List of Jewish American poets

This is a list of notable Jewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.


 * David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist
 * Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer
 * Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist
 * Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate
 * Richard Chess, poet and academic
 * Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University
 * Celia Dropkin, poet
 * David Edelshtadt, poet
 * Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic
 * Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
 * Jacob Glatstein, poet
 * Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet
 * Stanley Kunitz, poet
 * Allen Grossman, poet
 * D.L. Lang, poet
 * Emma Lazarus, poet
 * Mani Leib, poet
 * Jeffrey Levine, poet
 * Anna Margolin, poet
 * Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet
 * Penina Moise, poet
 * Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member
 * Howard Nemerov, poet
 * Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar
 * Charles Reznikoff, poet
 * Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist
 * Morris Rosenfeld, poet
 * Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist
 * Muriel Rukeyser, poet
 * Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist
 * Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic
 * Fradl Shtok, poet
 * Marcela Sulak, poet
 * Samuel Ullman, poet
 * Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist


 * Yehoash, poet
 * Louis Zukofsky, poet