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List of Poets to study. Will remove those who don't appear on QuizDB. Will cite number of times they appear in the format "# of tossups, #of bonuses".


 * 1) Add list of writers, playwrights, etc


 * 2,0 - Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
 * 1,0 - Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright
 * 1,0 - Diane Ackerman (born 1948), American author, poet, and naturalist
 * 4,0- Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic
 * 1,0 - (not really a poet though) Ryan Adams (born 1974), American singer-songwriter and writer
 * 10,4 - Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
 * 125,46 Aeschylus (525–456 BC), Athenian tragedian
 * 3,0 - Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BC), Roman comic poet
 * 37,14 - James Agee (1909–1955), American novelist, screenwriter and poet
 * 1,2 - Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1940), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
 * 4,2 - Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and author
 * 1,0 - Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet
 * 22,14 - Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet


 * 1,0 - Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman
 * 6,6 - Alcaeus (4th c. BC), Athenian comic poet in Greek
 * 1,0 - Alcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BC), Greek writer of verse epigrams
 * (all three Alcaeus could be the same or different, will keep for now) Alcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c. BC), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
 * 2,0 - Guru Amar Das (1479–1574), Punjabi poet and Sikh guru
 * 1,1 - Alcman (fl. 7th c. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
 * 1,2 - Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), American poet and teacher
 * 5,2 - Richard Aldington (1892–1962), English poet and writer
 * 3,0 - Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977
 * 13,6 - Sherman Alexie (born 1966), American poet and writer
 * 2,0 - Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) Indian, Kashmiri and American poet
 * ~500,150 - (unsure, because there are a lot, and he's most often just referred to as "Dante") Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet
 * 1,0 - Donald Allen (1912–2004), American poet, editor and translator
 * 3,0 - Washington Allston (1779–1843), American painter and poet
 * 1,0 - Al Alvarez (born 1929), English poet
 * 9,5 - Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-American poet, novelist and essayist
 * 5,1 - Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet
 * 33,28 - Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English author and poet
 * 2,3 - A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), American author and poet


 * 9,5 - Anacreon (570 BC–488 BC), Greek lyric poet
 * 21,16 - Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writer
 * 1,3 - Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist and critic
 * 1,0 - Bruce Andrews (born 1948), American Language poet
 * 8,0 - (another fishy one) Guru Angad (1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
 * 1,0 - Aneirin (6th c.), Brythonic epic poet
 * 23,27 - Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American poet
 * 1,0 - Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet
 * 19,1 - Apollonius of Rhodes (270 – post–245 BC), poet and librarian at Library of Alexandria


 * 4,1 - Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French poet, novelist and editor
 * 3,5 - Archilochus (c. 680 – c. 645 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet
 * 4,0 - Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), American Dadaist, critic and poet
 * 16,11 - Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet
 * 138,48 - Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), Greek dramatic poet
 * 3,1 - Guru Arjan (1563–1606), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
 * 1,0 - Rae Armantrout (born 1947), American Language poet
 * 2,0 - Simon Armitage (born 1963), English poet, playwright, and novelist
 * 4,4 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelist
 * 83,39 - Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), English poet and cultural critic
 * 11,5 - Jean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, painter, and poet
 * 6,9 - Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French playwright, poet and essayist


 * 14,13 - John Ashbery (born 1927), American poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * 18,8 - Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poet
 * 82,49 - Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
 * ~75,25- (difficult to tell based on abbreviations) W. H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist
 * 2,0 - Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala (Bordeaux)
 * 10,5 - Paul Auster (born 1947), American poet, playwright, and essayist

Bab–Ban

 * 4,2 - Bacchylides (fl. 5th c. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
 * 1,0 - Harivansh Rai Bachchan (20th c.), Hindi poet
 * 2,2 - Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author
 * 4,1 - Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
 * Béla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian poet and critic
 * Stanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet and diplomat
 * 1,0 - Jesse Ball (born 1978), American poet and novelist
 * 4,2 - Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator
 * 6,0 - Russell Banks (born 1940), American fiction writer and poet
 * 11,13 - Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), American writer, poet and dramatist
 * Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator
 * 1,1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's author
 * Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer
 * 2,0 - John Barbour (c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet, the first major named literary figure to write in Scots
 * 1,0 - Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet
 * 1,0 - George Barker (1913–1991), English poet and author
 * 5,0 - Coleman Barks (born 1937), American poet
 * 1,0 - Mary Barnard (1909–2001), American poet, biographer and translator
 * 4,0 - Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American writer
 * 29,30 - Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poet
 * János Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poet
 * 160,51 - Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translator


 * 3,5 - Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet and dramatist
 * 78,50 - Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet
 * 3,2 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet and short-story writer
 * 1,1 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physician
 * 16,12 - Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration dramatist, among the first professional female writers
 * 1,0 - Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist
 * 5,6 - Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian
 * 9,2 - Andrei Bely (1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet and critic
 * 20,12 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), American author, poet and fiction writer
 * 1,1 - Charles Bernstein, (born 1950), American poet and scholar
 * 4,1 - Daniel Berrigan (born 1921), American poet, priest and peace activist
 * 1,0 - Wendell Berry (born 1934), American man of letters, critic and farmer
 * 25,11 - John Berryman (1914–1972), American poet and scholar
 * 4,5 - John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster

Bh–Bl

 * 1,0 - Earle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatist
 * 50,19 - Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
 * 1,0 - bill bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet
 * 1,0 - Paul Blackburn (1926–1971) American poet
 * 1,0 - Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), American literary critic and poet
 * ~120,50 - William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmakerMathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English poet and writer
 * 5,3 - Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet
 * 1,0 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer
 * 5,2 - Robert Bly (born 1926), American poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement

Bo–Bri

 * 64,36 - Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author and poet
 * Jean Bodel (1165–1210), Old French poet
 * Ádám Bodor (born 1936), Hungarian poet from Romania
 * Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
 * Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440 or 1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet
 * Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
 * Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), American poet
 * Eavan Boland (born 1944), Irish poet
 * Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, biographer, and journalist
 * Christian Bök (born 1966), experimental Canadian poet
 * Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), German novelist
 * Edmund Bolton (c. 1575 – c. 1633), English historian and poet
 * Nozawa Bonchō (c. 1640–1714), Japanese haikai poet
 * Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German poet and Lutheran theologian
 * Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
 * Luke Booker (1762–1835), English poet, cleric and antiquary
 * Kurt Boone (born 1959), American poet
 * Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet
 * 2,2 - Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and journalist
 * 1,0 - Hristo Botev (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
 * David Bottoms (born 1949), American poet; Georgia Poet Laureate
 * Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), American poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
 * Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), American poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner
 * Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary
 * 41,16 - Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) America's first published poet
 * Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic
 * Giannina Braschi (born 1953), American poet born in Puerto Rico
 * Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930), Barbadian writer
 * Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), American novelist, poet and short story writer
 * Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet and lyricist
 * Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585–1618), Dutch poet and playwright
 * Radovan Brenkus (born 1974), Slovak writer and poet
 * Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), Australian poet and scholar
 * Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990), American poet and writer of fantasy and horror fiction
 * Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelist
 * André Breton (1896–1966), French writer, poet and founder of Surrealism
 * Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet and novelist
 * Ken Brewer (1941–2006), American poet and scholar; Utah Poet Laureate
 * Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
 * 1,0 - Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author

Bro–By

 * Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), American poet and translator
 * 25,6 - Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayist
 * Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldier
 * William Bronk (1918–1999), American poet
 * Many between the 3 - Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of the three Brontë sisters
 * Many between the 3 - Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of the three Brontë sisters
 * Many between the 3 - Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet
 * Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet
 * Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
 * Hans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), Danish poet and Pietist bishop
 * Joan Brossa (1919–1998), Catalan poet, playwright and artist
 * Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
 * Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet living in United States
 * Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist
 * Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusian poet
 * George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist
 * James Brown known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist
 * Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-American academic writer and poet
 * Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar and theologian
 * Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist
 * William Browne (1590–1643), English poet
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet
 * Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright
 * William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), American romantic poet and journalist
 * Colette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Irish poet
 * Bryher (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman) (1894–1983), English novelist, poet and memoirist
 * Valeri Bryusov (1873–1924), Russian poet, novelist and critic
 * Jan Brzechwa (1898–1966), Polish poet and children's writer
 * Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan) (1716–1768), Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic
 * Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901), Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
 * Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German writer, poet and dramatist
 * August Buchner (1591–1661), German Baroque poet and professor
 * Vincent Buckley (1927–1988), Australian poet, essayist and critic
 * David Budbill (born 1940), American poet, and playwright
 * Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), American poet
 * Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet
 * Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American poet, novelist and short story writer
 * Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) Russian poet and novelist
 * Basil Bunting (1900–1985), English modernist poet
 * Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), English writer, poet and playwright
 * Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet and a lyricist
 * Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005), American poet
 * John Burnside (born 1955), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes
 * William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American novelist, poet and essayist
 * Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and writer
 * Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter
 * Raegan Butcher (born 1969), American poet and singer
 * Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian language poet
 * Anthony Butts, (born 1969), American poet
 * Kathryn Stripling Byer (born 1944), American poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09
 * Witter Bynner (also Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968), American poet, writer and scholar
 * George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and literary figure

Cab–Cav

 * Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
 * Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer writing in Welsh
 * Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name
 * Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer (in Gaelic)
 * Scott Cairns (born 1954), American poet, memoirist and essayist
 * 2,0 - Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator
 * Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), dramatist, poet and writer of Spanish Golden Age
 * Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
 * Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist
 * Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist and biographer
 * Callimachus (c. 305 – c. 240 BC), Hellenistic poet, critic and scholar at Library of Alexandria
 * Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musician
 * Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poet
 * Luís de Camões (c. 1524 – 1580), early Portuguese poet
 * Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, living), Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actor
 * David Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in New Guinea
 * Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist
 * Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), Scottish poet
 * Jan Campert (1902–1943), Dutch poet and journalist
 * Remco Campert (born 1929), son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist
 * Thomas Campion (1567–1619), English composer, poet and physician
 * Matilde Camus (born 1919), Spanish poet and researcher
 * Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), American poet and lawyer
 * Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), Slovene playwright, essayist and poet
 * May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poet
 * 35,15 - Cao Cao (AD 155–220), Chinese poet and warlord
 * Cao Pi (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (AD 187–226), Chinese poet and first emperor of state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao
 * Cao Zhi (AD 192–232), Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao
 * Vahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poet
 * Ernesto Cardenal (born 1925), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priest
 * 5,0 - Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet and teacher
 * 5,3 - Thomas Carew (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet
 * 3,0 - Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
 * Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-American poet associated with Confederation Poets
 * Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyer
 * 1,0 - Jim Carroll (1949–2009), American author, poet and punk musician
 * Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician and photographer
 * Ann Elizabeth Carson (born 1929), Canadian poet, artist and feminist
 * Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translator
 * Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet and bluestocking
 * Jared Carter (born 1939), American poet and editor
 * William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman
 * 8,3 - Neal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement
 * 51,27 - Catullus (c. 84 – 54 BC), Latin poet under the Roman Republic
 * 38,10 - C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant
 * 12,1 - Guido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florentine poet and friend of Dante Alighieri
 * 1,1 - (Trash) Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician and actor
 * 1,2 - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, aristocrat and scientist

