Lists of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

A

Ab–Ak

*Aarudhra (1925–1968), Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry
* Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
*Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet
*Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet and fiction writer
*Siôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeer
*Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet and literary critic
* Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate
* Sam Abrams (born 1935), US poet, editor and critic
*Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet
*Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet
*Dannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh poet in English
*Kathy Acker (1947–1997), US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright
*Diane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist
*Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction
*Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright
*Harold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante
* János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost
*Tamás Aczél (1921–1994), Hungarian poet
*Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic
*Virginia Hamilton Adair (1919–2004), US poet
*Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer
*Draginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serbian poet
*John Adams (1704–1740), US poet
*Léonie Adams (1899–1988), US poet
*Ryan Adams (born 1974), US singer-songwriter and writer
*Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poet
*Fleur Adcock (born 1934), New Zealand poet mainly in England
*Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
*Kim Addonizio (born 1954) US poet and novelist
*Artur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poet
* Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
*Mariska Ady (1888–1977), Hungarian poet
*Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedian
* Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BCE), Roman comic poet
*Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translator
*John Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
*Patience Agbabi (born 1965), British poet and performer
*James Agee (1909–1955), US novelist, screenwriter and poet
*Deborah Ager (born 1977), US poet and editor
* István Ágh (born 1938), Hungarian poet
* Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), US poet
*Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017), Albanian poet
*Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Spanish poet
*Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
*Ishaaq bin Ahmed (1095 – 12th century), Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali Isaaq clan-family
* Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet
*Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1940), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
*Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), US poet and author
* Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poet
*Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian
*Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
* Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
*Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1929–1990), Iranian poet
*Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet
*Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
*Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914–1976), Indian Urdu poet
*Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
*Salman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian US professor and poet writing in English and Urdu

Al–Am

* Amina Al Adwan (born 1935), Jordanian writer, poet and critic
* Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951-2021), Sudanese poet
*Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman
*Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), Scottish Gaelic poet
*Ave Alavainu (born 1942), Estonian poet
* Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader
* Alcaeus (4th c. BCE), Athenian comic poet in Greek
*Alcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BC), Greek writer of verse epigrams
*Alcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
* Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi (1831–1892), Indian Telugu poet
*Guru Amar Das (1479–1574), Punjabi poet and Sikh guru
*Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956), US poet, scholar and critic
*Alcman (fl. 7th c. BCE), Ancient Greek lyric poet
*Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), US poet and teacher
*Richard Aldington (1892–1962), English poet and writer
*Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890), Romanian poet
*Tudur Aled (c. 1465–1525), Welsh poet writing in Welsh
*Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), Central US poet writing in Spanish
*Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977
* Josip Murn Aleksandrov (1879–1901), Slovene symbolist poet
*Sherman Alexie (born 1966), US poet and writer
*Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), Catalan US novelist and poet
*Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) Indian, Kashmiri and US poet
*Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet
*Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet
*James Alexander Allan (1889–1956), Australian poet
*August Alle (1899–1952), Estonian poet
* William Allegrezza (born 1974), US poet, professor and editor
*Dick Allen (1939–2017), US poet, critic and academic
*Donald Allen (1912–2004), US poet, editor and translator
*Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), US author and poet
* Ron Allen (1947–2010), US poet and playwright
* Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonian poet
*William Allingham (1824 or 1828–1889), Irish poet and man of letters
*Washington Allston (1779–1843), US painter and poet
* Damaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet, philologist and critic
* Alta (Alta Gerrey; born 1942), US poet and writer
*Natan Alterman (1910–1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
*Alurista (born 1947), Chicano poet and activist
*Al Alvarez (fl. 1929–2019), English poet
*Julia Alvarez (born 1950), Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayist
*Betti Alver (1906–1989), Estonian poet
*Moniza Alvi (born 1954), Pakistani-British poet and writer
*Ambroise (fl. c. 1190), Norman-French poet of Third Crusade
*Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet
*Indran Amirthanayagam (born 1960), Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translator
*Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English author and poet
*A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), US author and poet

An–Aq

*Anacreon (570–488 BCE), Greek lyric poet
*Alfred Andersch (1914–1980), German writer and publisher
*Mir Anees or Anis) (1803–1874), Indian poet in Urdu
*Guda Anjaiah (1955–2016), Telugu Indian poet, singer, lyricist and writer from Telangana
*Ardan Angarkhaev (born 1946), Russian poet and writer
*Temsüla Ao (born 1945), Indian Naga poet, short story writer, and ethnographer
*Ana Paula Arendt (born 1980), Brazilian classical poet
*Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet and children's writer
*Victor Henry Anderson (1917–2001), US poet, kahuna and teacher of the Feri Tradition
*Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), Brazilian poet
*Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazilian poet, novelist and critic
* Bernard André (1450–1522), French Augustinian poet: poet laureate to Henry VII of England
* Peter Andrej (born 1959), Slovenian poet and musician
* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writer
*Bruce Andrews (born 1948), US poet of language
* Kevin Andrews (1924–1989), Anglo-Greek philhellene writer and archeologist
*Ron Androla (born 1954), US poet
*Guru Angad (1504–1552), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
*Aneirin (fl. 6th c.), Brythonic epic poet
* Ralph Angel (1951–2020), US poet and translator
*Maya Angelou (1928–2014), US poet
*James Stout Angus (1830–1923), Shetland poet mainly in Shetland dialect
*Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet in Scots
* J. K. Annand (1908–1993), Scottish children's poet
*Mika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poet
*David Antin (1932–2016), US poet and critic
*Antler (born 1946), US poet
*Susanne Antonetta (born 1956), US poet and author
* Brother Antoninus (1912–1994), US poet
* Raymond Antrobus (living), British
*Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), Indonesian poet
* Johannes Anyuru (born 1979), Swedish poet
*Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet
*Apollonius of Rhodes (270 – post–245 BCE), Greek poet and librarian in Alexandria
* Maja Apostoloska (born 1976), Macedonian poet
* Philip Appleman (1926–2020), US poet and professor
*Lajos Áprily (1887–1967), Hungarian poet and translator
* Pawlu Aquilina (1929–2009), Maltese poet

Ar

*Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French poet, novelist and editor
*János Arany (1817–1882), Hungarian poet
*Archilochus (c. 680 – c. 645 BCE), Greek lyric poet
*Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954), US dadaist, critic and poet
*Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), Romanian poet
*Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet
*Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BCE), Greek dramatic poet
*Guru Arjan (1563–1606), Sikh guru and Punjabi poet
*Rae Armantrout (born 1947), US language poet
*Simon Armitage (born 1963), English poet, playwright and novelist
* Richard Armour (1906–1989), US poet and author
*Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German author and poet
*Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), German writer, composer and visual artist
*Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), German poet and novelist
*Craig Arnold (1967–2009), US poet and professor
*Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), English poet and cultural critic
* Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld (Poet of Earls, c. 1012 – 1070s), Icelandic skald
*Jean Arp (1886–1966), German-French sculptor, painter and poet
*Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942), Polish poet
*Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French playwright, poet and essayist

As–Az

* M. K. Asante (born 1982), US author, poet and professor
*John Ashbery (1927–2017), US poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
*Cliff Ashby (1919–2012), English poet and novelist
* Renée Ashley, US poet and novelist
*Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest
*Adam Asnyk (1838–1897), Polish poet and dramatist
*Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), English poet
*Mina Assadi (born 1942), Iranian poet, author and songwriter
*Vishnu Raj Atreya (1944–2020), Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelist
*Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
*W. H. Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-US poet, essayist
* Imre Augustich (Imre Augustič, 1837–1879), Slovenian/Hungarian poet
*Joseph Auslander (1897–1965), US poet, anthologist and novelist; US Poet Laureate, 1937–1941
*Ausonius (c. 310–395), Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala (Bordeaux)
*Paul Auster (born 1947), US poet, playwright and essayist
*James Avery (1948–2013), US actor, poet and screenwriter
*Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
*Krayem Awad (born 1948), Viennese painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin
* Gennady Aygi (1934–2006), Russian poet
*Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970), Nigerian poet
* Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humorous poet
*Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet
*Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, essayist, critic and translator
* Jody Azzouni (born 1954), US philosopher and poet

B

Ba

*Mihály Babits (1883–1941), Hungarian poet and translator
*Ken Babstock (born 1970), Canadian poet
* Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952), US poet and writer of Apache/Chicano descent
*Bacchylides (fl. 5th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet
* Bellamy Bach (fl. 1980s), joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poets
*Harivansh Rai Bachchan (fl. 20th c.), Hindi poet
* Joseph M. Bachelor (also Joseph Morris, 1889–1947), US author, poet and educator
* Simon Bacher (1823–1991), Hebrew poet in Hungary
*Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author
*Sutardji Calzoum Bachri (born 1941), Indonesian poet
*George Bacovia (1881–1957), Romanian poet
*Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944), Polish poet and soldier
*Julio Baghy (1891–1967), Hungarian Esperanto author and poet
*Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
*Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), Scottish poet and dramatist
* József Bajza (1804–1858), Hungarian poet and critic
* Józef Baka (1706/1707–1788), Polish/Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priest
*Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940), Lithuania-US translator, editor and poet
* David Baker (born 1954), US poet
*Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) New Zealand poet and musician
*Bâkî (1526–1600), Ottoman-Turkish language poet (pseudonym of Mahmud Abdülbâkî)
* John Balaban (born 1943), US poet and translator
*Bálint Balassi (1554–1594), Hungarian poet
*Béla Balázs (1884–1949), Hungarian poet and critic
*Edward Balcerzan (born 1937), Polish poet, critic and translator
*Stanisław Baliński (1898–1984), Polish poet and diplomat
*Jesse Ball (born 1978), US poet and novelist
* Zsófia Balla (born 1949), Hungarian poet from Romania
* Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), US poet and suffragist
*Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), Russian symbolist poet and translator
*Russell Banks (born 1940), US fiction writer and poet
* Anne Bannerman (1765–1829), Scottish poet
*Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones) (1934–2014), US writer, poet and dramatist
*Marcin Baran (born 1963), Polish poet and journalist
*Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet, critic and translator
*Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist and children's author
*Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883–1942), Colombian poet and writer
*John Barbour (c. 1320–1395), Scottish poet, first major writer in Scottish English
*Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), English/Scottish poet
* George Barker (1913–1991), English poet and author
*Les Barker (born 1947), English poet
*Coleman Barks (born 1937), US poet
* Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African poet
* Mihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c. 1778–1824), Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary
*Mary Barnard (1909–2001), US poet, biographer and translator
*Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), US writer
* William Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, poet and philologist
* Catherine Barnett (born 1960), US poet and educator
*Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), English poet
*Willis Barnstone (born 1927), US poet and literary translator
* Maria Barrell (died 1803), poet, playwright and writer of periodicals
* Laird Barron (born 1970), US poet, author
*Sándor Barta (1897–1938), Hungarian poet executed in USSR
*Bernard Barton (1784–1849), English poet and Quaker
*Bertha Hirsch Baruch (fl. late 18th – early 19th c.), US writer, poet and suffragist
* Todd Bash (born 1965), US avant-garde playwright, poet and writer
*Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), Japanese renku and haiku poet
* Michael Basinski (born 1950), US text, visual and sound poet
*Ellen Bass (born 1947), US poet
*Arlo Bates (1850–1918), US author, poet and educator
* David Bates (1809–1870), US poet
*Joseph Bathanti (born 1953), US poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate
*János Batsányi (1763–1845), Hungarian poet
* Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), US poet, journalist and educator
*Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, essayist and translator
*Cirilo Bautista (1941–2018), Philippines poet, writer and critic
* Charles Baxter (born 1947), US writer and poet
*James K. Baxter (1926–1972), New Zealand poet

