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Total Poets: 231

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A

Maya Angelou (18)
(1928 - present)

Margaret Atwood (28)
(1939 - present)

Yehuda Amichai (38)
(1924 - 2000)

Ai (1)
(1947 - 2010)

John Ashbery (9)
(1927 - present)

A. R. Ammons (26)
(1926 - 2001)

Maggie Anderson (1)
(1948 - present)

Kingsley Amis (1)
(1922 - 1995)

Julie Hill Alger (4)
(1927 - 1994)

B

Elizabeth Bishop (64)
(1911 - 1979)

Charles Bukowski (120)
(1920 - 1994)

Gwendolyn Brooks (13)
(1917 - 2000)

John Berryman (150)
(1914 - 1972)

Richard Brautigan (53)
(1935 - 1984)

Eavan Boland (9)
(1944 - present)

Wendell Berry (23)
(1934 - present)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)

Joseph Brodsky (19)
(1940 - 1996)

Marvin Bell (7)
(1937 - present)

D. C. Berry (8)
(1942 - present)

Frank Bidart (12)
(1939 - present)

Arna Bontemps (7)
(1902 - 1973)

William Bronk (3)
(1918 - 1999)

Ingeborg Bachmann (15)
(1926 - 1973)

John Betjeman (48)
(1906 - 1984)

Thomas Blackburn (3)
(1916 - 1977)

Yves Bonnefoy (11)
(1923 - present)

Edgar Bowers (5)
(1924 - 2000)

Edwin Brock (1)
(1927 - 1997)

Alain Bosquet (2)
(1919 - 1998)

Robert Bly (3)
(1926 - present)

Graham Burchell (5)
(1950 - present)

C

Billy Collins (42)
(1941 - present)

Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - 2010)

Countee Cullen (15)
(1903 - 1946)

Robert Creeley (26)
(1926 - present)

Leonard Cohen (15)
(1934 - present)

Gregory Corso (6)
(1930 - 2001)

Raymond Carver (16)
(1938 - 1988)

Amy Clampitt (14)
(1920 - 1994)

Jim Carroll (1)
(1950 - present)

Hayden Carruth (2)
(1921 - present)

Martha Collins (1)
(1940 - present)

Geraldine Connolly (3)
(1947 - present)

Paul Celan (10)
(1920 - 1970)

Andree Chedid (4)
(1920 - present)

Ivan Donn Carswell (181)
(1945 - present)

D

Roald Dahl (5)
(1916 - 1990)

Stephen Dunn (15)
(1939 - present)

Mahmoud Darwish (8)
(1941 - present)

Keith Douglas (5)
(1920 - 1944)

Alan Dugan (6)
(1923 - 2003)

Annie Dillard (1)
(1945 - present)

Stephen Dobyns (1)
(1941 - present)

Norman Dubie (5)
(1945 - present)

Regina Derieva (9)
(1949 - present)

James Dickey (3)
(1923 - 1997)

Edward Dorn (2)
(1929 - 1999)

Robert Duncan (3)
(1919 - 1988)

E

Russell Edson (54)
(1935 - present)

James A. Emanuel (21)
(1921 - present)

Gerald England (6)
(1946 - present)

Ian Emberson (11)
(1936 - present)

F

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (11)
(1919 - present)

Robert Francis (20)
(1901 - 1987)

Edward Field (6)
(1924 - present)

Carolyn Forche (7)
(1950 - present)

G

Allen Ginsberg (40)
(1926 - 1997)

Nikki Giovanni (1)
(1943 - present)

Louise Gluck (48)
(1943 - present)

Jack Gilbert (12)
(1925 - present)

Thom Gunn (3)
(1929 - 2004)

Judy Grahn (1)
(1940 - present)

Eamon Grennan (5)
(1941 - present)

Patricia Goedicke (1)
(1931 - present)

Jorie Graham (13)
(1950 - present)

Rafael Guillen (3)
(1933 - present)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (4)
(1940 - present)

