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Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956)

William Allegrezza (born 1974)

A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)

Bruce Andrews

Maya Angelou (born 1928)

Antler

John Ashbery (born 1927)

C. Bailey-Lloyd (born 1970)

Jesse Ball (born 1978)

Amiri Baraka (born 1934)

David Baratier (born 1970)

Charles Bernstein

Steven Jesse Bernstein

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)

Wendell Berry (born 1934)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Frank Bidart (born 1939)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958)

Paul Blackburn (1926-1971)

Benjamin Paul Blood(1832-1919)

Robert Bly (born 1926)

Anne Bradstreet

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)

Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-1990)

Ken Brewer (born 1941)

John Malcolm Brinnin (1916-1999)

James Brock (born 1958)

William Bronk (1918-1999)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?-1845)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

Ray Buttigieg (born 1955)

John Cage

Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904)

Carolyn Joyce Carty (1957-

Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

Arthur Chapman (1874-1935)

Fred Chappell

Neeli Cherkovski

Lucille Clifton

Joshua Clover

Norma Cole

Billy Collins (born 1941)

Betsy Colquitt (born 1927)

Leo Connellan

Shanna Compton (born 1970)

Cid Corman

Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

Hart Crane, (1899-1932)

Stephen Crane, (1871-1900)

Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

Harry Crosby (1898-1929)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Jim Daniels (born 1956)

Michael Davidson

William F. DeVault (1955-)

James Dickey (1923-1997)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

R. H. W. Dillard (born 1937)

Ray DiPalma (born 1943)

Diane Di Prima

Thomas M. Disch (born 1940)

Stephen Dobyns (born 1941)

Ed Dorn (1929-1999)

Rita Dove (born 1952)

Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)

Alan Dugan (1923-2003)

Stuart Dybek (born 1942)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Stuart Dybek (born 1942)

Bob Dylan

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Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)

Larry Eigner

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Theodore Enslin (born 1925)

Clayton Eshleman (born 1935)

William Everson -- Brother Antoninus (1912-1994)

Irving Feldman (born 1928)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)

Roland Flint

Douglas Florian

Carolyn Forché (born 1950)

Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

Skip Fox

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Alice Fulton (born 1952)

Forrest Gander (born 1956)

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)

Strickland Gillilan (1869-1954)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)

Peter Gizzi (born 1959)

Jesse Glass (born 1954)

Louise Glück (born 1943)

Terry Godbey

Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961)

Barbara Guest (1920-2006)

Edgar Guest (1891-1959)

Brion Gysin (1916-1986)

Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)

Kimiko Hahn

Jim Harrison (born 1937)

Carla Harryman

Alamgir Hashmi

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

H.D. (1886-1961)

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004)

Lyn Hejinian (born 1941)

Richard Hell (born 1949)

Conrad Hilberry (born 1928)

Linda Hogan

John Hollander (born 1929)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

Edwin Honig (born 1919)

Joan Houlihan

Richard Howard (born 1929)

Fanny Howe

Susan Howe

Lindley Williams Hubbell

Chris Huff (born 1990)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Richard Hugo (1923-1982)

Constance Hunting (1925-2006)

David Ignatow (1914-1997)

David Jaffin

Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

Robinson Jeffers, (1887-1962)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Robert Underwood Johnson

Ryan David Jooste

Janet Kauffman (born 1945)

Weldon Kees (1914-1955)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951)

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Jack Kimball

Amy King

Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996)

August Kleinzahler (born 1949)

Etheridge Knight(1933-1991)

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)

Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948)

Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)

Joanne Kyger (born 1934)

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Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)

Robert Lax

Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Philip Levine (born 1928)

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

Naomi Long Madgett (born 1923)

James Longenbach

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Audre Lorde, (born 1934)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Thomas Lynch (born 1948)

Cynthia Macdonald

Sheldon James Martin (born 1945)

Edgar Lee Masters

Harry Matthews

William Matthews (1942-1997)

Bryant H. McGill

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Seán Mac Falls (born 1957)

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)

David Meltzer

Herman Melville

Samuel Menashe

William Meredith (born 1919)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915)

Thomas Merton, (1915-1968)

W.S. Merwin (born 1927)

Sarah Messer, (born 1966)

Josephine Miles (1911-1985)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)

Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)

Hilda Morley

Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)

George Frederick Morgan (1922-2004)

Jim Morrison, (1943-1971)

Stephen Morse, (1945 - )

Jennifer Moxley

Lisel Mueller (born 1924)

Sheila Murphy

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Kenn Nesbitt (1962- )

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)

Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )

Lorine Niedecker (1903?-1970)

Naomi Shihab Nye, (1952- )

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

Sharon Olds, (born 1942)

Mary Oliver (1935- )

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

Mary Oppen (1908-1990)

Ron Padgett

Michael Palmer (born 1943)

Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)

Janneke Parrish, (born 1991)

Linda Pastan, (born 1932)

Kenneth Patchen

Sam Pereira

Robert Peters

Marge Piercy (1936- )

Nick Piombino

Robert Pinsky (1940- )

Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Charles Potts (1943-)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Jack Prelutsky (1940- )

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Carl Rakosi (1903- )

Dudley Randall (1914-2000)

Claudia Rankine

Darren B. Rankins (1966- )

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

David Ray (1932- )

Henry Reed (1914-1986)

Ishmael Reed

John Reinhard

Donald Revell

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)

Adrienne Rich (born 1929)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

James J. Roberts, (1947- )

Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)

Elizabeth Robinson

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Franklin Rosemont (1943- )

Jerome Rothenberg

Anne Rouse (1954- )

Thomas Rowley (1721-1796)

Gibbons Ruark (born 1941)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Frank Samperi

Ella H. Scharring-Hausen (1894-1985)

Robert Louis Scharring-Hausen 1894-1969)

James Schuyler (1923-1991)

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)

Armand Schwerner

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)

Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)

Eric Paul Shaffer

Leslie Marmon Silko

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)

Ron Silliman (born 1946)

Hal Sirowitz

Judith Skillman

Myra Sklarew

Rod Smith (born 1962)

Tracy K. Smith

W. D. Snodgrass (born 1926)

Gary Snyder (born 1930)

Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

James Spix (born 1974)

William Stafford(1914-1993)

Frank Stanford

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gerald Stern (born 1925)

Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)

Susan Stewart (born 1952)

Mark Strand

Robert Sward (born 1933)

May Swenson

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Eileen Tabios

John Taggart

Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928)

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

James Tate (born 1943)

Edward Taylor (1645-1729)

Todd Temkin (born 1964)

Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Richard Tillinghast (born 1940)

Henry Timrod

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)

Frederick Tuckerman

Lewis Turco

Janine Pommy Vega

Renée Vivien (1877-1909)

Diane Wakoski (born 1937)

Rosmarie Waldrop

Keith Waldrop

Alice Walker, (born 1944)

Rod Walker

Sean Ward (born 1966)

Barrett Watten (born 1948)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Lew Welch

Joe Wenderoth

Theodore Weiss (1916-2003)

Phillis Wheatley (1753-178 4)

Gary J. Whitehead (b. 1965)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

J.D. Whitney

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Richard Wilbur (born 1921)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Oscar Williams

Elizabeth Willis (born 1961)

James Wright (1927-1980)

Kirby Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Al Young

C. Dale Young (born 1969)

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

Andrew C. Zinn

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