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A List of Famous American Poets includes Poems and Biographical information of the most Famous American Poets. Read and Enjoy Poetry by American Poets.

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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)

John Ashbery (9)
(1927 - present)

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

Louisa May Alcott (16)
(1832 - 1888)

Deborah Ager (10)
(1971 - present)

Conrad Aiken (64)
(1889 - 1973)

Catherine Anderson (3)
(1954 - present)

Maggie Anderson (1)
(1948 - present)

Ralph Angel (7)
(1951 - present)

Kelli Russell Agodon (6)
(1969 - present)

Julie Hill Alger (4)
(1927 - 1994)

Tiel Aisha Ansari (3)
(1964 - present)

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)

Stephen Vincent Benet (32)
(1898 - 1943)

Louise Bogan (22)
(1897 - 1970)

Ambrose Bierce (12)
(1842 - 1914)

Wendell Berry (23)
(1934 - present)

William Cullen Bryant (27)
(1794 - 1878)

David Berman (6)
(1967 - present)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)

Gelett Burgess (10)
(1866 - 1951)

Marvin Bell (7)
(1937 - present)

Erin Belieu (8)
(1965 - present)

April Bernard (2)
(1956 - present)

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

Frank Bidart (12)
(1939 - present)

Arna Bontemps (7)
(1902 - 1973)

William Bronk (3)
(1918 - 1999)

Ellis Parker Butler (72)
(1869 - 1937)

Edgar Bowers (5)
(1924 - 2000)

Joel Barlow (1)
(1754 - 1812)

William Rose Benet (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (2)
(1748 - 1816)

Jonathan Bohrn (10)
(1957 - present)

Laure-Anne Bosselaar (6)
(2006 - present)

Robert Bly (3)
(1926 - present)

Michael Burch (34)
(1958 - present)

C

E. E. Cummings (153)
(1894 - 1962)

Billy Collins (42)
(1941 - present)

Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - 2010)

Countee Cullen (15)
(1903 - 1946)

Stephen Crane (95)
(1871 - 1900)

Robert Creeley (26)
(1926 - present)

Gregory Corso (6)
(1930 - 2001)

Hart Crane (13)
(1899 - 1932)

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)

Andree Chedid (4)
(1920 - present)

Peter Conners (3)
(1970 - present)

Willa Cather (6)
(1873 - 1947)

Craig Erick Chaffin (9)
(1954 - present)

Anastasia Clark (2)
(1959 - present)

D

Emily Dickinson (1779)
(1830 - 1886)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (38)
(1872 - 1906)

Hilda Doolittle (20)
(1886 - 1961)

Rita Dove (2)
(1952 - present)

Henry Van Dyke (114)
(1852 - 1933)

Mark Doty (16)
(1953 - present)

Stephen Dunn (15)
(1939 - present)

Alan Dugan (6)
(1923 - 2003)

Mark van Doren (10)
(1894 - 1972)

Annie Dillard (1)
(1945 - present)

Stephen Dobyns (1)
(1941 - present)

Norman Dubie (5)
(1945 - present)

Denise Duhamel (11)
(1961 - present)

Michael Donaghy (1)
(1954 - 2004)

James Dickey (3)
(1923 - 1997)

Edward Dorn (2)
(1929 - 1999)

Robert Duncan (3)
(1919 - 1988)

E

T. S. Eliot (45)
(1888 - 1965)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (65)
(1803 - 1882)

Russell Edson (54)
(1935 - present)

Cornelius Eady (1)
(1954 - present)

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

Maggie Estep (8)
(1962 - present)

F

Robert Frost (180)
(1874 - 1963)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (11)
(1919 - present)

Robert Francis (20)
(1901 - 1987)

Edward Field (6)
(1924 - present)

Nick Flynn (9)
(1960 - present)

Carolyn Forche (7)
(1950 - present)

Philip Freneau (14)
(1752 - 1832)

Daisy Fried (1)
(1967 - present)

Eugene Field (148)
(1850 - 1895)

John Gould Fletcher (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Raymond A. Foss (12138)
(1960 - present)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1)
(1882 - 1961)

Annie Finch (4)
(1956 - present)

Gary R. Ferris (107)
(1965 - present)

G

Allen Ginsberg (40)
(1926 - 1997)

Nikki Giovanni (1)
(1943 - present)