Be

*Jan Beatty (born 1952), US poet
*Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), English poet and dramatist
*Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet
*Joshua Beckman (living), US poet
*Matija Bećković (born 1939), Serbian writer and poet
*Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet and fiction writer
*Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), English poet, dramatist and physician
*Patricia Beer (1919–1999), English poet and critic
*Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration dramatist; early professional female writer
*Ferenc Békássy (1893–1915), Hungarian poet
*Erin Belieu (born 1967), US poet
*Marvin Bell (1937–2020), US poet and teacher; first Poet Laureate of State of Iowa
*Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan poet and novelist
*Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian sonneteer in Romanesco dialect, Romanesco
*Xuan Bello (born 1965), Asturian language, Asturian poet
*Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian
*Andrei Bely (1880–1934), Russian novelist, poet and critic
*Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943), US author, poet and fiction writer
*William Rose Benét (1886–1950), US poet, writer and editor
*Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), English poet, biographer and novelist
*Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet
*Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-US writer and poet
*Jim Bennett (poet), Jim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Liverpool punk era
*Richard Berengarten (born 1943) English poet, writer and translator
*Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer and critic
*İlhan Berk (1918–2008), Turkish poet
*Charles Bernstein (poet), Charles Bernstein (born 1950), US poet and scholar
*Béroul (12th c.), Norman poet of episodic ''Tristan''
*Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016), US poet, priest and peace activist
*Ted Berrigan (1934–1983), US poet
*James Berry (poet), James Berry (1924–2017), Jamaican poet based in England
*Wendell Berry (born 1934), US man of letters, critic and farmer
*John Berryman (1914–1972), US poet and scholar
*Dániel Berzsenyi (1776–1836), Hungarian poet
*Ursula Bethell, Mary Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), New Zealand poet and social worker
*John Betjeman (1906–1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
*Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–1830), English poet, writer and entertainer
*Helen Bevington (1906–2001), US poet, prose writer and educator
*L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), English anarchist poet and essayist

Bh–Bl

*Subramanya Bharathi (1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and Indian independence activist
*Sujata Bhatt (born 1956), Indian poet in Gujarati
*Źmitrok Biadula (1886–1941), Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer and independence activist
*Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983), Polish poet, novelist and playwright
*Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, critic and translator
*Biernat of Lublin (c. 1465 – post-1529), Polish poet and fabulist
*Laurence Binyon (1879–1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar
*Earle Birney (1904–1995), Canadian poet, fiction writer and dramatist
*Nevin Birsa (Slovene poet), Nevin Birsa (1947–2003), Slovene poet
*Balázs Birtalan (1969–2016), Hungarian poet and publicist
*Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), US poet and short-story writer; US Poet Laureate
*Ram Prasad Bismil (1897–1927), poet and revolutionary writing in Urdu and Hindi
*Bill Bissett (born 1939), Canadian anti-conventional poet
*Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975), US Navajo people, Navajo poet
*Paul Blackburn (US poet), Paul Blackburn (1926–1971) US poet
*Richard Palmer Blackmur (1904–1965), US literary critic and poet
*Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), Romanian philosopher, poet and playwright
*Lewis Blake (born 1946), English poet
*William Blake (1757–1827), English painter, poet and printmaker
*Don Blanding (1894–1957), US poet, journalist, writer and speaker
*Adrian Blevins (born 1964), US poet
*Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English poet and writer
*Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet
*Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), US philosopher and poet
*Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English laboring-class poet
*Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet
*Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and literary critic
*Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer
*Robert Bly (1926–2021), US poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement

Bo–Bri

*Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965), East German author and poet
*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), US poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
*Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1441–1494), Italian Renaissance poet
*Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
*Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017), US poet
*Christian Bök (born 1966), experimental Canadian poet
*Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464), English poet and friar
*Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet
*Alan Bold (1943–1998), Scottish poet, biographer and journalist
*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), US poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
*Luke Booker (1762–1835), English poet, cleric and antiquary
*Kurt Boone (born 1959), US poet
*Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine fiction writer, essayist and poet
*Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish writer and journalist
*Hristo Botev (1848–1876), Bulgarian poet and revolutionary
*Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet and verse dramatist
*David Bottoms (born 1949), US poet; Georgia (US state), Georgia Poet Laureate
*Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
*Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner
*Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translator
*Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary
*Kay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and political activist
*Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poet
*Anne Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672) America's first published poet
*Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and literary critic
*Giannina Braschi (born 1953), US poet born in Puerto Rico
*Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbados, Barbadian writer
*Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), US fiction writer and poet
*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), US 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), US poet and scholar; Utah Poet Laureate
*Breyten Breytenbach (born 1939), South-African/French writer, poet and painter
*Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
*Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), Canadian poet, typographer and author

Bro–By

*Geoffrey Brock (born 1964), US poet and translator
*Eve Brodlique (1867-1949), British-born Canadian/American poet, author and journalist
*Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996), Russian poet and essayist
*Wladyslaw Broniewski (1897–1962), Polish poet and soldier
*William Bronk (1918–1999), US poet
*Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë sisters
*Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of three Brontë sisters
*Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet
*Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet
*Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-US poet; 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 Formalism (literature), formalist poet and novelist
*Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet in United States
*Flora Brovina (born 1949), Albanians in Kosovo, Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women's rights activist
*Petrus Brovka (aka Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka) (1905–1980), Soviet Belarusians, Belarusian poet
*George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author and dramatist
*J B Selkirk, James Brown known as J. B. Selkirk (1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist
*Sterling Allen Brown, Sterling Brown (1901–1989), African-US academic writer and poet
*Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx people, Manx poet, scholar and theologian
*Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist
*William Browne (poet), 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), US romantic poet and journalist
*Colette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Ireland, Northern Irish poet
*Bryher (novelist), 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 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 (1940–2016), US poet and playwright
*Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), US poet
*Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet
*Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), US 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), US poet
*John Burnside (writer), John Burnside (born 1955), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes
*William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), US 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), US poet and singer
*Ray Buttigieg (born 1955), poet, composer and musician
*Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian language poet
*Anthony Butts (born 1969), US poet
*Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944–2017), US poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–09
*Witter Bynner (also Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968), US poet, writer and scholar
*Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and literary figure

C

Cab–Cav

*Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
*Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer 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), US poet, memoirist and essayist
*Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator
*Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator
*Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (1600–1681), Spanish dramatist, poet and writer of Spanish Golden Age
*Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet Tatar language, Tatar poet
*Barry Callaghan (born 1937), Canadian author, poet and anthologist
*Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955), Irish poet, novelist and biographer
*Callimachus (c. 305 – c. 240 BCE), Hellenistic period, Hellenistic poet, critic and scholar at Library of Alexandria
*Robert Calvert (1944–1988), South African writer, poet and musician
*Norman Cameron (poet), Norman Cameron (1905–1953), Scottish poet
*Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580), early Portuguese poet
*Angus Peter Campbell (aka Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul, born 1952), Scottish poet, novelist, broadcaster and actor
*David Campbell (poet), David Campbell (1915–1979), Australian poet and wartime pilot
*Roy Campbell (poet), Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist
*Thomas Campbell (poet), 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 (1919–2012), Spanish poet and researcher
*Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980), US poet and lawyer
*Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), Slovene playwright, essayist and poet
*May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poet
*Edip Cansever (1928–1986), Turkish poet
*Cao Cao (155–220), Chinese poet and warlord
*Cao Pi (formally Emperor Wen of Wei) (187–226), Chinese poet and first emperor of state of Cao Wei; second son of Cao Cao
*Cao Zhi (192–232), China, Chinese poet; third son of Cao Cao
*Vahni Capildeo (born 1973), Trinidadian poet
*Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020), Nicaraguan Roman Catholic poet and priest
*Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet and teacher
*Thomas Carew (1595–1639), English Cavalier poet
*Henry Carey (writer), Henry Carey (1687–1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
*Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), English didactic poet
*Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian-US poet associated with Confederation Poets
*Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator, teacher and lawyer
*Jim Carroll (1949–2009), US author, poet and punk rock, punk musician
*Lewis Carroll (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832–1898), English writer, mathematician and photographer
*Hayden Carruth (1921–2008), US poet and literary critic
*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 Blue Stockings Society, bluestocking
*Jared Carter (poet), Jared Carter (born 1939), US poet and editor
*William Cartwright (dramatist), William Cartwright (1611–1643), English dramatist and churchman
*Neal Cassady (1926–1968), figure in 1950s Beat Generation and 1960s psychedelic movement
*Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), US poet and professor
*Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885), Galicians, Galician poet
*Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE), Latin poet under the Roman Republic
*Charles Causley (1917–2003), Cornish people, Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer
*C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933), Greek poet, journalist and civil servant
*Guido Cavalcanti (1250s – 1300), Florence, Florentine poet and friend of Dante Alighieri
*Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian writer, musician and actor
*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
*Thomas Centolella (living), US poet
*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
*Arthur Chapman (poet), Arthur Chapman (1873–1935), US cowboy poet and columnist
*George Chapman (1559–1634), English dramatist, translator and poet
*Fred Chappell (born 1936), US 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
*Angelico Chavez, Reverend Fr. Fray Angelico Chavez (1910–1996), US writer, poet and Franciscan priest
*Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
*Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), Sierra Leone poet and novelist
*Andrea Cheng (1957–2015), Hungarian-US poet and children's author
*Kelly Cherry (born 1940), US 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 de Meun, Jean Chopinel (or Jean de Meun) (c. 1240 – c. 1305), French writer
*Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 12th c.), French poet
*Ralph Chubb (1892–1960), poet, painter and printer
*Charles Churchill (satirist), Charles Churchill (1732–1764), English poet and satirist
*John Ciardi (1916–1986) Italian-US poet, translator and etymologist
*Colley Cibber (1671–1757), English playwright and Poet Laureate
*Jovan Ćirilov (1931–2014), Serbian drama expert, writer and poet
*Carson Cistulli (born 1979), US poet, essayist and English professor
*Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, poet and playwright
*Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), US 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
*Joan Ure, Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright
*Austin Clarke (poet), Austin Clarke (1896–1974), Irish poet
*George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), Canadian poet and academic
*Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet and playwright in English
*Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet, dramatist and diplomat
*Claudian (c. 370–404), Latin poet at court of Emperor Honorius (emperor), Honorius
*Matthias Claudius (Asmus, 1740–1815), German poet
*Hugo Claus (1929–2008), Belgian author, poet and film director
*Brian P. Cleary (born 1959), US humorist, poet and author
*Jack Clemo (1916–1994), English Christian poet
*Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican-US author of fiction, prose poems and literary criticism
*Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), educator and Poet Laureate of Maryland
*Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), English poet, educationalist and assistant to Florence Nightingale

Coa–Con

*Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), US poet and story writer
*Robbie Coburn (born 1994), Australian poet
*Alison Cockburn (1712–1794), Scottish poet, wit and socialite
*Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer
*Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author
*Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
*Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poet
*Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayist
*Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, essayist and poet
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English poet
*Edward Coletti (born 1944), Italian-US poet
*Billy Collins (born 1941), US poet; US Poet Laureate 2001–2003
*William Collins (poet), William Collins (1721–1759), English poet
*William Congreve (playwright), William Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poet
*Stewart Conn (born 1936), Scottish poet and playwright
*Paul Conneally (born 1959), English poet, artist and musician
*Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Anglo-US historian and poet
*Henry Constable (1562–1613), English poet
*David Constantine (born 1944), English poet and translator

