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Total Poets: 628

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A

Margaret Atwood (28)
(1939 - present)

W. H. Auden (69)
(1907 - 1973)

Matthew Arnold (45)
(1822 - 1888)

Yehuda Amichai (38)
(1924 - 2000)

Anna Akhmatova (26)
(1889 - 1966)

Ai (1)
(1947 - present)

John Ashbery (9)
(1927 - present)

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

Jane Austen (13)
(1775 - 1817)

Guillaume Apollinaire (7)
(1880 - 1918)

Dante Alighieri (10)
(1265 - 1321)

Louisa May Alcott (16)
(1832 - 1888)

Richard Aldington (12)
(1892 - 1962)

Lascelles Abercrombie (6)
(1881 - 1938)

Sarah Flower Adams (6)
(1805 - 1848)

Delmira Agustini (1)
(1886 - 1914)

William Allingham (31)
(1821 - 1889)

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)

Kingsley Amis (1)
(1922 - 1995)

Jean Hans Arp (1)
(1886 - 1966)

Kelli Russell Agodon (6)
(1969 - present)

Julie Hill Alger (4)
(1927 - 1994)

W. Jude Aher (12)
(1952 - present)

Alfred Austin (4)
(1835 - 1913)

Tiel Aisha Ansari (3)
(1964 - present)

Siddharth Anand (5)
(1985 - present)

B

Elizabeth Bishop (64)
(1911 - 1979)

Charles Bukowski (120)
(1920 - 1994)

Gwendolyn Brooks (13)
(1917 - 2000)

William Blake (131)
(1757 - 1827)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (114)
(1809 - 1861)

Robert Burns (579)
(1759 - 1796)

Robert Browning (110)
(1812 - 1889)

Charles Baudelaire (46)
(1821 - 1867)

Jorge Luis Borges (14)
(1899 - 1986)

John Berryman (150)
(1914 - 1972)

Lord Byron (86)
(1788 - 1824)

Hilaire Belloc (62)
(1870 - 1953)

Matsuo Basho (39)
(1644 - 1694)

Richard Brautigan (53)
(1935 - 1984)

Andre Breton (5)
(1896 - 1966)

Eavan Boland (9)
(1944 - present)

Stephen Vincent Benet (32)
(1898 - 1943)

Louise Bogan (22)
(1897 - 1970)

Ambrose Bierce (12)
(1842 - 1914)

Anne Bradstreet (34)
(1612 - 1672)

Wendell Berry (23)
(1934 - present)

Yosa Buson (30)
(1716 - 1784)

Rupert Brooke (102)
(1887 - 1915)

William Cullen Bryant (27)
(1794 - 1878)

David Berman (6)
(1967 - present)

Bertolt Brecht (29)
(1898 - 1956)

Emily Bronte (56)
(1818 - 1848)

Charlotte Bronte (24)
(1816 - 1855)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)

Thomas Edward Brown (13)
(1830 - 1897)

Gelett Burgess (10)
(1866 - 1951)

Joseph Brodsky (19)
(1940 - 1996)

Aleksandr Blok (13)
(1880 - 1921)

Robert Seymour Bridges (24)
(1844 - 1930)

Anne Bronte (59)
(1820 - 1849)

Marvin Bell (7)
(1937 - present)

William Barnes (12)
(1801 - 1886)

Laurence Binyon (16)
(1869 - 1943)

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)

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)

George Bradley (1)
(1821 - 1903)

Edwin Brock (1)
(1927 - 1997)

John Burnside (4)
(1955 - present)

Alex Boyd (10)
(1969 - present)

William Browne (6)
(1590 - 1645)

John Bodenham (1)
(1600 - present)

Carlos Barbarito (4)
(1955 - present)

Joel Barlow (1)
(1754 - 1812)

William Rose Benet (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (2)
(1748 - 1816)

Ros Barber (1)
(1964 - present)

Jonathan Bohrn (10)
(1957 - present)

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

Luis Benitez (8)
(1956 - present)

Cecilia Borromeo (3)
(1976 - present)

Alain Bosquet (2)
(1919 - 1998)

Robert Bly (3)
(1926 - present)

Michael Burch (34)
(1958 - present)

Bhaskar Roy Barman (10)
(0 - present)

C

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

Billy Collins (42)
(1941 - present)

Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - present)

John Clare (34)
(1793 - 1864)

Lewis Carroll (73)
(1832 - 1898)

Countee Cullen (15)
(1903 - 1946)

Stephen Crane (95)
(1871 - 1900)

Samuel Coleridge (82)
(1772 - 1834)

Robert Creeley (26)
(1926 - present)

Leonard Cohen (15)
(1934 - present)

Geoffrey Chaucer (14)
(1343 - 1400)

Aleister Crowley (49)
(1875 - 1947)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (16)
(1861 - 1907)

Gregory Corso (6)
(1930 - 2001)

Hart Crane (13)
(1899 - 1932)

William Cowper (87)
(1731 - 1800)

Raymond Carver (16)
(1938 - 1988)

Thomas Campbell (16)
(1777 - 1844)

Amy Clampitt (14)
(1920 - 1994)

Richard Crashaw (20)
(1613 - 1650)

Arthur Hugh Clough (17)
(1819 - 1861)

Thomas Chatterton (15)
(1752 - 1770)

Li Ching Chao (33)
(1084 - 1151)

