A List of Famous American Women Poets includes Poems and Biographical information of the most Famous American Women Poets. Read and Enjoy Poetry by American Women Poets. See also: Poets by Nationality | Contemporary American Poets | All American Poets American Poets Born: Before 1400 | 1601-1700 | 1701-1800 | 1801-1900 | 1901-1950 | After 1951

A
Maya Angelou (18) (1928 - present)	Ai (1) (1947 - 2010)	Louisa May Alcott (16) (1832 - 1888)
Deborah Ager (10) (1971 - present)	Catherine Anderson (3) (1954 - present)	Maggie Anderson (1) (1948 - present)
Kelli Russell Agodon (6) (1969 - present)	Julie Hill Alger (4) (1927 - 1994)
B
Elizabeth Bishop (64) (1911 - 1979)	Gwendolyn Brooks (13) (1917 - 2000)	Louise Bogan (22) (1897 - 1970)
Erin Belieu (8) (1965 - present)	April Bernard (2) (1956 - present)	Ellis Parker Butler (72) (1869 - 1937)
Laure-Anne Bosselaar (6) (2006 - present)
C
Lucille Clifton (2) (1936 - 2010)	Amy Clampitt (14) (1920 - 1994)	Martha Collins (1) (1940 - present)
Geraldine Connolly (3) (1947 - present)	Andree Chedid (4) (1920 - present)	Willa Cather (6) (1873 - 1947)
Anastasia Clark (2) (1959 - present)
D
Emily Dickinson (1779) (1830 - 1886)	Hilda Doolittle (20) (1886 - 1961)	Rita Dove (2) (1952 - present)
Annie Dillard (1) (1945 - present)	Denise Duhamel (11) (1961 - present)
E
Maggie Estep (8) (1962 - present)
F
Carolyn Forche (7) (1950 - present)	Daisy Fried (1) (1967 - present)	Jessie Redmon Fauset (1) (1882 - 1961)
Annie Finch (4) (1956 - present)
G
Nikki Giovanni (1) (1943 - present)	Louise Gluck (48) (1943 - present)	Judy Grahn (1) (1940 - present)
Patricia Goedicke (1) (1931 - present)	Jorie Graham (13) (1950 - present)	Maria Mazziotti Gillan (4) (1940 - present)
Bernadette Geyer (2) (1968 - present)
H
Marilyn Hacker (12) (1942 - present)	Julia Ward Howe (5) (1819 - 1910)	Dale Harcombe (6) (1947 - present)
Joy Harjo (2) (1951 - present)	Suheir Hammad (5) (1973 - present)
J
Erica Jong (25) (1942 - present)	Helen Hunt Jackson (39) (1831 - 1885)	Laura Riding Jackson (7) (1901 - 1991)
K
Jane Kenyon (14) (1947 - 1995)	Maxine Kumin (4) (1925 - present)	Carolyn Kizer (13) (1925 - present)
L
Amy Lowell (152) (1874 - 1925)	Emma Lazarus (24) (1849 - 1887)	Audre Lorde (8) (1934 - 1992)
Sharmagne Leland-St. John (5) (1953 - present)	Sharon Esther Lampert (19) (0 - present)
M
Marianne Moore (18) (1887 - 1972)	Edna St. Vincent Millay (165) (1892 - 1950)	Frances Mayes (1) (1940 - present)
Heather McHugh (8) (1948 - present)	Alice Duer Miller (1) (1874 - 1942)
N
Naomi Shihab Nye (2) (1952 - present)
O
Mary Oliver (87) (1935 - present)	Sharon Olds (17) (1942 - present)
P
Sylvia Plath (121) (1932 - 1963)	Dorothy Parker (181) (1893 - 1967)	Marge Piercy (23) (1936 - present)
Linda Pastan (17) (1932 - present)	Grace Paley (2) (1922 - present)	Katha Pollitt (1) (1949 - present)
Katherine Anne Porter (1) (1890 - 1980)	Wanda Phipps (8) (1960 - present)	Diane di Prima (1) (1934 - present)
Vanessa Perkins (1) (1968 - present)
R
Lizette Woodworth Reese (6) (1856 - 1935)	Lola Ridge (1) (1873 - 1941)	Susan Rich (3) (2006 - present)
Jennifer Reeser (16) (1968 - present)	Muriel Rukeyser (2) (1913 - 1980)
S
May Swenson (3) (1913 - 1989)	Gertrude Stein (3) (1874 - 1946)	Ruth L. Schwartz (1) (1962 - present)
Anne Sexton (172) (1928 - 1974)	Joyce Sutphen (2) (1949 - present)	Judith Skillman (16) (1954 - present)
Belinda Subraman (8) (1953 - present)
T
Sara Teasdale (49) (1884 - 1933)	Natasha Trethewey (3) (1966 - present)	Marilyn L. Taylor (9) (2006 - present)
V
Jean Valentine (4) (1934 - present)	Luisa Villani (1) (1964 - present)
W
Alice Walker (1) (1944 - present)	Phillis Wheatley (41) (1753 - 1784)	Ella Wheeler Wilcox (164) (1850 - 1919)
Diane Wakoski (1) (1937 - present)	Edith Wharton (2) (1862 - 1937)	Nancy Willard (1) (1936 - present)
Eleanor Wilner (1) (1937 - present)	Margaret Widdemer (4) (1884 - 1978)	Witt Wittmann (2) (1947 - present)
Anne Waldman (1) (1945 - present)	Elinor Wylie (52) (1885 - 1928)	Cecilia Woloch (5) (1956 - present)
Z
Lisa Zaran (12) (1969 - present)

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