Ce–Cl

 * Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born Jewish poet and translator
 * 6,0 - Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), French poet and author
 * Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovene author and poet
 * Luis Cernuda (1903–1963), Spanish poet and literary critic
 * Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), French poet, author and politician from Martinique
 * Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), Portuguese surrealist poet
 * Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Cuban poet
 * Ashok Chakradhar (born 1951), Hindi author and poet
 * John Chalkhill (fl. 1600), English poet
 * Jean Chapelain (1595–1674), French poet and critic in Grand Siècle
 * Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), American cowboy poet and columnist
 * George Chapman (1559–1634), English dramatist, translator and poet
 * Fred Chappell (born 1936), American author and poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1997–2002
 * René Char (1907–1998), French poet
 * Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465), poet
 * Craig Charles (born 1964), English writer, poet and comedian
 * Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of medieval poetry
 * Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, philosopher and alchemist
 * Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing in Hindi
 * Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), American writer, poet and Franciscan priest
 * Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
 * Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leonean poet and novelist
 * Andrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-American poet and children's author
 * Kelly Cherry (born 1940), American author and poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia 2010–2012
 * G. K. Chesterton, (1874–1936), English writer and poet
 * Choe Chiwon (born 857), Korean (Silla) poet
 * Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), female Japanese haiku poet of Edo period
 * Henri Chopin (1922–2008), avant-garde poet and musician
 * Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240 – c. 1305), French writer
 * Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poet and trouvère
 * Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter and printer
 * Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satirist
 * John Ciardi, (1916–1986) Italian-American poet, translator and etymologist
 * Colley Cibber (1671–1757), English playwright and Poet Laureate
 * Jovan Ćirilov (born 1931), Serbian drama expert, writer and poet
 * Carson Cistulli (born 1979), American poet, essayist and English professor
 * Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, poet and playwright
 * Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), American poet and author
 * Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer
 * John Clanvowe (c. 1341–1391), Anglo-Welsh poet and diplomat
 * John Clare (1793–1864), English poet
 * Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright
 * Austin Clarke (1896–1974), Irish poet
 * George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Canadian poet and university professor
 * Gillian Clarke (born 1937), (born 1937), Welsh poet and playwright writing in English
 * Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat
 * Claudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius
 * Matthias Claudius (Asmus, 1740–1815), German poet
 * Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), American humorist, poet, and author
 * Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Jamaican-American author of short stories, prose poems and literary criticism
 * 0,2 - Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland
 * 20,10 - Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist, and assistant to Florence Nightingale

Coa–Con

 * 19,7 - Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer
 * 6,2 - Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
 * 5,1 - Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayist
 * 97,54 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet
 * 4,6 - Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet; United States Poet Laureate 2001–2003
 * 10,3 - (character in Pride and Prejudice) William Collins (1721–1759), English poet
 * 12,16 - William Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poet
 * 4,0 - Robert Conquest (born 1917), Anglo-American historian and poet

Coo–Cz

 * Clark Coolidge (born 1939), American poet
 * Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
 * Robert Copland (fl. 1515), English printer, author and translator
 * Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais
 * Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet
 * Cid Corman (1924–2004), American poet, translator and editor
 * Alfred Corn (born 1943), American poet and essayist
 * 3,0 - F. M. Cornford (1874–1943), English classical scholar and poet; husband of Frances Cornford
 * Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright
 * Gregory Corso (1930–2001), American Beat poet
 * Jayne Cortez (born 1936), American poet and performance artist
 * George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacher
 * Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translator
 * Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet
 * Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989), American novelist, poet and critic
 * William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnist
 * George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet, naturalist and clergyman
 * Hart Crane (1899–1932), American modernist poet
 * Stephen Crane (1871–1900), American novelist, short story writer, and poet
 * Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), English Metaphysical poet
 * Robert Creeley (born 1926), American poet
 * Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), French Canadian poet
 * Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), English poet
 * Charles Cros (1842–1888), French poet and inventor
 * Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and poet
 * Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), English poet
 * György Csanády (1895–1952), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Sándor Csoóri (1930–2016), Hungarian poet, essayist and politician
 * Cui Hao (c. 704–754), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
 * Countee Cullen (1903–1946), American poet
 * Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist, and poet
 * E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), American poet, essayist and playwright
 * Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and author
 * James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
 * Allen Curnow (1911–2001), New Zealand poet and journalist
 * Ivor Cutler (1923–2006), Scottish poet, songwriter, and humorist
 * Józef Czechowicz (1903–1939), Polish poet
 * Gergely Czuczor (1800–1866), Hungarian poet, monk and academic
 * Tytus Czyżewski (1880–1945), Polish poet, playwright and painter

Da–Dh

 * Dalpatram (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi), (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati language poet
 * Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvadoran poet
 * Sapardi Djoko Damono (born 1940), Indonesian poet
 * Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historian
 * David Daniels (1933–2008), American visual poet
 * Jeffrey Daniels, African-American poet
 * Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet writing in Old French
 * Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist
 * Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet, writer and film executive
 * Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet who initiated modernismo
 * Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), Indian poet and short story writer in English
 * Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English poet and herbalist
 * Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet and author
 * Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges
 * Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali poet and author
 * Petter Dass (died 1707), Norwegian poet
 * René Daumal (1908–1944), French para-surrealist writer and poet
 * Jean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet, scholar and 'La Pléiade member
 * William Davenant (1606–1668), English poet and playwright
 * Guy Davenport (1927–2005), American writer, translator and illustrator
 * Donald Davidson (1893–1968) American poet, essayist and critic
 * John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelist
 * Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), American poet
 * Donald Davie (1922–1995), English poet and critic
 * Alan Davies (born 1951), American poet, critic and editor
 * Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist and communist
 * Sir John Davies (1569–1626), English poet, lawyer and politician
 * W. H. Davies (1871–1940), Welsh poet and writer
 * Jon Davis, American poet
 * Edward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish-American poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
 * Peter Davison, (1928–2004), American poet, essayist and editor; son of poet Edward Davison
 * Denis Davydov (1784–1839), Russian soldier-poet of Napoleonic Wars
 * Dayaram (1777–1853), Gujarati language poet
 * Gábor Dayka (1769–1796), Hungarian poet
 * Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate 1968–1972
 * Jean Louis De Esque (1879–1956), American poet and author
 * Madeline DeFrees (born 1919), American poet
 * Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), Polish poet, translator and painter
 * Thomas Dekker (1572–1641), English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer
 * Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poet
 * Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet
 * Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
 * Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), French poet of Parnassian movement
 * Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet, writing in English and Shetland dialect
 * François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic, and translator
 * Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poet
 * 15,2 - Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translator
 * Sir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtier
 * Tory Dent (1958–2005), American poet, critic and commentator
 * Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poet
 * Regina Derieva (born 1949), Russian poet and writer
 * Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopher
 * Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-American poet
 * Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet
 * Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
 * Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), American poet, critic and novelist
 * Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright and poet
 * Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, courtier and poet praised also for lost plays
 * Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French poet, playwright and novelist
 * Lakshmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet and essayist
 * Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet and performance artist
 * Imtiaz Dharker (born 1954), Pakistan-born British poet, artist and filmmaker
 * Dhurjati (c. 15th and 16th cc.), Telugu language poet

Di–Dr

 * Souéloum Diagho (living), Tuareg poet
 * Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (born 1949), Italian-Canadian poet; second Poet Laureate of Toronto
 * Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970), American poet
 * James Dickey (1923–1997), American poet and novelist, 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
 * Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
 * Matthew Dickman (born 1975), American poet, twin of Michael Dickman
 * Michael Dickman (born 1975), American poet, twin of Matthew Dickman
 * Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and politician
 * Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic
 * Diane di Prima (born 1934), American poet
 * Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet
 * Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet
 * Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), American poet, novelist
 * Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), American poet
 * Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist
 * Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), American author, novelist, and poet
 * Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Gojko Đogo (born 1940), Serbian poet
 * Pete Doherty, (born 1979), English musician, songwriter, and poet
 * Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet
 * Joe Dolce, (born 1947), Australian songwriter, poet, and essayist
 * John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist and Anglican cleric
 * H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American Imagist poet
 * Edward Dorn (1929–1999), American poet and teacher
 * Mark Doty (born 1953), American poet and memoirist
 * Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and children's writer
 * Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer, and traveller
 * Alice May Douglas, (1865–1943), American poet and author
 * Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar, and translator
 * Keith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poet
 * Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet and author; US Poet Laureate
 * Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist, and short-story writer
 * Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian playwright, poet and politician
 * Jane Draycott (living), English poet
 * Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet of Elizabethan era
 * Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet
 * John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist
 * Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet
 * William Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poet
 * William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Irish-born Canadian poet
 * Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poet
 * John Dryden (1631–1700), English Restoration English poet, critic and playwright

Du–Dy

 * Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French Huguenot poet
 * Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet, critic and La Pléiade member
 * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American writer and activist
 * Norman Dubie (born 1945), American poet
 * Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Bosnian Serb poet, writer and diplomat
 * Du Fu (712–770), Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty
 * Du Mu (803–852), Chinese poet of late Tang Dynasty
 * Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
 * Alan Dugan (1923–2003), American poet
 * Richard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poet
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-American poet, novelist and playwright
 * William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scots makar
 * Robert Duncan (1919–1988), American poet
 * Camille Dungy (born 1972), American poet, academic and essayist
 * Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic and critic
 * Stephen Dunn (born 1939), American poet
 * Helen Dunmore (born 1952), English poet, novelist and children's writer
 * Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish poet
 * Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), English novelist, poet and dramatist
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), Bengali poet and dramatist
 * Stuart Dybek (born 1942), American poet, writer
 * Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English courtier and poet.
 * Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter, writer and Nobel prizewinner

E

 * Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poet
 * Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), American poet
 * Russell Edson (born 1935), American poet, novelist, and illustrator
 * Terry Ehret (born 1955), American poet
 * Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and novelist
 * Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poet
 * George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880), English novelist, journalist, and translator
 * T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), American-English publisher, playwright, and critic
 * Ebenezer Elliott ("Corn Law rhymer", 1781–1849), English poet
 * Royston Ellis (born 1941), English poet
 * Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet
 * Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet
 * Claudia Emerson (born 1957), American poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist, lecturer, and poet
 * Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian poet, essayist, and translator
 * Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889), Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist
 * William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet
 * 2,0 - Yunus Emre (c. 1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
 * Michael Ende (1929–1995), German author of fantasy, poetry and children's literature
 * Leszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish, poet, fiction writer and translator
 * Paul Engle (1908–1991), American poet, novelist and playwright
 * Ennius (c. 239 – c. 169 BC), considered father of Latin poetry in Rome
 * D J Enright (1920–2002), English poet, novelist and critic
 * Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929), German writer, poet and translator
 * János Erdélyi (1814–1868), Hungarian poet and philosopher
 * Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American novelist, poet, and children's book writer, featuring Native American heritage
 * Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poet
 * Max Ernst (1891–1976), German poet and artist
 * Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Telugu poet (also shown as Yerrapragada)
 * Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220), German Minnesinger poet and knight
 * Clayton Eshleman (born 1935), American poet, translator and editor
 * Martín Espada (born 1957), American poet and teacher
 * Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet
 * Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalan poet
 * Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), American poet
 * Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish American poet and carpenter
 * Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
 * Maggie Estep (born 1963), American slam poet and musician
 * Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), American poet and editor
 * Euripides (480–406 BC), Athenian tragedian
 * Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelist
 * Mari Evans (born 1923), African-American poet
 * William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), American poet and critic
 * Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet

Fa–Fn

 * Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymn writer, and theologian
 * Kinga Fabó (born 1953), Hungarian poet and essayist
 * Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984), Indian/Pakistani poet
 * Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), Irish poet
 * Christian Falster (1690–1752), Danish poet and philologist
 * Ferenc Faludi (1704–1779), Hungarian poet
 * György Faludy (1910–2006), Hungarian poet and translator
 * U. A. Fanthorpe, CBE (1929–2009), English poet
 * Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright and poet
 * J. P. Farrell (born 1968), American poet and musician
 * Elaine Feinstein (born 1930), English poet, novelist, and playwright
 * Károly Fellinger (born 1963) Hungarian poet in Slovakia
 * Fenggan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese Zen monk poet under the Tang Dynasty
 * Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translator
 * James Fenton (born 1931), Northern Irish linguist and poet writing in Ulster Scots
 * James Martin Fenton (born 1949), English poet, journalist, and literary critic
 * Ferdowsi (935–1020), Persian poet
 * Teréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poet
 * Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), Scots poet who influenced Robert Burns
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), American poet, painter, and activist
 * Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), Spanish dramatist, translator, and poet
 * Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006), Polish poet, writer and translator
 * Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist, dramatist, and poet
 * Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine poet and musician
 * Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English nature poet
 * Annie Finch (born 1956), American poet, librettist, and translator
 * Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer, and gardener
 * Roy Fisher (born 1930), English poet and jazz pianist
 * Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
 * Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), American poet, critic, and translator
 * Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child poet and diarist
 * Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet, diplomat and MP
 * Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet
 * John Fletcher (1579–1625), Jacobean era English playwright and poet
 * John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Imagist poet
 * Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder, brother of Giles the younger
 * F. S. Flint (1885–1960), English poet and translator

Fo–Fu

 * Jean Follain (1903–1971), French author, poet, and corporate lawyer
 * Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poet, and realist writer
 * John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet
 * Carolyn Forché (born 1950), American poet, editor, and translator
 * Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet, and critic
 * John Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poet
 * John M. Ford (1957–2006), American SF and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet
 * Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scots poet and critical theorist
 * Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary, and poet
 * William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet, writer, and translator
 * Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand author
 * Anatole France (1844–1924), French poet, journalist and novelist
 * Robert Francis (1901–1987), American poet
 * Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan
 * G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, critic and academic
 * Gregory Fraser (born 1963), American poet, editor, and professor
 * Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writer; seen as national poet of Albania
 * Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician and playwright
 * Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwright
 * Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), American poet and short story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–86
 * Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), English poet
 * Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator
 * Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), French chronicler and court poet
 * Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet; four times Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
 * Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), American poet and teacher
 * John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller
 * Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet
 * Alice Fulton, (born 1952), American poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
 * Milán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright
 * Fuzûlî (c. 1483–1556), Azerbaijani and Ottoman poet

Ga–Go

 * Tadeusz Gajcy (1922–1944), Polish poet
 * Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), Polish poet and stage writer
 * Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet
 * James Galvin (born 1951), American poet
 * Etienne-Paulin Gagne (1808–1876), French poet, essayist, and inventor
 * János Garay (1812–1853), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Robert Garioch (wrote as Robert Garioch Sutherland, 1909–1981), Scottish poet and translator
 * Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), American novelist, poet, and essayist
 * Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and first editor of Anglo-Welsh Review
 * Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English scholar, biographer, and poet
 * Jean Garrigue (1914–1972), American poet
 * Samuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poet
 * George Gascoigne (1535–1577), English poet, soldier, and would-be courtier
 * David Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet associated with Surrealist movement
 * Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), French poet, dramatist, and novelist
 * John Gay (1685–1732), English poet and dramatist
 * Yehonatan Geffen (born 1947), Israeli author, poet, and playwright
 * Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904–1991), American writer, poet, and cartoonist
 * Juan Gelman (born 1930), Argentinian poet, writer and translator
 * Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translator
 * Dan Gerber (born 1940), American poet
 * Ágnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian poet, novelist and translator
 * Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymnist
 * Cezary Geroń (1960–1998), Polish poet, journalist and translator
 * Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869) Indian poet writing in Urdu and Persian
 * Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), American children's author, poet, and feature writer
 * Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), American poet, fiction writer, and critic
 * Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer
 * Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English Georgian poet
 * Jack Gilbert (born 1925), American poet
 * W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poet
 * Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poet
 * Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), American poet of Beat Generation
 * Dana Gioia (born 1950), American writer, critic, and poet
 * Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), American poet, writer, and educator
 * Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright, and religious thinker
 * Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552), Italian scholar and poet
 * Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), Italian poet
 * Denis Glover (1912–1980), New Zealand poet and publisher
 * Louise Glück (born 1943), American poet; US Poet Laureate
 * Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian poet writing in Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit etc.
 * Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelist
 * Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Quebec poet in French and politician
 * Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), American poet
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist, and politician
 * Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright and translator
 * Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Hebrew-language poet, playwright, and writer
 * Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English children's writer and poet
 * Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, and poet
 * Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet
 * Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright
 * George Gomri (born 1934), Hungarian poet and journalist (also in English)
 * Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish lyric poet
 * Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet
 * Paul Goodman (1911–1972), American novelist, playwright, and poet
 * Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), English pastoral poet and translator
 * Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), Australian poet and politician
 * Gábor Görgey (born 1929), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Sergei Gorodetsky (1884–1967), Russian poet
 * Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American performance poet and artist
 * Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist
 * Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author, and critic
 * Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), French poet, novelist and critic
 * John Gower (c. 1330–1408), English poet and friend of Chaucer

Gr–Gy

 * Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870), Swedish historian, priest, and poet
 * James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish nobleman, soldier, and poet
 * Jorie Graham (born 1950), American poet and first female Boylston Professor at Harvard
 * W S Graham (1918–1986), Scottish poet
 * Mark Granier (born 1957), Irish poet and photographer
 * Alex Grant (living), Scottish American poet and teacher
 * Günter Grass (born 1927), German novelist, poet, and playwright; 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Richard Graves (1715–1804), English poet and essayist
 * Robert Graves (1895–1985), English author and scholar
 * Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer, and poet
 * Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet
 * Robert Greene (1558–1592), English author and poet
 * Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
 * Linda Gregg (born 1945) American poet
 * Horace Gregory (1898–1982), American poet, translator, and critic
 * Eamon Grennan (born 1941), Irish poet
 * Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628), English poet, dramatist, and statesman
 * Susan Griffin (born 1943), American poet and writer
 * Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnist
 * Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar
 * Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historian
 * Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, short-story writer, and scholar
 * Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), English poet and critic
 * Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer, poet, and dramatist
 * Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and dramatist
 * Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), African-American playwright and poet
 * Charlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-American poet and activist
 * Rufus W. Griswold (1815–1857), American anthologist, poet, and critic
 * Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist
 * Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Serbian writer, poet and bishop
 * Stanisław Grochowiak (1934–1976), Polish poet and dramatist
 * Philip Gross (born 1952), English poet, novelist and playwright
 * Igo Gruden (1893–1948), Slovene poet and translator
 * N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish poet, pastor and historian
 * Wioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writer
 * Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet and prose stylist
 * Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born American poet
 * Paul Guest (living), American quadriplegic poet and memoirist
 * Bimal Guha (born 1952), Bangladesh poet writing in Bengali
 * Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240), French scholar and poet
 * Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), Spanish poet
 * Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), Cuban poet, activist, and writer
 * Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), Italian poet
 * Guiot de Provins (died after 1208), French poet and trouvère
 * Malcolm Guite (born 1957)
 * Gül Baba (died 1541), Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet
 * Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeism
 * Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poet
 * Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-American poet
 * Lee Gurga (born 1949), American haiku poet
 * Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet
 * Lars Gustafsson (born 1936), Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar
 * Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet
 * Beth Gylys (born 1964), American poet and professor
 * István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poet
 * Géza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poet
 * Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer, sound poet, and performance artist
 * Gabor G. Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-American poet and translator (also in English)

Ha

 * Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
 * Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator, and critic
 * Hadraawi (born 1943), Somali poet and songwriter
 * Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet
 * Hai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poet
 * John Haines (1924–2011), American poet and educator
 * Donald Hall (born 1928), American poet, writer, and critic; 2006 US Poet Laureate
 * Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), English poet, subject of In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson
 * Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), English translator, poet, and academic
 * Han Yu (768–824), Chinese essayist and poet under Tang dynasty
 * Hanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
 * Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet
 * Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet
 * Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 1921), Guyanese poet, novelist, and essayist
 * Jim Harrison (born 1937), American poet, novelist and essayist
 * Tony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwright
 * Carla Harryman (born 1952), American poet, essayist, and playwright
 * David Harsent (born 1942), English poet and TV scriptwriter
 * Paul Hartal (born 1936), Hungarian-born Canadian poet, painter and critic
 * Peter Härtling (born 1933), German writer and poet
 * Michael Hartnett (1941–1999), Irish poet writing in English and Irish
 * Julia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet, writer and translator
 * Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist
 * Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), English poet of Pakistani origin
 * Ahmet Haşim (c. 1884–1933), Turkish poet
 * Robert Hass (born 1941), American poet; former Poet Laureate
 * Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian poet
 * Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German dramatist, poet and novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1912
 * Stephen Hawes (died 1523), English poet
 * Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), English poet, antiquarian, and Anglican priest
 * George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), Scots poet and translator writing in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, and English
 * Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th c.), Scottish poet and translator writing in Middle Scots
 * Robert Hayden (1913–1980), American poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
 * William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer
 * Tony Haynes (born 1960), American poet, songwriter, and lyricist

He

 * Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright, and translator; 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Josephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921), American teacher and poet
 * John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translator
 * Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelist
 * Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), American poet
 * Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), American poet, historian, and philosopher
 * Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American poet, writer, and performer
 * Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator
 * Ilona Hegedűs (living), poet
 * John Hegley (born 1953), English performance poet, comedian, and songwriter
 * Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poet, essayist, and literary critic
 * Lyn Hejinian (born 1941), American poet, essayist, and translator
 * Acharya Hemachandra (1089–1172), Jain scholar, poet, and polymath
 * Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
 * Marian Hemar (1901–1972), Polish poet, songwriter and playwright
 * Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), American poet and activist
 * Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter, and catalyst for folk revival in Scotland
 * William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, critic, and editor
 * Adrian Henri (1932–2000), English poet and painter
 * Robert Henryson (died c. 1500), Scottish poet
 * Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, historian, poet and religious philosopher; brother of George Herbert
 * George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
 * Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), (née Sidney) among first English women to achieve a major reputation for literary works
 * Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist, and drama writer
 * Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic
 * Miguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright associated with Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements
 * Herodas or Herondas (3rd c. BC), Greek poet and author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse
 * Antoine Héroet, (died 1568), French poet
 * Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet
 * Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish-born English poet and critic
 * Hesiod (fl. 750–650 BC), Ancient Greek poet
 * Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet
 * Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter
 * Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, and playwright
 * John Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Ireland-born poet
 * William Heyen (born 1940), American poet, literary critic, novelist
 * Thomas Heywood (c. 1570s – 1641), English playwright, actor, and author

Hi–Hy

 * Dick Higgins (1938–1998), English poet and publisher
 * Scott Hightower (born 1952), American poet and teacher
 * Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Geoffrey Hill (born 1932), English poet and professor
 * Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), American poet
 * Hipponax (6th c. BC), of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poet
 * Hirato Renkichi (1893–1922), Japanese avant-garde poet
 * Rozalie Hirs, (born 1965), Dutch poet
 * Jane Hirshfield, (born 1953), American poet
 * George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), American poet, playwright, and painter
 * H. L. Hix (born 1960), American poet and academic
 * Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426), English poet and clerk
 * Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet and translator writing in English
 * Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, poet, and dramatist
 * James Hogg (1770–1835), Scottish poet and novelist
 * David Holbrook (1923–2011), English writer, poet, and academic
 * Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German lyric poet
 * Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and novelist
 * Barbara Holland (born 1933), American author
 * John Hollander (born 1929), Jewish-American poet and literary critic
 * Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), American poet, professor, and author
 * Homer (fl. 8th c. BC), Greek epic poet
 * Thomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood
 * A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian satirical poet and essayist
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
 * Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BC), Roman lyric poet
 * George Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-American poet
 * Joan Houlihan, American poet
 * A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet and classicist
 * Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English Renaissance poet
 * Richard Howard (born 1929), American poet, critic, and essayist
 * Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
 * Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, and essayist
 * Hrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and playwright from Lower Saxony; first known woman dramatist
 * Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), Bangladeshi poet writing in Bengali
 * John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet writing in Welsh
 * Langston Hughes (1902–1967), American poet, novelist and playwright
 * Ted Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
 * Richard Hugo (1923–1982), American poet
 * Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, and dramatist
 * Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poet
 * Lynda Hull (1954–1994), American poet
 * Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917), English critic and poet
 * Alexander Hume (1560–1609), Scottish poet
 * Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), English critic, essayist, and poet
 * Sam Hunt (born 1946), New Zealand poet
 * Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet
 * Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, poet, and travel writer
 * Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), American poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–83