Adrian Green (8)
(1946 - present)

R.George (2)
(1948 - present)

Rg Gregory (142)
(1928 - present)

H

Langston Hughes (29)
(1902 - 1967)

Ted Hughes (28)
(1930 - 1998)

Robert Hayden (12)
(1913 - 1980)

Seamus Heaney (30)
(1939 - present)

Donald Hall (14)
(1928 - present)

Alec Derwent Hope (18)
(1907 - 2000)

Nazim Hikmet (21)
(1901 - 1963)

Tony Harrison (8)
(1937 - present)

Edward Hirsch (3)
(1950 - present)

Anthony Hecht (18)
(1923 - 2004)

Richard Hugo (6)
(1923 - 1982)

Geoffrey Hill (7)
(1932 - present)

Marilyn Hacker (12)
(1942 - present)

Mac Hammond (2)
(1926 - 1997)

Brooks Haxton (9)
(1950 - present)

Peter Huchel (4)
(1903 - 1981)

Dale Harcombe (6)
(1947 - present)

Sophie Hannah (9)
(1917 - present)

I

David Ignatow (2)
(1914 - 1997)

J

Randall Jarrell (24)
(1914 - 1965)

Elizabeth Jennings (10)
(1926 - 2001)

Erica Jong (25)
(1942 - present)

Donald Justice (20)
(1925 - present)

Jenny Joseph (2)
(1932 - present)

Laura Riding Jackson (7)
(1901 - 1991)

K

Ted Kooser (4)
(1939 - present)

Jack Kerouac (3)
(1922 - 1969)

Kenneth Koch (4)
(1925 - 2002)

Stanley Kunitz (21)
(1905 - present)

Jane Kenyon (14)
(1947 - 1995)

Patrick Kavanagh (9)
(1904 - 1967)

Yusef Komunyakaa (3)
(1947 - present)

Galway Kinnell (15)
(1927 - present)

Etheridge Knight (7)
(1931 - 1991)

Weldon Kees (21)
(1914 - 1955)

Steve Kowit (3)
(1938 - present)

Maxine Kumin (4)
(1925 - present)

Bob Kaufman (4)
(1925 - 1986)

Carolyn Kizer (13)
(1925 - present)

L

Robert Lowell (17)
(1917 - 1977)

Philip Larkin (96)
(1922 - 1985)

Denise Levertov (54)
(1923 - 1997)

Philip Levine (94)
(1928 - present)

Thomas Lux (17)
(1946 - present)

Audre Lorde (8)
(1934 - 1992)

Primo Levi (3)
(1919 - 1987)

Larry Levis (3)
(1946 - 1996)

Laurie Lee (6)
(1914 - 1997)

Michael Lally (1)
(1942 - present)

David Lehman (58)
(1948 - present)

M

Roger McGough (14)
(1937 - present)

Spike Milligan (35)
(1918 - 2002)

W. S. Merwin (23)
(1927 - present)

Czeslaw Milosz (33)
(1911 - 2004)

Louis MacNeice (3)
(1907 - 1963)

William Matthews (10)
(1942 - 1997)

Lisel Mueller (21)
(1924 - present)

Les Murray (31)
(1938 - present)

Edwin Morgan (2)
(1920 - present)

Frances Mayes (1)
(1940 - present)

Heather McHugh (8)
(1948 - present)

John Montague (5)
(1929 - present)

James Merrill (1)
(1926 - 1995)

Jonas Mekas (3)
(1922 - present)

Shawn McAllister (1)
(1944 - present)

N

Pablo Neruda (45)
(1904 - 1973)

Ogden Nash (106)
(1902 - 1971)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3)
(1920 - 1993)

Howard Nemerov (26)
(1920 - 1991)

Alden Nowlan (4)
(1933 - 1983)

Anais Nin (2)
(1903 - 1977)

John Frederick Nims (1)
(1913 - 1999)

O

Mary Oliver (87)
(1935 - present)

Sharon Olds (17)
(1942 - present)