Louise Gluck (48)
(1943 - present)

Jack Gilbert (12)
(1925 - present)

Judy Grahn (1)
(1940 - present)

Patricia Goedicke (1)
(1931 - present)

Jorie Graham (13)
(1950 - present)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (4)
(1940 - present)

Thomas Godfrey (2)
(1736 - 1763)

R.George (2)
(1948 - present)

Bernadette Geyer (2)
(1968 - present)

H

Langston Hughes (29)
(1902 - 1967)

Robert Hayden (12)
(1913 - 1980)

Donald Hall (14)
(1928 - present)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (36)
(1809 - 1894)

Tony Hoagland (5)
(1953 - present)

Edward Hirsch (3)
(1950 - present)

Anthony Hecht (18)
(1923 - 2004)

Richard Hugo (6)
(1923 - 1982)

Bob Hicok (7)
(1960 - present)

Andrew Hudgins (3)
(1951 - present)

Marilyn Hacker (12)
(1942 - present)

Forrest Hamer (4)
(1956 - present)

Mac Hammond (2)
(1926 - 1997)

Brooks Haxton (9)
(1950 - present)

Mark Hillringhouse (1)
(1954 - present)

Jupiter Hammon (1)
(1711 - 1806)

Bret Harte (1)
(1836 - 1902)

Julia Ward Howe (5)
(1819 - 1910)

William Dean Howells (1)
(1837 - 1920)

Dale Harcombe (6)
(1947 - present)

Joy Harjo (2)
(1951 - present)

Suheir Hammad (5)
(1973 - present)

Robert M. Hensel (8)
(1969 - present)

I

David Ignatow (2)
(1914 - 1997)

Mark Irwin (1)
(1953 - present)

J

Randall Jarrell (24)
(1914 - 1965)

Erica Jong (25)
(1942 - present)

Robinson Jeffers (58)
(1887 - 1962)

Donald Justice (20)
(1925 - present)

Richard Jones (6)
(1953 - present)

Helen Hunt Jackson (39)
(1831 - 1885)

Laura Riding Jackson (7)
(1901 - 1991)

James Lee Jobe (7)
(1956 - present)

David St. John (2)
(2006 - present)

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)

Yusef Komunyakaa (3)
(1947 - present)

Joyce Kilmer (59)
(1886 - 1918)

Galway Kinnell (15)
(1927 - present)

Etheridge Knight (7)
(1931 - 1991)

Weldon Kees (21)
(1914 - 1955)

Steve Kowit (3)
(1938 - present)

Francis Scott Key (1)
(1779 - 1843)

Maxine Kumin (4)
(1925 - present)

Bob Kaufman (4)
(1925 - 1986)

Carolyn Kizer (13)
(1925 - present)

L

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (136)
(1807 - 1882)

Robert Lowell (17)
(1917 - 1977)

Amy Lowell (152)
(1874 - 1925)

Philip Levine (94)
(1928 - present)

Vachel Lindsay (168)
(1879 - 1931)

Emma Lazarus (24)
(1849 - 1887)

Sidney Lanier (75)
(1842 - 1881)

Thomas Lux (17)
(1946 - present)

Audre Lorde (8)
(1934 - 1992)

Larry Levis (3)
(1946 - 1996)

Michael Lally (1)
(1942 - present)

David Lehman (58)
(1948 - present)

Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (23)
(1748 - 1828)

Sharmagne Leland-St. John (5)
(1953 - present)

Sharon Esther Lampert (19)
(0 - present)

M

Claude McKay (76)
(1889 - 1948)

Marianne Moore (18)
(1887 - 1972)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (165)
(1892 - 1950)

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

Edgar Lee Masters (251)
(1868 - 1950)

William Matthews (10)
(1942 - 1997)

Archibald MacLeish (10)
(1892 - 1982)

Herman Melville (16)
(1819 - 1891)

Frances Mayes (1)
(1940 - present)

Heather McHugh (8)
(1948 - present)

Alice Duer Miller (1)
(1874 - 1942)

John Montague (5)
(1929 - present)

Christopher Morley (6)
(1890 - 1957)

James Merrill (1)
(1926 - 1995)

William Vaughn Moody (6)
(1869 - 1910)

Edwin Markham (5)
(1852 - 1940)

Joaquin Miller (3)
(1841 - 1913)

Jonas Mekas (3)
(1922 - present)