Coo–Cz

*Clark Coolidge (born 1939), US poet
*Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
*Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547), English printer, author and translator
*Julia Copus (born 1969), English poet and biographer
*Denys Corbet (1826–1909), Guernsey poet in Guernésiais
*Tristan Corbière (1845–1875), French poet
*Cid Corman (1924–2004), US poet, translator and editor
*Alfred Corn (born 1943), US poet and essayist
*Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet
*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), US Beat poet
*Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), US 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), US 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), US modernist poet
*Stephen Crane (1871–1900), US novelist, short story writer and poet
*Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), English Metaphysical poet
*Robert Creeley (1926–2005), US 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 (poet), Cui Hao (c. 704–754), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
*Countee Cullen (1903–1946), US poet
*Necati Cumalı (1921–2001), Turkish writer of fiction writer, essayist and poet
*E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), US poet, essayist and playwright
*Allan Cunningham (author), Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and author
*James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985), US 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

D

Da–Dh

*Dalpatram (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi) (1820–1898), Indian Gujarati language poet
*Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvador poet
*Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020), Indonesian poet
*Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historian
*David Daniels (poet), David Daniels (1933–2008), US visual poet
*Jeffrey Daniels (author), Jeffrey Daniels (living), African-US poet
*Thomas of Britain, Thomas d'Angleterre, 12th-century poet in Old French
*Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist
*Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925), French-born poet and writer
*Rubén Darío (1867–1916), Nicaraguan poet initiating ''modernismo''
*Keki N. Daruwalla, Keki Daruwalla (born 1937), Indian poet and fiction 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
*Mina Dastgheib (born 1943), Iranian 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), US writer, translator and illustrator
*Donald Davidson (poet), Donald Davidson (1893–1968) US poet, essayist and critic
*John Davidson (poet), John Davidson (1857–1909), Scottish balladeer, playwright and novelist
*Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), US poet
*Donald Davie (1922–1995), English poet and critic
*Alan Davies (poet), Alan Davies (born 1951), US 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 (poet), Jon Davis, US poet
*Edward Davison (poet), Edward Davison (1898–1970), Scottish-US poet and critic; father of poet Peter Davison
*Peter Davison (poet), Peter Davison (1928–2004), US 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
*James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisher
*Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian poet and novelist
*John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist
*Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian critic, poet and essayist
*Jean Louis De Esque (1879–1956), US poet and author
*Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015), US poet
*Jacek Dehnel (born 1980), Polish poet, translator and painter
*Thomas Dekker (writer), 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 poets, Parnassian movement
*Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet in English and Shetland dialect
*François de Malherbe (1555–1628), French poet, critic and translator
*Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poet
*Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), French poet, essayist and translator
*Sir John Denham (c. 1614–1669), English poet and courtier
*Tory Dent (1958–2005), US poet, critic and commentator
*Évariste de Parny (1753–1814), French poet
*Regina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writer
*Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw (1863–1919), Dutch poet and philosopher
*Toi Derricotte (born 1941), African-US poet
*Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), medieval French poet
*John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
*Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), US 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 – 16th cc.), Telugu language poet

Di–Dr

*Souéloum Diagho (living), Tuareg poet
*Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019), Italian-Canadian poet; Poet Laureate of Toronto
*Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), US poet
*James Dickey (1923–1997), US poet and novelist; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to Library of Congress
*Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), US poet
*Matthew Dickman (born 1975), US poet, twin of Michael Dickman
*Michael Dickman (born 1975), US poet
*Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and politician
*Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908–1974), Indian Hindi poet, essayist and academic
*Diane di Prima (1934–2020), US poet
*Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954), French poet
*Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet
*Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008), US poet, novelist
*Tim Dlugos (1950–1990), US poet
*Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and essayist
*Stephen Dobyns (born 1941), US author, novelist and poet
*Lajos Dóczi (1845–1918), Hungarian playwright, poet and politician
*Hendrik Doeff (1777-1835), Dutch lexicographer and poet (in Japanese) and Commissioner in the Dejima trading post
*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
*María Magdalena Domínguez (1922–2021), Spanish poet
*John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist and Anglican cleric
*H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), US Imagist poet
*Ap Chuni Dorji, Bhutanese poet
*Edward Dorn (1929–1999), US poet and teacher
*Tishani Doshi (born 1975), Indian English poet and journalist
*Mark Doty (born 1953), US poet and memoirist
*Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet and children's writer
*Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer and traveler
*Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), US poet and author
*Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), Scottish bishop, makar and translator
*Keith Douglas (1920–1944), English war poet
*Rita Dove (born 1952), US poet and author; US Poet Laureate
*Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), English poet, novelist and short-story writer
*Jane Draycott (living), English poet
*Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet of Elizabethan era
*Aleksander Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), Albanian poet
*John Drinkwater (playwright), John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet and dramatist
*Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet
*William Drummond of Hawthornden, 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 poet, critic and playwright
*Toru Dutt (1856–1877), Indian poet and translator writing in French and English

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), US writer and activist
*Norman Dubie (born 1945), US poet
*Jovan Dučić (1871–1943), Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 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; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
*Alan Dugan (1923–2003), US poet
*Sasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright and translator
*Richard Duke (1658–1711), English clergyman and poet
*Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), African-US poet, novelist and playwright
*William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), Scots makar
*Robert Duncan (poet), Robert Duncan (1919–1988), US poet
*Camille Dungy (born 1972), US poet, academic and essayist
*Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet, academic and critic
*Stephen Dunn (1939–2021), US poet
*Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writer
*Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 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), US poet, writer
*Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607), English courtier and poet.
*Bob Dylan (born 1941), US singer-songwriter and writer

E

*Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poet
*Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), US poet
*Hushang Ebtehaj, Houshang Ebtehaj (1928–2022), Iranian poet
*Russell Edson (1935–2014), US poet, novelist and illustrator
*Terry Ehret (born 1955), US poet
*Max Ehrmann (1872–1945), American writer, poet, and attorney
*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), US/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 (1957–2014), US poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia
*Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US 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
*Yunus Emre (c. 1240 – c. 1321), Turkish poet and Sufi mystic
*Michael Ende (1929–1995), German fantasy and children's writer and poet
*Leszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish, poet, fiction writer and translator
*Paul Engle (1908–1991), US poet, novelist and playwright
*Ennius (c. 239 – c. 169 BCE), 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), US novelist, poet and children's writer featuring Native US heritage
*Haydar Ergülen (born 1956), Turkish poet
*Max Ernst (1891–1976), German poet and artist
*Yerrapragada, Errapragada Erranna, 14th-century Telugu poet
*Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 – c. 1220), German Minnesinger poet and knight
*Clayton Eshleman (1935–2022), US poet, translator and editor
*Martín Espada (born 1957), US poet and teacher
*Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet
*Salvador Espriu (1913–1985), Catalonia, Catalan poet in Spain
*Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), US poet
*Alter Esselin (1889–1974), Yiddish US poet
*Claude Esteban (1935–2006), French poet
*Maggie Estep (born 1963), US slam poet and musician
*Jerry Estrin (1947–1993), US poet and editor
*Euripides (480–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian
*Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet and novelist
*Mari Evans (1923–2017), African-US poet
*William Everson (poet), William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994), US poet and critic
*Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), English poet
*Elisabeth Eybers (1915-2007), South African/Dutch poet; poetry in Afrikaans

F

Fa–Fn

*Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), English poet, hymnist and theologian
*Kinga Fabó (1953–2021), 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 (1929–2009), English poet
*Ahmad Faraz (1931–2008), Pakistani Urdu poet and scriptwriter
*Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English children's writer, playwright and poet
*John Farrell (poet), J. P. Farrell (born 1968), US poet and musician
*Forugh Farrokhzad, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Iranian poet
*Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poet, novelist and playwright
*Károly Fellinger (born 1963) Hungarian poet in Slovakia
*Fenggan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese Zen monk poet under Tang Dynasty
*Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), English poet, biographer and translator
*James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), James Fenton (1931–2021), Northern Irish linguist and poet in Ulster Scots
*James Fenton, 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), Scottish poet
*Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), US 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), US poet, librettist and translator
*Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish poet, writer and gardener
*Roy Fisher (1930–2017), English poet and jazz pianist
*Edward FitzGerald (poet), Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam''
*Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), US 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, Giles Fletcher the Younger (c. 1586–1623), English poet
*John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher (1579–1625), English playwright and poet
*John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), US 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 and poet
*Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist, poet and realist writer
*John Forbes (poet), John Forbes (1950–1998), Australian poet
*Carolyn Forché (born 1950), US poet, editor and translator
*Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), English novelist, poet and critic
*John Ford (dramatist), John Ford (1586–1639), English playwright and poet
*John M. Ford (1957–2006), US 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 (makar), 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 (poet), Robert Francis (1901–1987), US poet
*Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan
*G S Fraser (1915–1980), Scots poet, critic and academic
*Gregory Fraser (born 1963), US poet, editor and professor
*Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian poet and writer
*Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), Canadian poet, politician and playwright
*Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish poet and playwright
*Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), US poet and fiction writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–1986
*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), US poet
*Gene Frumkin (1928–2007), US poet and teacher
*John Fuller (poet), John Fuller (born 1937), English poet and author, son of Roy Fuller
*Roy Fuller (1912–1991), English poet
*Alice Fulton (born 1952), US poet and novelist; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner
*John Furnival (1933–2020), British visual and concrete poet
*Milán Füst (1888–1967), Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright
*Fuzûlî (c. 1483–1556), Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turks, Ottoman poet

G

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 (poet), James Galvin (born 1951), US 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), US novelist, poet and essayist
*Raymond Garlick (1926–2011), Anglo-Welsh poet and editor
*Richard Garnett (writer), Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English scholar, biographer and poet
*Jean Garrigue (1914–1972), US 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 of the 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), US writer, poet and cartoonist
*Juan Gelman (1930–2014), Argentinian poet, writer and translator
*Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet, editor and translator
*Dan Gerber (born 1940), US 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
*Ghalib, Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib (1797–1869) Indian poet in Urdu and Persian
*Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) (born 1946), US children's author, poet and feature writer
*Reginald Gibbons (born 1947), US poet, fiction writer and critic
*Khalil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-US artist, poet and writer
*Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), English poet
*Ryan Giggs (born 1973), Welsh poet, footballer and homewrecker
*Jack Gilbert (1925–2012), US poet
*W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), English poet
*Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), Polish poet
*Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), US Beat Generation poet
*Dana Gioia (born 1950), US writer, critic and poet
*Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), US poet, writer and educator
*Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian poet, playwright and religious thinker
*Lilius Giraldus, 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), US poet; US Poet Laureate
*Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), Indian poet in Punjabi language, Punjabi, Urdu, etc.
*Cyprian Godebski (poet), Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), Polish poet and novelist
*Gérald Godin (1938–1994), Canadian poet in French
*Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), US 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 (1876–1924), Turkish sociologist, writer and poet
*Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and poet
*Pavel Golia (1887–1959), Slovenian poet and playwright
*George Gomori (writer), 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 (writer), Paul Goodman (1911–1972), US 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), US performance poet and artist
*Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Dutch poet and socialist
*Edmund Gosse, 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), US 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 (poet), Alex Grant (living), Scottish US poet and teacher
*Günter Grass (1927–2015), 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
*Alexander Gray (poet), Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Scottish translator, writer and poet
*Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet
*Robert Greene (dramatist), Robert Greene (1558–1592), English author and poet
*Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
*Linda Gregg (1942–2019) US poet
*Horace Gregory (1898–1982), US 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), US poet and writer
*Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnist
*Bill Griffiths (poet), Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), English poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar
*Jane Griffiths (poet), Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historian
*Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978). American poet, photographer and visual artist
*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-US playwright and poet
*Charlotte Forten Grimké (1835–1914), African-US poet
*Rufus W. Griswold (1815–1857), US 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), US poet and prose stylist
*Edgar Guest (1881–1959), English-born US poet
*Paul Guest (living), US 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 Empire, Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet
*Nikolay Gumilyov (1886–1921), Russian poet who founded acmeist poetry, acmeism
*Ivan Gundulić (Gianfrancesco Gondola) (1589–1638), Croatian Baroque poet
*Thom Gunn (1929–2004), Anglo-US poet
*Lee Gurga (born 1949), US haiku poet
*Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and poet
*Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016), Swedish poet, novelist and scholar
*Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 1950), Cuban novelist and poet
*Beth Gylys (born 1964), US poet and professor
*István Gyöngyösi (1620–1704), Hungarian poet
*Géza Gyóni (1884–1917), Hungarian poet
*Brion Gysin (1916–1986), English writer and sound poet
*Gabor G. Gyukics (born 1958), Hungarian-US poet and translator (also in English)

