INDEX OF POETS & Writers
(entered to date)
- Adams-- Franklin Pierce Adams
- Adams-- H. Leslie Adams
- Adams-- Léonie Adams
- Agee-- James Agee
- Aiken-- Conrad Aiken
- Aldrich-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Allen-- Dick Allen
- Alsop-- George N. Alsop
- Ammons-- A. R. Ammons
- Amwell-- John Scott of Amwell
- Anderson-- Maxwell Anderson
- Angelou-- Maya Angelou
- Anonymous-- Anonymous
- Arnold-- Sir Edwin Arnold
- Arvey-- Verna Arvey
- Auden-- W. H. Auden
- Auslander-- Joseph Auslander
- Bass-- George Houston Bass
- Bates-- Arlo Bates
- Beach-- Amy Marcy Beach
- Beach-- Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
- Beers-- Ethel Lynn Beers
- Behn-- Robin Behn
- Benét-- Rosemary Benét
- Benjamin-- Torrence Benjamin
- Bennett-- Sanford Fillmore Bennett
- Bensel-- James Berry Bensel
- Bernstein-- Leonard Bernstein
- Berry-- Wendell Berry
- Billings-- William Billings
- Bishop-- Elizabeth Bishop
- Blake-- William Blake
- Blitzstein-- Mark Blitzstein
- Blodgett-- Harriet Fairchild Blodgett
- Blue Cloud-- Peter Blue Cloud
- Bluestone-- Stephen Bluestone
- Bly-- Robert Bly
- Bogan-- Louise Bogan
- Bontemps-- Arna Bontemps
- Bowles-- Jane Bowles
- Bowles-- Paul Bowles
- Bradstreet-- Anne Bradstreet
- Brant-- LeRoy V. Brant
- Brodsky-- Joseph Brodsky
- Brontë-- Emily Brontë
- Brooks-- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Brown-- Abbie Farwell Brown
- Browne-- Michael Dennis Browne
- Browning -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Browning -- Robert Browning
- Brubeck-- Dave Brubeck
- Bryant-- William Cullen Bryant
- Burgos-- Julia de Burgos
- Burnet-- Dana Burnet
- Calamity Jane-- Calamity Jane
- Campbell-- Mark Campbell
- Carpenter-- John Alden Carpenter
- Cary-- Alice Cary
- Cather-- Willa Cather
- Cawein-- Madison Cawein
- Cheney-- John Vance Cheney
- Coates-- Florence Earle Coates
- Cohan-- George M. Cohan
- Collins-- Billy Collins
- Collins-- Leslie Morgan Collins
- Corso-- Gregory Nunzio Corso
- Crane-- Stephen Crane
- Crapsey-- Adelaide Crapsey
- Creeley-- Robert Creeley
- Crosby-- Frances Jane Crosby
- Cullen-- Countee Cullen
- Cummings-- E. E. Cummings
- D.-- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Davis-- Annie Davis
- Davis-- Julia Johnson Davis
- De la Mare-- Walter De la Mare
- Deland-- Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
- Delany-- Clarissa Scott Delany
- Dickey-- James Dickey
- Dickinson-- Emily Dickinson
- Dillard-- Annie Dillard
- Doren-- Mark Van Doren
- Doty-- Mark Doty
- Douglas-- Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas
- Dove-- Rita Dove
- Dresser-- Paul Dresser
- Dunbar-- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Eastman-- Max Forrester Eastman
- Eberhart-- Nelle Richmond Eberhart
- Eberhart-- Richard Eberhart
- Eliot-- George Eliot
- Ely-- Elissa Ely
- Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Emmett-- Daniel Decatur Emmett
- Evans-- Mari Evans
- Fabbri-- Cora Randall Fabbri
- Farwell-- Arthur Farwell
- Ferlinghetti-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Field-- Eugene Field
- Fitzgerald-- Robert Fitzgerald
- Flaster-- Karl West Flaster
- Ford-- Charles Henri Ford
- Foster-- Stephen Foster
- Francis-- Robert Francis
- Freeman-- James Dillet Freeman
- Fried-- Michael Fried
- Frost-- Frances Frost
- Frost-- Robert Frost
- Fulton-- Alice Fulton
- Gallagher-- Tess Gallagher
- Gardner-- William Henry Gardner
- Garrigue-- Jean Garrigue