Shawn McAllister (1)
(1944 - present)

N

Ogden Nash (106)
(1902 - 1971)

Naomi Shihab Nye (2)
(1952 - present)

Howard Nemerov (26)
(1920 - 1991)

O

Mary Oliver (87)
(1935 - present)

Sharon Olds (17)
(1942 - present)

Peter Orlovsky (4)
(1933 - present)

P

Edgar Allan Poe (50)
(1809 - 1849)

Sylvia Plath (121)
(1932 - 1963)

Jack Prelutsky (7)
(1940 - present)

Dorothy Parker (181)
(1893 - 1967)

Ezra Pound (71)
(1885 - 1972)

Marge Piercy (23)
(1936 - present)

Linda Pastan (17)
(1932 - present)

Robert Pinsky (8)
(1940 - present)

Kenneth Patchen (17)
(1911 - 1972)

Ron Padgett (1)
(1942 - 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

Theodore Roethke (22)
(1908 - 1963)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (176)
(1869 - 1935)

Lizette Woodworth Reese (6)
(1856 - 1935)

Lola Ridge (1)
(1873 - 1941)

Susan Rich (3)
(2006 - present)

John Crowe Ransom (11)
(1888 - 1974)

Jennifer Reeser (16)
(1968 - 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)

Carl Sandburg (440)
(1878 - 1967)

Gary Soto (1)
(1952 - present)

May Swenson (3)
(1913 - 1989)

Wallace Stevens (33)
(1879 - 1955)

William Stafford (20)
(1914 - 1993)

Karl Shapiro (3)
(1913 - 2000)

Charles Simic (32)
(1938 - present)

Gertrude Stein (3)
(1874 - 1946)

Delmore Schwartz (64)
(1913 - 1966)

Gary Snyder (6)
(1930 - present)

James Schuyler (6)
(1923 - 1991)

Ruth L. Schwartz (1)
(1962 - present)

Alan Seeger (75)
(1886 - 1916)

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)

Judith Skillman (16)
(1954 - present)

Belinda Subraman (8)
(1953 - present)

T

Sara Teasdale (49)
(1884 - 1933)

Mark Twain (6)
(1835 - 1910)

Henry David Thoreau (22)
(1817 - 1862)

Jean Toomer (17)
(1894 - 1967)

James Tate (22)
(1943 - present)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1)
(1863 - 1940)

Natasha Trethewey (3)
(1966 - present)

John Trumbull (9)
(1750 - 1831)

Marilyn L. Taylor (9)
(2006 - present)

Chris Tusa (6)
(1972 - present)

Quincy Troupe (3)
(1939 - present)

V

Jean Valentine (4)
(1934 - present)

Luisa Villani (1)
(1964 - present)

W

Walt Whitman (329)
(1819 - 1892)

William Carlos Williams (59)
(1883 - 1963)

Alice Walker (1)
(1944 - present)

Richard Wilbur (34)
(1921 - present)

Phillis Wheatley (41)
(1753 - 1784)

James Wright (27)
(1927 - 1980)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (164)
(1850 - 1919)

John Greenleaf Whittier (35)
(1807 - 1892)

James Weldon Johnson (4)
(1871 - 1938)

James Whitcomb Riley (38)
(1849 - 1916)

Robert Penn Warren (6)
(1905 - 1989)

David Wagoner (3)
(1926 - present)

Diane Wakoski (1)
(1937 - present)

Connie Wanek (6)
(1952 - present)

Charles Webb (9)
(1939 - present)

Lew Welch (5)
(1926 - 1971)

Edith Wharton (2)
(1862 - 1937)

John Wheelwright (1)
(1897 - 1940)

Nancy Willard (1)
(1936 - present)

John Williams (3)
(1922 - 1994)

Eleanor Wilner (1)
(1937 - present)

Joseph Mayo Wristen (14)
(1951 - present)

Margaret Widdemer (4)
(1884 - 1978)

Michael Wigglesworth (1)
(1631 - 1705)

Witt Wittmann (2)
(1947 - present)

Anne Waldman (1)
(1945 - present)

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

Elinor Wylie (52)
(1885 - 1928)

Cecilia Woloch (5)
(1956 - present)

X

Emanuel Xavier (5)
(1971 - present)

Z

Lisa Zaran (12)
(1969 - present)

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