Poets


  • Sherman Alexie
  • EE Cummings
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Jean Toomer
  • Louise Bogan
  • TS Eliot
  • Allen Tate
  • Maya Angelou
  • Sandra Beasley
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Anne Sexton
  • Sandra Cisneros
  • Countee Cullen
  • Rita Dove
  • Robert Burns
  • Yvor Winters
  • Anais Nin
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Ogden Nash
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Sara Teasdale
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • William Shakespeare
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Amy Lowell
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Lorine Nidecker
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • May Swenson
  • Robert Herrick
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Robert Frost
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Langston Hughes
  • Robert Browning
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • John Donne
  • Claude McKay
  • Audre Lorde
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • George Eliot
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Alice Walker
  • Carl Sandberg
  • Walt Whitman
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Ezra Pound
  • Stephen Crane
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Robert Hayden
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery

Accessing Poems 

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Poet Biographies

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