List of American poets
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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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
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932)
- Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
- Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
- E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- James Dickey
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Diane Di Prima
- 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
- 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
L-P
- Timothy Leary
- 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
- 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)
- Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
- Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
- Myra Sklarew
- Gary Snyder
- William Stafford
- Gerald Stern
- Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
- Mark Strand
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)