Peter Orlovsky (4)
(1933 - present)

P

Sylvia Plath (121)
(1932 - 1963)

Jack Prelutsky (7)
(1940 - present)

Octavio Paz (1)
(1914 - 1998)

Marge Piercy (23)
(1936 - present)

Linda Pastan (17)
(1932 - present)

Robert Pinsky (8)
(1940 - present)

Kenneth Patchen (17)
(1911 - 1972)

Vasko Popa (32)
(1922 - 1991)

Ron Padgett (1)
(1942 - present)

Grace Paley (2)
(1922 - present)

Katha Pollitt (1)
(1949 - present)

P. K. Page (2)
(1916 - present)

Fernando Pessoa (1)
(1935 - present)

Harold Pinter (6)
(1930 - present)

Ruth Padel (8)
(1947 - present)

Diane di Prima (1)
(1934 - present)

Q

Nizar Qabbani (5)
(1923 - 1998)

Salvatore Quasimodo (3)
(1901 - 1968)

R

Adrienne Rich (31)
(1929 - present)

Theodore Roethke (22)
(1908 - 1963)

Kathleen Raine (23)
(1908 - 2003)

Craig Raine (8)
(1944 - present)

Tadeusz Rozewicz (1)
(1921 - present)

Carl Rakosi (1)
(1903 - 2004)

Jerome Rothenberg (6)
(1931 - present)

Muriel Rukeyser (2)
(1913 - 1980)

Russell Hughes Ragsdale (1)
(1944 - present)

S

Shel Silverstein (19)
(1930 - 1999)

May Swenson (3)
(1913 - 1989)

Stevie Smith (31)
(1902 - 1971)

William Stafford (20)
(1914 - 1993)

Karl Shapiro (3)
(1913 - 2000)

Kenneth Slessor (7)
(1901 - 1971)

Mark Strand (16)
(1934 - present)

Charles Simic (32)
(1938 - present)

Wislawa Szymborska (6)
(1923 - present)

Delmore Schwartz (64)
(1913 - 1966)

Gary Snyder (6)
(1930 - present)

Vernon Scannell (16)
(1922 - present)

Douglas Stewart (1)
(1913 - 1985)

James Schuyler (6)
(1923 - 1991)

Anne Sexton (172)
(1928 - 1974)

Jack Spicer (5)
(1925 - 1965)

Gerald Stern (3)
(1925 - present)

Joyce Sutphen (2)
(1949 - present)

Arthur Sze (1)
(1950 - present)

Elizabeth Smart (4)
(1913 - 1986)

Wole Soyinka (3)
(1934 - present)

T

Dylan Thomas (64)
(1914 - 1953)

R. S. Thomas (21)
(1913 - 2000)

James Tate (22)
(1943 - present)

A. S. J. Tessimond (42)
(1902 - 1962)

Barry Tebb (117)
(1942 - present)

Quincy Troupe (3)
(1939 - present)

V

Jean Valentine (4)
(1934 - present)

Andrei Voznesensky (12)
(1933 - present)

Dimitris Varos (1)
(1949 - present)

W

Alice Walker (1)
(1944 - present)

Richard Wilbur (34)
(1921 - present)

Judith Wright (3)
(1915 - 2000)

James Wright (27)
(1927 - 1980)

Derek Walcott (21)
(1930 - present)

Robert Penn Warren (6)
(1905 - 1989)

David Wagoner (3)
(1926 - present)

Diane Wakoski (1)
(1937 - present)

Charles Webb (9)
(1939 - present)

Lew Welch (5)
(1926 - 1971)

Nancy Willard (1)
(1936 - present)

John Williams (3)
(1922 - 1994)

Eleanor Wilner (1)
(1937 - present)

Hugo Williams (8)
(1942 - present)

Witt Wittmann (2)
(1947 - present)

Anne Waldman (1)
(1945 - present)

C. K. Williams (2)
(1936 - present)

Y

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (3)
(1933 - present)

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