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Martiniquais writer, poet and politician

Alberto de Oliveira

Brazilian writer

Alfonsina Storni

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

American poet (1928–1974)

Augusto dos Anjos

Brazilian poet and teacher

American writer

Poet, literary critic, editor, teacher

American writer and editor

Cecília Meireles

Brazilian writer

Charles Bernstein

American writer

Charles Bukowski

American writer (1920–1994)

Charles Reznikoff

American Jewish Objectivist poet (1894-1976)

Jamaican American writer, poet

Clement Clarke Moore

American writer and Professor of Literature

American author (1903–1946)

Denise Levertov

American poet (1923–1997)

Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

American humorist

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

American writer and illustrator (1904–1991)

American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894-1962)

American writer

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Elizabeth Bishop

American poet and short-story writer

Emily Dickinson

American poet (1830–1886)

Esteban Echeverría

Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

Florence Van Leer Earle Coates

American writer and poet

Frances Sargent Osgood

Francis Scott Key

American lawyer and poet

American poet, art critic and writer

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat, writer, educator, and feminist

Guillermo Prieto

Mexican writer and politician

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

American writer and journalist

Gwendolyn Brooks

American writer (1917–2000)

American poet and novelist (1886–1961)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

American poet laureate, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)

Jackson Mac Low

American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright

James Russell Lowell

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and civil rights activist

James Whitcomb Riley

American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892)

Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)

John Sinclair (poet)

José Hernández (writer)

Argentine writer (1834-1886)

Argentine journalist, politician, librarian and writer

Cuban poet, writer, philosopher and nationalist leader

Julia de Burgos

Puerto Rican poet

Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American artist, writer and activist

Brazilian writer and poet

French Guiana politician (1912-1978)

Leopoldo Lugones

Argentinian lyricist and storyteller

Lorine Niedecker

American poet 1903 - 1970

American poet and Nobel laureate

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian politician and writer (1839–1908)

Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist (1830-1882)

Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

Paraguayan poet

Margaret Walker

American poet and writer

American poet (1887–1972)

Mário de Andrade

Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Menotti Del Picchia

Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974)

Mexican writer, poet and diplomat

Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Poet, essayist, physician

Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian poet novelist and cultural critic

Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)

Paul Blackburn (poet)

American writer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

American writer and poet

American poet (born 1947)

Raimundo Correia

Brazilian writer and judge (1859-1911)

Robert Duncan (poet)

American poet (1919-1988)

American poet (1917–1977)

Robert Penn Warren

American poet, novelist, and literary critic

American poet and writer

Nicaraguan poet, periodist and writer

Indian-Canadian poet (born 1992)

American writer and poet

Sarah Josepha Hale

American writer and editor

Stephen Rodefer

American poet and painter

American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic

American poet, novelist and short story writer

Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965)

Theodore Roethke

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet (1908–1963)

Thomas Holley Chivers

American poet (1809-1858)

Vinicius de Moraes

Brazilian poet and lyricist (1913–1980)

Wallace Stevens

American poet, essayist, and journalist

William Carlos Williams

American poet (1883-1963)

William Gilmore Simms

American writer

American poet and literary critic