A-D Bruce Andrews Maya Angelou (born 1928) John Ashbery (born 1927) Amiri Baraka (born 1934) Charles Bernstein John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Anne Bradstreet Gwendolyn Brooks William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Gregory Corso (1930-2001) Hart Crane, (1899-1932) Stephen Crane, (1871-1900) Harry Crosby (1898-1929) Countee Cullen (1903-1946) E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) James Dickey Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Diane Di Prima Ed Dorn (1929-1999) Rita Dove W.E.B. Du Bois Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) E-K Richard Eberhart (born 1904) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919) Philip Freneau (1752-1832) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Brion Gysin (1916-1986) Carla Harryman Alamgir Hashmi Robert Hayden H.D (1886-1961), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Richard Hugo Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962) James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948) Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) Etheridge Knight Joanne Kyger (born 1934) L-P Timothy Leary Denise Levertov (1923-1997) Philip Levine Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Audre Lorde, (born 1934) Amy Lowell (1874-1925) James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Robert Lowell Claude McKay Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915) Thomas Merton, (1915-1968) Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950) Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913) Marianne Moore, (1887-1972) Ogden Nash (1902-1971) Lorine Niedecker (1903[?]-1970) Howard Nemerov Charles Olson (1910-1970) George Oppen (1908-1984) Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967) Robert Pinsky Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) R-S Carl Rakosi (1903- ) John Crowe Ransome (1888-1974) Henry Reed (1914-1986) Ishmael Reed Kenneth Rexroth Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) Adrienne Rich Lola Ridge (1873-1941) Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935) Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963) Franklin Rosemont Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) Myra Sklarew Gary Snyder William Stafford Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Gerald Stern Wallace Stevens (1880-1955) Mark Strand May Swenson T-Z Allen Tate (1899-1979) Edward Taylor (1645-1729) Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Janine Pommy Vega Renée Vivien (1877-1909) Diane Wakoski Alice Walker, (born 1944) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1898) Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Richard Wilbur William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) See also poetry, United States poetry, List of poets, List of English language poets, list of women poets