H

Ha

*Rafey Habib (living), Indian-born Muslim poet and scholar
*Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), US poet, translator and critic
*Hadraawi (born 1943), Somaliland poet and songwriter
*Hafez (1315–1390), Persian poet
*Hai Zi (1964–1989), Chinese poet
*John Haines (1924–2011), US poet and educator
*Donald Hall (1928–2018), US poet, writer and critic; 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 of Tang dynasty
*Hanshan (poet), Hanshan (fl. 9th c.), Chinese poet of Tang dynasty
*Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet
*Charles Harpur (1813–1868), Australian poet
*Wilson Harris, Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist
*Jim Harrison (1937–2016), US poet, novelist and essayist
*Tony Harrison (born 1937), English poet and playwright
*Carla Harryman (born 1952), US 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 (1933–2017), 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), US poet; former Poet Laureate
*Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), emir of the Dervish movement (Somali), Dervish movement, of which Las Anod#Diiriye Guure, Diiriye Guure was sultan
*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 in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English
*Gilbert Hay (poet), Gilbert Hay (fl. 15th c.), Scottish poet and translator in Middle Scots
*Robert Hayden (1913–1980), US poet, essayist and educator; 1976 US Poet Laureate
*William Hayley (1745–1820), English writer
*Tony Haynes (American musician), Tony Haynes (born 1960), US 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), US teacher and poet
*John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), English poet and translator
*Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian poet and novelist
*Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), US poet
*Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), US poet, historian and philosopher
*Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), US 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), US 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), US 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 philosopher; brother of George Herbert
*George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
*Mary Sidney, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (née Sidney), early English woman in literature
*Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist
*Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian and literary critic
*Miguel Hernández (1910–1942), Spanish poet and playwright of Generation of '27 and Generation of '36 movements
*Herodas or Herondas (3rd c. BCE), Greek poet and author of humorous dramatic scenes in verse
*Antoine Héroet (died 1568), French poet
*Robert Herrick (poet), Robert Herrick (1591–1674), English poet
*Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish-born English poet and critic
*Hesiod (fl. 750–650 BCE), 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 Hewitt (poet), John Harold Hewitt (1907–1987), Northern Irish poet
*William Heyen (born 1940), US 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), US poet and teacher
*Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright and novelist
*Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), English poet and professor
*Selima Hill (born 1945), English poet
*Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
*Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), US poet
*Hipponax (6th c. BCE) of Ephesus, Ancient Greek iambic poet
*Hirato Renkichi (1893–1922), Japanese avant-garde poet
*Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), Dutch poet
*Jane Hirshfield (born 1953), US poet
*George Hitchcock (poet), George Parks Hitchcock (1914–2010), US poet, playwright and painter
*H. L. Hix (born 1960), US poet and academic
*Marian Hluszkewycz (1877–1935), Russian poet
*Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368 – 1426), English poet and clerk
*Michael Hofmann (born 1957), German-born poet and translator 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 (1933–2010), US author
*John Hollander (1929–2013), Jewish-US poet and literary critic
*Matthew Hollis (born 1971), English poet
*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), US poet, professor and author
*Homer (fl. 8th c. BCE), 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 BCE), Roman lyric poet
*George Moses Horton (1797–1884), African-US poet
*Joan Houlihan, US poet
*A. E. Housman (1859–1936), English poet and classicist
*Libby Houston (living), English poet, botanist and rock climber
*Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), English Renaissance poet
*Richard Howard (1929–2022), US poet, critic and essayist
*Fanny Howe (born 1940), US poet and fiction writer
*Susan Howe (born 1937), US poet, scholar and essayist
*Hrotsvitha (died c. 1002), poet and first known female dramatist, from Lower Saxony
*Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949), Bangladeshi poet in Bengali
*John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887), Welsh poet in Welsh
*Langston Hughes (1902–1967), US poet, novelist and playwright
*Ted Hughes (1930–1998), English poet and children's writer; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
*Richard Hugo (1923–1982), US poet
*Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist and dramatist
*Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), Chilean poet
*Lynda Hull (1954–1994), US poet
*Keri Hulme (1947–2021), New Zealand poet and fiction writer
*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 (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), US poet and writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–1983

I

*Khadijah Ibrahiim (fl. 2022), British poet
*Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, director and poet
*Ibycus (fl. late 6th c. BCE), 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
*Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), Indian poet in Urdu and Persian
*Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), Armenian lyric poet
*Sabit Ince (born 1954), Turkish lyric poet
*Inge Israel (1927–2019), Canadian poet and playwright
*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 Jews, Mountain Jewish descent

J

*FP Jac (1955–2008), Danish poet
*Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet in Scots
*Rolf Jacobsen (poet), Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994), Norwegian poet and writer
*Ada Jafarey (1924–2015) Pakistani poet in Urdu
*Richard Jago (1715–1781), English poet
*Đura Jakšić (1832–1878), Serbian poet, painter and dramatist
*James I of Scotland, James I, King of Scots (1394–1437), author of The Kingis Quair
*James I of England, James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scots and of England and Ireland
*Christine James (born 1954), Welsh poet and academic
*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), US poet and artist
*Mark Jarman, Mark F. Jarman (born 1952), US poet and critic
*Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), US 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 (1903–1992), Hungarian poet
*Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), US poet
*Vojin Jelić (1921–2004), Croatian Serb poet and writer
*Rod Jellema (1927–2018), US poet, teacher and translator
*Simon Jenko (1835–1869), Slovene poet, lyricist and writer
*Elizabeth Jennings (poet), 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), US poet
*Helene Johnson (1906–1995), African-US poet
*James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), US author, poet and folklorist
*Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), English poet, essayist and critic
*Emily Pauline Johnson (in Mohawk language, Mohawk: Tekahionwake) (1861–1913), Canadian writer, performer and poet marking First Nations in Canada, 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 (artist-poet), David Jones (1895–1974), English artist and poet
*Edward Smyth Jones (1881–1968), African-American poet
*Richard Jones (poet), Richard Jones (living), English US poet
*Ben Jonson (1573–1637), English poet and dramatist
*June Jordan (1936–2002), US poet and educator
*Anthony Joseph (born 1966), British/Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician
*Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), 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 (1946–2021), US editor, poet and film critic
*Ferenc Juhász (poet), Ferenc Juhász (1928–2015), Hungarian poet
*Gyula Juhász (poet), Gyula Juhász (1883–1937), Hungarian poet
*Jamal Jumá, Iraqi poet and researcher
*Donald Justice (1925–2004), US poet
*Juvenal (fl. 1st c. – 2nd c. CE), Roman poet and satirist
*Jumoke Verissimo (born 1979), Nigerian poet
*Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English

K

Ka–Kh

*Abhay K (born 1980), Indian poet and diplomat
*Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and Sant (religion), sant of India
*Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and novelist
*Kālidāsa (fl. c. 4th c.), Sanskrit poet
*Kambar (poet), Kambar (c. 1180–1250), Tamil language, Tamil poet
*Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, translator and critic
*Kannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author and lyricist
*Jim Kacian (born 1953), US haiku poet and editor
*Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author and translator
*Chester Kallman (1921–1975), US poet, librettist and translator
*László Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translator
*Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian and Esperanto poet
*Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer and critic
*Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977), Russian-US poet, critic and translator
*Orhan Veli Kanik (1914–1950), Turkish poet
*Sándor Kányádi (1929–2018), Hungarian poet and translator from Romania
*Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021), Estonian poet, philosopher and critic
*Adeena Karasick (born 1965), Canadian/US poet, media artist and essayist
*Vim Karenine (born 1933), US poet, essayist and novelist
*György Károly (1953–2018), Hungarian poet and critic
*Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), Polish poet
*Mary Karr (born 1955), US poet, essayist and memoirist
*Siavash Kasrai (1927–1996), Iranian poet
*Julia Kasdorf (born 1962), US poet
*Laura Kasischke (born 1961), US 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), US beat poet and surrealist
*Shirley Kaufman (1923–2016), US poet and translator
*Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indo-Canadians, 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 language, Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary
*John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet
*Weldon Kees (1914–1955), US poet, novelist and critic
*Isabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelist
*Arthur Kelton (died 1549/1550), rhymer on Welsh history
*Miranda Kennedy (born 1975), US poet
*Walter Kennedy (poet), Walter Kennedy (c. 1455–1518), Scottish Makar (National Poet for Scotland), makar
*X. J. Kennedy (born 1929), US poet, anthologist and children's writer
*Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), US poet and translator
*Géza Képes (1909–1989), Hungarian poet and translator
*Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), US novelist and poet
*Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War II
*Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poet
*Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet
*Dilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poet
*Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun people, 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
*Syed Mahmood Khundmiri, Talib Khundmiri (1938–2011), Indian poet and humorist in Urdu
*Amir Khusrow, Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow (1253–1325), Sufism, 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 disciple of Matsuo Bashō
*Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), US writer and poet
*Edward King (British poet), Edward King (1612–1637), Irish-born subject of Milton's Lycidas
*Henry King (poet), Henry King (1592–1669), English poet and bishop
*William King (poet), William King (1663–1712), English poet
*Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymnist
*Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German poet and revolutionary
*Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1982
*John Kinsella (poet), John Kinsella (born 1963), Australian poet, novelist and essayist
*Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021), Irish poet, translator and editor
*Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English fiction writer and poet
*Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Serbian fiction writer and poet
*Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Turkish poet, novelist and playwright
*Atala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poet
*Iya Kiva (born 1984), Ukrainian poet
*Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet
*Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), US poet; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
*Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and fiction writer
*August Kleinzahler (born 1949), US poet
*Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), German poet
*Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (1750–1807), Polish poet and Jesuit
*Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), African-US poet
*Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), Japanese haikai poet
*Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish Renaissance poet
*Kenneth Koch (1925–2002), US poet, playwright and professor
*Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Polish poet
*Petar Kočić (1877–1916), Bosnian Serb writer
*István Koháry (1649–1731), Hungarian poet
*Ferenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), Hungarian poet
*Aladár Komját (1891–1937), Hungarian poet
*Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947), US 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), US poet; US 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
*Gopi Kottoor (born 1956), Indian poet, playwright and editor
*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), US poet and children's book author
*Krayem Awad (born 1948), Syrian-Austrian painter, sculptor and poet
*Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), US 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), US poet and fiction writer
*Andrzej Krzycki (1482–1537), Polish poet and archbishop

*Žofia Kubini (fl. 17th c.), Hungarian poet 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 (1925–2014), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1981–82
*Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1974 and 2000
*Yanka Kupala (1882–1942), Republic of Belarus, Belarus poet
*Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), US counterculture poet and author
*Jalu Kurek (1904–1983), Polish poet and prose writer
*Dharanendra Kurkuri (born 1942), Kannada poet, translator, and columnist
*Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet
*Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet
*Kusumagraj (1912–1999), Indian Marathi poet, writer and humanist
*Onat Kutlar (1936–1995), Turkish writer and poet
*Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955), US poet
*Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587–1642), English poet
*Kyoshi Takahama (1874–1959), Japanese poet