I

 * Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director, and poet
 * Ibycus (fl. later 6th c. BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet
 * Ikkyu (1394–1481), Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet
 * Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet
 * Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), Hungarian poet and novelist
 * Maria Ilnicka (1825 or 1827–1897), Polish poet, novelist and translator
 * Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Indian poet writing in Urdu and Persian
 * Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poet
 * Sabit Ince (born 1954), Turkish lyric poet
 * Wacław Iwaniuk (1912–2001), Polish poet and journalist
 * Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Eleuter, 1894–1980), Polish poet, dramatist and translator
 * Sergey Izgiyaev (1922–1972), Russian poet, playwright and translator of Mountain Jewish descent

J

 * FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
 * Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet writing in Scots
 * Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet and writer
 * Ada Jafarey (born 1924) Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
 * Richard Jago (1715–1781), English poet
 * Đura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter, and dramatist
 * James I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair
 * James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots, and of England and Ireland
 * Clive James (1939–2019), Australian author, poet, and memoirist
 * Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator
 * Klemens Janicki (1516–1543), Polish poet in Latin
 * Janus Pannonius (1434–1472), Hungarian/Slavonian poet in Latin
 * Patricia Janus (1932–2006), American poet and artist
 * Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), American poet and critic
 * Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), American poet, children's author, and novelist; US Poet Laureate
 * Bruno Jasieński (1901–1938), Polish poet, novelist and playwright
 * Mieczysław Jastrun (1903–1983), Polish poet and essayist
 * László Jávor (1903–1956), Hungarian poet ("Gloomy Sunday")
 * Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), American poet
 * Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet and writer
 * Rod Jellema (born 1927), American poet, teacher, and translator
 * Simon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist, and writer
 * Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poet
 * Jia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet active under Tang Dynasty
 * John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic and poet
 * Edmund John (1883–1917), English poet
 * Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), American poet
 * Helene Johnson (1906–1995), African-American poet
 * James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), American author, poet, and folklorist
 * Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist, and critic
 * Emily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk: Tekahionwake) (1861–1913), Canadian writer, performer, and poet celebrating her First Nations heritage
 * Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist, and lexicographer
 * George Benson Johnston (1913–2004), Canadian poet, translator, and academic
 * Anna Jókai (1932–2017), Hungarian poet and prose writer
 * David Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poet
 * Richard Jones, English American poet
 * Ben Jonson (1573–1637), English poet and dramatist
 * June Jordan (1936–2002), American poet and educator
 * Anthony Joseph (living), British-Trinidadian poet, novelist, and musician
 * Jenny Joseph (born 1932), English poet
 * Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet, physician
 * James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet
 * Attila József (1905–1937), Hungarian poet
 * Frank Judge (born 1946), American editor, poet, and film critic
 * Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), Hungarian poet
 * Gyula Juhász (1883–1937), Hungarian poet
 * Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher
 * Donald Justice (1925–2004), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980
 * Juvenal (fl. 1st c. – 2nd c. CE), Roman poet and satirist
 * Jumoke Verissimo (1979), Nigerian poet

Ka–Kh

 * Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet and diplomat
 * Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and sant of India
 * Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and novelist
 * Kālidāsa (fl. c. 4th c.), Sanskrit poet
 * Kambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil poet
 * Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, translator and critic
 * Kannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author, and lyricist
 * Jim Kacian (born 1953), American haiku poet and editor
 * Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author, and translator
 * Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American poet, librettist, and translator
 * László Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian poet in Hungarian and Esperanto
 * Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer, and critic
 * Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-American poet, critic, and translator
 * Orhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poet
 * Sándor Kányádi (1929–2018), Hungarian poet and translator from Romania
 * Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian poet, philosopher, and critic
 * Adeena Karasick (born 1965), New York-based Canadian poet, media artist, and essayist
 * Vim Karenine (born 1933), American poet, essayist, and novelist
 * György Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and critic
 * Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), Polish poet
 * Mary Karr (born 1955), American poet, essayist, and memoirist
 * Julia Kasdorf (born 1962), American poet
 * Laura Kasischke (born 1961), American poet and fiction writer
 * Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1926), Polish poet, playwright and critic
 * Lajos Kassák (1887–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and painter
 * Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German author, poet, and satirist
 * József Katona (1791–1830), Hungarian playwright and poet
 * Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), American Beat poet and surrealist
 * Shirley Kaufman (born 1923), American poet and translator
 * Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadian poet and photographer
 * Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), Irish poet and novelist
 * Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975), Greek poet
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Bengali poet, musician, and revolutionary
 * John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet
 * Weldon Kees (1914–1955), American poet, novelist, and critic
 * Isabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelist
 * Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), rhymster about Welsh history
 * Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), American poet
 * Walter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish makar
 * X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), American poet, anthologist, and children's writer
 * Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), American poet and translator
 * Géza Képes (1909–1989), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), American novelist and poet
 * Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War II
 * Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poet and political activist
 * Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet
 * Dilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poet
 * Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior, and tribal chief
 * Omar Khayyám (1048–1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet
 * Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), Russian poet and literary critic
 * Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian poet and humorist writing in Urdu
 * Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), Sufi poet, scholar, and musician

Ki–Ky

 * Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet
 * Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and poet
 * Emelihter Kihleng Pohnpeian poet and academic
 * Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski (born 1954), Polish poet and politician
 * Takarai Kikaku (1661–1707), Japanese haikai poet and a disciple of Matsuo Bashō
 * Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), American writer and poet
 * Edward King (1612–1637), Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas
 * Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishop
 * William King (1663–1712), English poet
 * Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet, and hymn-writer
 * Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionary
 * Galway Kinnell (born 1927), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982
 * John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist, and essayist
 * Thomas Kinsella (born 1928), Irish poet, translator, and editor
 * Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
 * Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian novelist, short story writer, and poet
 * Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist, and playwright
 * Atala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poet
 * Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet
 * Carolyn Kizer (born 1925), American poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
 * Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and writer of short fiction
 * August Kleinzahler (born 1949), American poet
 * Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poet
 * Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet and Jesuit
 * Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-American poet
 * Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
 * Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poet
 * Kenneth Koch (1925–2002), American poet, playwright, and professor
 * Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish poet
 * Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writer and politician
 * István Koháry (1649–1731), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Ferenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Aladár Komját (1891–1937), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948), American poet and teacher; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994
 * Béla Kondor (1931–1972), Hungarian poet, prose writer and painter
 * Faik Konitza (1875–1942), Albanian poet
 * Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish poet and athlete
 * Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish poet, novelist and children's writer
 * Ted Kooser (born 1939), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 2004–2006
 * Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876–1901), Polish poet and translator
 * Julian Kornhauser (born 1946), Polish poet, novelist and critic
 * Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish poet, playwright and translator (father of Joseph Conrad)
 * Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), Slovene expressionist poet
 * József Kossics (Jožef Košič, 1788–1867), Hungarian/Slovene poet and priest
 * Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serbian poet, writer, and polyglot
 * Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936), Hungarian poet and prose writer
 * Urszula Kozioł (born 1931), Polish poet
 * Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovene poet, translator, and anthropologist
 * Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), Polish poet and novelist
 * Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859), Polish poet
 * Zlatko Krasni (1951–2008), Serbian poet
 * Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), American poet and children's book author
 * Krayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor, and poet
 * Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1940), American writer; Poet Laureate of Virginia
 * Katarzyna Krenz (born 1953), poet, novelist and painter
 * Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian/Yugoslav poet and novelist
 * Antjie Krog (born 1952), South African poet, academic and writer
 * Józef Krupiński (1930–1998), Polish poet
 * Ryszard Krynicki (born 1943), Polish poet and translator
 * Marilyn Krysl (born 1942), American poet and short story writer
 * Andrzej Krzycki (1482–1537), Polish poet and archbishop


 * Žofia Kubini (17th c.), Hungarian poet writing in early Czech
 * Paweł Kubisz (1907–1968), Polish poet and journalist
 * Péter Kuczka (1923–1999), Hungarian poet and critic
 * Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954), Russian/Irish novelist, poet, and translator
 * Endre Kukorelly (born 1951), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Maxine Kumin (born 1925), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82
 * Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000
 * Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Belarus poet
 * Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), American counterculture poet and author
 * Jalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writer
 * Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet
 * Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet
 * Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), Turkish writer and poet
 * Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), American poet
 * Kusumagraj (1912–1999), Indian Marathi poet, writer, and humanist
 * Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English poet, lawyer, and politician
 * Kyoshi Takahama, known as Kyoshi (1874–1959), Japanese poet

La

 * Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist
 * Ilmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poet
 * Pierre Labrie (born 1972), Canadian poet writing in French
 * László Ladányi (1907–1992), Hungarian-Israeli poet and writer
 * Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), Franco-Uruguayan poet
 * Jarkko Laine (1947–2006), Finnish poet, writer, and playwright
 * Ivan V. Lalić (1931–1996), Serbian poet
 * Philip Lamantia (1927–2005), American poet and lecturer
 * Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), American poet and hip-hop artist
 * Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet, and politician
 * Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poet
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802–1838), English poet and novelist.
 * Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English writer and poet
 * Antoni Lange (1863–1929), Polish poet, philosopher and translator
 * William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386) probable English author of dream-vision Piers Plowman
 * Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), English poet
 * Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (c. 1510–1556), Hungarian poet and historian
 * Laozi (Lau-tzu) (fl. 6th c. BC), Chinese philosopher and poet of history of ancient China
 * Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet
 * Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), American poet
 * Bruce Larkin (born 1957), American children's author and poet
 * Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelist
 * Claudia Lars (1899–1974), Salvadoran poet
 * Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright
 * Lasus of Hermione (6th c. BC), Greek lyric poet from Hermione in Argolid
 * Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist
 * James Laughlin (1914–1997), American poet and publisher
 * Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), American poet, essayist and professor
 * Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan-born French poet
 * Dorianne Laux (born 1952), American poet
 * Christine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelist
 * D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, and critic
 * Henry Lawson (1867–1922), Australian writer and poet; son of Louisa Lawson
 * Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson
 * Robert Lax (1915–2000), American poet
 * Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepalese poet and scholar
 * Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942), Polish poet

Le

 * Edward Lear (1812–1888), English poet, artist, and illustrator
 * Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist
 * Joanna Lech (born 1984), Polish poet and novelist
 * Jan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish poet, critic, and diplomat
 * Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), Irish war poet
 * David Lee (born 1966), American poet
 * Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor, and critic
 * David Lehman (born 1948), American poet and editor
 * Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translator
 * Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist
 * Brad Leithauser (born 1953), American poet, novelist, and essayist
 * Alexander Lenard (1910–1972) Hungarian writer and poet in several languages
 * Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright
 * Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet
 * Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957), Polish poet and translator
 * Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730 – 1804), Scottish poet and novelist
 * John Leonard (born 1965), Australian poet
 * Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet, essayist, and philologist
 * Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841), Russian writer, poet, and painter
 * Ben Lerner (born 1979), American poet, novelist, and critic
 * Bolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet and artist
 * Rika Lesser (born 1953), American poet and translator
 * Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, and dramatist
 * Denise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born American poet
 * Dana Levin (born 1965), American poet and teacher
 * Philip Levine (born 1928), American poet; 2011–12 US Poet Laureate, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Larry Levis (1946–1996), American poet
 * D. A. Levy (1942–1968), American poet, artist, and alternative publisher
 * William Levy (born 1939), American poet, short story writer, and editor
 * Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poet
 * Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in English, of World War II
 * C S Lewis (1898–1963), Northern Irish novelist, poet, and essayist
 * Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet; inaugural National Poet of Wales
 * J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942), American poet; Children's Poet Laureate (2011–13)
 * Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist, and critic
 * Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and author

