List of poets

A

Ab–Ak

• Jonathan Aaron, US poet
• Aarudhra, Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry
• Chris Abani, Nigerian poet
• Henry Abbey, US poet
• Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, US poet and fiction writer
• Siôn Abel, Welsh balladeer
• Aria Aber, Afghan poet and novelist, resides in the US, writes and publishes primarily in English
• Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic
• Arthur Talmage Abernethy, US journalist, minister, scholar; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1948-1953
• Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr, Persian poet
• Sam Abrams, US poet, editor and critic
• Seth Abramson, US poet
• Kosta Abrašević, Serbian poet
• Dannie Abse, Welsh poet in English
• Kathy Acker, US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright
• Diane Ackerman, US author, poet and naturalist
• Duane Ackerson, US writer of speculative poetry and fiction
• Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer and playwright
• Harold Acton, English writer, scholar and dilettante
• János Aczél, Hungarian poet and provost
• Tamás Aczél, Hungarian poet
• Gilbert Adair, Scottish novelist, poet and critic
• Virginia Hamilton Adair, US poet
• Helen Adam, Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer
• Draginja Adamović, Serbian poet
• John Adams, US poet
• Léonie Adams, US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1948–1949
• Ryan Adams, US singer-songwriter and writer
• Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet
• Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet mainly in England
• Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, writer and politician
• Kim Addonizio, US poet and novelist
• Artur Adson, Estonian poet
• Endre Ady, Hungarian poet
• Mariska Ady, Hungarian poet
• Aeschylus, Athenian tragedian
• Anastasia Afanasieva, Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translator
• Lucius Afranius, Roman comic poet
• John Agard, Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
• Patience Agbabi, British poet and performer
• James Agee, US novelist, screenwriter, and poet
• Deborah Ager, US poet and editor
• István Ágh, Hungarian poet
• Kelli Russell Agodon, US poet
• Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet
• Carlos Martínez Aguirre, Spanish poet
• Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet
• Ishaaq bin Ahmed, Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali Isaaq clan-family
• Ai, US poet
• Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
• Conrad Aiken, US poet and author; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1950–1952
• Aganice Ainianos, Greek poet
• Akazome Emon, Japanese poet and historian
• Mark Akenside, English poet and physician
• Rachel Akerman, Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Iranian poet, Persian poet
• Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
• Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
• Jan Nisar Akhtar, Indian Urdu poet
• Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
• Salman Akhtar, Indian US professor and poet writing in English and Urdu

  Al–Am

• Amina Al Adwan, Jordanian writer, poet and critic
• Ali al-Marhun, Saudi faqīh and poet
• Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal, Sudanese poet
• Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman
• Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet
• Ave Alavainu, Estonian poet
• Gillebríghde Albanach, Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader
• Alcaeus, Athenian comic poet in Greek
• Alcaeus of Messene, Greek writer of verse epigrams
• Alcaeus of Mytilene, Greek lyric poet from Lesbos
• Ammiel Alcalay, US poet, scholar and critic
• Alcman, Ancient Greek lyric poet
• Amos Bronson Alcott, US poet and teacher
• Richard Aldington, English poet and writer
• Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet
• Tudur Aled, Welsh poet writing in Welsh
• Claribel Alegría, Central US poet writing in Spanish
• Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Laureate 1977
• Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovene symbolist poet
• Sherman Alexie, US poet and writer
• Felipe Alfau, Catalan US novelist and poet
• Agha Shahid Ali, Indian, Kashmiri and US poet
• Taha Muhammad Ali, Palestinian poet
• Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
• Ali al-Hujwiri, Persian poet
• James Alexander Allan, Australian poet
• August Alle, Estonian poet
• Dick Allen, US poet, critic and academic
• Donald Allen, US poet, editor and translator
• Elizabeth Akers Allen, US author and poet
• Ron Allen, US poet and playwright
• Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet
• William Allingham, Irish poet and man of letters
• Washington Allston, US painter and poet
• Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet, philologist and critic
• Alta, US poet and writer
• Natan Alterman, Israeli poet, journalist and translator
• Alurista, Chicano poet and activist
• Al Alvarez, English poet
• Julia Alvarez, Dominican-US poet, novelist and essayist
• Betti Alver, Estonian poet
• Moniza Alvi, Pakistani-British poet and writer
• Guru Amar Das, Punjabi poet and Sikh guru
• Ambroise, Norman-French poet of Third Crusade
• Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
• Indran Amirthanayagam, Sri Lankan US poet, essayist and translator
• Kingsley Amis, English author and poet
• Majeed Amjad, Indian/Pakistani poet in Urdu
• A. R. Ammons, US author and poet