- Gilmore-- Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
- Gioia-- Dana Gioia
- Glück-- Louise Glück
- Goodman-- Paul Goodman
- Gordon-- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Graves-- Robert Graves
- Grenville-- R. H. Grenville
- Guiney-- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Hagedorn-- Hermann Hagedorn
- Hall-- Donald Hall
- Harper-- Michael S. Harper
- Hass-- Robert Hass
- Hayden-- Robert Hayden
- Hayes-- Alfred Hayes
- Hecht-- Anthony Hecht
- Heggie-- Jake Heggie
- Henley-- William Ernest Henley
- Herford-- Oliver Herford
- Herrick-- Robert Herrick
- Heyen-- William Heyen
- Heyman-- Edward Heyman
- Higginson-- Ella Higginson
- Higley-- Dr. Brewster Higley
- Hoffenstein-- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Hoffman-- Daniel Hoffman
- Hoffman-- William M. Hoffman
- Hoisington-- Mary Folwell Hoisington
- Hollander-- John Hollander
- Holmes-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Hopkinson-- Joseph Hopkinson
- Horan-- Robert Horan
- Housman-- A. E. Housman
- Hovey-King-- Alvin Hovey-King
- Howe-- Julia Ward Howe
- Howe-- Marie Howe
- Howells-- William Dean Howells
- Hughes -- Langston Hughes
- Ives-- Charles Ives
- Jacobs-Bond-- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Jacobsen-- Josephine Jacobsen
- Jarrell-- Randall Jarrell
- Johnson-- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Johnson-- James Weldon Johnson
- Johnson -- Robert Underwood Johnson
- Jones-- Howard Mumford Jones
- Jonson-- Benjamin Jonson
- Joyce-- James Joyce
- Kallet-- Marilyn Kallet
- Kallman-- Chester Kallman
- Kenyon-- Jane Kenyon
- Key-- Francis Scott Key
- Kilmer-- Joyce Kilmer
- Kingsley-- Charles Kingsley
- Kipling-- Rudyard Kipling
- Koch-- Kenneth Koch
- Kooser-- Ted Kooser
- Kumin-- Maxine Kumin
- Kunitz-- Stanley Kunitz
- La Farge-- Peter La Farge
- Landor-- Walter Savage Landor
- Lanier-- Sidney Lanier
- Larson-- Jack Larson
- Laughlin-- James Laughlin
- Lazarus-- Emma Lazarus
- Le Guin-- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Lear-- Edward Lear
- Learned-- Walter Learned
- Lenau-- Nikolaus Lenau
- Levertov-- Denise Levertov
- Levine-- Philip Levine
- Lewin-- Frank Lewin
- Lewis-- Janet Lewis
- Lincoln-- Abraham Lincoln
- Lindsay -- Vachel Lindsay
- Lippman-- Julie Mathilde Lippman
- Littell-- Philip Littell
- Longfellow-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lowell-- Amy Lowell
- Lowell-- Robert Lowell
- Lowry-- Robert Lowry
- Lux-- Thomas Lux
- MacDowell-- Edward MacDowell
- MacLeish-- Archibald MacLeish
- Markham-- Edwin Markham
- Marston-- Philip Bourke Marston
- Masefield-- John Masefield
- Mason-- David Mason
- Matthews-- William Matthews
- McCarthy-- Justin Huntley McCarthy
- McCrae-- John McCrae
- McCullers-- Carson McCullers
- McCurry-- John Gordon McCurry
- McDonald-- Joette McDonald
- McGinley-- Phyllis McGinley
- Melville-- Herman Melville
- Menashe-- Samuel Menashe
- Meredith-- William Meredith
- Merwin-- W. S. Merwin
- Meynell-- Alice Meynell
- Millay-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Miller-- Emily Huntington Miller
- Milosz-- Czeslaw Milosz
- Monette-- Paul Monette
- Moore-- Marianne Moore
- Morris-- George Pope Morris
- Morris-- Maurice Morris
- Morrison-- Toni Morrison
- Morton-- Sarah Wentworth Morton
- Mosby-- Katherine Mosby
- Moss-- Howard Moss
- Munkittrick-- Richard Kendall Munkittrick
- Nash-- Ogden Nash
- Nemerov-- Howard Nemerov
- Nevin-- Robert P. Nevin
- Niles-- Nathaniel Niles