Li–Ly

 * Li Houzhu (937–978), poet and last ruler of Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975)
 * José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), Cuban writer and poet
 * Tim Liardet (born 1959), English poet, critic, and professor
 * Li Bai (701–762), Chinese Tang dynasty poet
 * Jerzy Liebert (1904–1931), Polish poet
 * Li Jiao, poet and official under Tang and Zhou dynasties
 * Li Qingzhao (1084–1151), Chinese Song dynasty writer and poet
 * Li Shangyin (813–858), Chinese late Tang dynasty poet
 * Tim Lilburn (born 1950), Canadian poet and essayist
 * Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh
 * Jack Lindeman, American poet and critic
 * Sarah Lindsay, American poet
 * Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet
 * Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), American poet
 * Ewa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poet
 * László Listi (1628–1662), Hungarian poet and counterfeiter of coins
 * Yannis Livadas (born 1969), Greek poet
 * Józef Łobodowski (1909–1988), Polish poet and political thinker
 * Terry Locke (born 1946), New Zealand poet, anthologist, and academic
 * Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and writer
 * Iain Lom (c. 1624 – c. 1710), Scottish Gaelic poet
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and educator
 * Michael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poet
 * Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist, and theater director
 * Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-American writer, poet, and librarian
 * Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poet
 * Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet; 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), American poet, critic, and diplomat
 * Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet; 1947 and 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 1947 US Poet Laureate
 * Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist
 * Solomon Löwisohn (1788–1821), Hungarian Jewish poet and historian in Hebrew and German
 * Mina Loy (1882–1966), English poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Lu You (1125–1209), Chinese Song dynasty poet
 * Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1642–1702), Polish poet, writer and politician
 * Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), Romanian poet and surrealist
 * Lucan (39–65 AD), Roman poet
 * Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), English writer, poet, and broadcaster
 * Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd c. BC), Roman satirist
 * Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st c. AD), poet and procurator of Sicily
 * Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC), Roman poet and philosopher
 * Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), American author, journalist, and explorer
 * Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Luo Binwang (640–684), Chinese early Tang-dynasty writer and poet
 * Thomas Lux (born 1946), American poet
 * Mario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poet
 * John Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poet
 * John Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet and dramatist
 * Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet
 * George Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman, and arts patron

Ma

 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet, historian, and politician
 * George MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelist
 * Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scottish poet
 * Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scottish poets
 * George MacDonald (1824–1905), Scottish poet and novelist
 * Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
 * Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian writer and poet
 * Antonio Machado (1875–1939), Spanish poet
 * Arthur Machen (1863–2000


 * Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist, and poet
 * Archibald MacLeish (1892–1987), American Modernist poet and writer of lots of books; three Pulitzer Prizes
 * Aonghas MacNeacail (born 1942), writer in Scottish Gaelic
 * Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), Irish poet and playwright
 * Hector Macneill (1746–1818), Scottish poet and songwriter
 * James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish writer and poet
 * Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942), African-American writer, poet, and educator
 * John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1941), American poet and aviator
 * Derek Mahon (born 1941), Northern Irish poet
 * Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene military officer, poet, and activist
 * Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi and Hindi poet and playwright
 * János Majláth (1786–1855), Hungarian historian and poet
 * Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet, painter and novelist
 * Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professor
 * Majeed Amjad (1914–1974), Indian/Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
 * Antoni Malczewski (1793–1826), Polish poet
 * Marcin Malek (born 1975), Polish poet, writer and playwright
 * Madayyagari Mallana (15th c.), Telugu poet
 * Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and critic
 * David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet
 * Sir Thomas Malory (1405–1471), English author of Le Morte d'Arthur
 * Goffredo Mameli (1827–1849), Italian patriot, poet, and writer
 * Osip Mandelstam (also Mandelshtam, 1891–1938), Russian poet
 * James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849), Irish poet
 * Bill Manhire (born 1946), New Zealand poet and short story writer; inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate
 * Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st c. AD), Roman poet and astrologer
 * Maurice Manning (born 1966), American poet
 * Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and author
 * Robert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and monk writing in Middle English, French, and Latin
 * Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher
 * Jakobe Mansztajn (born 1982), Polish poet and blogger
 * Manuchehri (Abu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri; 11th c.), royal poet in Persia
 * Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet, novelist
 * Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian poet, novelist and U.S. exile
 * Ausiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knight
 * Morton Marcus (1936–2009), American poet and author
 * Mareez (1917–1983), Indian poet writing in Gujarati
 * Paul Mariani (born 1940), American poet and a professor at Boston College
 * Marie de France (fl. 12th c.), medieval poet probably born in France and resident in England
 * Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet and editor
 * Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), Italian poet
 * E. A. Markham (1939–2008), Montserrat poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Edwin Markham (1852–1940), American poet
 * Đorđe Marković Koder (1806–1891), Serbian poet
 * Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet, and translator
 * Clément Marot (1496–1544), French Renaissance poet
 * Don Marquis (1878–1937), American novelist, poet, and playwright
 * Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and Anglican cleric
 * John Marston (1576–1634), English poet, playwright, and satirist
 * José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer
 * Martial (40 – c. 102 AD), Roman epigrammatist
 * Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist
 * Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish sailor, author, and poet
 * Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), English metaphysical poet and politician
 * John Masefield (1878–1967), English poet and writer; UK Poet Laureate (1930–1967)
 * Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950), American poet, biographer, and dramatist
 * Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.), Welsh poet writing in Welsh
 * János Mattis-Teutsch (1884–1960), Hungarian-Romanian poet and artist
 * Glyn Maxwell (born 1962), British poet, playwright, and librettist
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian/Soviet poet and playwright
 * Karl May (1842–1912), German writer, poet and musician
 * Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and prose writer
 * Ben Mazer (born 1964), American poet and editor

Mc–Me

 * James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian poet and critic
 * Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/American poet and critic
 * J. D. McClatchy (born 1945), American poet and critic
 * Michael McClure (born 1932), American poet, playwright, and novelist
 * John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician, and artist
 * Walt McDonald (born 1934), American poet; Poet Laureate of Texas
 * Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet and stand-up comedian
 * William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), Scottish writer of doggerel
 * Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and poet
 * Campbell McGrath (born 1962), American poet
 * Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet and novelist
 * Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), American poet
 * Heather McHugh (born 1948), American poet, translator, and educator
 * Duncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish poet in Scots Gaelic
 * James McIntyre (1827–1906), Canadian writer of doggerel
 * Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet
 * Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor and educator
 * Rod McKuen (born 1933), American poet, composer and singer
 * James McMichael (born 1939), American poet
 * Ian McMillan (born 1956), English poet, playwright, and broadcaster
 * Meera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna
 * Narsinh Mehta (c. 1414 – c. 1481), Indian poet-saint of Gujarat; bhakta
 * Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese Song dynasty poet
 * Peter Meinke (born 1932), American poet and fiction writer; first Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, FL
 * Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian poet
 * Herman Melville (1819–1891), American novelist, short story writer, and poet
 * Meng Haoran (689 or 691–740), Chinese Tang dynasty poet
 * George Meredith (1828–1909), English poet and novelist
 * Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet
 * Alda Merini (1931–2009) Italian writer and poet
 * Stuart Merrill (1863–1915), American poet writing mainly in French
 * James Merrill (1926–1995), American poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Thomas Merton (1915–1968), American writer and Trappist monk
 * W. S. Merwin (born 1927), American poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate
 * Sarah Messer, (born 1966), American poet and writer
 * Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
 * Henry Meyer (1840–1925), American poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch
 * Ferenc Mező (1885–1961), Hungarian poet

Mi–Mo

 * Henri Michaux (1899–1984), Belgian/French poet, writer, and painter
 * Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564), Italian poet and sculptor
 * Tadeusz Miciński (1873–1918), Polish poet and playwright
 * Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet, essayist, and publicist
 * Veronica Micle (1850–1889), Austria/Romanian poet
 * Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translator
 * Christopher Middleton (born 1926), English poet and translator from Germany
 * Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German writer and poet
 * Josephine Miles (1911–1985), American poet and critic
 * Jennifer Militello, American poet and professor
 * Branko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poet
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyric poet, playwright, and feminist; 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), American writer and poet
 * Grazyna Miller (1957–2009), Italian/Polish poet and translator
 * Jane Miller (born 1949), American poet
 * Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), American poet
 * Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), American poet
 * Thomas Miller (1807–1874), English poet
 * Vassar Miller (1924–1998), American writer and poet
 * Spike Milligan (1918–2002), Irish comedian, poet, and musician
 * Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet; 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * John Milton (1608–1674), English poet, polemicist, and civil servant
 * Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer, and poet
 * Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist, and novelist
 * Matthew Minicucci (born 1981), American poet and teacher
 * Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Chilean poet and feminist; 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist, and playwright.
 * Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American physician and writer
 * Stephen Mitchell, (born 1943) American poet, translator, and anthologist
 * Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), American poet
 * Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg poet
 * Stanisław Młodożeniec (1895–1959), poet
 * Anis Mojgani (born 1977), American spoken-word poet and visual artist
 * Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwright
 * Atukuri Molla (1440–1530), Telugu poet
 * Harold Monro (1879–1932), English poet
 * Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American scholar, critic, and poet
 * John Montague (born 1929), Irish poet
 * Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesman
 * Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, writer, and translator; 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Lenore Montanaro (born 1990), American poet
 * Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar
 * Alan Moore (born 1960), Irish writer and poet
 * Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American poet and writer
 * Merrill Moore (1903–1957), American psychiatrist and poet
 * Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer, and songwriter
 * Dom Moraes (1938–2004)), Goan writer, poet, and columnist
 * Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translator
 * John Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
 * Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975), American poet and author
 * Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German author and poet
 * Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), German poet
 * William Morris (1834–1896), English writer, poet, and designer
 * Jim Morrison (1943–1971), American songwriter and poet
 * Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693), Polish poet
 * Zbigniew Morsztyn (c. 1628–1689), Polish poet
 * Valzhyna Mort (born 1981), Belarus poet
 * Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), American poet, actor, and musician
 * Moschus (fl. 2nd c. BC), ancient Greek bucolic poet
 * Howard Moss (1922–1987), American poet, dramatist, and critic
 * Andrew Motion (born 1952), English poet, novelist, and biographer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom] 1999–2009
 * Enrique Moya (born 1958), Venezuelan poet, fiction writer, and critic

Mu–My

 * Micere Githae Mugo (born 1942), Kenyan playwright, author, and poet
 * Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), Somali poet and religious leader
 * Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet
 * Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar
 * Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish antimilitarist, anarchist essayist, poet and, playwright
 * Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadian poet, novelist, and translator
 * Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer
 * Laura Mullen (born 1958), American poet
 * Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writer
 * George Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian archaeologist, historian, and poet
 * Sheila Murphy (born 1951), American text and visual poet
 * George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet
 * Joan Murray (born 1945), American poet, writer, and playwright
 * Les Murray (1938–2019), Australian poet, anthologist, and critic
 * Richard Murphy (born 1927), Irish poet
 * Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer
 * Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian poet, prose writer, and polyglot
 * Nikola Musulin (fl. 19th c.), Serbian poet
 * Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975), Zimbabwean poet
 * Lam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet in Polish and Vietnamese

