List of poets
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This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.
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Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet
Aarudhra (1925–1998), Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry
Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet
Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet and fiction writer
Siôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeer
Aria Aber (born 1991), Afghan poet and novelist, resides in the US, writes and publishes primarily in English
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet and literary critic
Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1948-1953
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049), Persian poet
Sam Abrams (1935–2023), US poet, editor and critic
Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet
Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet
Dannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh poet in English
Kathy Acker (1947–1997), US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright
Diane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist
Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction
Milton Acorn (1923–1986), Canadian poet, writer and playwright
Harold Acton (1904–1994), English writer, scholar and dilettante
János Aczél (died 1523), Hungarian poet and provost
Tamás Aczél (1921–1994), Hungarian poet
Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish novelist, poet and critic
Virginia Hamilton Adair (1919–2004), US poet
Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish-US poet, collagist and photographer
Draginja Adamović (1925–2000), Serbian poet
John Adams (1704–1740), US poet
Léonie Adams (1899–1988), US poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1948–1949
Ryan Adams (born 1974), US singer-songwriter and writer
Hendrik Adamson (1891–1946), Estonian poet
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024), New Zealand poet mainly in England
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, writer and politician
Kim Addonizio (born 1954), US poet and novelist
Artur Adson (1889–1977), Estonian poet
Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet
Mariska Ady (1888–1977), Hungarian poet
Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), Athenian tragedian
Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer, translator
Lucius Afranius (fl. c. 94 BCE), Roman comic poet
John Agard (born 1949), Afro-Guyanese poet and children's writer
Patience Agbabi (born 1965), British poet and performer
James Agee (1909–1955), US novelist, screenwriter, and poet
Deborah Ager (born 1977), US poet and editor
István Ágh (1938–2025), Hungarian poet
Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), US poet
Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017), Albanian poet
Carlos Martínez Aguirre (born 1974), Spanish poet
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
Ishaaq bin Ahmed (1095 – 12th century), Arab scholar, poet and ancestor of the Somali Isaaq clan-family
Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet
Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), US poet and author; U.S. Poet Laureate, 1950–1952
Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poet
Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian
Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1929–1990), Iranian poet, Persian poet
Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
Jan Nisar Akhtar (1914–1976), Indian Urdu poet
Javed Akhtar (born 1945), Indian poet, lyricist and scriptwriter
Salman Akhtar (born 1946), Indian US professor and poet writing in English and Urdu
Al–Am
Amina Al Adwan (born 1944), Jordanian writer, poet and critic
Ali al-Marhun (1916–2010), Saudi faqīh and poet
Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal (1951–2021), Sudanese poet
Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), Italian poet and statesman
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), Scottish Gaelic poet
Ave Alavainu (1942–2022), Estonian poet
Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), Scottish Gaelic poet and crusader
Alcaeus (4th c. BCE), Athenian comic poet in Greek
Alcaeus of Messene (fl. late 3rd/early 2nd c. BCE), Greek writer of verse epigrams
Alcaeus of Mytilene (7th–6th c.
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