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Total Poets: 280

A list of contemporary poets, people who brings something new to the poetry, who may be famous or
beginning poets. Read and Enjoy Poetry and Poems by your favorite contemporary poets.

See also: Contemporary Women Poets

A

Margaret Atwood (28)
(1939 - present)

Yehuda Amichai (38)
(1924 - 2000)

Ai (1)
(1947 - present)

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)

Kingsley Amis (1)
(1922 - 1995)

Kelli Russell Agodon (6)
(1969 - present)

Julie Hill Alger (4)
(1927 - 1994)

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

Tiel Aisha Ansari (3)
(1964 - present)

Siddharth Anand (5)
(1985 - present)

B

Charles Bukowski (120)
(1920 - 1994)

Gwendolyn Brooks (13)
(1917 - 2000)

Richard Brautigan (53)
(1935 - 1984)

Eavan Boland (9)
(1944 - present)

Wendell Berry (23)
(1934 - present)

David Berman (6)
(1967 - present)

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)

Joseph Brodsky (19)
(1940 - 1996)

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)

Yves Bonnefoy (11)
(1923 - present)

Edgar Bowers (5)
(1924 - 2000)

Edwin Brock (1)
(1927 - 1997)

John Burnside (4)
(1955 - present)

Alex Boyd (10)
(1969 - present)

John Bodenham (1)
(1600 - present)

Carlos Barbarito (4)
(1955 - present)

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)

Robert Bly (3)
(1926 - present)

Michael Burch (34)
(1958 - present)

Bhaskar Roy Barman (10)
(0 - present)

C

Billy Collins (42)
(1941 - present)

Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - present)

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)

Andree Chedid (4)
(1920 - present)

Andrew Crumey (1)
(1961 - present)

Peter Conners (3)
(1970 - present)

Craig Erick Chaffin (9)
(1954 - present)

Ivan Donn Carswell (181)
(1945 - present)

Anastasia Clark (2)
(1959 - present)

D

Rita Dove (2)
(1952 - present)

Mark Doty (16)
(1953 - present)

Stephen Dunn (15)
(1939 - present)

Mahmoud Darwish (8)
(1941 - 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)

Regina Derieva (9)
(1949 - present)

Michael Donaghy (1)
(1954 - 2004)

Carol Ann Duffy (4)
(1955 - present)

Helen Dunmore (1)
(1952 - present)

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)

Gerald England (6)
(1946 - present)

Ian Emberson (11)
(1936 - present)

Rebecca Elson (2)
(1960 - 1999)

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 (2576)
(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)

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)

Bernadette Geyer (2)
(1968 - present)

Godfrey Mutiso Gorry (5)
(1976 - present)

Rg Gregory (142)
(1928 - present)

H

Ted Hughes (28)
(1930 - 1998)

Seamus Heaney (30)
(1939 - present)

Donald Hall (14)
(1928 - present)

Alec Derwent Hope (18)
(1907 - 2000)

Tony Harrison (8)
(1937 - present)

Tony Hoagland (5)
(1953 - present)

Edward Hirsch (3)
(1950 - present)

Anthony Hecht (18)
(1923 - 2004)

Bob Hicok (7)
(1960 - present)

Geoffrey Hill (7)
(1932 - present)

Andrew Hudgins (3)
(1951 - present)

Marilyn Hacker (12)
(1942 - present)

Kimiko Hahn (1)
(1955 - 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)

Billy Jno Hope (3)
(0 - present)

Joy Harjo (2)
(1951 - present)

Sophie Hannah (9)
(1917 - present)

Suheir Hammad (5)
(1973 - present)

Eileen Carney Hulme (6)
(1953 - present)

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

I

David Ignatow (2)
(1914 - 1997)

Mark Irwin (1)
(1953 - present)

J

Elizabeth Jennings (10)
(1926 - 2001)

Erica Jong (25)
(1942 - present)

Donald Justice (20)
(1925 - present)

