| A. A. Milne - 1882 to 1956 | A. E. Housman - 1859 to 1936 | A. R. Ammons - 1926 to 2001 |
| A. S. J. Tessimond - 1902 to 1962 | Abraham Cowley - 1618 to 1667 | Adam Lindsay Gordon - 1833 to 1870 |
| Adrian Green - 1946 to present | Adrienne Rich - 1929 to present | Ai - 1947 to present |
| Alain Bosquet - 1919 to 1998 | Alan Dugan - 1923 to 2003 | Alan Seeger - 1886 to 1916 |
| Alden Nowlan - 1933 to 1983 | Alec Derwent Hope - 1907 to 2000 | Aleister Crowley - 1875 to 1947 |
| Aleksandr Blok - 1880 to 1921 | Alexander Pope - 1688 to 1744 | Alexander Pushkin - 1799 to 1837 |
| Alfonsina Storni - 1892 to 1938 | Alfred Austin - 1835 to 1913 | Alfred Noyes - 1880 to 1958 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1837 to 1909 | Alice Duer Miller - 1874 to 1942 | Alice Walker - 1944 to present |
| Allen Ginsberg - 1926 to 1997 | Ambrose Bierce - 1842 to 1914 | Amy Clampitt - 1920 to 1994 |
| Amy Levy - 1861 to 1889 | Amy Lowell - 1874 to 1925 | Anais Nin - 1903 to 1977 |
| Anastasia Clark - 1959 to present | Andre Breton - 1896 to 1966 | Andree Chedid - 1920 to present |
| Andrei Voznesensky - 1933 to present | Andrew Barton Paterson - 1864 to 1941 | Andrew Crumey - 1961 to present |
| Andrew Hudgins - 1951 to present | Andrew Marvell - 1621 to 1678 | Ann Taylor - 1782 to 1886 |
| Anna Akhmatova - 1889 to 1966 | Anna Piutti - 1982 to present | Anne Bradstreet - 1612 to 1672 |
| Anne Bronte - 1820 to 1849 | Anne Killigrew - 1660 to 1685 | Anne Kingsmill Finch - 1661 to 1720 |
| Anne Sexton - 1928 to 1974 | Anne Waldman - 1945 to present | Annie Dillard - 1945 to present |
| Annie Finch - 1956 to present | Annie Louisa Walker - 1836 to 1907 | Anthony Hecht - 1923 to 2004 |
| Antonio Machado - 1875 to 1939 | April Bernard - 1956 to present | Archibald MacLeish - 1892 to 1982 |
| Arna Bontemps - 1902 to 1973 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1819 to 1861 | Arthur Rimbaud - 1854 to 1891 |
| Arthur Symons - 1865 to 1945 | Arthur Sze - 1950 to present | Audre Lorde - 1934 to 1992 |
| Austin Clarke - 1896 to 1974 | Barry Tebb - 1942 to present | Belinda Subraman - 1953 to present |
| Ben Jonson - 1572 to 1637 | Bernadette Geyer - 1968 to present | Bertolt Brecht - 1898 to 1956 |
| Bhaskar Roy Barman - 0 to present | Billy Collins - 1941 to present | Billy Jno Hope - 0 to present |
| Bliss Carman - 1861 to 1929 | Bob Hicok - 1960 to present | Bob Kaufman - 1925 to 1986 |
| Boris Pasternak - 1890 to 1960 | Bret Harte - 1836 to 1902 | Brooks Haxton - 1950 to present |
| C. K. Williams - 1936 to present | C. S. Lewis - 1898 to 1963 | Carl Rakosi - 1903 to 2004 |
| Carl Sandburg - 1878 to 1967 | Carlos Barbarito - 1955 to present | Carol Ann Duffy - 1955 to present |
| Carolyn Forche - 1950 to present | Carolyn Kizer - 1925 to present | Catherine Anderson - 1954 to present |
| Cecilia Borromeo - 1976 to present | Cecilia Woloch - 1956 to present | Cesar Vallejo - 1892 to 1938 |
| Charles Baudelaire - 1821 to 1867 | Charles Bukowski - 1920 to 1994 | Charles Kingsley - 1819 to 1875 |
| Charles Simic - 1938 to present | Charles Sorley - 1895 to 1915 | Charles Webb - 1939 to present |
| Charlotte Bronte - 1816 to 1855 | Charlotte Smith - 1749 to 1806 | Chris Jones - 1969 to present |
| Chris Mansell - 1953 to present | Chris Tusa - 1972 to present | Christina Rossetti - 1830 to 1894 |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1564 to 1593 | Christopher Morley - 1890 to 1957 | Christopher Smart - 1722 to 1771 |
| Claire Nixon - 1973 to present | Claude McKay - 1889 to 1948 | Connie Wanek - 1952 to present |
| Conrad Aiken - 1889 to 1973 | Constantine P. Cavafy - 1863 to 1933 | Cornelius Eady - 1954 to present |
| Countee Cullen - 1903 to 1946 | Coventry Patmore - 1823 to 1896 | Craig Erick Chaffin - 1954 to present |
| Craig Raine - 1944 to present | Czeslaw Milosz - 1911 to 2004 | D. C. Berry - 1942 to present |
| Daisy Fried - 1967 to present | Dale Harcombe - 1947 to present | Dame Edith Sitwell - 1887 to 1964 |
| Dame Mary Gilmore - 1865 to 1962 | Dante Alighieri - 1265 to 1321 | David Berman - 1967 to present |
| David Herbert Lawrence - 1885 to 1930 | David Ignatow - 1914 to 1997 | David Lehman - 1948 to present |
| David St. John - 2006 to present | David Wagoner - 1926 to present | Deborah Ager - 1971 to present |
| Delmira Agustini - 1886 to 1914 | Delmore Schwartz - 1913 to 1966 | Denise Duhamel - 1961 to present |
| Denise Levertov - 1923 to 1997 | Derek Walcott - 1930 to present | Desi Di Nardo - 1972 to present |
| Diane Wakoski - 1937 to present | Diane di Prima - 1934 to present | Dimitris Lyacos - 1966 to present |
| Dimitris P. Kraniotis - 1966 to present | Dimitris Varos - 1949 to present | Don Paterson - 1963 to present |
| Donald Hall - 1928 to present | Donald Justice - 1925 to present | Dorothea MacKellar - 1885 to 1968 |
| Dorothea Mackeller - 1885 to 1968 | Dorothy Parker - 1893 to 1967 | Douglas Stewart - 1913 to 1985 |
| Duncan Campbell Scott - 1862 to 1947 | Dylan Thomas - 1914 to 1953 | E. E. Cummings - 1894 to 1962 |
| Eamon Grennan - 1941 to present | Eavan Boland - 1944 to present | Edgar Albert Guest - 1881 to 1959 |