L

La

*Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist
*Ilmar Laaban (1921–2000), Estonian poet
*Pierre Labrie (born 1972), Canadian poet 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), US poet and lecturer
*Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), US poet and hip-hop artist
*Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician
*Charles Lamb (1775–1834), English essayist and poet
*Peter Lampe (born 1954), German scholar, writer 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. BCE), Chinese philosopher and poet
*Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet
*Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855), US poet
*Bruce Larkin (born 1957), US children's author and poet
*Philip Larkin (1922–1985), English poet and novelist
*Claudia Lars (1899–1974), El Salvador, Salvadoran poet
*Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright
*Lasus of Hermione (6th c. BCE), Greek lyric poet from Ermioni, Hermione in Argolid
*Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist
*James Laughlin (1914–1997), US poet and publisher
*Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), US poet, essayist and professor
*Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), Uruguayan/French poet
*Dorianne Laux (born 1952), US 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
*Robert Lax (1915–2000), US 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 (poet), David Lee (born 1966), US poet
*Dennis Lee (author), Dennis Lee (born 1939), Canadian poet, editor and critic
*David Lehman (born 1948), US poet and editor
*Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian poet, academic and translator
*Eino Leino (1878–1926), Finnish poet and journalist
*Brad Leithauser (born 1953), US poet, novelist and essayist
*Alexander Lenard (1910–1972) Hungarian writer and poet
*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 (Australian poet), 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), US poet, novelist and critic
*Bolesław Leśmian (1877–1937), Polish poet and artist
*Rika Lesser (born 1953), US poet and translator
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher and dramatist
*Denise Levertov (1927–1997), British-born US poet
*Dana Levin (poet), Dana Levin (born 1965), US poet and teacher
*Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine (1928–2015), US poet; 2011–2012 US Poet Laureate
*Larry Levis (1946–1996), US poet
*D. A. Levy (1942–1968), US poet, artist and publisher
*William Levy (author), William Levy (1939–2019), US poet, fiction writer and editor
*Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013), poet
*Alun Lewis (poet), Alun Lewis (1915–1944), Welsh poet in English
*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), US children's poet
*Saunders Lewis (1893–1985), Welsh poet, dramatist and critic
*Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957), English painter and author

Li–Ly

*Li Houzhu (937–978), Chinese poet and ruler of Tang dynasty, Southern Tang Kingdom (961–975 CE)
*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 (Tang Dynasty), Li Jiao, poet under Tang and Zhou dynasty, 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), US author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh
*Jack Lindeman (fl. late 20th c.), US poet and critic
*Sarah Lindsay (born 1958), US poet
*Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet
*Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), US poet
*Ewa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poet
*László Listi (1628–1662), Hungarian 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), US poet and educator
*Michael Longley (born 1939), Northern Irish poet
*Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, dramatist and stage director
*Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-US writer, poet and librarian
*Richard Lovelace (poet), Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English Cavalier poet
*Amy Lowell (1874–1925), US poet
*James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), US poet, critic and diplomat
*Robert Lowell (1917–1977), US poet; 1947 US Poet Laureate
*Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), US 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 CE), Roman poet
*Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), English writer, poet and broadcaster
*Gaius Lucilius (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Roman satirist
*Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st c. CE), poet and Procurator (Ancient Rome), Procurator of Sicily
*Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BCE), Roman poet and philosopher
*Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870), US author, journalist and explorer
*Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian poet and politician
*Luo Binwang (640–684), Chinese Tang-dynasty writer and poet
*Thomas Lux (1946–2017), US poet
*Mario Luzi (1914–2005), Italian poet
*John Lydgate (1370–1450), English monk and poet
*John Lyly (1553–1606), English writer, poet and dramatist
*David Lyndsay (poet), Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1490 – c. 1555), Scottish Lord Lyon and poet
*Sandford Lyne (1945–2007), US poet, educator and editor
*George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, George Lyttelton (1709–1773), English poet, statesman and arts patron

M

Ma

*Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), Anglo-Scottish poet and historian
*George MacBeth (1932–1992), Scottish poet and novelist
*Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), Scottish poet
*Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864-1922), Canadian poet and writer
*Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), Scottish poet
*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 (1863–1947), Welsh author and mystic
*Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish writer, memoirist and poet
*Archibald MacLeish (1892–1987), US modernist poet and writer
*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-US writer, poet and educator
*Jayanta Mahapatra (born 1928), Indian English poet
*John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1941), US poet and aviator
*Eric Magrane (born 1975), US poet and geographer
*Derek Mahon (1941–2020), Northern Irish poet
*Rudolf Maister (1874–1934), Slovene poet and activist
*Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (1919–1977), Marathi language, Marathi and Hindi poet and playwright
*János Majláth (1786–1855), Hungarian historian and poet
*Clarence Major (born 1936), US poet, painter and novelist
*Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet and professor
*Majeed Amjad (1914–1974), Indian/Pakistani poet in Urdu
*Antoni Malczewski (1793–1826), Polish poet
*Marcin Malek (born 1975), Polish poet, writer and playwright
*Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan) (1898–1982), Indian Urdu poet
*Madayyagari Mallana (fl. 15th c.), Telugu poet
*Stéphane Mallarmé, Stephane Mallarme (1842–1898), French poet and critic
*David Mallet (writer), David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet
*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 fiction writer; New Zealand Poet Laureate
*Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st c. CE), Roman poet and astrologer
*Maurice Manning (poet), Maurice Manning (born 1966), US poet
*Ruth Manning-Sanders (1895–1988), Welsh-born English poet and author
*Robert Mannyng (1275–1340), English chronicler and monk 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 and novelist
*Sándor Márai (1900–1989), Hungarian/US poet and novelist
*Ausiàs March (1397–1459), Valencian poet and knight
*Morton Marcus (poet), Morton Marcus (1936–2009), US poet and author
*Mareez (1917–1983), Indian poet in Gujarati
*Paul Mariani (born 1940), US poet and academic
*Marie de France (fl. 12th c.), poet probably French-born 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), US 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), US novelist, poet and playwright
*Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), English poet and cleric
*John Marston (playwright), John Marston (1576–1634), English playwright, poet and satirist
*José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet and writer
*Martial (40 – c. 102 CE), 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), US poet, biographer and dramatist
*Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.), Welsh poet 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), US poet and prose writer
*Ben Mazer (born 1964), US poet and editor

Mc–Me

*James McAuley (1917–1976), Australian poet and critic
*Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian/US poet and critic
*J. D. McClatchy (1945–2018), US poet and critic
*Michael McClure (1932–2020), US poet, playwright and novelist
*John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian poet, physician and artist
*Walt McDonald (1934–2022), US poet; Poet Laureate of Texas
*Dermit McEncroe (fl. early 18th-century), Irish doctor and poet
*Elvis McGonagall, Scottish poet and comedian
*William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902), Scottish writer of doggerel
*Roger McGough (born 1937), English comedian and poet
*Campbell McGrath (born 1962), US poet
*Wendy McGrath, Canadian poet and novelist
*Thomas McGrath (poet), Thomas McGrath (1916–1990), US poet
*Heather McHugh (born 1948), US poet, translator and educator
*Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Duncan Ban McIntyre (1724–1812), Scottish poet in Scottish Gaelic
*James McIntyre (poet), James McIntyre (1827–1906), Canadian writer of doggerel
*Claude McKay (1889–1948), Jamaican-US writer and poet
*Don McKay (poet), Don McKay (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor and educator
*Rod McKuen (1933–2015), US poet, composer and singer
*James L. McMichael, James McMichael (born 1939), US poet
*Ian McMillan (poet), Ian McMillan (born 1956), English poet, playwright and broadcaster
*Meera (1498–1546), Indian Hindu mystic poet and Krishna devotee
*Narsinh Mehta (c. 1414 – c. 1481), Indian poet-saint of Gujarat
*Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), Chinese Song dynasty poet
*Peter Meinke (born 1932), US poet and fiction writer
*Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian poet
*Herman Melville (1819–1891), US fiction 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), US poet writing mainly in French
*James Merrill (1926–1995), US poet; 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
*Thomas Merton (1915–1968), US writer and Trappist monk
*W. S. Merwin (1927–2019), US poet and author; 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate
*Sarah Messer (born 1966), US poet and writer
*Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
*Henry Meyer (poet), Henry Meyer (1840–1925), US poet writing in Pennsylvania Dutch language, 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), Austrian/Romanian poet
*Christopher Middleton (d. 1628), Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628), English poet and translator
*Christopher Middleton (navigator), Christopher Middleton (c. 1690–1770), Royal Navy officer and navigator
*Christopher Middleton (poet), Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), English poet
*Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), English poet and playwright
*Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German writer and poet
*Josephine Miles (1911–1985), US poet and critic
*Jennifer Militello, US poet and professor
*Branko Miljković (1934–1961), Serbian poet
*Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), US lyric poet, playwright and feminist
*Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), US writer and poet
*Grazyna Miller (1957–2009), Italian/Polish poet and translator
*Jane Miller (born 1949), US poet
*Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), US poet
*Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), US poet
*Thomas Miller (poet), Thomas Miller (1807–1874), English poet
*Vassar Miller (1924–1998), US 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 and polemicist
*Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), Serbian adventurer, writer and poet
*Marijane Minaberri (1926–2017), French/Basque poet and radio broadcaster
*Robert Minhinnick (born 1952), Welsh poet, essayist and novelist
*Matthew Minicucci (born 1981), US poet and teacher
*Mir Taqi Mir (1725–1810), Indian poet in Urdu
*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 (physician), Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), US physician and writer
*Stephen Mitchell (translator), Stephen Mitchell (born 1943) US poet, translator and anthologist
*Waddie Mitchell (born 1950), US poet
*Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937), Albanian Gheg dialect, Gheg poet
*Stanisław Młodożeniec (1895–1959), poet
*Anis Mojgani (born 1977), US spoken-word poet and visual artist
*Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–1673), French playwright
*Molla (poet), Atukuri Molla (1440–1530), Indian Telugu poet
*Harold Monro (1879–1932), English poet
*Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), US scholar, critic and poet
*John Montague (poet), John Montague (1929–2016), 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), US poet
*Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), Scottish Jacobean courtier and makar
*Alan Moore (poet), Alan Moore (born 1960), Irish writer and poet
*Marianne Moore (1887–1972), US poet and writer
*Merrill Moore (1903–1957), US psychiatrist and poet
*Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet, singer and songwriter
*Dom Moraes (1938–2004), Goan writer, poet and columnist
*Kelly Ana Morey (born 1968), New Zealand novelist and poet
*Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Scottish poet and translator
*J. O. Morgan (born 1978), Scottish poet
*John Morgan (poet), John Morgan (1688–1733), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
*Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975), US 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), US 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), US poet, actor and musician
*Moschus (fl. 2nd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet
*Howard Moss (1922–1987), US 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
*Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German-Jewish essayist, poet and, playwright
*Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish Orcadians, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator
*Paul Muldoon (born 1951), Irish poet
*Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer
*Laura Mullen (born 1958), US poet
*Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English playwright and writer
*George Murnu (1868–1957), Romanian archeologist, historian and poet
*Sheila Murphy (born 1951), US text and visual poet
*George Murray (poet), George Murray (born 1971), Canadian poet
*Joan Murray (born 1945), US poet, writer and playwright
*Les Murray (poet), Les Murray (1938–2019), Australian poet, anthologist and critic
*Richard Murphy (poet), Richard Murphy (1927–2018), 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
*Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), Tanzanian poet, author and Christian minister
*Lam Quang My (born 1944), Vietnamese poet in Polish and Vietnamese

