The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.

Contents

1 A-D 2 E-K 3 L-P 4 R-S 5 T-Z

A-D

• William Allegrezza (born 1974)
• Bruce Andrews
• Maya Angelou (born 1928)
• L.S. Asekoff
• John Ashbery (born 1927)
• Jesse Ball (born 1978)
• Amiri Baraka (born 1934)
• Charles Bernstein
• John Berryman
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Anne Bradstreet
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?-1845)
• William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
• William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
• Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
• Lucille Clifton
• Ryan Coganow (born 1983)
• Billy Collins
• Cid Corman
• Gregory Corso (1930-2001)
• Hart Crane, (1899-1932)
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900)
• Robert Creeley
• Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
• Grace Noll Crowell (1877-1969)
• Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
• E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
• William F. DeVault (1955-)
• James Dickey
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
• Diane Di Prima
• Ed Dorn (1929-1999)
• Rita Dove (born 1952)
• Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

E-K

• Richard Eberhart (born 1904)
• T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• Theodore Enslin (born 1925)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)
• Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
• Alice Fulton
• Robert Frost (1874-1963)
• Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
• Louise Glück (born 1943)
• Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
• Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)
• Carla Harryman
• Alamgir Hashmi
• Robert Hayden
• H.D. (1886-1961)
• Anthony Hecht
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
• Fanny Howe
• Susan Howe
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
• Richard Hugo (1923-1982)
• Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
• Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
• Amy King
• Etheridge Knight
• Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948)
• Joanne Kyger (born 1934)

L-P

• Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
• Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
• 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 (1917-1977)
• Bryant H. McGill
• Claude McKay (1889-1948)
• Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
• James Merrill (1926-1995)
• Stuart Merrill, (1863-1915)
• Thomas Merton, (1915-1968)
• Sarah Messer, (born 1966)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
• Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
• Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
• Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
• Kenn Nesbitt
• Lorine Niedecker (1903[?]-1970)
• Howard Nemerov
• Naomi Shihab Nye, (1952- )
• Mary Oliver (1935- )
• Charles Olson (1910-1970)
• George Oppen (1908-1984)
• Ron Padgett
• Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
• Marge Piercy (1936- )
• Robert Pinsky (1940- )
• Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
• Jack Prelutsky (1940- )

R-S

• Carl Rakosi (1903- )
• John Crowe Ransom (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, (1943- )
• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
• Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
• Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
• Tupac Shakur (1971-1996?)
• Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
• Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
• Myra Sklarew
• Gary Snyder
• James Spix (born 1974)
• 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