  An–Aq

• Anacreon, Greek lyric poet
• Alfred Andersch, German writer and publisher
• Mir Anees , Indian poet in Urdu
• Guda Anjaiah, Telugu Indian poet, singer, lyricist and writer from Telangana
• Anvari, Persian poet
• Temsüla Ao, Indian Naga poet, short story writer, and ethnographer
• Hans Christian Andersen, Danish poet and children's writer
• Victor Henry Anderson, US poet, kahuna and teacher of the Feri Tradition
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet
• Mário de Andrade, Brazilian poet, novelist and critic
• Bernard André, French Augustinian poet: poet laureate to Henry VII of England
• Peter Andrej, Slovenian poet and musician
• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and writer
• Bruce Andrews, US poet of language
• Kevin Andrews, Anglo-Greek philhellene writer and archeologist
• Ron Androla, US poet
• Aneirin, Brythonic epic poet
• Guru Angad, Sikh Guru and Punjabi poet
• Ralph Angel, US poet and translator
• Maya Angelou, US poet
• James Stout Angus, Shetland poet mainly in Shetland dialect
• Marion Angus, Scottish poet in Scots
• J. K. Annand, Scottish children's poet
• Mika Antić, Serbian poet
• David Antin, US poet and critic
• Antler, US poet
• Susanne Antonetta, US poet and author
• Brother Antoninus, US poet
• Raymond Antrobus, British poet and educator
• Chairil Anwar, Indonesian poet
• Johannes Anyuru, Swedish poet
• Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
• Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet and librarian in Alexandria
• Maja Apostoloska, Macedonian poet
• Philip Appleman, US poet and professor
• Lajos Áprily, Hungarian poet and translator
• Pawlu Aquilina, Maltese poet

  Ar

• Louis Aragon, French poet, novelist and editor
• János Arany, Hungarian poet
• Archilochus, Greek lyric poet
• Allamraju Subrahmanyakavi, Indian Telugu poet
• Walter Conrad Arensberg, US dadaist, critic and poet
• Tudor Arghezi, Romanian poet
• Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet
• Aristophanes, Greek dramatic poet
• Guru Arjan, Sikh guru and Punjabi poet
• Rae Armantrout, US language poet
• Simon Armitage, English poet, playwright and novelist
• Richard Armour, US poet and author
• Ernst Moritz Arndt, German author and poet
• Bettina von Arnim, German writer, composer and visual artist
• Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist
• Craig Arnold, US poet and professor
• Matthew Arnold, English poet and cultural critic
• Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld, Icelandic skald
• Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, Polish poet
• Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet
• Antonin Artaud, French playwright, poet and essayist