N

*Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian novelist and poet 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 (poet), 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
*Philip Nanton (living), Vincentian poet
*Adam Naruszewicz (1733–1796), Polish-Lithuanian poet, historian and dramatist
*Ogden Nash (1902–1971), US 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
*Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Romanian poet, dramatist and children's writer
*Nedîm (c. 1681–1730), Ottoman poet
*John Neal (writer), John Neal (1793–1876), US writer, critic, activist and poet
*Henry Neele (1798–1828), English poet and scholar
*John Neihardt (1881–1973), US poet, historian and ethnographer
*Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), Quebec poet
*Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), US poet, translator and children's writer
*Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1963–1964
*István Péter Németh (born 1960), Hungarian poet and literary historian
*Condetto Nénékhaly-Camara (1930–1972), Guinean poet and playwright
*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 Sufism, 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 US poet
*Nguyễn Du (1766–1820), Vietnamese poet in ancient Chữ Nôm script
*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), US 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
*Nizami Ganjavi, 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 (born 1980), Cuban–Costa Rican poet
*Gábor Nógrádi (born 1947), Hungarian poet, essayist and children's novelist
*Christopher Nolan (author), Christopher Nolan (1965–2009), Irish poet and author
*Fan S. Noli (1882–1965), Albanian/US writer, diplomat and historian
*Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer and professor
*Harry Northup (born 1940), US actor and poet
*Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer, feminist and reformer
*Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), Polish poet, dramatist and artist
*Alice Notley (born 1945), US 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-US poet, songwriter and novelist
*Robert Nye (1939–2016), 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 (writer), Sean O'Brien (born 1952), British poet, critic and playwright
* D. Michael O'Connor aka Damond Jiniya(Born 1974),North American singer, writer and poet
*Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), Anglo-French writer and poet
*Antoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885), Polish poet
*Ron Offen (1930–2010), US poet, playwright and producer
*Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012), Irish poet
*Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), US writer, poet and art critic
*Hisashi Okuyama (born 1941), Japanese poet
*Sharon Olds (born 1942), US poet
*Mary Oliver (1935–2015), US poet
*Charles Olson (1910–1970), US modernist poet
*Saishu Onoe (1876–1957), Japanese poet
*Onomacritus (c. 530–480 BCE), Attica, Attic poet, priest and seer
*George Oppen (1908–1984), US poet
*Artur Oppman (Or-Ot, 1867–1931), Polish poet
*Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), US poet and painter
*Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath and poet
*Władysław Orkan (1875–1930), Polish poet
*Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), US poet and actor; partner of Allen Ginsberg
*Gregory Orr (poet), Gregory Orr (born 1947), US poet
*Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, writer and screenplay author
*Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet
*Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese Song Dynasty historian, essayist and poet
*Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE), Roman poet
*Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), English poet and soldier
*İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar

P

Pa

*Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet, author and critic
*Ron Padgett (born 1942), US poet, writer and translator
*Dan Pagis (1930–1986), Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor
*Grace Paley (1922–2007), US short story writer and poet
*Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), English critic and poet
*Palladas (fl. 4th c.), Greek poet
*Michael Palmer (poet), Michael Palmer (born 1943), US poet and translator
*Sima Pandurović (1883–1960), Serbian poet
*Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Indian poet in Hindi
*Daniele Pantano (born 1976), Swiss poet, translator, editor and scholar
*William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist in Welsh
*Park Yong-rae (1925–1980), Korean poet
*Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), US poet, fiction writer and satirist
*Amy Parkinson (1855-1938), British-born Canadian poet
*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
*Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Russian poet, novelist and translator
*Leon Pasternak (1910–1969), Polish poet and satirist
*Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (born 1954), Puerto Rican poet and fiction and literature writer
*Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972), US poet and novelist
*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
*Brian Patten (born 1946), English poet
*Lekhnath Paudyal (1885–1966), Nepalese poet
*Paul I, Prince Esterházy (1635–1713) Austro-Hungarian poet
*Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist and critic
*Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet and dramatist
*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 and writer
*James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981), US poet and publisher
*Allasani Peddana (fl. 15th/16th cc.), Telugu poet
*Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist and editor
*Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), US poet
*Gabino Coria Peñaloza (1881–1975), Argentine poet and lyricist
*Sam Pereira (living), US poet
*Lucia Perillo (1958–2016), US poet
*Persius (34–62 CE), Roman poet and satirist of Etruria, Etruscan origin
*Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), Portuguese poet, philosopher and critic
*Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), The Gambia, Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist
*Robert Peters (playwright), Robert Peters (1924–2014), US poet, scholar and playwright
*Pascale Petit (poet), Pascale Petit (born 1953), French-Welsh poet and artist
*Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet
*Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and prose writer
*Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist
*Veljko Petrović (poet), 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
*Savitribai Phule (1831–1897), Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra
*Pi Rixiu (c. 834–883), Tang Dynasty poet
*Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and film maker
*Pindar (522–443 BCE), Theban lyric poet in Greek
*Robert Pinsky (born 1940), US poet, critic and translator; 1997–2000 US Poet Laureate
*Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet
*Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), Venetian historian, poet and philosopher
*Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), US poet and novelist
*William Plomer (1903–1973), South African novelist, poet and editor in English

Po–Pu

*Jacek Podsiadło (born 1964), Polish poet, translator and essayist
*Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), US author, poet and critic
*Suman Pokhrel (born 1967), Nepalese poet, playwright and artist
*Wincenty Pol (1807–1872), Polish poet and geographer
*Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English poet
*Edward Pollock (1823–1858), US poet
*John Pomfret (poet), John Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet and clergyman.
*Marie Ponsot (1921–2019), US poet, critic and essayist
*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), US poet, writer and editor
*Peter Porter (poet), Peter Porter (1929–2010), Australian poet based in England
*Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet and writer
*Roma Potiki (born 1958), New Zealand poet and playwright
*Wacław Potocki (1621–1696), Polish poet and moralist
*Ezra Pound (1885–1972), US expatriate poet and critic
*Alishetty Prabhakar (1952–1993), Telugu poet
*Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972), Indian poet, translator and activist
*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 (poet), 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 BCE), Latin elegiac poet
*Kevin Prufer (born 1969), US poet, academic and essayist
*J. H. Prynne (born 1936), English poet
*Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865–1940), Polish poet, novelist and playwright
*Zenon Przesmycki (Miriam, 1861–1944), Polish poet, translator and critic
*Jeremi Przybora (1915–2004), Polish poet, writer and singer
*Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet known for ''Morgante''
*Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet, novelist and playwright

Q

*Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
*Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (born 1951), Pakistani Sufi poet and scholar
*Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (1909–1985), Indian poet, writer and politician
*Aref Qazvini (1882–1934), Iranian poet, lyricist and musician
*Qu Yuan (343–278 BCE), Chinese poet
*Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English Christian poet
*Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian author and poet; 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

R

Ra–Re

*Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist
*Branko Radičević (1824–1853), Serbian lyric poet
*Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–1971) poet from Botswana
*Sam Ragan (1915–1996), US poet, journalist and writer
*Shamsur Rahman (poet), Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), Bangladeshi poet and columnist
*Craig Raine (born 1944), English poet
*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), US Objectivist poet
*Martin Rakovský (c. 1535–1579), Hungarian poet and scholar
*Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translator
*Maraea Rakuraku (living), New Zealand Māori poet, playwright and short story writer
*Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554–1618), English writer, poet and explorer
*Tenali Rama (16th c., CE), Telugu poet
*Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu (16th c., CE), Telugu poet
*Ramarajabhushanudu (mid 16th c. CE), Telugu poet and musician
*Guru Ram Das (1534–1581), Sikh guru and Punjabi poet
*Simón Darío Ramírez (1930–1992), Venezuelan poet
*Allan Ramsay (poet), Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), Scottish poet, playwright and publisher
*Dudley Randall (1914–2000), African-US poet and publisher
*Thomas Randolph (poet), Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), English poet and dramatist
*John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), US poet, essayist and editor
*Addepalli Ramamohana Rao (1936–2016), Telugu poet and literary critic
*Ágnes Rapai (born 1952), Hungarian poet, writer and translator
*Noon Meem Rashid (1910–1975), Pakistani poet writing in Urdu
*Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948), US poet and critic
*Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet and translator
*Tom Raworth (1938–2017), British poet and visual artist
*Herbert Read (1893–1968), English anarchist, poet and arts critic
*Peter Reading (1946–2011), English poet
*Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet
*James Reaney (1926–2008), Canadian poet, playwright and professor
*Malliya Rechana (mid-10th c. CE), Telugu poet
*Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), English poet
*Beatrice Redpath (1886-1937), Canadian poet and short story writer
*Henry Reed (poet), Henry Reed (1914–1986), English poet, translator and radio dramatist
*Ishmael Reed (born 1938), US poet, playwright and novelist
*Ennis Rees (1925–2009), US poet, professor and translator
*James Reeves (writer), James Reeves (1909–1978), English poet, children's writer and writer on song
*Abraham Regelson (1896–1981), Israeli Hebrew poet, author and children's author
*Christopher Reid (writer), Christopher Reid (born 1949), Hong Kong-born English poet, essayist and cartoonist
*James Reiss (1941–2016), US 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 of Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism
*Jacobus Revius (born Jakob Reefsen) (1586–1658), Dutch poet, theologian and church historian
*Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982), US poet, translator and critical essayist
*Sydor Rey (1908–1979), Polish poet and novelist
*Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), US Objectivism (philosophy), Objectivist poet
*Raees Warsi (born 1963), Pakistani poet, writer and lyricist writing in Urdu

Ri–Ry

*Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (1925–2009), Ecuadorian poet
*Anne Rice (1941–2021), US fiction writer
*Stan Rice (1943–2002), US poet and artist; husband of Anne Rice
*Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), US poet, essayist and feminist
*John Richardson (poet), John Richardson (1817–1886), English Lake District poet
*Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), English poet, critic and journalist
*Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born US anarchist poet and editor
*Laura Riding (1901–1981), US poet, critic and novelist
*Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and editor
*James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), US writer and poet
*John Riley (poet), John Riley (1937–1978), English poet of 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 of Decadent movement
*Alberto Ríos (born 1952), US poet and professor
*Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar in Urdu and Persian
*Emma Roberts (author), Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet
*Michael Roberts (writer), Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editor
*Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), US poet
*Mary Robinson (poet), Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist
*Peter Robinson (poet), Peter Robinson (born 1953), English poet
*Roland Robinson (poet), 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), US poet
*Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), English poet
*Rognvald Kali Kolsson (c. 1103–1158), Earl of Orkney and saint
*Matthew Rohrer (born 1970), US poet
*Géza Röhrig (born 1967), Hungarian poet and actor
*Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980), Slovak writer
*David Romtvedt (living), US poet
*Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet
*Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), Austrian poet
*Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009), US poet, artist and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
*Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), US poet, writer and co-founder of Chicago Surrealist Group
*Michael Rosen (born 1946) UK children's poet and former children's poet laureate
*Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet
*Barbara Rosiek (1959–2020), 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
*Andrus Rõuk (born 1957), Estonian artist and poet
*Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French poet, novelist and playwright
*Nicholas Rowe (writer), Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellanist; UK Poet Laureate 1715
*Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), English poet and pamphleteer
*Susanna Roxman (1946–2015), English poet born in Sweden
*Istvan Rozanich (1912–1984), Hungarian poet exiled in Venezuela
*Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and writer
*Ljubivoje Ršumović (born 1939), Serbian poet
*Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), German poet, translator and academic
*Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), US poet and political activist
*Zygmunt Rumel (1915–1943), Polish poet and partisan
*Rumi, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273), Persian Muslim poet, jurist and Sufi mystic
*Paul-Eerik Rummo (1942 in poetry, 1942), Estonian poet
*Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877), Finnish poet in Swedish
*Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), US poet and comedian
*Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwright
*Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (1935–2022), Polish poet, essayist and dramatist
*Ryōkan (1758–1831), Japanese calligrapher and poet