N

 * Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist and poet writing in Russian and English
 * Daniel Naborowski (1573–1640), Polish poet
 * Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Gáspár Nagy (1949–2007), Hungarian poet
 * Lajos Parti Nagy (born 1953), Hungarian poet, playwright and critic
 * László Nagy (1925–1978), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Guru Nanak Dev (1469–1539), first Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
 * Nannaya (c. 11th c.), earliest known Telugu author
 * Adam Naruszewicz (1733–1796), Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatist
 * Ogden Nash (1902–1971), American poet known for light verse
 * Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), English playwright, poet, and satirist
 * Imadaddin Nasimi, (died c. 1417), Azerbaijani poet
 * Momčilo Nastasijević (1894–1938), Serbian poet, novelist, and dramatist
 * Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist and poet of Meiji period
 * Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist, and children's writer
 * Nedîm (c. 1681–1730), Ottoman poet
 * Henry Neele (1798–1828), English poet and scholar
 * John Neihardt (1881–1973), American poet, historian, and ethnographer
 * Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet
 * Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), American poet, translator, and children's writer
 * Howard Nemerov (born 1920), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate 1963–64 and 1988–90; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1978
 * István Péter Németh (born 1960), Hungarian poet and literary historian
 * Jan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech journalist, writer and poet
 * Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet and politician; Nobel Prize for Literature 1971
 * Neşâtî, (died 1674), Ottoman Sufi poet
 * Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938), English historian and poet
 * John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer, poet and hymnist
 * Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), Asian American poet
 * Nguyễn Du (1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in the ancient writing script chữ nôm
 * B. P. Nichol (bpNichol, 1944–1988), Canadian poet
 * Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), poet and king of Montenegro
 * Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet
 * Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), English poet
 * Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), American poet
 * Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758–1841), Polish poet, playwright and statesman
 * Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, poet, and philologist
 * Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni) (1911–1938), Albanian poet and writer
 * Nisami (1141–1209), Persian poet
 * Nishiyama Sōin (1605–1682), Japanese haikai poet
 * Moeen Nizami (born 1965), Pakistani poet, scholar and writer
 * Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813–1851), Serbian poet, playwright, and prince-bishop
 * Yamilka Noa, Cuban–Costa Rican poet
 * Gábor Nógrádi (born 1947), Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelist
 * Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and author
 * Fan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian American writer, diplomat, and historian
 * Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer, and professor
 * Harry Northup (born 1940), American actor and poet
 * Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer, feminist and social reformer
 * Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist, and artist
 * Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet
 * Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), (1772–1801), German poet and novelist
 * Franciszek Nowicki (1864–1935), Polish poet and conservationist
 * Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poet
 * Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993), first Aboriginal Australian published poet
 * Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter
 * Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), Palestinian-American poet, songwriter, and novelist
 * Robert Nye (born 1939), English poet, novelist, and children's writer
 * Niyi Osundare (born 1947), Nigerian poet, dramatist, and literary critic

O

 * Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), Serbian philosopher, writer, and poet
 * Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic, and playwright
 * Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and poet
 * Antoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885), Polish poet
 * Ron Offen (1930–2010), American poet, playwright and producer
 * Dennis O'Driscoll (born 1954), Irish poet
 * Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), American writer, poet, and art critic
 * Sharon Olds (born 1942), American poet
 * Mary Oliver (born 1935), American poet; 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Charles Olson (1910–1970), American modernist poet
 * Saishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poet
 * Onomacritus (c. 530 – 480 BC), Attica poet, priest, and seer
 * George Oppen (1908–1984), American poet and political activist
 * Artur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poet
 * Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), American poet, painter, and army officer
 * Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poet
 * Władysław Orkan (1875–1930), Polish poet
 * Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), American poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg
 * Gregory Orr (born 1947), American poet
 * Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer and author of screenplays
 * Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet; 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize
 * Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese Song Dynasty historian, essayist, and poet
 * Ovid, (43 BC – 17 AD), Roman poet
 * Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldier
 * İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar

Pa

 * Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author, and critic
 * Ron Padgett (born 1942), American poet, writer, and translator
 * Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet, Holocaust survivor
 * Grace Paley (1922–2007), American short story writer, poet, and political activist
 * 1,1 - Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poet
 * Michael Palmer (born 1943), American poet and translator
 * Daniele Pantano (born 1976), Swiss poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar
 * Park Yong-rae (1925–1980), Korean poet
 * Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, and satirist
 * Thomas Parnell (1679–1718), Irish poet and clergyman
 * Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean mathematician and poet
 * Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), Italian poet
 * Ámbar Past (born 1949), Mexican poet, visual artist
 * 37,26 - Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist and translator
 * Ravji Patel (1939–1968), Indian poet
 * Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) (1864–1941), Australian bush poet, journalist and author
 * Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician
 * Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), English poet and critic
 * 0,1 - Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet
 * Paul I, Prince Esterházy (1635–1713) Austro-Hungarian poet
 * 3,0 -Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist, and critic
 * Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet and dramatist
 * 79,37 - Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat

Pe–Pl

 * Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English poet and novelist
 * Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish poet, writer, and political activist; leader of Easter Rising
 * James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), American poet and publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1953–1981
 * Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist, and editor
 * Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), American poet
 * Gabino Coria Peñaloza (1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricist
 * Sam Pereira (living), American poet
 * Lucia Perillo (1958–2016), American poet
 * Persius (AD 34–62), Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin
 * Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic
 * Robert Peters (born 1924), American poet, scholar, and playwright
 * Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet; "Father of Humanism"
 * Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and prose writer
 * Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist
 * Veljko Petrović (1884–1967), Serbian poet, prose writer, and theorist
 * Mirko Petrović-Njegoš (1820–1867), Serbian and Montenegrin poet, soldier, and diplomat
 * Mario Petrucci (born 1958), English poet, author, and translator of Italian origin
 * Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), English poet and politician
 * Katherine Philips (1632–1664), Anglo-Welsh poet
 * Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and documentary film maker
 * Pindar (522–443 BC), Theban lyric poet in Greek
 * 5,3 - Robert Pinsky (born 1940), American poet, critic, and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet Laureate
 * Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet; first woman awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1955
 * 11,11 - Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet, and philosopher
 * Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet and novelist; 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry as first posthumous recipient
 * William Plomer (1903–1973), South African novelist, poet, and editor, in English

Po–Pu

 * Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American author, poet, and critic
 * Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English poet
 * Edward Pollock (1823–1858), American poet and lawyer
 * Vasko Popa (1922–1991), Serbian poet of Romanian descent
 * Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet
 * Antonio Porchia (1885–1968), Italian Argentinian poet
 * Judith Pordon, (born 1954), American poet, writer, and editor
 * Peter Porter (1929–2010), England-based Australian poet
 * Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writer
 * Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic; promoted Imagism
 * Adélia Prado (born 1935), Brazilian writer and poet
 * Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English politician and poet
 * Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Indian poet in Hindi
 * E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poet
 * Petar Preradović (1818–1872), Croatian poet, writer, and general
 * France Prešeren (1800–1849), Carniolan Romantic poet
 * Jacques Prévert (1900–1977), French poet and screenwriter
 * Richard Price (born 1966), Scottish poet, novelist, and translator
 * Robert Priest (born 1951), English-born Canadian poet, children's author, and singer/songwriter
 * F. T. Prince (1912–2003), English poet and academic
 * Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomat
 * Bryan Procter (1787–1874), English poet
 * Sextus Propertius (50 or 45–15 BC), Latin elegiac poet of Augustan age
 * Kevin Prufer (born 1969), American poet, academic, and essayist
 * J H Prynne (born 1936), English poet; British Poetry Revival
 * Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet best known for Morgante
 * Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist, and playwright

Q

 * 2,4 - Qu Yuan (343–278 BC), Chinese poet of Warring States period
 * 1,0 - Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poet
 * 4,4 - Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ra–Re

 * Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist
 * Branko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poet
 * Sam Ragan (1915–1996), American poet, journalist, and writer; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1982–96
 * Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnist; key figure in Bengali literature
 * Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet associated with Martian poetry
 * Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic, and scholar
 * Samina Raja (born 1961), Pakistani poet, writer, and broadcaster
 * Milan Rakić (1876–1938), Serbian poet
 * Carl Rakosi (1903–2004), American Objectivist poet
 * Martin Rakovský (c. 1535–1579), Hungarian poet and scholar
 * Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English writer, poet, and explorer
 * Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
 * Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright and publisher
 * Dudley Randall (1914–2000), African-American poet and publisher
 * Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatist
 * John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet, essayist, and magazine editor
 * Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
 * Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), American poet and critic
 * Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist
 * Tom Raworth (born 1938), British poet and visual artist; key figure in the British Poetry Revival
 * Herbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
 * Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet
 * James Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright, and professor
 * Malliya Rechana (mid 10th c, C.E.), Telugu poet
 * Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poet
 * Henry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator, and radio dramatist
 * Ishmael Reed (born 1938), American poet, playwright and novelist
 * Ennis Rees (1925–2009), American poet, professor, and translator; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1984–85
 * James Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer, and writer on traditional song
 * Abraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author, and children's author
 * Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist, and cartoonist
 * James Reiss (born 1941), American poet
 * Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569), Polish poet and prose writer
 * Robert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet and amateur naturalist
 * Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960), French poet inspired by and influencing Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism
 * 4,1 - Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), American poet, translator, and critical essayist
 * Sydor Rey (1908–1979), Polish poet and novelist

Ri–Ry

 * Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (1925–2009), Ecuadorian poet
 * Stan Rice (1943–2002), American poet and artist; husband of author Anne Rice
 * Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist, and feminist
 * John Richardson (1817–1886), English poet of the Lake District
 * Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic, and journalist
 * Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born American anarchist poet and editor
 * Laura Riding (1901–1981), American poet, critic, and novelist
 * Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editor
 * James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), American writer, poet; known as Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet
 * John Riley (1937–1978), English poet associated with British Poetry Revival
 * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet
 * Gopal Prasad Rimal (1918–1973), Nepali poet and playwright
 * Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet; part of Decadent movement
 * Alberto Ríos (born 1952), American poet and professor
 * Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar writing in Urdu and Persian
 * Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet
 * Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet and writer, editor 1936 Faber Book of Modern Verse
 * Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), American poet; won three Pulitzer Prizes
 * Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist
 * Roland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writer
 * Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898), Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist
 * W R Rodgers (1909–1969), Northern Irish poet, essayist, and Presbyterian minister
 * José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971), Panamanian poet and artist
 * Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), American poet; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poet
 * Rognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saint
 * Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), American poet
 * Géza Röhrig (born 1967), Hungarian poet and actor
 * David Romtvedt (living), American poet
 * Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet
 * Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poet
 * Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009), American poet, artist, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
 * Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), American poet, writer, and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
 * Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet of World War I
 * Barbara Rosiek (born 1959), Polish poet, writer and psychologist
 * Alan Ross (1922–2001), English poet, cricket writer, and editor
 * Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), English poet, illustrator and painter; co-founded Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * Andrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet
 * Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist, and playwright
 * Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715
 * Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), English poet and pamphleteer
 * Susanna Roxman (living), English poet born in Sweden
 * Istvan Rozanich (1912–1984), exiled Hungarian poet
 * Tadeusz Różewicz (born 1921), Polish poet and writer
 * Ljubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poet
 * Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator, and professor
 * Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), American poet and political activist
 * Zygmunt Rumel (1915–1943), Polish poet and partisan
 * Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic
 * Paul-Eerik Rummo (1942), Estonian poet
 * Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet; national poet of Finland, wrote in Swedish
 * Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), American comedian; regarded as "poet laureate of television"
 * Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwright
 * Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (born 1935), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist
 * Ryōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

