article: List of poets from the United States
links: Richard Howard James Weldon Johnson Lou Reed Barbara Guest Ted Berrigan H.D. Jim Harrison Ogden Nash Masiela Lusha John Berryman Richard Wilbur Ntozake Shange Gertrude Stein Alice Notley Allen Tate Carolyn Kizer E. E. Cummings T. S. Eliot W. D. Snodgrass Alamgir Hashmi Lawrence Ferlinghetti Joanne Kyger Julia Ward Howe John Ashbery Anne Stevenson Emily Dickinson William Clark Falkner Henry Rollins Mercedes de Acosta Allen Ginsberg Nipsey Russell Etheridge Knight Bob Dylan Charles Bukowski Viggo Mortensen John Pierpont Diane Middlebrook Denise Levertov Amy Uyematsu W. S. Merwin Rod McKuen Ron Padgett Donald Hall Muriel Rukeyser Theodore Roethke James Merrill Michael McClure Harry Mathews Herman Melville Kenneth Koch Kathryn Stripling Byer Richard Hugo Louise Glück Donald Justice Jack Spicer Gerald Stern Raymond Roseliep Jack Hirschman Philip Levine (poet) Kanye West Karl Shapiro Charles Simic Lisel Mueller Wallace Stevens Rita Dove Charles Reznikoff John Greenleaf Whittier Rae Armantrout Charles Olson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lorine Niedecker Dorothy Parker Stanley Kunitz Besmilr Brigham Edna St. Vincent Millay James Dickey Kenneth Rexroth Billy Collins Val Kilmer Galway Kinnell Charles Wright (poet) Nathaniel Parker Willis Adrienne Rich Amiri Baraka John Crowe Ransom Mary Oliver Carl Sandburg Stephen Dunn Phoebe Cary Langston Hughes Jack Buck Rita Mae Brown William Carlos Williams Gary Snyder James Schuyler Francis Scott Key Steve Dalachinsky Bill Berkson James Russell Lowell Walt Whitman Roberts Blossom Audre Lorde Anne Sexton Bernadette Mayer Rolland Smith Ralph Waldo Emerson Wendell Berry Kim Bridgford Thomas Merton Robert Frost C. K. Williams Mark Strand Edgar Allan Poe George Oppen Anne Waldman Sara Teasdale Poet Maya Angelou Nikki Giovanni Natasha Trethewey Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Bly Archibald MacLeish William Jay Smith Amanda Gorman Suzanne Cleary Vladimir Nabokov Louis Zukofsky Robert Lowell John Updike Claudia Rankine Robert Penn Warren Jupiter Hammon Dr. Seuss Carson Cistulli Hayden Carruth Beah Richards Robert Creeley Anthony Hecht Ana Castillo Richard Wright Emma Lazarus Alice Walker Amber Tamblyn Julia de Burgos Jessie Redmon Fauset Joseph Brodsky Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. James Tate (writer) Sylvia Plath Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land Frank Bidart Ezra Pound Jim Morrison Raymond Carver Mona Van Duyn Alicia Keys List of poets from North America Roald Hoffmann David Berman (musician) Giannina Braschi Stephen Crane Lewis MacAdams Frank O'Hara Seth Abramson Claudia Emerson Store Norske Leksikon Elinor Wylie Denis Johnson Marianne Moore Elizabeth Bishop Robinson Jeffers Shel Silverstein Jack Kerouac Phillis Wheatley Hart Crane Billy Corgan Philip Whalen Patti Smith