The list below is part of my Important Books project, an attempt to determine what I would like to add to my collection and in what order. Individual poets are categorized (in the original spreadsheet) according to nationality, language, era, group, etc., so that I may approximate a varied and balanced collection. Contemporary poets ... I have no idea how to prioritize. I mean, I can divide them into "those of whom I have heard" and "those of whom I have not heard," but beyond that ... I plan to read at least one poem, accessible on the Web, from each one, but that's hardly a good way to judge a poet, one poem of a body of work. And I'm adding all the time, poets I find through Verse Daily and other sources, some of whom don't yet have any books out. There's one that I know of not on the list because she doesn't have a book in the works (not on the radar, anyway), and I'm sure there are dozens of other poets that I would love who are in the same position. Not only that, but how many poets in the past have failed to publish, or published a little and then perished before they gained recognition? Is it fair to them that I won't assess them for the list? It's impossible. How do I come up with a definitive, prioritized list of poets? And after that, a prioritized list of the works of these poets (specifically the young ones, who have no "Complete" or "Collected" or even "Selected" works as yet)?
Anyway, anyone interested in offering insight and recommendations, I'd love your input. I prefer poems in which narrative is present but subdued and images and metaphors are strong and original, a mixture of conventional and experimental. But feel free to recommend whatever. Thank you!
(Oh dear! I've omitted the lovely and talented Ms. Mary Biddinger! Well, now I have fixed that on the main spreadsheet.)
| Abani, Chris | English-speaking |
| Abrašević, Kosta | In Translation |
| Abse, Dannie | UK & Irish |
| Ackerman, Diane | American |
| Ackerman-Kiely, Paige | American |
| Acorn, Milton | |
| Adam, Helen | American |
| Adamović, Draginja | In Translation |
| Adams, Léonie | American |
| Adcock, Fleur | English-speaking |
| Addison, Joseph | UK & Irish |
| Addonizio, Kim | American |
| Ady, Endre | In Translation |
| Afranius, Lucius | In Translation |
| Agard, John | English-speaking |
| Agee, James | American |
| Agolli, Dritëro | In Translation |
| Ai | American |
| Aiken, Conrad | American |
| Akenside, Mark | UK & Irish |
| Akhmadulina, Bella | In Translation |
| Akhmatova, Anna | In Translation |
| Alcman | In Translation |
| Alcott, Bronson | American |
| Alecsandri, Vasile | In Translation |
| Aleixandre, Vicente | In Translation |
| Alexie, Sherman | |
| Alharassees, Mosabine | |
| Alighieri, Dante | In Translation |
| Álvarez, Julia | American |
| American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry | Anthology |
| American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language | Anthology |
| Amis, Kingsley | UK & Irish |
| Ammons, A. R. | American |
| André, Bernard | In Translation |
| Angel, Ralph | |
| Angelou, Maya | |
| Ansel, Talvikki | |
| Anyuru, Johannes | In Translation |
| Apollinaire, Guillaume | In Translation |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | In Translation |
| Appleman, Philip | |
| Archilochus | In Translation |
| Armantrout, Rae | |
| Armour, Richard | |
| Arnold, Matthew | |
| Arp, Jean | In Translation |
| Artaud, Antonin | In Translation |
| Ashbery, John | American |
| Atwood, Margaret | |
| Auden, W. H. | UK & Irish |
| Auslander, Joseph | American |
| Auster, Paul | |
| Austin, Alfred | UK & Irish |
| Bacchylides | In Translation |
| Baker, Aaron | American |
| Banks, Russell | |
| Baraka, Amiri | American |
| Barber, David | American |
| Barnes, Djuna | American |
| Barot, Rick | |
| Bashō, Matsuo | In Translation |
| Baudelaire, Charles | In Translation |
| Baxter, Charles | American |
| Baxter, James K. | English-speaking |
| Beddoes, Thomas Lovell | |