S

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
*Saadi Shirazi, Saʿdī Shīrāzī (1184–1283/1291), Persian poet
*Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954), US 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
*Akim Samar (1916–1943), Soviet poet and novelist seen as first Nanai language writer
*Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-US poet associated with Black Arts Movement
*Michal Šanda (born 1965), Czech writer and poet
*Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), US 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 BCE), ancient Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
*Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973), Indian poet in English
*Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet in Latin
*William Saroyan (1908–1981), US author of Armenian descent
*Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English war poet
*Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1924–1995), Indonesian poet, fiction writer and literary critic
*Satsvarupa Das Goswami (born 1939), US poet and artist
*William Saunders (poet), William Saunders (1806–1851), Welsh poet in Welsh
*Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), English poet
*Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010), US poet, writer and playwright
*Maurice Scève (c. 1500–1564), French poet
*Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1876–1927), US poet, architect and fiction writer
*Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese playwright and poet in French
*Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher and playwright
*Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator
*Dennis Schmitz (1937–2019), US poet
*Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910-1992), Surinamese poet and community leader, wrote in Sranan Tongo and English
*Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), Austrian author and dramatist
*Philip Schultz (born 1945), US poet
*James Schuyler (1923–1991), US poet
*Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), US poet and fiction writer
*Alexander Scott (16th-century poet), Alexander Scott (c. 1520–1582/1583), Scottish poet
*Alexander Scott (20th-century 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, academic and constitutional expert
*Tom Scott (poet), Tom Scott (1918–1995), Scottish poet
*Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet
*Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), US soul musician and jazz poet
*George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), English poet, novelist, author and politician
*Peter Seaton (1942–2010), US 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 and Nobel laureate
*Hugh Seidman (born 1940), US poet
*Rebecca Seiferle (living), US 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. BCE), Greek iambic and elegiac poet
*Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist
*Robert W. Service (1874–1958), Scottish-Canadian poet
*Vikram Seth (born 1952), Indian author and poet
*Anne Sexton (1928–1974), US poet; Confessional poetry, 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
*John W. Sexton (born 1958), Irish poet, fiction and children's writer

Sh–Sj

*Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, 1689–1692
*Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565–1612), sultan of Golkonda and poet in Persian, Telugu and Urdu
*Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001), Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet and author
*Parveen Shakir (1952–1994) Pakistani poet, teacher and a civil servant of the government of Pakistan
*William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), English poet and playwright
*Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), US rapper, actor and black activist
*Otep Shamaya (born 1979), US singer-songwriter, actress and poet
*Ahmad Shamlou (1925 - 2000), Iranian poet
*Paata Shamugia (born 1983), Georgian poet
*Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), US playwright and poet
*Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer
*Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), US poet; US Poet Laureate, 1946–1947
*Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970), US poet
*Luci Shaw (born 1928), English-born Christian poet
*Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet
*William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet
*Bhupi Sherchan (1935–1989), Nepalese poet
*Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian poet and artist
*Mustafa Sheykhoghlu (1340/1341 – ~1410), Turkish poet and translator
*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-US poet, critic and philosopher
*Robert Siegel (author), Robert Siegel (1939–2012), US poet and novelist
*August Silberstein (1827–1900), Austro-Hungarian poet and writer in German
*Jon Silkin (1930–1997), English poet
*Ron Silliman (born 1946), US poet of Language poetry
*Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), US poet, musician and children's writer
*Simeon Simev (born 1949), Macedonian poet, essayist and journalist
*Charles Simic (born 1938), Serbian-US poet; US Poet Laureate, 2007–2008
*Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BCE), Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea (island), Kea
*Louis Simpson (1923–2012), Jamaican poet
*Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), US poet, novelist and story writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000
*Burns Singer (1928–1964), US poet raised in Scotland
*Marilyn Singer (born 1948), US 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 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, protagonist of Egil's Saga
*John Skelton (poet), John Skelton (1460–1529), English poet
*Sasha Skenderija (born 1968), Bosnian-US poet
*Ed Skoog (born 1971), US 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 culture advocate
*Antoni Słonimski (1895–1976), Polish poet, playwright and artist
*Michaël Slory (1935–2018), Surinamese poet in Sranan Tongo, also in English, Dutch and Spanish
*Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet
*Boris Slutsky (1919–1986), Russian poet
*Christopher Smart (1722–1771), English poet and playwright
*Hristo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet and writer
*Bruce Smith (poet), Bruce Smith (born 1946), US poet
*Charlotte Smith (writer), Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist
*Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), US poet, sculptor and author
*Margaret Smith (poet), Margaret Smith (born 1958), US poet, musician and artist
*Patti Smith (born 1946), US singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
*Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist
*Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), Scottish poet in Braid Scots
*Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), US poet
*William Jay Smith (1918–2015), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1968–1970
*Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author
*William De Witt Snodgrass (1926–2009), US poet
*Gary Snyder (born 1930), US poet, essayist and environmentalist
*Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet in Swedish
*Iio Sōgi, Sōgi (1421–1502), Japanese waka and renga poet
*David Solway (born 1941), Canadian poet, educational theorist and travel writer
*Marie-Ange Somdah (born 1959), Burkinabe poet and writer
*William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet
*Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE), Athenian tragedian
*Charles Sorley (1895–1915), English war poet
*Gary Soto (born 1952), Mexican-US 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 and UK Poet Laureate, 1813–1843
*Robert Southwell (jesuit), 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

St–Sz

*Edward Stachura (1937–1979), poet, prose writer and translator
*Leopold Staff (1878–1957), Polish poet
*William Stafford (poet), William Stafford (1914–1993), US poet and pacifist; US Poet Laureate 1970–1971
*A. E. Stallings (born 1968), US poet and translator
*Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), English academic, poet and literary critic
*Harold Standish (1919–1972), Canadian poet and novelist
*Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983), Romanian poet
*Ann Stanford (1916–1987), US poet
*Anna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poet
*George Starbuck (1931–1996), US neo-Formalist poet
*Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960), Polish poet and novelist
*Statius (c. 45–96, CE), Roman poet
*Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 1932), New Zealand novelist, poet and critic
*Stesichorus (c. 640–555 BCE), Greek lyric poet
*Joseph Stefan (1835–1893), Carinthian Slovenes physicist, mathematician and poet in Austria
*Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828), Serbian poet
*Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), US modernist in prose and poetry
*Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Baltic German poet and writer of fantastic fiction
*Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004), US poet and advocate
*George Stepney (1663–1707), English poet and diplomat
*Anatol Stern (1899–1968), Polish poet and art critic
*Gerald Stern (1925–2022), US poet
*Marinko Stevanović (born 1961), Bosnian poet
*C. J. Stevens (1927–2021), US writer of poetry, fiction and biography
*Wallace Stevens (1880–1955), US modernist poet
*Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer
*Margo Taft Stever, US poet
*Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904), US classical scholar and poet
*James Still (1906–2001), US poet, novelist and folklorist
*Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet
*Dejan Stojanović (writer), Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian-US poet, writer and philosopher
*Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), US poet and philanthropist
*Ruth Stone (1915–2011), US poet, author and teacher
*Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), US poet and editor
*Edward Storer (1880–1944), English writer, translator and poet linked with Imagism
*Theodor Storm (1817–1888), German writer and poet
*Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Latin US Modernist poet
*Mark Strand (1934–2014), Canadian-born US poet, essayist and translator; US Poet Laureate, 1990–1991
*Botho Strauß (born 1944), German playwright, poet and novelist
*Joseph Stroud (born 1943), US poet
*Jesse Stuart (1907–1984), US writer of fiction and poetry
*Jacquie Sturm (born Te Kare Papuni) (1927–2009), New Zealand poet, fiction writer and librarian

*Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty writer, poet and artist
*Su Xiaoxiao (died c. 501 CE), courtesan and poet under Southern Qi Dynasty
*John Suckling (poet), Sir John Suckling (1609–1642), English poet and inventor of card game cribbage
*Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566), Islamic poet and Ottoman ruler
*Robert Sullivan (poet), Robert Sullivan (born 1967) New Zealand Māori poet, academic and editor
*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
*Robert Sward (1933–2022), US and Canadian poet and novelist
*Cole Swensen (born 1955), US poet, translator and copywriter
*Karen Swenson (born 1936), US poet
*May Swenson (1913–1989), US poet and playwright
*Marcin Świetlicki (born 1961), Polish poet, prose writer and musician
*Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and pamphleteer
*Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet, playwright and novelist
*Anna Świrszczyńska (also Anna Swir) (1909–1984), Polish poet
*Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet
*Arthur William Symons (1865–1945), English poet, critic and editor
*John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet and folklore collector
*Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), Polish poet and translator in 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), poet in Polish and Latin
*Arthur Sze (born 1950), Chinese US 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; 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
*Szymon Szymonowic (1558–1629), Polish poet

T

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 US
*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), Belarus poet
*Tao Yuanming, Tao Qian (365–427), Chinese poet
*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
*Allen Tate (1899–1979), US poet, essayist and commentator; US Poet Laureate 1943–1944
*James Tate (writer), James Tate (1943–2015), US poet
*Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet
*Tracey Tawhiao (born 1967), New Zealand Maori poet and artist
*Apirana Taylor (born 1955), New Zealand poet, novelist and story-teller
*Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729), colonial American poet, physician and pastor
*Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writer
*Henry Taylor (dramatist), Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and dramatist
*Henry S. Taylor (born 1942), US poet
*Jane Taylor (poet), Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist
*Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), US lyric poet
*Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675), Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
*Telesilla (fl. 510 BCE), Greek poet
*Raipiyel Tennakoon (1899–1965), Sri Lankan poet
*William Tennant (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), US poet
*Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), African-US 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 performer

Th–To

*Kálmán Thaly (1839–1909), Hungarian poet and politician
*Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), US writer and poet
*John Thelwall (1764–1834), English poet and essayist
*Theocritus (fl. 3rd c. BCE), Greek bucolic poet
*Antony Theodore (born 1954), German pastor poet and educator
*Jan Theuninck (born 1954), Belgian painter and poet
*Nandi Thimmana (15th – 16th cc.), Telugu poet
*Thiruvalluvar (around 31 BCE), Tamil poet and philosopher
*Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer in English
*Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas (1878–1917), Welsh poet and essayist in English
*Lorenzo Thomas (poet), Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), US poet and critic
*R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), Welsh poet in English and Anglican priest
*John Thompson (Canadian poet), John Thompson (1938–1976), English-born Canadian poet
*John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), US poet, journalist, editor and publisher
*Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet and ascetic
*James Thomson (poet), James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright
*James Thomson (B.V.), James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882), Scottish Victorian poet
*Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), US author, poet and philosopher
*Georg Thurmair (1909–1984), German poet and hymn writer
*Maria Luise Thurmair (1918–2005), German poet and hymn writer
*Joseph Thurston (poet), Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), English poet
*Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), English poet and writer
*Tibullus (c. 54–19 BCE), Latin poet and elegy writer
*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), US writer, poet and artist
*Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade (1920–1973), Somali poet
*Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962), Polish poet
*Nick Toczek (born 1950), English writer, poet and broadcaster
*Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966), US Modernist poet, educator and columnist
*Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), English poet and translator
*Jean Toomer (1894–1967), US poet and novelist
*Mihály Tompa (1819–1868), Hungarian poet and pastor
*Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), Peruvian poet
*Kálmán Tóth (poet), Kálmán Tóth (1831–1881), Hungarian poet
*Krisztina Tóth (writer), 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) US poet and essayist

