List of Jewish American poets
Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Seth Abramson, poet
David Berman, poet, rock musician and cartoonist
Charles Bernstein, poet
Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet
Richard Chess, poet, professor of Jewish Studies at UNCA
Carl Dennis, poet **
Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
Louise Glück, poet **
Jorie Graham, poet **
Allen Grossman, poet
Marilyn Hacker, poet
Anthony Hecht, poet **
John Hollander, poet, critic
Richard Howard, poet, translator **
Chester Kallman, poet, librettist
Bob Kaufman, beat poet (Jewish father)
A.M. Klein, poet
Kenneth Koch, poet
Maxine Kumin, poet **
Stanley Kunitz, poet **
Emma Lazarus, poet
Denise Levertov, poet (born UK)
Philip Levine, poet **
Samuel Menashe, poet
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet[2]
Howard Nemerov, poet **
George Oppen, Objectivist poet **
Alicia Ostriker, poet
Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
Abraham Regelson, poet, translator
Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
Adrienne Rich, poet
Jerome Rothenberg, poet
Raphael Rudnik, poet
Muriel Rukeyser, poet
Delmore Schwartz, poet
Frederick Seidel, poet
Karl Shapiro, poet **
Gertrude Stein, Modernist poet/writer
Gerald Stern, poet
Mark Strand, poet **
Samuel Ullman, poet [3]
Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [1]
Boris Zubry, poet, author, inventor, educator (born 1951)
Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
Zvi Yair, poet |
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