List of Poets

Here's my current list of poets I'll be pulling from for this project!

A

Ai

Fadhil Al-Azzawi

Elizabeth Alexander

Agha Shahid Ali

Samih Al-Qasim

Maya Angelou

B

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Amiri Baraka

Gerald Barrax

Clara Barton

Basho

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Gwendolyn Brooks

Derrick Weston Brown

Sterling Brown

Marilyn Buck

Linda Joy Burke

C

Aime Cesaire

Ching-In Chen

Lydia Maria Child

Frances Chung

Chyrstos

Wanda Coleman

Jayne Cortez

Robert Creeley

Countee Cullen

D

Lam Thi My Da

Mahmoud Darwish

Kwame Dawes

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Emily Dickinson

Linh Dinh

Rita Dove

Paul Laurence Dunbar

E

Martín Espada

F

Sesshu Foster
Robert Frost

G

Nikki Giovanni
Jaki Shelton Green

H

Alena Hairston

Suheir Hammad

Michael Harper

Robert Hayden

Kathleen Hellen

Essex Hemphill

Melanie Henderson

Juan Felipe Herrera

Nazim Hikmet

Joseph C. Holly

Cathy Park Hong

Langston Hughes

J

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Habib Jalib

Qiu Jin

James Weldon Johnson

June Jordan

K

Myung Mi Kim

Carolyn Kizer

Nate Klug

Yusef Komunyakaa

L

Larissa Lai
Pinkie Gordon Lane
Li-Young Lee
Eleanor Lerman
Federico García Lorca
Audre Lorde
James Russell Lowell

M

Fred Marchant
Bernadette Mayer
Anthony McNeill
Tony Medina
Harryette Mullen

N

Howard Nemerov
Pablo Neruda
Duane Niatum
Naomi Shihab Nye

O

Jena Osman

P

Octavio Paz

Patrick Pearse

Leonard Peltier

Willie Perdomo

Craig Santos Perez

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Pedro Pietri

Q

Fernando Quijano III

R

Barbara Jane Reyes

Yonis Reuf

Adrienne Rich

Yannis Ritsos

Jose Rizal

Artemio Rodriguez

Muriel Rukeyser

Rumi

S

Raúl Salina
Sonia Sanchez
Carl Sandburg
Lydia H. Sigourney
Patricia Smith
Mark Strand

T

Rabindranath Tagore

Lorenzo Thomas

Truth Thomas

Natasha Trethewey

V

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Ocean Vuong

W

Rosmarie Waldrop

Frances E. Watkins

Phyllis Wheatley

John Greenleaf Whittier

Walt Whitman

Shelley Anne Williams

Miller Williams

William Carlos Williams

Y

John Yau