Poetry
Discover a world of poetic brilliance with our curated list of celebrated poets. Explore the works of literary giants, from Shakespeare to Maya Angelou, and delve into the minds of those who have shaped the art of verse. Find inspiration, emotion, and timeless expression in the words of these renowned poets.

Carole Sager
USA
USAPoet-songwriter

Jose Maria Alvarez
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, writer and translator

Johann Andreas Cramer
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, theologian

Gerry Goffin
USA
USAAmerican poet, songwriter

Edward Lear
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet

Nikola Bualo-Depreo
France
FranceFrench poet, classicist theorist

Yona Wallach
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet who wrote in Hebrew.

Salah Abd Al-Sabur
Egypt
EgyptEgyptian poet, playwright, literary critic, one of the founders of modern Arabic poetry, graduate of Cairo University, publisher of the magazine "Al-Katib"

Gia Potskhveriya
Georgia
GeorgiaWriter, poet

Yosa Buson
Japan
JapanJapanese poet of the 18th century, master of the haiku genre

Blanka Andreu
Spain
SpainPoetess

Cesare Caporali
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Giovanni Battista Casti
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Veronica Gambara
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and statesman of the Renaissance

Roy Campbell
South African poet and translator

Margarete Susman
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, essayist, literary scholar.

Francesco Berni
Italy
ItalyItalian poet of the 16th century

Sylvia Plath
USA
USAAmerican poet and writer

Johann Hlderlin
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Rinat Arkhipov
Tatar and Russian poet

Sara Coleridge
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poetess, daughter of the poet Samuel Coleridge

Davtak Kertog
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian lyric poet of the 7th century

Taisa Bondar
Belarus
BelarusAuthor of six books of poetry and prose in the Belarusian language

Raymundus Jordanus
France
FranceFrench writer of the 14th century, theologian

Shaul Chernihovskiy
Israel
IsraelJewish poet

Victor Lidio Jara Martinez
Chile
ChileChilean poet, singer and political activist

Sergey Balahonov
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer.

Ruslan Akhtakhanov
Russia
RussiaPoet and educator

Bingo Gazingo
USA
USAAmerican poet

Ada Vladimirova
Russian poetess, translator

Bogomil Duzel
Macedonia
MacedoniaMacedonian poet, playwright, essayist and translator, representative of the post-war poetic generation that came out with the manifesto 'The Epic is on the Vote'

Natalia Varenik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, novelist, journalist, teacher

Jorge Guillyn
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, one of the representatives of the ultraist trend in poetry.

Olivier La Marche
France
FranceFrench poet and chronicler.

Frantisek CELAKOVSKY
Czech poet, translator, literary critic. His cycles of poems "Echo of Russian Songs" and "Echo of Czech Songs" have firmly entered the treasury of Czech classical poetry.

Yunna Moritz
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Emma Lazarus
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet

Igor Kruchik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet

Elena Axelrod
Israel
IsraelSoviet poetess and translator

Nikolay Girnyk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet poet, translator, journalist.

Alkman
Greece
GreeceAn ancient Greek poet of the second half of the 7th century BC, a representative of choral lyric poetry.

Frederick Rolfe
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, prose writer, translator.

Amiri Baraka
USA
USAAfrican American poet, novelist, essayist and critic

Lukyan Golosov
Duma nobleman, poet, translator.

John Milton
Great Britain
Great BritainGreat English poet

Victor Zabella
Ukrainian poet, lyricist.

Emil Quanten
Finland
FinlandFinnish poet.

Hans Vilhelm Kaalund
Denmark
DenmarkDanish lyricist

Luis de Camoes
Portugal
PortugalPortuguese poet, the greatest representative of Renaissance literature in Portugal in the 16th century, the author of the universally recognized masterpiece of world literature - the national epic poem "The Lusiads", one of the founders of the modern Portuguese language

Lea Goldberg
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet, literary scholar, translator, critic