| Behn, Aphra | UK & Irish |
| Belieu, Erin | American |
| Bello, Xuan | In Translation |
| Belloc, Hilaire | UK & Irish |
| Benét, Stephen Vincent | American |
| Bennett, Jim | UK & Irish |
| Béroul | In Translation |
| Berrigan, Daniel | American |
| Berrigan, Ted | |
| Berry, Wendell | |
| Berryman, John | American |
| Betjeman, John | UK & Irish |
| Bidart, Frank | American |
| Bierce, Ambrose | American |
| Bierds, Linda | American |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | American |
| Bishop, John Peale | American |
| Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne | In Translation |
| Black, Sophie Cabot | |
| Blackburn, Paul | |
| Blackman, Nicole | |
| Blake, William | UK & Irish |
| Blaser, Robin | American |
| Blok, Alexander | In Translation |
| Bly, Robert | American |
| Bogan, Louise | |
| Boland, Eavan | UK & Irish |
| Bontemps, Arna | American |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | In Translation |
| Bornholdt, Jenny | English-speaking |
| Borregaard, Ebbe | American |
| Bose, Buddhadheva | In Translation |
| Bowering, George | English-speaking |
| Bowman, Catherine | American |
| Boyd, Bruce | American |
| Bradstreet, Anne | American |
| Brautigan, Richard | American |
| Brecht, Bertolt | In Translation |
| Breton, André | In Translation |
| Bridges, Robert | |
| Brock, Geoffrey | American |
| Brodsky, Joseph | American |
| Brodsky, Louis Daniel | American |
| Brontë, Anne | UK & Irish |
| Brontë, Charlotte | UK & Irish |
| Brontë, Emily | UK & Irish |
| Brooke, Rupert | |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | American |
| Broughton, James | American |
| Brown, Alice | American |
| Brown, Dan | American |
| Brown, George Mackay | UK & Irish |
| Brown, Rita Mae | |
| Brown, Sterling | |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | UK & Irish |
| Browning, Robert | |
| Bruce, Robert | |
| Bryant, William Cullen | American |
| Buechner, Frederick | American |
| Bukowski, Charles | American |
| Bunin, Ivan | In Translation |
| Burns, Robert | UK & Irish |
| Burroughs, William S. | American |
| Byron, George Gordon, Lord | UK & Irish |
| Caedmon | UK & Irish |
| Cairns, Scott | |
| Callimachus | In Translation |
| Campion, Peter | |
| Carducci, Giosuè | In Translation |
| Carew, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Carroll, Jim | American |
| Carroll, Lewis | UK & Irish |
| Carruth, Hayden | American |
| Carson, Ciaran | UK & Irish |
| Carter, Jared | American |
| Cartwright, William | UK & Irish |
| Carver, Raymond | American |
| Catullus | In Translation |
| Cavafy, C. P. | In Translation |
| Cave, Nick | |
| Celan, Paul | |
| Chapman, George | UK & Irish |
| Chapman, John Jay | American |
| Chatterton, Thomas | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | UK & Irish |
| Ciardi, John | American |
| Cisewski, Paula | |
| Cisneros, Sandra | |
| Clampitt, Amy | American |
| Clifton, Lucille | |
| Clough, Arthur Hugh | UK & Irish |
| Cocteau, Jean | In Translation |
| Codrescu, Andrei | American |
| Cohen, Leonard | English-speaking |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | |
| Collins, Billy | American |
| Congreve, William | UK & Irish |
| Conquest, Robert | UK & Irish |
| Corso, Gregory | American |
| Cortez, Jayne | American |
| Cowley, Malcolm | |
| Cowper, William | UK & Irish |
| Crane, Hart | American |
| Crane, Stephen | |
| Crashaw, Richard | UK & Irish |
| Creeley, Robert | |
| Crooker, Barbara | |
| Cullen, Countee | American |
| Cummings, E.E. | American |
| Daniel, Samuel | UK & Irish |
| Daniels, Jim | American |
| Dario, Ruben | |
| Dark Matter: Poems of Space | Anthology |
| Darwin, Erasmus | UK & Irish |
| Das, Jibanananda | In Translation |
| Davenant, William | UK & Irish |
| Davidson, Donald | American |
| Davie, Donald | UK & Irish |
| Davies, Alan | American |
| Day-Lewis, Cecil | UK & Irish |
| de la Mare, Walter | |
| de Musset, Alfred | In Translation |
| de Troyes, Chrétien | In Translation |
