glaser (0 - ) Louise Gluck (1943 - ) Patricia Goedicke (1931 - ) Jorie Graham (1950 - ) Judy Grahn (1940 - ) Kimiko Hahn (1955 - ) Donald Hall (1928 - ) Forrest Hamer (1956 - ) Mac Hammond (1926 - 1997) Jeffrey Harrison (0 - ) Lola Haskins (0 - ) Brooks Haxton (1950 - ) Anthony Hecht (1923 - 2004) Robert Hedin (0 - ) Robert Hershon (0 - ) Bob Hicok (1960 - ) Mark Hillringhouse (1954 - ) Edward Hirsch (1950 - ) Tony Hoagland (1953 - ) Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) Andrew Hudgins (1951 - ) Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) Richard Hugo (1923 - 1982) David Ignatow (1914 - 1997) Mark Irwin (1953 - ) Rodney Jack (0 - ) Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962) Louis Jenkins (0 - ) Kate Knapp Johnson (0 - ) Richard Jones (1953 - ) Donald Justice (1925 - ) Weldon Kees (1914 - 1955) Susan Kelly-DeWitt (0 - ) Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995) Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) Galway Kinnell (1927 - ) Peter Klappert (0 - ) Etheridge Knight (1931 - 1991) Bill Knott (1940 - 1966) Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002) Ronald Koertge (1940 - ) Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 - ) Ted Kooser (1939 - ) Steve Kowit (1938 - ) Stanley Kunitz (1905 - ) Michael Lally (1942 - ) Li-Young Lee (1957 - ) David Lehman (1948 - ) Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997) Phillis Levin (0 - ) Philip Levine (1928 - ) Larry Levis (1946 - 1996) Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931) Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748 - 1828) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977) Alison Luterman (0 - ) Thomas Lux (1946 - ) Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982) Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) William Matthews (1942 - 1997) Frances Mayes (1940 - ) Heather McHugh (1948 - ) Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) W.S. Merwin (1927 - ) Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) Jean Monahan (0 - ) John Montague (1929 - ) Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) Eileen Myles (0 - ) Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) Howard Nemerov (1920 - 1991) Daniel Nester (0 - ) Edward Nobles (0 - ) Kate Northrop (0 - ) Naomi Shihab Nye (1952 - ) Sharon Olds (1942 - ) Frank O'Hara (1926 - 1966) Ron Padgett (1942 - ) Grace Paley (1922 - ) Philip Paradis (0 - ) Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) Elise Paschen (0 - ) Linda Pastan (1932 - ) Kenneth Patchen (1911 - 1972) G.E. Patterson (0 - ) Robert Phillips (0 - ) Marge Piercy (1936 - ) Robert Pinsky (1940 - ) Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963) Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) Katha Pollitt (1949 - ) Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980) Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) Jack Prelutsky (1940 - ) Christina Pugh (0 - ) Ron Rash (0 - ) David Ray (0 - ) Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935) James Reiss (0 - ) Adrienne Rich (1929 - ) Laura Riding Jackson (1901 - 1991) James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916) Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935) Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) James Schuyler (1923 - 1991) Delmore Schwartz (1913 - 1966) Ruth L. Schwartz (1962 - ) Alan Seeger (1886 - 1916) Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974) Karl Shapiro (1913 - 2000) Reginald Shepherd (0 - ) Evie Shockley (0 - ) Shoshauna Shy (0 - ) Shel Silverstein (1932 - 1999) Charles Simic (1938 - ) Carol Snow (0 - ) Gary Snyder (1930 - ) Gary Soto (1952 - ) Jack Spicer (1925 - 1965) William Stafford (1914 - 1993) Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) Gerald Stern (1925 - ) Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955) Joyce Sutphen (1949 - ) Mark Svenvold (0 - ) May Swenson (1913 - 1989) Arthur Sze (1950 - ) James Tate (1943 - ) Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729) Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967) Eric Torgersen (0 - ) Natasha Trethewey (1966 - ) Lee Upton (0 - ) Jean Valentine (1934 - ) Luisa Villani (1964 - ) Ellen Bryant Voigt (0 - ) David Wagoner (1926 - ) Diane Wakoski (1937 - ) Alice Walker (1944 - ) Connie Wanek (1952 - ) Charles Webb (1939 - ) Lew Welch (1926 - 1971) Joe Wenderoth (0 - ) Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784) John Wheelwright (1897 - 1940) Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) Richard Wilbur (1921 - ) Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919) Nancy Willard (1936 - ) John Williams (1922 - 1994) William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) Eleanor Wilner (1937 - ) Terence Winch (0 - ) Joseph Mayo Wristen (1951 - )

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