G. K. Chesterton (59)
(1874 - 1936)

Jean Cocteau (1)
(1889 - 1963)

Lady Mary Chudleigh (4)
(1656 - 1710)

Jim Carroll (1)
(1950 - present)

Hayden Carruth (2)
(1921 - present)

Martha Collins (1)
(1940 - present)

Geraldine Connolly (3)
(1947 - present)

Thomas Carew (34)
(1595 - 1645)

Constantine P. Cavafy (65)
(1863 - 1933)

Paul Celan (10)
(1920 - 1970)

Andree Chedid (4)
(1920 - present)

Austin Clarke (3)
(1896 - 1974)

Abraham Cowley (1)
(1618 - 1667)

Andrew Crumey (1)
(1961 - present)

Eliza Cook (5)
(1818 - 1889)

Peter Conners (3)
(1970 - present)

Bliss Carman (22)
(1861 - 1929)

Willa Cather (6)
(1873 - 1947)

Craig Erick Chaffin (9)
(1954 - present)

Ivan Donn Carswell (181)
(1945 - present)

Anastasia Clark (2)
(1959 - present)

D

Emily Dickinson (1779)
(1830 - 1886)

Roald Dahl (5)
(1916 - 1990)

John Donne (70)
(1572 - 1631)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (38)
(1872 - 1906)

Hilda Doolittle (20)
(1886 - 1961)

Rita Dove (2)
(1952 - present)

Henry Van Dyke (114)
(1852 - 1933)

John Dryden (25)
(1631 - 1700)

Mark Doty (16)
(1953 - present)

Stephen Dunn (15)
(1939 - present)

Mahmoud Darwish (8)
(1941 - present)

Keith Douglas (5)
(1920 - 1944)

Michael Drayton (80)
(1563 - 1631)

Alan Dugan (6)
(1923 - 2003)

John Davidson (12)
(1857 - 1909)

Robert Desnos (13)
(1900 - 1945)

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)

Regina Derieva (9)
(1949 - present)

Michael Donaghy (1)
(1954 - 2004)

Ernest Dowson (14)
(1867 - 1900)

William Drummond (6)
(1585 - 1649)

Carol Ann Duffy (4)
(1955 - present)

Helen Dunmore (1)
(1952 - present)

William Dunbar (5)
(1460 - 1520)

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)

Paul Eluard (15)
(1895 - 1952)

Marriott Edgar (33)
(1880 - 1951)

Russell Edson (54)
(1935 - present)

Cornelius Eady (1)
(1954 - present)

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

Maggie Estep (8)
(1962 - present)

Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff (1)
(1788 - 1857)

George Eliot (9)
(1819 - 1880)

Gerald England (6)
(1946 - present)

Ian Emberson (11)
(1936 - present)

Rebecca Elson (2)
(1960 - 1999)

F

Robert Frost (180)
(1874 - 1963)

Tu Fu (17)
(712 - 770)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (11)
(1919 - present)

Robert Francis (20)
(1901 - 1987)

Edward Field (6)
(1924 - present)

Nick Flynn (9)
(1960 - present)

Edward Fitzgerald (4)
(1809 - 1883)

Anne Kingsmill Finch (67)
(1661 - 1720)

Jean de La Fontaine (61)
(1621 - 1695)

Carolyn Forche (7)
(1950 - present)

Philip Freneau (14)
(1752 - 1832)

Daisy Fried (1)
(1967 - present)

Thomas Flatman (3)
(1637 - 1688)

John Fletcher (14)
(1579 - 1625)

Eugene Field (148)
(1850 - 1895)

John Gould Fletcher (2)
(1886 - 1950)

Raymond A. Foss (2576)
(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)

Khalil Gibran (51)
(1883 - 1931)

Nikki Giovanni (1)
(1943 - present)

Louise Gluck (48)
(1943 - present)

Robert Graves (74)
(1895 - 1985)

Edgar Albert Guest (9)
(1881 - 1959)

Jack Gilbert (12)
(1925 - present)

Thomas Gray (11)
(1716 - 1771)

Thom Gunn (3)
(1929 - 2004)

Judy Grahn (1)
(1940 - present)

Eamon Grennan (5)
(1941 - present)

Oliver Goldsmith (4)
(1730 - 1774)

Dame Mary Gilmore (11)
(1865 - 1962)

Patricia Goedicke (1)
(1931 - present)

Jorie Graham (13)
(1950 - present)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (283)
(1749 - 1832)

Rafael Guillen (3)
(1933 - present)

Adam Lindsay Gordon (9)
(1833 - 1870)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (4)
(1940 - present)

Sidney Godolphin (4)
(1645 - 1712)

Thomas Godfrey (2)
(1736 - 1763)

Adrian Green (8)
(1946 - present)

R.George (2)
(1948 - present)

Bernadette Geyer (2)
(1968 - present)

Godfrey Mutiso Gorry (5)
(1976 - present)

Rg Gregory (142)
(1928 - present)

H

Langston Hughes (29)
(1902 - 1967)

Ted Hughes (28)
(1930 - 1998)

Thomas Hardy (217)
(1840 - 1928)

Robert Hayden (12)
(1913 - 1980)

Seamus Heaney (30)
(1939 - present)

Robert Herrick (282)
(1591 - 1674)

Donald Hall (14)
(1928 - present)

Alec Derwent Hope (18)
(1907 - 2000)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (84)
(1844 - 1889)