- Noyes-- Alfred Noyes
- O'Hara-- Frank O'Hara
- O'Hara-- Theodore O'Hara
- O'Neill-- Eugene O'Neill
- Oliver-- Mary Oliver
- Parker-- Dorothy Parker
- Parnell-- Thomas Parnell
- Patchen-- Kenneth Patchen
- Penn-- William Penn
- Peterson-- Frederick Peterson
- Pines-- Paul Pines
- Pinsky-- Robert Pinsky
- Piper-- Edwin Ford Piper
- Pitchford-- Kenneth Pitchford
- Plath-- Sylvia Plath
- Poe-- Edgar Allan Poe
- Pound-- Ezra Pound
- Prejean-- Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
- Price-- Florence Price
- Probyn-- May Probyn
- Prokosch-- Frederic Prokosch
- Purdy-- James Purdy
- Ransom-- John Crowe Ransom
- Reese-- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Reiner-- Annie Reiner
- Rexroth-- Kenneth Rexroth
- Rice-- Lilian Dynevor Rice
- Rich-- Gladys Rich
- Robinson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Roethke -- Theodore Roethke
- Rogers-- Robert Cameron Rogers
- Roos-- Charles O. Roos
- Root-- George Frederick Root
- Rossetti-- Christina Rossetti
- Rosten-- Norman Rosten
- Rukeyser-- Muriel Rukeyser
- Ryan-- Kay Ryan
- Sandburg-- Carl Sandburg
- Santayana-- George Santayana
- Saroyan-- William Saroyan
- Sassoon-- Siegfried Sassoon
- Scaramellino-- Gene Scaramellino
- Scheer-- Gene Scheer
- Scollard-- Clinton Scollard
- Sexton-- Anne Sexton
- Shakespeare-- William Shakespeare
- Shapiro-- Karl Shapiro
- Sherman-- Frank Dempster Sherman
- Silko-- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Sill-- Edward Rowland Sill
- Simic-- Charles Simic
- Smith-- Dave Smith
- Smith-- William Jay Smith
- Snively-- Susan Snively
- Snyder-- Gary Snyder
- Southey-- Robert Southey
- Spender-- Stephen Spender
- Speyer-- Leonora Speyer
- Spofford-- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
- Sprague-- Charles Sprague
- Stafford-- William Stafford
- Stallings-- A. E. Stallings
- Stanton-- B. Martin Stanton
- Stanton-- Frank Lebby Stanton
- Starr-- Belle Starr
- Stein-- Gertrude Stein
- Stephens-- James Stephens
- Stevens-- Wallace Stevens
- Stevenson-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Stewart-- Susan Stewart
- Stoddard-- John Lawson Stoddard
- Strand-- Mark Strand
- Sullivan-- J. W. Sullivan
- Swenson-- May Swenson
- Swinburne-- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Symons-- Arthur Symons
- Tagore-- Rabindranath Tagore
- Tate-- Allen Tate
- Tate-- James Tate
- Teasdale-- Sara Teasdale
- Thiel-- Diane Thiel
- Thomas-- Edith Matilda Thomas
- Thomas-- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Thomas-- Rosemary Thomas
- Traditional-- Traditional
- Tsiang-- H. T. Tsiang
- Untermeyer-- Louis Untermeyer
- Updike-- John Updike
- Van Duyn-- Mona Van Duyn
- Vannah-- Kate Vannah
- Volkslieder-- Volkslieder
- Wallace-- Louise C. Wallace
- Warren-- Joseph Warren
- Warren-- Robert Penn Warren
- Washburn-- Henry Stevenson Washburn
- Webster-- Henry D. L. Webster
- Weinstein-- Arnold Weinstein
- Wheatley-- Phillis Wheatley
- Wheelock-- John Hall Wheelock
- Whitman -- Walt Whitman
- Whittemore-- Reed Whittemore
- Whittier-- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Wilbur-- Richard Wilbur
- Williams-- Tennessee Williams
- Williams-- William Carlos Williams
- Willis-- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Winans-- A.D. Winans
- Windham-- Donald Windham
- Woolman-- John Woolman
- Work-- Henry Clay Work
- Wylie-- Elinor Wylie
- Yeats-- William Butler Yeats
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