#  Poets A-Z 

 



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Take an alphabetical journey through four centuries of alumni, faculty, and affiliates of Harvard:

 

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Sort    [Henry Adams](/henry-adams) 

  [Washington Allston](/washington-allston) 

    [John Adams](/john-adams) 

  [Thomas Gold Appleton](/thomas-gold-appleton) 

    [John Quincy Adams](/john-quincy-adams) 

  [Walter Conrad Arensberg](/walter-conrad-arensberg) 

    [James Agee](/james-agee) 

  [John Ashbery](/john-ashbery) 

    [Conrad Aiken](/conrad-aiken) 

  [James Atlas](/james-atlas) 

    [William Alfred](/william-alfred) 

  [Margaret Atwood](/margaret-atwood) 

    [Hervey Allen](/hervey-allen) 

  [Joseph Auslander](/joseph-auslander) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Joseph Warren Beach](/joseph-warren-beach) 

  [Harry Peter McNab Brown](/harry-peter-mcnab-brown) 

    [Park Benjamin](/park-benjamin) 

  [Sterling Allen Brown](/sterling-allen-brown) 

    [Charles Bernstein](/charles-bernstein) 

  [Oni Buchanan](/oni-buchanan) 

    [John Berryman](/john-berryman) 

  [William Burroughs](/william-burroughs) 

    [Frank Bidart](/frank-bidart) 

  [Stephen Burt](/stephen-burt) 

    [Elizabeth Bishop](/elizabeth-bishop) 

  [Mather Byles](/mather-byles) 

    [Robert Bly](/robert-bly) 

  [Witter Bynner](/witter-bynner) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [George Henry Calvert](/george-henry-calvert) 

  [John Ciardi](/john-ciardi) 

    [Joseph Campana](/joseph-campana) 

  [Gregory Corso](/gregory-corso) 

    [Rafael Campo](/rafael-campo) 

  [Malcolm Cowley](/malcolm-cowley) 

    [Bliss Carman](/bliss-carman) 

  [William Crafts](/william-crafts) 

    [Carl Lamson Carmer](/carl-lamson-carmer) 

  [Christopher Pearse Cranch](/christopher-pearse-cranch) 

    [William Ellery Channing](/william-ellery-channing) 

  [Robert Creeley](/robert-creeley) 

    [John Jay Chapman](/john-jay-chapman) 

  [Harry Crosby](/harry-crosby) 

    [Dan Chiasson](/dan-chiasson) 

  [Countee Cullen](/countee-cullen) 

    [Marilyn Chin](/marilyn-chin%20) 

  [Edward Estlin Cummings](/edward-estlin-cummings) 

    [Benjamin Church](/benjamin-church) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [S. Foster Damon](/s-foster-damon) 

  [Peter Davison](/peter-davison) 

    [Richard Henry Dana](/richard-henry-dana) 

  [Edwin Orr Denby](/edwin-orr-denby) 

    [Olive Tilford Dargan](/olive-tilford-dargan) 

  [John Dos Passos](/john-dos-passos) 

    [Pegram Dargan](/pegram-dargan) 

  [Peter Kane Dufault](/peter-kane-dufault) 

    [Christina Davis](/christina-davis) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Richard Eberhart](/richard-eberhart) 

  [Alfred Langdon Elwyn](/alfred-langdon-elwyn) 

    [Thomas Stearns Eliot](/thomas-stearns-eliot) 

  [Ralph Waldo Emerson](/ralph-waldo-emerson) 

    [Thomas Sayers Ellis](/thomas-sayers-ellis) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [John Felstiner](/john-felstiner) 

  [Robert Fitzgerald](/robert-fitzgerald) 

    [Ernest Francisco Fenollosa](/ernest-francisco-fenollosa) 

  [John Gould Fletcher](/john-gould-fletcher) 

    [David Ferry](/david-ferry) 

  [Katie Ford](/katie-ford) 

    [Arthur Davison Ficke](/arthur-davison-ficke) 

  [Robert Francis](/robert-francis) 

    [Dudley Fitts](/dudley-fitts) 

  [Robert Frost](/robert-frost) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Jonathan Galassi](/jonathan-galassi) 

  [Joseph Green](/joseph-green) 

    [Dana Gioia](/dana-gioia) 

  [Eamon Grennan](/eamon-grennan) 

    [Jorie Graham](/jorie-graham) 

  [Angelina Weld Grimké](/angelina-weld-grimk%C3%A9) 

    [Percy Stickney Grant](/percy-stickney-grant) 

  [Allen Grossman](/allen-grossman) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Rachel Hadas](/rachel-hadas) 

  [Lyn Hejinian](/lyn-hejinian) 

    [Hermann Hagedorn](/hermann-hagedorn) 

  [Robert Hillyer](/robert-hillyer) 

    [Donald Hall](/donald-hall) 

  [Oliver Wendell Holmes](/oliver-wendell-holmes) 

    [Stratis Haviaras](/stratis-haviaras) 

  [George Caspar Homans](/george-caspar-homans) 

    [Seamus Heaney](/seamus-heaney) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [James Laughlin](/james-laughlin) 