| de Vigny, Alfred | In Translation |
| Defoe, Daniel | UK & Irish |
| Dekker, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Demeule, Alan | English-speaking |
| Deming, Alison Hawthorne | American |
| DesRuisseaux, Pierre | |
| Deutsch, Babette | American |
| DeWolf, Jamie | American |
| Dhuga, Umit Singh | |
| Dickey, James | American |
| Dickinson, Emily | American |
| Dobyns, Stephen | |
| Dodson, Owen | |
| Donaghy, Michael | American |
| Donne, John | UK & Irish |
| Doty, Mark | |
| Dove, Rita | |
| Downing, Ben | American |
| Dowson, Ernest | UK & Irish |
| Doyle, Kirby | American |
| Driscoll, Jack | American |
| Dryden, John | UK & Irish |
| Du Bois, W. E. B. | American |
| Du Fu | In Translation |
| Duerden, Richard | American |
| Duffy, Carol Ann | UK & Irish |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence | |
| Dunbar, William | UK & Irish |
| Duncan, Robert | |
| Dunmore, Helen | UK & Irish |
| Dunn, Stephen | |
| Durkin, Kevin | American |
| Durrell, Lawrence | UK & Irish |
| Dybek, Stuart | |
| Eberhart, Richard | |
| Ehrmann, Max | |
| Eliot, George | UK & Irish |
| Eliot, T. S. | |
| Elytis, Odysseas | |
| Emerson, Claudia | American |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | |
| Eminescu, Mihai | |
| Enright, D.J. | UK & Irish |
| Erdrich, Louise | |
| Ernst, Max | |
| Estés, Clarissa Pinkola | American |
| Eusden, Laurence | UK & Irish |
| Evans, Mari | |
| Everson, William | |
| Fairchild, B.H. | American |
| Fearing, Kenneth | American |
| Feld, Andrew | American |
| Ferlinghetti, Lawrence | American |
| Finch, Annie | American |
| Firdowsi | In Translation |
| Fitzgerald, Robert | |
| Flenniken, Kathleen | American |
| Forche, Carolyn | American |
| Ford, Ford Madox | American |
| Foy, John | American |
| Frame, Janet | English-speaking |
| Freneau, Philip | |
| Fried, Erich | In Translation |
| Frisch, Max | |
| Frost, Robert | American |
| Fulton, Alice | American |
| Gabre-Medhin, Tsegaye | |
| Galvin, James | American |
| Gascoigne, George | UK & Irish |
| Gascoyne, David | UK & Irish |
| Gautier, Théophile | |
| Gibbons, Heather June | American |
| Gibran, Khalil | American |
| Ginsberg, Allen | American |
| Gioia, Dana | American |
| Giovanni, Nikki | |
| Gjellerup, Karl Adolph | In Translation |
| Glaz, Sarah | |
| Gleason, Madeline | American |
| Gluck, Louise | |
| Goedicke, Patricia | |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | In Translation |
| Goldsmith, Kenneth | American |
| Goldsmith, Oliver | |
| Graham, David | American |
| Graham, Jorie | American |
| Grahn, Judy | American |
| Grass, Günter | In Translation |
| Graves, Robert | |
| Gray, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Gregg, Linda | American |
| Griffiths, Bill | UK & Irish |
| Grimke, Angelina Weld | American |
| Grimké, Charlotte Forten | American |
| Guest, Edgar | American |
| Gunn, Thom | UK & Irish |
| H.D. (Doolittle, Hilda) | American |
| Hafiz (Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī) | In Translation |
| Hall, Donald | American |
| Hardy, Thomas | |
| Harjo, Joy | American |
| Harrison, Jim | American |
| Harrison, Joseph | American |
| Hass, Robert | |
| Hayden, Robert | American |
| Heaney, Seamus | |
| Hecht, Anthony | American |
| Hedge Coke, Allison | American |
| Heine, Heinrich | In Translation |
| Herbert, George | UK & Irish |
| Herbert, Zbigniew | |
| Herrick, Robert | UK & Irish |
| Hesiod | In Translation |
| Hesse, Hermann | In Translation |
| Heywood, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Hilberry, Conrad | American |
| Hirsch, Edward | American |
| Hirshfield, Jane | American |
| Hisanjani, Obo Aba | |
| Hoagland, Tony | |
| Hoffman, Daniel | American |
| Hogg, James | UK & Irish |
| Hölderlin, Friedrich | In Translation |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. | |
| Hood, Thomas | |
| Housman, A. E. | UK & Irish |
| Hudgins, Andrew | American |
| Hughes, Langston | American |
| Hughes, Ted | |