Jenny Joseph (2)
(1932 - present)

Richard Jones (6)
(1953 - present)

James Lee Jobe (7)
(1956 - present)

Chris Jones (4)
(1969 - 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)

Dimitris P. Kraniotis (25)
(1966 - present)

Jackie Kay (5)
(1961 - present)

Bob Kaufman (4)
(1925 - 1986)

Carolyn Kizer (13)
(1925 - present)

Faye Diane Kilday (15)
(1973 - present)

Sheema Kalbasi (2)
(1972 - present)

L

Denise Levertov (54)
(1923 - 1997)

Li-Young Lee (2)
(1957 - present)

Philip Levine (94)
(1928 - present)

Thomas Lux (17)
(1946 - present)

Audre Lorde (8)
(1934 - 1992)

Larry Levis (3)
(1946 - 1996)

Laurie Lee (6)
(1914 - 1997)

Michael Lally (1)
(1942 - present)

David Lehman (58)
(1948 - present)

Roddy Lumsden (2)
(1966 - present)

John Lindley (4)
(1952 - present)

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

Dimitris Lyacos (3)
(1966 - present)

Sharon Esther Lampert (19)
(0 - present)

Yahia Lababidi (10)
(1973 - present)

M

Roger McGough (14)
(1937 - present)

Spike Milligan (35)
(1918 - 2002)

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

Czeslaw Milosz (33)
(1911 - 2004)

William Matthews (10)
(1942 - 1997)

Lisel Mueller (21)
(1924 - present)

Les Murray (31)
(1938 - present)

Paul Muldoon (17)
(1951 - present)

Edwin Morgan (2)
(1920 - present)

Frances Mayes (1)
(1940 - present)

Heather McHugh (8)
(1948 - present)

John Montague (5)
(1929 - present)

Erin Moure (3)
(1955 - present)

Chris Mansell (6)
(1953 - present)

James Merrill (1)
(1926 - 1995)

John Matthew (15)
(1958 - present)

Jonas Mekas (3)
(1922 - present)

N

Maya Angelou (18)
(1928 - present)

Naomi Shihab Nye (2)
(1952 - present)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3)
(1920 - 1993)

Howard Nemerov (26)
(1920 - 1991)

Alden Nowlan (4)
(1933 - 1983)

John Frederick Nims (1)
(1913 - 1999)

Claire Nixon (5)
(1973 - present)

Nimah Nawwab (4)
(1966 - present)

Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev) (13)
(1969 - present)

O

Mary Oliver (87)
(1935 - present)

Sharon Olds (17)
(1942 - present)

Michael Ondaatje (9)
(1954 - present)

Peter Orlovsky (4)
(1933 - present)

N. K. Osho (1)
(1975 - present)

P

Jack Prelutsky (7)
(1940 - present)

Marge Piercy (23)
(1936 - present)

Linda Pastan (17)
(1932 - present)

Robert Pinsky (8)
(1940 - present)

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)

Don Paterson (1)
(1963 - present)

Fernando Pessoa (1)
(1935 - present)

Harold Pinter (6)
(1930 - present)

Wanda Phipps (8)
(1960 - present)

Anna Piutti (2)
(1982 - present)

Ruth Padel (8)
(1947 - present)

Diane di Prima (1)
(1934 - present)

Vanessa Perkins (1)
(1968 - present)

Q

Nizar Qabbani (5)
(1923 - 1998)

R

Adrienne Rich (31)
(1929 - present)

Craig Raine (8)
(1944 - present)

Tadeusz Rozewicz (1)
(1921 - present)

Susan Rich (3)
(2006 - present)

Jennifer Reeser (17)
(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)
(1932 - 1999)

Gary Soto (1)
(1952 - present)

William Stafford (20)
(1914 - 1993)

Karl Shapiro (3)
(1913 - 2000)

Mark Strand (16)
(1934 - present)

Charles Simic (32)
(1938 - present)