This page is dedicated to the Contemporary American Poets and Poems. The poets listed below were either born in america or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. See also: Poets by Nationality | All American Poets | American Women 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)	John Ashbery (9) (1927 - present)
A. R. Ammons (26) (1926 - 2001)	Deborah Ager (10) (1971 - present)	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
Charles Bukowski (120) (1920 - 1994)	Gwendolyn Brooks (13) (1917 - 2000)	Richard Brautigan (53) (1935 - 1984)
Wendell Berry (23) (1934 - present)	David Berman (6) (1967 - present)	Imamu Amiri Baraka (1) (1934 - present)
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)	William Bronk (3) (1918 - 1999)
Edgar Bowers (5) (1924 - 2000)	Jonathan Bohrn (10) (1957 - present)	Laure-Anne Bosselaar (6) (2006 - present)
Robert Bly (3) (1926 - present)	Michael Burch (34) (1958 - present)
C
Billy Collins (42) (1941 - present)	Lucille Clifton (2) (1936 - 2010)	Robert Creeley (26) (1926 - 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)	Andree Chedid (4) (1920 - present)	Peter Conners (3) (1970 - present)
Craig Erick Chaffin (9) (1954 - present)	Anastasia Clark (2) (1959 - present)
D
Rita Dove (2) (1952 - present)	Mark Doty (16) (1953 - present)	Stephen Dunn (15) (1939 - present)
Alan Dugan (6) (1923 - 2003)	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)
E
Russell Edson (54) (1935 - present)	Cornelius Eady (1) (1954 - present)	James A. Emanuel (21) (1921 - present)
Maggie Estep (8) (1962 - present)
F
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (11) (1919 - present)	Edward Field (6) (1924 - present)	Nick Flynn (9) (1960 - present)
Carolyn Forche (7) (1950 - present)	Daisy Fried (1) (1967 - present)	Raymond A. Foss (12138) (1960 - present)
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)	R.George (2) (1948 - present)
Bernadette Geyer (2) (1968 - present)
H
Donald Hall (14) (1928 - present)	Tony Hoagland (5) (1953 - present)	Edward Hirsch (3) (1950 - present)
Anthony Hecht (18) (1923 - 2004)	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)	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
Erica Jong (25) (1942 - present)	Donald Justice (20) (1925 - present)	Richard Jones (6) (1953 - present)
James Lee Jobe (7) (1956 - present)	David St. John (2) (2006 - present)
K
Ted Kooser (4) (1939 - present)	Kenneth Koch (4) (1925 - 2002)	Stanley Kunitz (21) (1905 - present)
Jane Kenyon (14) (1947 - 1995)	Yusef Komunyakaa (3) (1947 - present)	Galway Kinnell (15) (1927 - present)
Etheridge Knight (7) (1931 - 1991)	Steve Kowit (3) (1938 - present)	Maxine Kumin (4) (1925 - present)
Bob Kaufman (4) (1925 - 1986)	Carolyn Kizer (13) (1925 - present)
L
Philip Levine (94) (1928 - present)	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)
Sharmagne Leland-St. John (5) (1953 - present)	Sharon Esther Lampert (19) (0 - present)
M
W. S. Merwin (23) (1927 - present)	William Matthews (10) (1942 - 1997)	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
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
Jack Prelutsky (7) (1940 - present)	Marge Piercy (23) (1936 - present)	Linda Pastan (17) (1932 - present)
Robert Pinsky (8) (1940 - present)	Ron Padgett (1) (1942 - present)	Grace Paley (2) (1922 - present)
Katha Pollitt (1) (1949 - present)	Wanda Phipps (8) (1960 - present)	Diane di Prima (1) (1934 - present)
Vanessa Perkins (1) (1968 - present)
R
Susan Rich (3) (2006 - present)	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)	Gary Soto (1) (1952 - present)	William Stafford (20) (1914 - 1993)
Karl Shapiro (3) (1913 - 2000)	Charles Simic (32) (1938 - present)	Gary Snyder (6) (1930 - present)
James Schuyler (6) (1923 - 1991)	Ruth L. Schwartz (1) (1962 - present)	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
James Tate (22) (1943 - present)	Natasha Trethewey (3) (1966 - present)	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
Alice Walker (1) (1944 - present)	Richard Wilbur (34) (1921 - present)	David Wagoner (3) (1926 - present)
Diane Wakoski (1) (1937 - present)	Connie Wanek (6) (1952 - present)	Charles Webb (9) (1939 - present)
Nancy Willard (1) (1936 - present)	John Williams (3) (1922 - 1994)	Eleanor Wilner (1) (1937 - present)
Joseph Mayo Wristen (14) (1951 - present)	Witt Wittmann (2) (1947 - present)	Anne Waldman (1) (1945 - present)
C. K. Williams (2) (1936 - present)	Cecilia Woloch (5) (1956 - present)
X
Emanuel Xavier (5) (1971 - present)
Z
Lisa Zaran (12) (1969 - present)

Contemporary American Poets

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