| Hugo, Richard | |
| Hugo, Victor | |
| Hull, Lynda | |
| Hunt, James Henry Leigh | UK & Irish |
| Huxley, Aldous | UK & Irish |
| Ignatow, David | American |
| Islam, Kazi Nazrul | In Translation |
| Jacobsen, Josephine | American |
| James, Christopher | UK & Irish |
| Jarrell, Randall | American |
| Jeffers, Robinson | |
| Jenkins, Alan | UK & Irish |
| Jennings, Elizabeth | UK & Irish |
| Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm | In Translation |
| Jiménez, Juan Ramón | In Translation |
| John of the Cross | In Translation |
| Johnson, James Weldon | American |
| Johnson, Samuel | UK & Irish |
| Jonson, Ben | UK & Irish |
| Journey, Anna | American |
| Joyce, James | UK & Irish |
| Justice, Donald | American |
| Juvenal | In Translation |
| Kacian, Jim | American |
| Kālidāsa | In Translation |
| Kaminsky, Ilya | American |
| Kannadasan, Kaviyarasu | In Translation |
| Karlfeldt, Erik Axel | In Translation |
| Karr, Mary | |
| Kasdorf, Julia | American |
| Kavanagh, Patrick | |
| Keats, John | UK & Irish |
| Kelly, Brigit Pegeen | American |
| Kennedy, X. J. | |
| Kenyon, Jane | American |
| Kerouac, Jack | American |
| Kerr, Sophie | |
| Kharms, Daniil | In Translation |
| Khayyam, Omar | |
| Kilmer, Joyce | American |
| Kinnell, Galway | American |
| Kinsella, Thomas | |
| Kipling, Rudyard | |
| Kirsch, Adam | American |
| Knight, Etheridge | American |
| Koch, Kenneth | American |
| Komrij, Gerrit | In Translation |
| Komunyakaa, Yusef | |
| Kooser, Ted | |
| Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn | American |
| Kumin, Maxine | |
| Kunitz, Daniel | American |
| Kunitz, Stanley | |
| Lagerkvist, Pär | |
| Lamantia, Philip | American |
| Lamb, Charles | UK & Irish |
| Landor, Walter Savage | UK & Irish |
| Lanier, Sidney | |
| Laozi (Lau-tzu) | In Translation |
| Larkin, Philip | UK & Irish |
| Lattimore, Richmond | |
| Lauterbach, Ann | American |
| Lautréamont, Comte de | In Translation |
| Lawrence, D. H. | UK & Irish |
| Lazarus, Emma | American |
| Lear, Edward | UK & Irish |
| Lee, Li-Young | American |
| Leggott, Michele | |
| Lermontov, Mikhail | |
| Levertov, Denise | American |
| Levin, Dana | American |
| Levine, Philip | |
| Levis, Larry | American |
| Lewis, Wyndham | |
| Li Houzhu | In Translation |
| Li Po (Li Bai) | In Translation |
| Light, Kate | American |
| Lind, Michael | |
| Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | American |
| Lindsay, Vachel | |
| Lodge, George Cabot | American |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | American |
| Lorca, Federico García | In Translation |
| Lorde, Audre | American |
| Lovelace, Richard | UK & Irish |
| Lowell, Amy | American |
| Lowell, James Russell | American |
| Lowell, Robert | American |
| Loy, Mina | |
| Lucan | |
| Lucretius | In Translation |
| Lunch, Lydia | |
| Lux, Thomas | |
| Lyacos, Dimitris | In Translation |
| Lydgate, John | UK & Irish |
| Lyly, John | UK & Irish |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh | UK & Irish |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | |
| Mackowski, Joanie | American |
| MacLeish, Archibald | American |
| MacNeice, Louis | UK & Irish |
| Madhubuti, Haki R. | American |
| Mahon, Derek | UK & Irish |
| Mallarme, Stephane | |
| Malory, Sir Thomas | |
| Mandelstam, Osip | |
| Manhire, Bill | English-speaking |
| Mann, Thomas | In Translation |
| Manning, Maurice | |
| Markham, Edwin | American |
| Marlowe, Christopher | UK & Irish |
| Martial | In Translation |
| Marvell, Andrew | UK & Irish |
| Masefield, John | UK & Irish |
| Mason, William | |
| Masters, Edgar Lee | American |
| Matthews, William | |
| Mayakovsky, Vladimir | |
| Mayes, Frances | American |
| McCrae, John | English-speaking |
| McGrath, Campbell | American |
| McGrath, Thomas | |
| McKay, Claude | American |
| McQuade, Molly | |
| McQueen, Cilla | English-speaking |
| Mehigan, Joshua | American |
| Melville, Herman | American |
| Meredith, George | UK & Irish |