  As–Az

• Asadi Tusi, Persian poet
• M. K. Asante, US author, poet and professor
• John Ashbery, US poet, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Cliff Ashby, English poet and novelist
• Renée Ashley, US poet and novelist
• Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest
• Asjadi, Persian poet
• Adam Asnyk, Polish poet and dramatist
• Herbert Asquith, English poet
• Mina Assadi, Iranian poet, Persian poet, author and songwriter
• Vishnu Raj Atreya, Nepali poet, author, songwriter and novelist
• Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
• W. H. Auden, Anglo-US poet, essayist
• Imre Augustich, Slovenian/Hungarian poet
• Joseph Auslander, US poet, anthologist and novelist; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1937–1941
• Ausonius, Latin poet and rhetorician at Burdigala
• Paul Auster, US poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator
• James Avery, US actor, poet and screenwriter
• Margaret Avison, Canadian poet
• Krayem Awad, Viennese painter, sculptor and poet of Syrian origin
• Gennady Aygi, Russian poet
• Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Nigerian poet
• Ayinampudi Srilakshmi, Telugu poet
• Pam Ayres, English humorous poet
• Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
• Maryam Jafari Azarmani, Iranian poet, Persian poet, essayist, critic and translator
• Azraqi, Persian poet
• Jody Azzouni, US philosopher and poet

  B

Ba

• Baba Tahir, Persian poet
• Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and translator
• Ken Babstock, Canadian poet
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, US poet and writer of Apache/Chicano descent
• Bacchylides, Greek lyric poet
• Bellamy Bach, joint pseudonym of fiction writers and poets
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hindi poet
• Joseph M. Bachelor, US author, poet and educator
• Simon Bacher, Hebrew poet in Hungary
• Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author
• Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Indonesian poet
• George Bacovia, Romanian poet
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet and soldier
• Vahshi Bafqi Persian poet
• Julio Baghy, Hungarian Esperanto author and poet
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Persian poet
• Bai Juyi, Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty
• Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and dramatist
• József Bajza, Hungarian poet and critic
• Józef Baka, Polish/Lithuanian poet and Jesuit priest
• Vyt Bakaitis, Lithuania-US translator, editor and poet
• David Baker, US poet
• Hinemoana Baker, New Zealand poet and musician
• Bâkî, Ottoman-Turkish language poet
• John Balaban, US poet and translator
• Bálint Balassi, Hungarian poet
• Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic
• Edward Balcerzan, Polish poet, critic and translator
• Stanisław Baliński, Polish poet and diplomat
• Jesse Ball, US poet and novelist
• Zsófia Balla, Hungarian poet from Romania
• Addie L. Ballou, US poet and suffragist
• Konstantin Balmont, Russian symbolist poet and translator
• Russell Banks, US fiction writer and poet
• Anne Bannerman, Scottish poet
• Amiri Baraka , US writer, poet and dramatist
• Marcin Baran, Polish poet and journalist
• Stanisław Barańczak, Polish poet, critic and translator
• Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author
• John Barbour, Scottish poet, first major writer in Scots
• Nidia Barboza, Costa Rican poet and feminist activist
• Alexander Barclay, English/Scottish poet
• George Barker, English poet and author
• Les Barker, English poet
• Christine Barkhuizen le Roux, South African poet
• Coleman Barks, US poet
• Mihály Barla, Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary
• Mary Barnard, US poet, biographer and translator
• Djuna Barnes, US writer
• William Barnes, English writer, poet and philologist
• Catherine Barnett, US poet and educator
• Richard Barnfield, English poet
• Willis Barnstone, US poet and literary translator
• Maria Barrell, poet, playwright and writer of periodicals
• Laird Barron, US poet, author
• Sándor Barta, Hungarian poet executed in USSR
• Bernard Barton, English poet and Quaker
• Bertha Hirsch Baruch, US writer, poet and suffragist
• Todd Bash, US avant-garde playwright, poet and writer
• Matsuo Bashō, Japanese renku and haiku poet
• Michael Basinski, US text, visual and sound poet
• Ellen Bass, US poet
• Arlo Bates, US author, poet and educator
• David Bates, US poet
• Joseph Bathanti, US poet, writer and professor; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
• János Batsányi, Hungarian poet
• Dawn-Michelle Baude, US poet, journalist and educator
• Charles Baudelaire, French poet, essayist and translator
• Edward Baugh, Jamaican poet and scholar
• Cirilo Bautista, Philippines poet, writer and critic
• Charles Baxter, US writer and poet
• James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet