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Poets & Writers 

  • Edward Abbey - voice of the environment
  • Kaye Abikhaled - Austin poet with European memories
  • Betty Adcock
  • Ekiway Adler-Bleendez - young American poet writing in Mexico
  • Usha Akela - Indian American poet with a lovely, honest voice
  • Anne Akhmatova - perhaps the greatest modern Russian poet
  • Julia Alvarez - a stunning Latina voice
  • Brian Andreas - StoryPeople poetry and artwork
  • Maya Angelou - popular African American poet
  • Evelyn Appelbee - East Texas poet of extraordinary language
  • Rae Armentrout
  • John Ashbery - a poet's poet
  • Thomas Aslin - Pacific Northwest poet of hoesty and sensitivity
  • Margaret Atwood - an accessible and delightful poet
  • W. H. Auden - a master
  • Elizabeth Austen - Seattle poet, performer, teacher
  • Mary Jo Bang - poetry that pleases
  • Bansho - great Chinese poet
  • Wendy Barker - Texas poet & professor
  • William Barney - great Texas poet
  • Dorothy Barressi
  • Alan Berecka - irreverent and insightful Texas poet
  • Wendell Berry - a poetic powerhouse
  • John Berryman
  • Alan Birkelbach - 2006 Texas Poet Laureate
  • Elizabeth Bishop - poet of personal reflection
  • Adrian Blevins
  • Robert Bly - poet & translator
  • Marianne Boruch - skittery poems
  • Jerry Bradley - Texas poet & editor
  • Richard Brautigan - a poet who made us all look
  • Robert Lee Brewer - poet & Writer's Digest community editor
  • Nathan Brown - singer-songwriter-poet, 2013 Poet Laureate of Oklahoma
  • Jenny Browne - Texas poet
  • Robert Browning
  • Charles Bukowski
  • Robert Burns - Scottish poet and songwriter
  • Katherine Stripling Byer
  • Del Cain - Texas poet and poetry enthusiast
  • Scott Cairns - exquisitely crafted, intriguing poetic explorations of faith
  • Wendy Carlisle - Texas poet
  • Barbara Carr - prolific Texas poet, writer & editor
  • Hayden Carruth - poetry that instructs
  • Raymond Carver
  • Mary Cassett
  • Cyrus Cassells -  powerful poetic voice, now at Texas State Univ
  • Rosemary Catacalos - Tejana Texas Poet Laureate
  • Grace Cavalieri - American poet
  • Kelly Cherry - prolific poet & writer with an amazing story
  • Sandra Cisneros - Latina poet and writer
  • Billy Collins - U.S. Poet Laureate, a wry smile in every poem
  • Paulo Corso - Pennsylvania poet
  • Sarah Cortez - Houston, TX poet & police officer
  • Jerry Craven - Texas writer & editor
  • Robin Cravey - Austin poet and nature lover
  • Robert Creeley - American poet
  • e.e. Cummings - American unorthodox poet
  • Ysabel de la Rosa - Texas poet & blogger
  • Amy Fleury - captures rural imagery like photographs
  • Barbara Crooker - widely published poet, inspired by everyday miracles
  • Emily Dickson
  • Annie Dillard - poet,essayist & naturalist with eye for detail
  • Wendy Dimmette - poetry that is ethereal
  • Mark Doty - poetry that changes readers
  • Rita Dove - compelling African American poet
  • Robert Duncan
  • Stephen Dunn - wonderful Pulizter-winning poet
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Chris Ellery - poet with a world view, now at San Angelo State Univ
  • Odysseas Elytis
  • Claudia Emerson
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson - Transcendental essayist, poet and spiritualist
  • Lynn Emmanuel
  • Jill Essbaum - Texas poet & NY Times best-selling author
  • B.H. Fairchild
  • Peter Fallon - an Irish poet and founder of Gallery Press
  • James Fenton - British poet, critic, playwright, songwriter
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti - an American classic
  • Robert Fink - Texas poet & writer
  • Paul Fleischman - poetry that dances and sings
  • Nick Flynn - a poet who walks us to the other
  • Carolyn Forche - American poet of witness
  • Carol Frost - connects internal and external landscape
  • Robert Frost - American poet
  • Tu Fu - masterful ancient Chinese poet
  • James Galvan
  • Jack Gilbert
  • Alan Ginsburg - the first Beat poet
  • Dana Gioia - a beloved American voice
  • Nikki Giovanni - the voice of African American life
  • Louise Gluck - an unmatched poetic success
  • Douglas Goetsch
  • Ray Gonzalez
  • Jorie Graham - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
  • Lyman Grant - Austin Community College Dean, poetry of the beautiful mundane
  • Linda Gregg - an award winning poet of beauty and real life considerations
  • Debora Gregor
  • Laurie Ann Guerrero
  • Barbara Guest
  • Michael Guinn - Texas spoken word poet with a compelling presence
  • H.D. - complex and resonant text of WWI era
  • Marian Haddad - Texas poet of Syrian descent
  • Hafiz - Middle Eastern mystic poet
  • Donald Hall - former U.S. Poet Laureate & husband the late poet Jane Kenyon
  • Jerry Hamby - Texas poet & photographer
  • Robert Hass
  • Terrance Hayes - celebrated contemporary poet with an extraordinary voice
  • Seamus Heaney - Irish Poet & Nobel Laureate
  • David Hernandez
  • Juan Herrera - first Latino U.S. Poet Loureate
  • Brenda Hillman - 
  • Edward Hirsh - writer of poetry of unmatched impact
  • Jane Hirshfield - a poet who fully comprehends this life
  • James Hoggard - 2005 Texas Poet Laureate
  • Tony Hoagland - celebrated poet of generosity and skill
  • Peter Hohiesel - East Texas transplant whose poetry names place
  • J. Paul Holcomb - Texas poet whose poetry makes friends with the reader
  • Mark Holliday
  • Miroslav Holub
  • Gerald Manly Hopkins
  • Fanny Howe
  • Marie Howe - poet of provocative, heart rending realities
  • Langston Hughes - unmatched midcentury African American poet
  • Ted Hughes - poet husband of Sylvia Plath
  • Richard Hugo - poet of place in Pacific Northwest
  • Ogaga Ifwodo - Nigerian poet and professor at Texas State University
  • Ralph Jacobsen - Norwegian poet
  • Henry James
  • Robinson Jeffers - California poet
  • Dennis Johnson
  • John Jenkinson - gentle poetic voice
  • Eve Joseph - Canadian poet of insight
  • Brigit Brigeen Kelly - startlingly original poems
  • Jane Kenyon - the voice of the woman inside so many women
  • Galway Kinnell - a writer who very voice is poetry
  • Ko Un - Korea's most prolific living writer
  • Ron Koertge - a prolific wiseguy, a gifted, playful poet
  • John Koethe - poet of re-creative considerations
  • Ilya Kaminsky - Russian poet in U.S. uses amazing language
  • Jena Kirkpatrick - Austin poet, performer and teacher
  • John Koethe - award-winning poet and first poet laureate of Milwaukee
  • Jusef Komunyakaa- Pulitzer prize-winning poet at Princeton
  • Ted Kooser - U.S. Poet Laureate, an insightful mid-west sensibility
  • Maxine Kumin
  • Stanley Kunitz - a voice of conscience
  • Joanne Kyger - Beat poet
  • Jerry Lafemina
  • Gail Langstroth - writer, poet, performer and dancer
  • Jim Lavilla-Havelin - San Antonio poet and local National Poetry Month Chair
  • Li-Young Lee - a quiet voice of Chinese sensibility and universal humanity
  • David Lehman - accomplished poet and editor of Best American Poetry series
  • Denise Levertov - 20th century American voice
  • Philip Levine - Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Poet Laureate
  • Larry Levis
  • Anre Lorde
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - great American poet
  • Michael Longley - Ireland's premier poet
  • Garcia Lorca - Spain's great poet and human rights martyr
  • Denise Low - Kansas Poet Laureate
  • Amy Lowell
  • Robert Lowell
  • Thomas Lux
  • Michael Lythgoe - poet of strength and emotion
  • Ed Madden - wonderful person & poet in residence for an arboretum
  • Budd Powell Mahan - accomplished Texas poet
  • Robert Duncan Mallormae
  • Cleopatra Matthis
  • Jamaal May
  • Janet McCann - Texas A & M professor and poet
  • Anne McCrady - poet, inspirational speaker and peace advocate
  • Walt McDonald - Texas poet extraordinaire
  • Heather McHugh - insightful poems of wit and wonder
  • Rod McKuen - popular poet from the 1970s
  • David Meischen - writer/poet and Dos Gatos Press cofounder and managing editor
  • Jane Merchant
  • James Merrill
  • W. S. Merwin - U.S. Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner
  • David Meischen - Austin poet & Dos Gatos editor
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay - classic American poet
  • Bryce Milligan - San Antonio poet and founder of Wings Press
  • A.A. Milne - poet whose work is classic
  • Czeslaw Milosz - Poet, Nobel Laureate & Holocaust survivor
  • Ange Mlinko
  • Marianne Moore 
  • Robert Morgan - South American poet
  • Tomas Q. Morin
  • Karla K. Morton - 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, a woman of spirit and strength
  • Les Murray - Australia's leading poet
  • Jack Myers - the late Texas poet of exploration, formerly at SMU
  • Ogden Nash - American poet of ingenious humor
  • Pablo Neruda - Chilean poet, diplomat, social activist & Nobel Laureate
  • Violette Newton - former Texas Poet Laureate
  • Naomi Shihab Nye - a Texas, national & international treasure
  • Katherine Durham Oldmixon - poet and professor at Huston-Tillotson University
  • Angela O'Donnell - Fordham University professor & poet
  • Frank O'Hara - one of the Beat poets
  • Sharon Olds - poems of personal honesty
  • Mary Oliver - Nature-inspired poetry
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Gregory Orr - poet of spiritually timeless work
  • Neil Ellis Orts - Houston publisher, actor, dancer, writer
  • Eric Pankey
  • Jay Parini - respected poet, reviewer and peace activist; prof at Middlebury
  • Dorothy Parker - mid-century poet of the people
  • David Parsons - 2011 Texas Poet Laureate
  • Linda Pastan - a poet to be read and reread
  • Jan Peck
  • Kathleen Peirce - luminous poet & Texas State Univ professor
  • Lucia Perillo
  • Marge Piercy
  • Robert Pinsky - former U.S. Poet Laureate and poetry expert
  • Sylvia Plath - genius disturbed by experience
  • Stanley Plumly - Keats scholar and poet of empathy
  • Li Po - ancient Chinese poet
  • Vasco Popo
  • Ezra Pound
  • Adelo Prada
  • Jack Prelutsky - a poet beloved by children everywhere
  • Jed Rasula
  • Cleatus Rattan - 2006 Texas Poet Laureate
  • Charlotte Renk - East Texas professor and poet
  • Carol Coffee Reposa - a Texas poet whose poetry sings
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Dee Rimbaud - Scottish poet, artist & editor
  • Lee Robinson - Texas poet
  • Bobby C. Rogers - Southern poetry and professor
  • Mary Ruefle
  • Paul Ruffin - 2009 Texas Poetry Laureate & Texas Review editor
  • Rumi - medieval spiritualist and poet
  • Kay Ryan - U.S. Poet Laureate and master of sound and wordplay
  • Sappho - ancient female poet
  • Carl Sandburg - great American poet
  • Peter Sax
  • Anne Schneider - Texas poet and spiritualist
  • Jan Epton Seale - 2012 Texas Poet Laureate
  • Anne Sexton - voice of 60s women
  • Charles Simic
  • Dr. Kirpal Singh - Singapore poet and international scholar
  • Naomi Simmons - warm and wonderful Texas poet
  • Tracy K. Smith - Pulitzer prize-winning poet
  • Bruce Snider - gentle poet
  • Gary Snyder - the quintessential naturalist and poet
  • Gary Soto
  • Wole Soyinka - Africa's revered Nobel Laureate
  • Marilyn Stacy - wonderful Texas counselor and poet
  • William Stafford - poet of peace and justice
  • A.E. Stallings - prize-winning American poet living in Greece
  • Gerald Stern - a gentle curmudgeon and accomplished poet
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Mark Strand - a poet of amazing skill
  • Mary Swander
  • Anna Swir -  Polish poet of witness
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Polish poet & Nobel Laureate
  • Larissa Szporluk
  • Carmen Tafolla - wonderful San Antonio poet & Texas Poet Laureate
  • Tantra-zawadi - New York spoken word poet & film-maker
  • Chuck Taylor - Texas writer, editor, poet & Texas A & M professor
  • Henry David Thoreau - American Transcendental poet and naturalist
  • Larry Thomas - 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, crystal images in verse
  • Tomas Transtromer - Nobel laureate and poet from Sweden
  • Natasha Trethewey - Pulitzer Prize winning poet of the Southern experience
  • Marina Tsvetayeva
  • Jean Valentine
  • Liliana Valenzuela - poet, translator and essayist
  • Judith Viorst
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • Derek Walcott
  • Alice Walker - acclaimed American writer
  • Jeanne Murray Walker - warm-hearted poet & professor
  • Jim Wallis - editor, Sojourner magazine
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • David Watts, M.D. - a physician and poet who knows the mysteries of the body
  • Charles Harper Webb
  • Rebecca Wee - insightful American poet
  • E.B. White
  • Walt Whitman - an American classic
  • Scott Wiggerman - Austin poet & Dos Gatos Press co-founder and editor
  • Richard Wilbur
  • Oscar Wilde - Irish poet & playwright
  • Joshua Marie Wilkinson
  • C.K. Williams  - poems with attention to line
  • Miller Williams - Texas poet
  • Richard Williams
  • William Carlos Williams - well-known American physician poet
  • Eleanor Wilmer
  • Robert Wrigley - accomplished poet of image, place and sound
  • C.D. Wright - a distinguished American poet with a compelling voice
  • James Wright
  • Robert Wynne - poet active in Texas literary circles
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Kevin Young
  • Jake Adam York - poems about race
  • Adam Zagajewski
  • Paul Zimmer

 

Teaching Poetry - Books & Resources

  • Don't Forget to Write - series of books with writing prompts
  • Poetry Friday - series of books with a poem for each week
  • Poets.org for Teachers - poems and lessons
  • Poets.org Ekphrastic Poems - examples of poems written in response to art
  • Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry
  • Something Is Going to Happen - Poetry Alive!
  • The Daily Spark - Poetry
  • The Daily Spark - Writing
  • We Are Teachers - 24 Poems for Secondary Students
  • Wishes, Lies & Dreams - Teaching Children to Write Poetry
  • Word Painting - Writing Descriptively
  • Wingbeats & Wingbeats II - Exercises & Practice in Poetry


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