List of Poets Read

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updated Aug, 2023 

A

Gerrit Achterberg

Milton Acorn

Mark Aguhar

Anna Akhmatova

Rafael Alberti

Yehuda Amichai

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Maya Angelou

Louis Aragon

Reinaldo Arenas

John Asfour

John Ashbery

W.H. Auden

Kofi Awoonor

B
Ingeborg Bachman

Don Bailey

Basho

Charles Baudelaire

Simin Behbahani

John Berryman

Aloysius Bertrand

Earle Birney

Elizabeth Bishop x2

Robin Blaser

Eavan Boland

Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

Richard Brautigan

Lucile Brock-Broido

Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Charles Bruce

Charles Bukowski

Michael Bullock

C
Sveva Caetani

Jim Carroll

Hayden Carruth

Raymond Carver

Rosario Catellanos

Catullus

C.P. Cavafy

Carol Chambers

Lucille Clifton

Arthur Hugh Clough

Peter Culley

Leonard Cohen

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don Coles

Hart Crane

Robert Creeley

ee cummings

D
H.D.

Mahmoud Darwish

James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

John Donne

Keith Douglas

Gord Downie

Celia Dropkin

Robert Duncan

E
Lauris Edmond

Loren Eiseley

T.S. Eliot

F
Faiz Ahmed Faiz Forough Farrokhzad
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Connie Fife
Edward Taylor Fletcher

Robert Frost

G 

Chief Dan George

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jack Gilbert

Alan Ginsberg

W.S. Graham

H-I
Hafez

Hanshan

Thomas Hardy

Sakutaro Hariwara

Jim Harrison

Robert Hayden

Seamus Heaney

Anne Hebert

Zbigniew Herbert

Georg Heym

Nazim Hikmet

Tony Hoagland

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Frances Horovitz

Glyn Hughes

Langston Hughes

Ted Hughes

Madho Lal Hussain

J
Max Jacob

Randall Jarrell

Robinson Jeffers

Pauline Johnson

Ronald Johnson

George Johnston

Daniel Jones

June Jordan

K
Kabir

Yasunari Kawabata

John Keats x2

Jane Kenyon x2

Weldon Kees

Galway Kinnell

Roy Kiyooka

Kenneth Koch

Rachel Korn

Robert Kroetsch

Maxine Kumin

L
Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

Irving Layton x10

Carl Leggo

David Lerner

Denise Levertov x2

Philip Levine

Larry Levis

Dorothy Livesay

Federico García Lorca

Audre Lorde x2

Robert Lowell

Malcolm Lowry

Pat Lowther

M 

Norman MacCaig

Gwendolyn MacEwen x3

Louis MacNeice

Vera Manuel

Lee Maracle

Don Marquis

Anne Marriott

Andrew Marvell

William Matthews

Claude McKay

David McFadden

Thomas Merton

W. S. Merwin

Josephine Miles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Czesław Miłosz

Marianne Moore

Edwin Muir

N
Pablo Neruda x2

John Newlove

bpNichol

Lorine Niedecker

Alden Nowlan

O
Frank O'Hara

Mary Oliver

Richard Outram

Wilfred Owen

P-Q
PK Page x2

Dan Pagis

Grace Paley

Elise Partridge

Octavio Paz

Sylvia Plath x2

Edgar Allen Poe

Francis Ponge

Al Purdy

Nizar Qabanni

R
Jamie Reid x2

Kenneth Rexroth

Adrienne Rich

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

Yannis Ritsos

Theodore Roethke

Isaac Rosenberg

Helene Rosenthal

Christina Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Muriel Rukeyser

Rumi x2

Ryōkan

S
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Carl Sandburg

May Sarton

Siegfried Sassoon

James Schuyler

Anne Sexton
Jaroslav Seifert

Egill Skallagrímsson

Shel Silverstein

Edith Sitwell

William Shakespeare

Sei Shōnagon

Christopher Smart

Stevie Smith

Jack Spicer

William Stafford

Frank Stanford

Gertrude Stein

Wallace Stevens

Anna Świrszczyńska

Wisława Szymborska

T
James Tate

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dylan Thomas

Edward Thomas

R.S. Thomas

John Thompson

Georg Trakl

Tomas Tranströmer

Marina Tsvetaeva (x2)

U-V
Francisco Ruiz Udiel

John Updike x2

Paul Valéry

César Vallejo

M. Vasalis

Lorraine Vernon

José García Villa 

W-Z
Miriam Waddington

Derek Walcott

Bronwen Wallace x2

James Welch

Lew Welch

George Whipple

Richard Wilbur

Oscar Wilde

Anne Wilkinson

C.K. Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Wordsworth

C.D. Wright

James Wright

William Butler Yeats

Leo Yerxa

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