  [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/henry-wadsworth-longfellow) 

    [Brad Leithauser](/brad-leithauser) 

  [James Russell Lowell](/james-russell-lowell) 

    [William Ellery Leonard](/william-ellery-leonard) 

  [Robert Lowell](/robert-lowell) 

    [Gwyneth Lewis](/gwyneth-lewis) 

  [Robert Traill Spence Lowell](/robert-traill-spence-lowell) 

    [George Cabot Lodge](/george-cabot-lodge) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Percy MacKaye](/percy-mackaye) 

  [Joyelle McSweeney](/joyelle-mcsweeney) 

    [Archibald MacLeish](/archibald-macleish) 

  [Constance Merritt](/constance-merritt) 

    [Sarah Manguso](/sarah-manguso) 

  [Sarah Messer](/sarah-messer) 

    [Gail Mazur](/gail-mazur) 

  [Wendy Mnookin](/wendy-mnookin) 

    [David McCann](/david-mccann) 

  [Carol Moldaw](/carol-moldaw) 

    [Davis McCombs](/davis-mccombs) 

  [William Vaughn Moody](/william-vaughn-moody) 

    [David McCord](/david-mccord) 

  [Merrill Moore](/merrill-moore) 

    [Heather McHugh](/heather-mchugh) 

  [Howard Moss](/howard-moss) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Ogden Nash](/ogden-nash) 

  [Howard Nemerov](/howard-nemerov) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien](/edward-joseph-harrington-obrien) 

  [Charles Olson](/charles-olson) 

    [Frank O'Hara](/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40344&panel=icb.pagecontent371334:r%241?name=o.html&pageid=icb.page189797&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent371334&view=view.do&viewParam_name=ohara_frank.html#a_icb_pagecontent371334) 

  [Jacqueline Osherow](/jacqueline-osherow) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Robert Treat Paine, Jr.](/robert-treat-paine-jr) 

  [Katie Peterson](/katie-peterson) 

    [Thomas William Parsons](/thomas-william-parsons) 

  [Carl Phillips](/carl-phillips) 

    [Elise Paschen](/elise-paschen) 

  [Robert Polito](/robert-polito) 

    [Linda Pastan](/linda-pastan) 

  [Katha Pollitt](/katha-pollitt) 

    [Josephine Preston Peabody](/josephine-preston-peabody) 

  [Patrick Pritchett](/patrick-pritchett) 

    [William Alexander Percy](/william-alexander-percy) 

  

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Srikanth Reddy](/srikanth-reddy) 

  [Edwin Arlington Robinson](/edwin-arlington-robinson) 

    [John Reed](/john-reed) 

  [Michelle Robinson](/michelle-robinson) 

    [Adrienne Rich](/adrienne-rich) 

  [Theodore Roethke](/theodore-roethke) 

    [I. A. Richards](/i-richards) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Peter Sacks](/peter-sacks) 

  [Brenda Shaughnessy](/brenda-shaughnessy) 

    [Miriam Sagan](/miriam-sagan) 

  [Laurie Sheck](/laurie-sheck) 

    [Mary Jo Salter](/mary-jo-salter) 

  [Edward Rowland Sill](/edward-rowland-sill) 

    [Stephen Sandy](/stephen-sandy) 

  [L.E. Sissman](/le-sissman) 

    [George Santayana](/george-santayana) 

  [Chard Powers Smith](/chard-powers-smith) 

    [May Sarton](/may-sarton) 

  [Samuel Francis Smith](/samuel-francis-smith) 

    [Delmore Schwartz](/delmore-schwartz) 

  [George Starbuck](/george-starbuck) 

    [Alan Seeger](/alan-seeger) 

  [Wallace Stevens](/wallace-stevens) 

    [Frederick Seidel](/frederick-seidel) 

  [Trumbull Stickney](/trumbull-stickney) 

    [Anne Sexton](/anne-sexton) 

  [Sharan Strange](/sharan-strange) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [Edward Taylor](/edward-taylor) 

  [Benjamin Tompson](/benjamin-tompson) 

    [Richard Tillinghast](/richard-tillinghast) 

  [Natasha Trethewey](/natasha-trethewey) 

    [Ernest Lawrence Thayer](/ernest-lawrence-thayer) 

  [Frederick Goddard Tuckerman](/frederick-goddard-tuckerman) 

 





 

 

 



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 [John Updike](/john-updike)



 

 

 



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Sort    [Jean Valentine](/jean-valentine) 

  [Jones Very](/jones-very) 

    [Peter Viereck](/peter-viereck) 

 





 

 

 



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Sort    [John Hall Wheelock](/john-hall-wheelock) 

  [Richard Wilbur](/richard-wilbur) 

    [John Wheelwright](/john-wheelwright) 

  [Edmund Wilson](/edmund-wilson) 

    [Anne (Cherner) Whitehouse](/anne-cherner-whitehouse) 

  [George Edward Woodberry](/george-edward-woodberry) 

    [Michael Wigglesworth](/michael-wigglesworth) 

  [Jon Woodward](/jon-woodward) 

 





 

 

 



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 [Kevin Young](/kevin-young)