| Meredith, William | |
| Merriam, Eve | American |
| Merrill, James | American |
| Merton, Thomas | |
| Merwin, W.S. | |
| Mew, Charlotte | UK & Irish |
| Michel, Pauline | |
| Miljković, Branko | In Translation |
| Millay, Edna St. Vincent | American |
| Miller, Jane | American |
| Mills, Wilmer | |
| Miłosz, Czesław | In Translation |
| Milton, John | UK & Irish |
| Mir, Pedro | |
| Mistral, Frédéric | In Translation |
| Mistral, Gabriela | In Translation |
| Mitchell, Stephen | |
| Monette, Paul | |
| Montale, Eugenio | In Translation |
| Moore, Alan | UK & Irish |
| Moore, Marianne | |
| Moore, Thomas | |
| Morris, William | UK & Irish |
| Moss, Howard | American |
| Motion, Andrew | UK & Irish |
| Muldoon, Paul | |
| Murray, Les | English-speaking |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | In Translation |
| Nash, Ogden | |
| Nashe, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Nasr, Ramsey | |
| Nemerov, Howard | American |
| Neruda, Pablo | |
| Newman, John Henry | UK & Irish |
| Niedecker, Lorine | American |
| Nims, John Frederick | American |
| Noonan, T.A. | |
| Novalis (von Hardenberg, Friedrich) | |
| Noyes, Alfred | UK & Irish |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | |
| O'Hara, Frank | American |
| Olds, Sharon | |
| Oliver, Mary | |
| Olson, Charles | American |
| Oppen, George | American |
| Oppen, Mary | |
| Orlovsky, Peter | |
| Osterhaus, Joe | American |
| Ovid | |
| Owen, Wilfred | |
| ozog, Radek | |
| Paley, Grace | American |
| Parker, Dorothy | American |
| Parnell, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Pasternak, Boris | In Translation |
| Paterson, Don | UK & Irish |
| Patmore, Coventry | UK & Irish |
| Pavese, Cesare | In Translation |
| Paz, Octavio | |
| Peacock, Thomas Love | |
| Percival, James Gates | American |
| Perillo, Lucia | |
| Perse, Saint-John | |
| Pessoa, Fernando | In Translation |
| Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) | |
| Piercy, Marge | |
| Pindar | In Translation |
| Pinsky, Robert | |
| Plath, Sylvia | American |
| Plunkett, Edward, Baron Dunsany | UK & Irish |
| Poch, John | American |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | American |
| Pollitt, Katha | American |
| Pomeroy, Ralph | |
| Pope, Alexander | UK & Irish |
| Poteat, Joshua | American |
| Pound, Ezra | American |
| Prévert, Jacques | In Translation |
| Price, Reynolds | |
| Prudhomme, Sully | |
| Pushkin, Aleksandr | In Translation |
| Pye, Henry James | UK & Irish |
| Quasimodo, Salvatore | |
| Radice, William | |
| Ran, Nazim Hikmet | |
| Randall, Dudley | American |
| Ransom, John Crowe | American |
| Ray, Man | |
| Reed, Ishmael | American |
| Rexroth, Kenneth | American |
| Reznikoff, Charles | American |
| Rich, Adrienne | American |
| Riding, Laura | American |
| Riley, James Whitcomb | American |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | |
| Rimbaud, Arthur | In Translation |
| Roberts, Michael Symmons | |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington | American |
| Roethke, Theodore | American |
| Rogers, Samuel | |
| Rossetti, Christina | UK & Irish |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | UK & Irish |
| Rowe, Nicholas | |
| Rowlands, Richard | UK & Irish |
| Rowley, Thomas | American |
| Ruefle, Mary | |
| Rukeyser, Muriel | |
| Rumi | |
| Ryan, Kay | American |
| Salter, Mary Jo | |
| Sanchez, Sonia | |
| Sandburg, Carl | American |
| Sappho | |
| Sassoon, Siegfried | |
| Sastry, Sripada Krishnamurty | |
| Satyendranath dutta | |
| Schiller, Friedrich | In Translation |
| Schwartz, Delmore | American |
| Scott, Herb | American |
| Scott, Walter | UK & Irish |
| Scott-Heron, Gil | American |
| Seifert, Jaroslav | In Translation |
| Service, Robert W. | |
| Seth, Vikram | |
| Sexton, Anne | American |
| Shadwell, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Shakespeare, William | UK & Irish |
| Shange, Ntozake | |
| Shapiro, Karl | American |
| Shaw, Luci | |
| Shelley, Mary | |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | |
| Sidney, Sir Philip | UK & Irish |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | American |
| Simic, Charles | American |
| Sitwell, Edith | UK & Irish |
| Skelton, John | UK & Irish |
| Smart, Christopher | UK & Irish |
| Smith, Patti | |
| Smith, Stevie | UK & Irish |
| Smith, William Jay | |
| Smither, Elizabeth | English-speaking |
| Smollett, Tobias | UK & Irish |
| Snodgrass, W. D. | |
| Snyder, Gary | American |
| Song, Cathy | American |
| Soto, Gary | American |
| Southey, Robert | |
| Southwell, Robert | UK & Irish |
| Soyinka, Wole | |
| Spender, Stephen | |
| Spenser, Edmund | UK & Irish |
| Spicer, Jack | American |
| Stafford, William | American |
| Stallings, A. E. | American |
| Steffler, John | English-speaking |
| Stein, Gertrude | American |
| Stern, Gerald | American |
| Stevens, Wallace | American |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | |
| Strand, Mark | |
| Suckling, Sir John | |
| Süskind, Patrick | |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | |
| Swenson, May | |
| Swift, Jonathan | UK & Irish |
| Swinburne, Algernon Charles | UK & Irish |
| Szymborskam, Wisława | In Translation |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | |
| Tasso, Torquato | In Translation |
| Tate, Allen | American |
| Tate, James | American |
| Tate, Nahum | |
| Teasdale, Sara | |
| Tennyson, Alfred, Lord | UK & Irish |
| The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry | Anthology |
| Thomas of Britain | In Translation |
| Thomas, Dylan | UK & Irish |
| Thoreau, Henry David | American |
| Tillinghast, Richard | |
| Titus, Alison | American |
| Tolson, Melvin B. | |
| Toomer, Jean | American |
| Traherne, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Transtromer, Tomas | In Translation |
| Triplett, Pimone | |
| Tsvetaeva, Marina | |
| Tufariello, Catherine | American |
| Turner, Brian | English-speaking |
| Tuwhare, Hone | English-speaking |
| Tyutchev, Fyodor | In Translation |
| Tzara, Tristan | |
| Unamuno, Miguel de | |
| Untermeyer, Louis | American |
| Updike, John | American |
| Valentine, Jean | American |
| Valéry, Paul | |
| van den Heuvel, Cor | American |
| Van Doren, Mark | |
| Van Duyn, Mona | |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | |
| Vaughan, Henry | UK & Irish |
| Verlaine, Paul | |
| Villon, François | In Translation |
| Voiklis, John | American |
| von Heyse, Paul | |
| Vyasan | |
| Wain, John | UK & Irish |
| Wakoski, Diane | American |
| Walcott, Derek | English-speaking |
| Walker, Alice | American |
| Warren, Robert Penn | American |
| Warton, Thomas | |
| Weeds and Wild Flowers | Anthology |
| Welch, Lew | American |
| Welsh Verse: Fourteen Centuries of Poetry | Anthology |
| Wetzsteon, Rachel | |
| Wheatley, Phillis | American |
| Whitehead, William | |
| Whitman, Walt | American |
| Whittemore, Reed | |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf | American |
| Wilbur, Richard | |
| Wilde, Oscar | |
| Wilkinson, Joshua Marie | American |
| Williams, C. K. | American |
| Williams, William Carlos | American |
| Wiman, Christian | American |
| Winters, Yvor | |
| Wojahn, David | American |
| Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English | Anthology |
| Wordsworth, William | UK & Irish |
| Wright, C.D. | American |
| Wright, Franz | American |
| Wright, James | American |
| Wright, Richard | American |
| Wyatt, Thomas | UK & Irish |
| Yeats, William Butler | UK & Irish |
| Yesenin, Sergei | |
| Yevtushenko, Yevgeny | In Translation |
| Young, C. Dale | American |
| Zagajewski, Adam | In Translation |
| Zapruder, Matthew | |
| Zimmer, Paul | |
| Zukofsky, Louis | American |
i need start submit more poetry, i wonder if can get my forgotten classics published? lol
ReplyDeletethank you let me know if you have any contacts for book publishing. thanks for reminding not be forgotten.
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