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 

Page, PK x2

Pagis, Dan

Paley, Grace

Partridge, Elise

Paz, Octavio

Plath, Sylvia x2

Poe, Edgar Allen

Ponge, Francis

Purdy, Al

Qabanni, Nizar

R 

Reid, Jamie x2

Rexroth, Kenneth

Rich, Adrienne

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rimbaud, Arthur

Ritsos, Yannis

Roethke, Theodore

Rosenberg, Isaac

Rosenthal, Helene

Rossetti, Christina

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Rukeyser, Muriel

Rumi x2

Ryōkan

S
de Saint-Denys Garneau, Hector

Sandburg, Carl

Sarton, May

Sassoon, Siegfried

Schuyler, James

Sexton, Anne
Seifert, Jaroslav

Skallagrímsson, Egill

Silverstein, Shel

Sitwell, Sitwell

Shakespeare, William

Shōnagon, Sei

Smart, Christopher

Smith, Stevie

Spicer, Jack

Stafford, William

Stanford, Frank

Stein, Gertrude

Stevens. Wallace

Świrszczyńska, Anna

Szymborska, Wislawa

T 

Tate, James

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, Edward

Thomas, R.S.

Thompson, John

Trakl, Georg

Tranströmer, Tomas

Tsvetaeva, Marina (x2)

U-V 

Udiel, Francisco Ruiz

Updike, John x2

Valéry, Paul

Vallejo, César

Vasalis, M.

Vernon, Lorraine

Villa, José García

W-Z 

Waddington, Miriam

Walcott, Derek

Wallace, Bronwen x2

Welch, James

Welch, Lew

Whipple, George

Wilbur, Richard

Wilde, Oscar

Wilkinson, Anne

Williams. C. K.

Williams, Williams Carlos

Wordsworth, William

Wright, C. D.

Wright, James

Yeats, William Butler

Yerxa, Leo

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