Sa–Se

 * Umberto Saba (1883–1957), Italian poet and novelist
 * Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), Mexican poet
 * Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright; 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638–1706), English poet and courtier
 * Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), English statesman, poet, and dramatist
 * Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English author, poet and gardener
 * Saʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), medieval Persian poet
 * Ahmad Shamloo (December 12, 1925 – July 24, 2000), Persian poet, writer, and journalist
 * Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), American poet, novelist, and children's writer
 * Ali Ahmad Said (Adunis) (born 1930), Syrian poet, essayist, and translator
 * Mellin de Saint-Gelais, (c. 1491–1558), French Renaissance poet; Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
 * Akim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist regarded as first Nanai language writer
 * Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-American poet; associated with Black Arts Movement
 * Michal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet
 * Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), American poet, writer, and editor; three Pulitzer Prizes
 * Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian poet, humanist, and epigrammist from Naples
 * Ann Sansom, English poet and writing tutor
 * Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924), Bosnian Serb poet
 * Taneda Santōka (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet
 * Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet and fiction writer
 * Sappho (c. 630–612–c. 570 BC), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
 * Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet in Latin
 * William Saroyan (1908–1981), American author of Armenian descent
 * Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poet
 * Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, short-story writer, and literary critic
 * Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), American poet and artist; founded International Society for Krishna Consciousness
 * William Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet writing in Welsh
 * Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet; subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage
 * Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), American poet, writer, and playwright; associated with Language poets and Beat poets
 * Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet
 * Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), American poet, architect, and short story writer
 * Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French
 * Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, and playwright
 * Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator
 * Dennis Schmitz (born 1937), American poet
 * Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatist
 * Philip Schultz (born 1945), American poet; 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * James Schuyler (1923–1991), American poet; 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Morning of the Poem
 * Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), American poet and short story writer
 * Alexander Scott (c. 1520–1582/83), Scottish poet
 * Alexander Scott (1920–1989), Scottish poet and playwright
 * Frederick George Scott (1861–1944), Canadian poet and author, father of F. R. Scott
 * F. R. Scott (1899–1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
 * Tom Scott (1918—1995), Scottish poet
 * Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
 * Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), American soul musician and jazz poet
 * George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
 * Peter Seaton (1942–2010), American Language poet
 * Władysław Sebyła (1902–1940), Polish poet
 * Johannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch Neo-Latin poet
 * Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639–1701), English poet, wit, and dramatist
 * George Seferis (pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs) (1900–1971), Greek poet, Nobel laureate, and Ambassador to UK
 * Ehsan Sehgal (born 1951), Pakistani poet and writer writing in Urdu
 * Hugh Seidman (born 1940), American poet
 * Rebecca Seiferle, American poet
 * Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist; 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist, and journalist
 * Semonides of Amorgos (c. 7th c. BC), Greek iambic and elegiac poet
 * Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist; first president of Senegal
 * Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poet; called "Bard of the Yukon"
 * Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet
 * Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, short-story writer, and children's novelist

Sh–Sj

 * Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–92
 * Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author
 * William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwright
 * Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), American rapper, actor, and black activist
 * Otep Shamaya (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, actress, and poet; lead singer of Otep
 * Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), American playwright and poet
 * Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor, and lecturer
 * Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), American poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1946–47
 * Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), American poet
 * Luci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poet
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), major English Romantic poet
 * William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet
 * Bhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poet
 * Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artist
 * Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese author, poet, and literary critic
 * Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet
 * James Shirley (1596–1666), English dramatist
 * Avraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor
 * Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), English poet, courtier and soldier
 * Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet and critic; founded philosophy of Aesthetic Realism
 * Robert Siegel (1939–2012), American poet and novelist
 * August Silberstein (1827–1900), Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in German
 * Jon Silkin (1930–1997), English poet
 * Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet; associated with Language poetry
 * Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), American poet, musician, and children's writer
 * Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist, and journalist
 * Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-American poet; 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008
 * Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BC), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea
 * Simiso Slashfire Sokhela (born 1991), South African Author, Poet and Public Speaker.
 * Louis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poet; 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), American poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000
 * Burns Singer (1928–1964), American poet usually identified with Scotland, where he was raised
 * Marilyn Singer (born 1948), American children's writer and poet
 * Ervin Šinko (1898–1967), Croatian-Hungarian poet and prose writer
 * Lemn Sissay (born 1967), English author and broadcaster
 * Charles Hubert Sisson (1914–2003), English writer, best known as poet and translator
 * Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic; eldest of three literary Sitwells
 * Sjón (born 1962), Icelandic author and poet

Sk–Sp

 * Egill Skallagrímsson (c. 910–c. 990), Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer, the protagonist of Egil's Saga
 * John Skelton (1460–1529), English poet
 * Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-American poet
 * Ed Skoog (born 1971), American poet
 * Jan Stanisław Skorupski (born 1938), Polish poet, essayist and esperantist
 * Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), Bulgarian poet
 * Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), Bulgarian poet, publicist, and folklorist
 * Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971), Australian poet and journalist
 * Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovene bishop, author, and advocate of Slovenian culture
 * Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976), Polish poet, playwright and artist
 * Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet; one of "Three Bards" of Polish literature
 * Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet
 * Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet and playwright
 * Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
 * Bruce Smith (born 1946), American poet
 * Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist
 * Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American poet, sculptor, and author
 * Margaret Smith (born 1958), American poet, musician, and artist
 * Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist
 * Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist
 * Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scots poet in Lallans
 * Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), American poet, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * William Jay Smith (born 1918), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–1970
 * Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author
 * William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), American poet; 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Gary Snyder (born 1930), American poet, essayist, and environmentalist; 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Swedish-speaking Finnish poet
 * Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
 * David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist, and travel writer
 * William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet
 * Sophocles, (c. 496 – 406 BC), Athenian tragedian
 * Charles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poet of World War I
 * Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-American author and poet
 * William Soutar (1898–1943), Scottish poet in English and Braid Scots
 * Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poet
 * Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Romantic poet, Lake Poet and UK Poet Laureate (1813–43)
 * Robert Southwell (1561–1595), English Catholic Jesuit priest, poet and clandestine missionary
 * Wole Soyinka (born 1934), Nigerian poet and playwright and poet; 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), English poet, translator, and editor
 * Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist. and essayist; US Poet Laureate 1965–66
 * Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet best known for The Faerie Queene

St–Sz

 * Edward Stachura (1937–1979), poet, prose writer and translator
 * Leopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poet
 * William Stafford (1914–1993), American poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–71
 * A.E. Stallings (born 1968), American poet and translator
 * Jon Stallworthy (born 1935), English academic, poet and literary critic
 * Harold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet and novelist
 * Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poet
 * Ann Stanford (1916–1987), American poet
 * Anna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poet
 * George Starbuck (1931–1996), American neo-formalist poet
 * Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960), Polish poet and novelist
 * Statius (c. 45–96), Roman poet
 * Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand novelist, poet and critic
 * Stesichorus (c. 640–555 BC), Greek lyric poet
 * Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet, living in Austria
 * Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poet
 * Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American Modernist innovator in prose and poetry, and art collector
 * Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction
 * Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), American poet and advocate
 * George Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomat
 * Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish poet and art critic
 * Gerald Stern (born 1925), American poet
 * Marinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poet
 * C. J. Stevens (born 1927), American writer of poetry, short stories, and biography
 * Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), American Modernist poet
 * Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer
 * Margo Taft Stever, American poet
 * Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), American classical scholar and poet
 * James Still (1906–2001), American poet, novelist and folklorist
 * Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet
 * Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-American poet, writer, and philosopher
 * Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
 * Ruth Stone (1915–2011), American poet, author and teacher
 * Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), American poet and editor
 * Edward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet, associated with Imagism
 * Theodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poet
 * Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin American Modernist poet
 * Mark Strand (born 1934), Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–91
 * Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet, and novelist
 * Joseph Stroud (born 1943), American poet
 * Jesse Stuart (1907–1984), American writer known for short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia


 * Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty writer, poet, and artist
 * Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 AD), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi Dynasty
 * Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of the card game cribbage
 * Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), ruler of Ottoman Empire and Islamic poet
 * Jovan Sundečić (1825–1900), Serbian poet
 * Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), Turkish poet and writer
 * Abhi Subedi (born 1945), Nepalese poet, playwright, and critic
 * Pingali Surana (16th c.), Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas
 * Robert Sward (born 1933), American and Canadian poet and novelist
 * Cole Swensen (born 1955), American poet, translator, and copywriter; Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2006
 * Karen Swenson (born 1936), American poet
 * May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright
 * Marcin Świetlicki (born 1961), Polish poet, prose writer and musician
 * Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright, and novelist
 * Anna Świrszczyńska (aka Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poet
 * Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet
 * Arthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and magazine editor
 * John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet, and collector of folklore
 * Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), Polish poet and translator in the Russian Empire
 * Lőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), Hungarian poet and literary translator
 * Fruzina Szalay (1864–1926), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581), Polish poet, also in Latin
 * Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese American poet
 * [[Bertalan Szemere (1812–1869), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Gyula Szentessy (1870–1905), Hungarian poet
 * George Szirtes (born 1948), Hungary-born British poet and translator
 * Janusz Szpotański (1929–2001), Polish poet, satirist and translator
 * Włodzimierz Szymanowicz (1946–1967), Polish poet and painter
 * Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist, and translator; Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
 * Szymon Szymonowic (1558–1629), Polish poet

Ta–Te

 * Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali polymath; 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Judit Dukai Takách (Malvina, 1795–1836), Hungarian poet
 * Bogi Takács (born 1983), Hungarian poet and fiction writer in the U.S.
 * Taliesin (fl. 6th c.), British poet of post-Roman period
 * Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915–1983), Tamil poet, editor, and critic
 * Maxim Tank (1912–1996), Belarusian poet
 * Tao Qian (365–427), Chinese poet of Six Dynasties period
 * Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (born 1976), Macedonian poet, essayist, and literary critic
 * Alain Tasso (born 1962), Franco-Lebanese poet, painter, and critic
 * Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet; best known for Jerusalem Delivered
 * Allen Tate (1899–1979), American poet, essayist, and social commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–44
 * James Tate (born 1943), American poet; 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet
 * Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician, and pastor
 * Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writer
 * Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatist
 * Henry S. Taylor (born 1942), American poet; 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist
 * Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyric poet
 * Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
 * Telesilla (fl. 510 BC), Greek poet
 * William Tennant (1784–1848), Scottish scholar and poet.
 * Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1850–1892
 * Vahan Terian (1885–1920), Armenian poet, lyricist, and public activist
 * Elaine Terranova (born 1939), American poet
 * Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-American poet; author of oldest known work by African American
 * A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), English poet
 * Neyzen Tevfik (1879–1953), Turkish poet, satirist, and ney performer"