Tr–Tz

*Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), English poet, clergyman and religious writer
*Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian Expressionist poet
*Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), US poet
*Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French Canadian writer and poet
*William S. Tribell (born 1977), American poet
*Duško Trifunović (1933–2006), Serbian poet and writer
*Calvin Trillin (born 1935), US humorist, poet and novelist
*Geeta Tripathee (born 1972), Nepali poet, lyricist, essayist and scholar
*Suryakant Tripathi (1896–1961), Indian poet in Hindi and Bengali
*Quincy Troupe (born 1939), US poet, editor 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
*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 Māori poet
*Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), Polish poet of Jewish descent
*Jan Twardowski (1915–2006), Polish poet and priest
*Chase Twichell (born 1950), US poet, professor and publisher
*Pontus de Tyard (c. 1521–1605), French poet and priest
*Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), Russian Romantic poet
*Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian and French avant-garde poet and performance artist

U

*Kornel Ujejski (1823–1897) Polish poet and political writer
*Erzsi Újvári (1899–1940), Hungarian poet
*Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), US beat poet
*Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (1885–1945), Telugu poet
*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
*Unorthodox Australian Poet (born 1965), Australian poet
*Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), US poet, anthologist and critic; US Poet Laureate 1961–1962
*John Updike (1932–2009), US novelist, poet and critic
*Allen Upward (1863–1926), Irish-English Imagist poet and teacher
*Amy Uyematsu (born 1947), Japanese-US poet

V

*János Vajda (poet), János Vajda (1827–1897), Hungarian poet and journalist
*Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French Symbolist author and poet
*Alfonso Vallejo (1943–2021), Spanish artist, playwright and poet
*César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet, writer and playwright
*Jean-Pierre Vallotton (born 1955), French-Swiss poet and writer
*Valmiki poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature
*Cor van den Heuvel, Cor Van den Heuvel (born 1931), US haiku poet, editor and archivist
*Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1992–1993
*Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet, writer and fashion designer
*Nikola Vaptsarov (1909–1942), Bulgarian poet
*Varand (born 1954), Armenian poet, writer and professor of literature
*Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987), Indian poet writing in Hindi
*Dimitris Varos (1949–2017), 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
*Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), African-American poet, painter and sculptor
*Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – after 1570), Portuguese poet and courtier
*Vazha-Pshavela (aka Luka Razikashvili) (1861–1915), Georgia (country), Georgian poet and writer
*Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003), US poet and educator
*Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright
*Attila Végh (poet), Attila Végh (born 1962), Hungarian poet and philosopher
*Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458), Italian poet in Latin
*Vemana (aka Kumaragiri Vema Reddy), Indian Telugu poet
*Gavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. 1680–1749), Serbian priest, writer, poet and illuminator
*Helen Vendler (born 1933), US poetry critic and professor
*Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902), Catalan language, Catalan poet in Spain
*Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet associated with Symbolist movement
*Paul Vermeersch (born 1973), Canadian poet
*Veturi (1936–2010), Telugu poet and songwriter
*Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864–1937), French symbolist poet
*Peter Viereck (1916–2006), US poet, professor and political thinker
*Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Canadian Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter
*Judit Vihar (born 1944), Hungarian poet and literary historian
*Jose Garcia Villa (1908–1997), Philippines 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 BCE), ancient Roman poet
*Roemer Visscher (1547–1620), Dutch writer and poet
*Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805), Hungarian poet
*Mihailo Vitković (1778–1829), Hungarian poet in Serbian and lawyer
*Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230), celebrated Middle High German lyric poet
*Vincent Voiture (1597–1648), French poet
*Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer
*Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679), Dutch playwright and poet
*Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010), Soviet Russian poet
*Stanko Vraz (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian language poet
*Vyasa, considered author of ''Mahabharata'' and some Vedas

W

Wa–Wh

*Wace (c. 1110 – post-1174), Norman poet
*Sidney Wade (born 1951), US poet and professor
*John Wain (1925–1994), English poet, novelist and critic
*Diane Wakoski (born 1937), US poet linked with deep image, confessional and Beat generation poets
*Derek Walcott (1930–2017), Saint Lucia poet and playwright; 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
*Anne Waldman (born 1945), US poet
*Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), German-US poet, translator and publisher
*Arthur Waley (1889–1966), English orientalist and Sinologist, poet and translator
*Alice Walker (born 1944), US author, poet and activist
*Margaret Walker (1915–1998), African-US writer
*Edmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politician
*Martin Walser (born 1927), German writer
*Robert Walser (writer), Robert Walser (1878–1956), German-speaking Swiss writer
*Wan Shenzi (1856–1923), Chinese couplet writer
*Connie Wanek (born 1952), US poet
*Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), Wang Wei (王維, 701–761), Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, musician and painter
*Wang Wei (17th-century poet), Wang Wei (王微, 1597–1647), Chinese priestess and poet
*Emily Warn, US poet
*Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist and poet
*Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), US poet, novelist and critic
*Lewis Warsh (1944–1920), US poet, writer and visual artist
*Thomas Warton (1728–1790), English literary historian, critic and poet
*Albert Wass (1908–1998), Hungarian poet and novelist exiled in US
*Aleksander Wat (1900–1967), Polish poet and memoirist
*Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Welsh poet, translator and painter
*Thomas Watson (poet), Thomas Watson (1555–1592), English lyric poet in English and Latin
*Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972), Australian poet
*George Watsky (born 1986), US poet and rapper
*Barrett Watten (born 1948), US poet, editor and educator linked 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 (poet), Francis Webb (1925–1973), Australian poet
*John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634), English dramatist
*Rebecca Wee, US poet and professor
*Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), US 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), US poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
*Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English Methodist leader and hymnist
*Gilbert West (1703–1756), English poet, translator and Christian apologist
*Philip Whalen (1923–2002), US 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-US poet
*Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932), US songwriter, performer and poet
*E. B. White, E.B. White (1899–1985), US essayist, author and humorist
*Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), English poet
*James L. White (poet), James L. White (1936–1981), US poet, editor and teacher
*Walt Whitman (1819–1892), US poet, essayist and humanist
*Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), English poet
*Reed Whittemore (1919–2012), US poet, biographer and critic
*John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), US poet

Wi–Wy

*Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884–1947), English poet raised in Australia
*Les Wicks (born 1955), Australian poet, publisher and editor
*Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator
*John Wieners (1934–2002), US lyric poet
*Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), Polish poet and journalist
*Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), US poet; US Poet Laureate 1987–1988
*Jane Wilde (1826–1896), Irish poet and nationalist
*Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, playwright and poet
*John Wilkinson (poet), John Wilkinson (born 1953), English poet
*William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071–1126), earliest troubadour poet whose work survives
*Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), Anglo-Scottish poet, writer and missionary
*Emmett Williams (1925–2007), US poet and visual artist
*Jonathan Williams (poet), Jonathan Williams (1929–2008), US poet, publisher and essayist
*Heathcote Williams (1941–2017), English poet, political activist and dramatist
*Miller Williams (1930–2015), US poet, translator and editor
*Oscar Williams (poet), Oscar Williams (1900–1964), Jewish Ukrainian-US anthologist and poet
*Saul Williams (born 1972), African-US singer, poet, writer and actor
*Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), African-US poet, novelist and social critic
*Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh poet in Welsh
*William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), poet and physician linked with modernism and imagism
*William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), Welsh poet and hymnist
*Clive Wilmer (born 1945), English poet
*John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English poet, courtier and satirist
*Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), US poet and editor
*Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901-1946) US-born Canadian poet, writer, editor
*Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey, 1945–2022), US political and cultural writer, essayist and poet
*Christian Wiman (born 1966), US poet and editor
*David Wingate (poet), David Wingate (1828–1892), Scottish poet
*Yvor Winters (1900–1968), US 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 (poet), Charles Wolfe (1791–1823), Irish poet
*Hans Wollschläger (1935–2007), German writer, translator and historian
*Sholeh Wolpe (born 1962), Iranian-US poet, literary translator and playwright
*Maryla Wolska (Iwo Płomieńczyk, 1873–1930), Polish poet
*George Woodcock (1912–1995), Canadian poet and writer of biography and history
*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 (1949–2016), US poet
*Charles Wright (poet), Charles Wright (born 1935), US poet; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
*David Wright (poet), David Wright (1920–1994), South African-born poet and author
*Franz Wright (1953–2015), US poet, son of James Wright; 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
*James Wright (poet), James Wright (1927–1980), US poet, father of Franz Wright
*Jay Wright (poet), Jay Wright (born 1935), African-US poet, playwright and essayist
*Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet and environmentalist
*Lady Mary Wroth (1587 – c. 1651), English poet
*Thomas Wyatt (poet), Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), English ambassador and lyric poet
*Józef Wybicki (1747–1822), Polish poet and national-anthem writer
*Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), US poet and novelist
*Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), Welsh poet in Welsh
*Edward Alexander Wyon (1842−1872), English architect and poet
*Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), Polish poet, playwright and painter

X

*Xenokleides (4th c. BCE), Athenian poet
*Xin Qiji (1140–1207), Chinese poet
*Cali Xuseen Xirsi (also Yam Yam) (1946–2005), Somali poet active in 1960s
*Xu Zhimo (1897–1931), Chinese poet
*Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947–2018), Uzbek poet

Y

*Jūkichi Yagi (1898–1927), Japanese religious poet
*Leo Yankevich (born 1961), US poet and editor
*Peyo Yavorov (1878–1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poet
*Raushan Yazdani (1918–1967), Bengali poet and researcher
*W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
*Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), Russian lyrical poet
*Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet Russian poet, dramatist and film director
*Lin Yining (1655 – c. 1730), Chinese poet, painter and composer
*Akiko Yosano (1878–1942), Japanese poet, feminist and pacifist
*Nima Yooshij (1895–1960), Iranian poet
*Andrew Young (poet, born 1885), Andrew Young (1885–1971), Scottish poet and clergyman
*Edward Young (1681–1765), English poet
*Ian Young (writer), Ian Young (born 1945), English/Canadian poet
*Kevin Young (poet), Kevin Young (born 1970), US poet and teacher
*Marguerite Young (1908–1995), US author of poetry, fiction and non-fiction
*Simpson Charles Younger (1850–1943), baseball player, soldier during the American Civil War, Civil Rights campaigner, and poet
*A. W. Yrjänä (Aki Ville Yrjänä; born 1967), Finnish poet, musician and songwriter
*Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Chinese poet, scholar and gastronome

Z

*Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828), Polish poet
*Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021), Polish poet, novelist and essayist
*Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886), Polish poet
*Wacław Michał Zaleski (1799–1849), Polish poet, critic and politician
*Andrea Zanzotto (1921–2011), Italian poet
*Matthew Zapruder (born 1967), US poet, translator and professor
*Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), US lyric poet
*Kazimiera Zawistowska (1870–1902), Polish poet and translator
*Abd al-Wahhab Abu Zayd (living), Saudi poet and translator
*Piotr Zbylitowski (1569–1649), Polish poet and courtier
*Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (born 1979), Polish poet and journalist
*Emil Zegadłowicz (1888–1941), Polish poet, playwright and translator
*Ludwig Zeller (1927–2019) Chilean poet
*Robert Zend (1929–1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and artist
*Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), English writer, Dub poetry, dub poet and Rastafarian
*Hristofor Zhefarovich (c. 1690–1753), Serbian painter, writer and poet
*Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930), German-US poet in Pennsylvania Dutch
*Narcyza Żmichowska (Gabryella, 1819–1876), Polish poet and novelist
*Radovan Zogović (1907–1986), Serbian/Montenegrin poet
*Miklós Zrínyi (1620–1664), Hungarian poet and statesman
*Zuhayr ibn Abī Sūlmā (520–609), pre-Islamic Arabian poet
*Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), US objectivist poets
*Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915), Polish poet, novelist and philosopher
*Juliusz Żuławski (1910–1999), Polish poet, critic and translator
*Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Swish poet, hymnist and Reformation leader
*Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975), Polish poet, playwright and novelist in Russia and Canada

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