Th–To

 * Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), Hungarian poet and politician
 * Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), American writer and poet
 * John Thelwall (1764–1834), English poet and essayist
 * Theocritus (fl. 3rd c. BC), Greek bucolic poet
 * Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet
 * Nandi Thimmana (15th to 16th cc.), Telugu poet, one of the Astadiggajas at court of King Krishnadevaraya
 * Thiruvalluvar (31 BC), Tamil poet and philosopher
 * Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer in English
 * Edward Thomas (1878–1917), Welsh poet and essayist in English
 * Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), American poet and critic
 * R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet in English and Anglican priest
 * John Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poet
 * John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), American poet, journalist, editor, and publisher
 * Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and ascetic
 * James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright; lyrics of Rule, Britannia!
 * James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poet
 * Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American author, poet, and philosopher
 * Georg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymn writer
 * Maria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymn writer
 * Anthony Thwaite (born 1930), English poet and writer
 * Tibullus (c. 54–19 BC), Latin poet and writer of elegies
 * Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), English conspirator and poet
 * Thomas Tickell (1685–1740), English poet and man of letters
 * Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, translator, editor, and critic
 * Tikkana (1205–1288), Telugu poet, translator of Mahabharata
 * Gary Tillery (born 1947), American writer, poet, and artist
 * Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poet
 * 1,2 - Henry Timrod
 * Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poet
 * Nick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet, and broadcaster
 * Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), American Modernist poet, educator, and columnist
 * Charles Tomlinson (born 1927), English poet and translator
 * Jean Toomer (1894–1967), American poet and novelist; important figure in Harlem Renaissance
 * Mihály Tompa (1819–1868), Hungarian poet and pastor
 * Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), Peruvian poet
 * Kálmán Tóth (1831–1881), Hungarian poet
 * Krisztina Tóth (born 1967), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Sándor Tóth (1939–2019), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), English poetic dramatist
 * Ann Townsend (born 1962) American poet and essayist

Tr–Tz

 * Thomas Traherne (1636/37–1674), English poet, clergyman, and religious writer
 * Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian Expressionist poet
 * Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), American poet
 * Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian writer and poet
 * Duško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writer
 * Calvin Trillin (born 1935), American humorist, poet, and novelist
 * Suryakant Tripathi (1896–1961), Indian poet in Hindi and Bengali
 * Quincy Troupe (born 1939), American poet, editor, journalist and professor
 * Tõnu Trubetsky (Tony Blackplait) (born 1963), Estonian glam punk musician and poet
 * Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian Soviet poet
 * Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
 * Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893), English poet and religious writer
 * Tulsidas (1497/1532–1623), Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher
 * Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian writer and public activist; considered national poet of Armenia
 * Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886–1913), Tatar poet, critic, and publisher
 * George Turberville (c. 1540 – c. 1597), English poet
 * Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), English poet, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson
 * Julian Turner (born 1955), English poet and mental health worker
 * Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), English poet and farmer
 * Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008), New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry
 * Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent
 * Jan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priest
 * Chase Twichell (born 1950), American poet, professor, and publisher
 * Pontus de Tyard, (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priest; member of "La Pléiade"
 * Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poet
 * Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artist; a founder of Dada movement

U

 * Kornel Ujejski (1823–1897) Polish poet and political writer
 * Erzsi Újvári (1899–1940), Hungarian poet
 * Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), American Beat poet
 * Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885–1945), Telugu poet; sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham
 * Jeff Unaegbu (born 1979), Nigerian writer, actor, and documentary film maker
 * Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish essayist, novelist, and poet
 * Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), Italian poet, critic, and academic; 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
 * Unorthodox Australian Poet (born 1965), Australian poet
 * Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), American poet, anthologist, and critic; US Poet Laureate 1961–62
 * John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, and literary critic
 * Allen Upward (1863–1926), Irish-English poet, lawyer and teacher; Imagist poet
 * Amy Uyematsu (born 1947), Japanese-American poet

V

 * János Vajda (1827–1897), Hungarian poet and journalist
 * Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French author and poet of the Symbolist school
 * Alfonso Vallejo (born 1943), Spanish artist, playwright, and poet
 * César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet, writer, and playwright
 * Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French-speaking Swiss poet and writer
 * Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature
 * Cor Van den Heuvel (born 1931), American haiku poet, editor, and archivist
 * Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–93
 * Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer, and fashion designer
 * Nikola Vaptsarov (1909–1942), Bulgarian Communist poet
 * Varand, (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer, and professor of literature
 * Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987), Indian poet writing in Hindi
 * Dimitris Varos (born 1949), modern Greek poet, journalist, and photographer
 * Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
 * Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556), English poet
 * Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – after 1570), Portuguese poet and courtier
 * Vazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili) (1861–1915), Georgian poet and writer
 * Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003), American poet and educator
 * Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
 * Attila Végh (born 1962), Hungarian poet and philosopher
 * Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458), Italian poet who wrote in Latin
 * Vemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu language poet
 * Gavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. 1680–1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet, and illuminator
 * Helen Vendler (born 1933), American poetry critic and professor
 * Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), Catalan poet; a prominent figure in Renaixença
 * Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet associated with Symbolist movement
 * Paul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poet
 * Veturi Sundararama Murthy (1936–2010), known as Veturi, Telugu poet and song-writer
 * Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937), French symbolist poet
 * Peter Viereck (1916–2006), American poet, professor and political thinker
 * Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
 * Judit Vihar (born 1944), Hungarian poet and literary historian
 * Jose Garcia Villa (1908–1997), Filipino poet, literary critic, and painter
 * Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), Mexican poet and playwright
 * François Villon (c. 1431–1464), French poet, thief, and barroom brawler
 * Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70–19 BC), ancient Roman poet of Augustan period
 * Roemer Visscher (1547–1620), Dutch salesman, writer and poet
 * Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805), Hungarian poet
 * Mihailo Vitković (1778–1829), Hungarian poet in Serbian and lawyer
 * Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer
 * (Had a park in Amsterdam named after him; 3,0 about the park) Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch playwright and poet
 * 22,14 - Vyasa, revered Hindu figure; considered the author of Mahabharata and some Vedas (not really a poet tho)

Wa–Wh

 * 2,2 - Wace (c. 1110–after 1174), Norman poet
 * Sidney Wade (born 1951), American poet and professor
 * 1,1 - John Wain (1925–1994), English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with The Movement
 * Diane Wakoski (born 1937), American poet; associated with deep image, confessional and Beat generation poets
 * Derek Walcott (born 1930), Saint Lucian poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Anne Waldman (born 1945), American poet
 * Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-American poet, translator, and publisher
 * 9,1 - Arthur Waley (1889–1966), English orientalist and Sinologist; poet and translator
 * Alice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet, and activist
 * Margaret Walker (1915–1998), African-American writer
 * Edmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politician
 * Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer
 * Robert Walser (1878–1956), German-speaking Swiss writer
 * Connie Wanek (born 1952), American poet
 * Aleksander Wat (1900–1967), Polish poet and memoirist
 * Wang Wei (王維, 701–761), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, and painter
 * Wang Wei (王微, 1597–1647), Chinese priestess and poet
 * Emily Warn, American poet
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poet
 * Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic; a founder of New Criticism
 * Thomas Warton (1728–1790), English literary historian, critic, and poet
 * Albert Wass (1908–1998), Hungarian poet and novelist exiled to the U.S.
 * Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Welsh poet, translator, and painter
 * Thomas Watson (1555–1592), English lyric poet writing in English and Latin
 * Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972), Australian poet
 * George Watsky (born 1986), American poet and rapper
 * Barrett Watten (born 1948), American poet, editor, and educator; associated with Language poets
 * Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English hymnist and logician
 * Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), English critic and poet
 * Tom Wayman (born 1945), Canadian poet, author, and educator
 * Adam Ważyk (1905–1982), Polish poet and essayist
 * Francis Webb (1925–1973), Australian poet
 * John Webster (c. 1580–c. 1634), English dramatist
 * Rebecca Wee, American poet, professor
 * Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), American Language poet
 * Sándor Weöres (1913–1989), Hungarian poet and translator
 * Wei Yingwu (737–792), Chinese poet
 * Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), Chinese poet
 * Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), American poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
 * Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English leader of Methodist movement, and prolific hymnist
 * Gilbert West (1703–1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologist
 * Philip Whalen (1923–2002), American poet, Zen Buddhist, and figure in San Francisco Renaissance
 * Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet
 * Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Norwegian-Danish poet
 * Mary Whateley (1738–1825), English poet and playwright
 * Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-American poet
 * E.B. White (1899–1985), American essayist, author, and humorist
 * Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), English poet
 * James L. White (1936–1981), American poet, editor, and teacher
 * Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, essayist, and humanist
 * Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), English poet
 * Reed Whittemore (1919–2012), American poet, biographer, and critic
 * John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), American poet

Wi–Wy

 * Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator
 * 1,0 - John Wieners (1934–2002), American lyric poet
 * Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), Polish poet and journalist
 * Richard Wilbur (born 1921), American poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–88, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1957 and 1989
 * Jane Wilde (1826–1896), Irish poet and nationalist
 * Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, playwright, and poet
 * John Wilkinson (born 1953), English poet
 * William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126), best known as earliest troubadour whose works have survived
 * Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), British poet, writer and, missionary
 * Emmett Williams (1925–2007), American poet and visual artist
 * Jonathan Williams (1929–2008), American poet, publisher, and essayist
 * Heathcote Williams (1941–2017), English poet, political activist, and dramatist
 * Miller Williams (born 1930), American poet, translator, and editor
 * Oscar Williams (1900–1964), Jewish Ukrainian-American anthologist and poet
 * Saul Williams (born 1972), African-American singer, poet, writer, and actor
 * Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), African-American poet, novelist, and social critic
 * Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh language poet; pacifist and Welsh nationalist
 * William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician; associated with Modernism and imagism
 * William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist
 * Clive Wilmer (born 1945), English poet
 * John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English poet, courtier, and satirist
 * Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), American poet and editor
 * Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, born 1945), American political and cultural writer, essayist, and poet
 * Christian Wiman (born 1966), American poet and editor
 * David Wingate (1828–1892), Scottish poet and collier
 * Yvor Winters (1900–1968), American poet and literary critic
 * George Wither (1588–1667), English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist
 * Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy, 1885–1939), Polish poet, writer and philosopher
 * Stefan Witwicki (1801–1847), Polish poet
 * Woeser (born 1966), Tibetan activist, poet, and essayist
 * Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971), Polish poet
 * Grażyna Wojcieszko (born 1957), Polish poet and essayist
 * Christa Wolf (1929–2011), German literary critic, novelist, and poet
 * Charles Wolfe (1791–1823), Irish poet
 * Hans Wollschläger (1935–2007), German writer, translator, and historian
 * Sholeh Wolpe (born 1962), Iranian-American poet, literary translator, and playwright
 * Maryla Wolska (Iwo Płomieńczyk, 1873–1930), Polish poet
 * George Woodcock (1912–1995), Canadian writer of biography and history, anarchist thinker, and poet
 * Gregory Woods (born 1953), English poet who grew up in Ghana
 * Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and diarist; sister of William Wordsworth
 * William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet
 * Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), English poet
 * Carolyn D. Wright (born 1949), American poet
 * Charles Wright (born in 1935), American poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * David Wright (1920–1994), South African-born poet and author
 * Franz Wright (born 1953), American poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * James Wright (1927–1980), American poet, father of Franz Wright; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Jay Wright (born 1935), African-American poet, playwright, and essayist
 * Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
 * Lady Mary Wroth (1587–c. 1651), English poet of the Renaissance
 * Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English ambassador and lyrical poet
 * Józef Wybicki (1747–1822), Polish poet and national-anthem writer
 * Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American poet and novelist
 * Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), Welsh language poet
 * Edward Alexander Wyon (1842−1872), English architect and poet

Y

 * 189,68 - W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * 21,10 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko (born 1933), Soviet Russian poet, dramatist, and film director
 * 3,0 - Edward Young (1681–1765), English poet
 * 0,1 - Kevin Young (born 1970, American poet and teacher

Z

 * 0,2 - Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), American poet; one of the primary Objectivist poets
 * 54, 16 - Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), leader of Reformation in Switzerland; poet, hymnist and author of Pestlied