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.

Helene Ghitelman
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poetess.

Emma Lazarus
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet

Ada Vladimirova
Russian poetess, translator

Robert Fergusson
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish poet

Olivier La Marche
France
FranceFrench poet and chronicler.

Konrad Bayer
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer, playwright and poet

Juraj Kalnicky
Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovak poet, teacher, diplomat

Ludovico Ariosto
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and playwright of the Renaissance.

Maria Kuntsevich
Poland
PolandProse writer, essayist, translator of English, French and Scandinavian literature.

Edmond Rostand
France
FranceFrench poet, playwright, author of plays: "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Eaglet", etc.

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"

Juan Jimenez
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, Nobel laureate 1956

Emile Verhaeren
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poet, playwright

Serge Venturini
France
FranceFrench poet

Elena Ahmatova
Belarus
BelarusPoet

Gottfried Benn
Germany
GermanyGerman essayist, short story writer and expressionist poet

Ocean Vuong
USA
USAVietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist

Oyar Vatsietis
Latvia
LatviaLatvian poet

Robert Creeley
USA
USAAmerican poet and writer.

Vasiliy Zalozetskiy
Russia
RussiaGalician-Russian writer, wrote in Russian.

Nikolay Zerov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian literary critic, poet - master of sonnets

Rafal Wojaczek
Poland
PolandPolish poet

Tristan Corbiere
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet, representative of the group of "damned poets".

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

Antonio Gamoneda
Italy
ItalyRepresentative of the "fifties generation".

Peter Gulak-Artemovsky
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, poet, fabulist

Mikel Laboa
Spain
SpainPoet-songwriter

Maurice Careme
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poet, author of about 60 collections of poems

Michele Cappellari
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, novelist and playwright

Mihail Pinchevski
Ukraine
UkraineJewish poet, novelist, playwright

Richard Dehmel
Germany
GermanyGerman poet and writer

Euripides
Greece
GreeceAthenian tragic poet

Gao Xingjian
China
ChinaChinese novelist, short story writer, playwright and critic. Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ai Qing
China
ChinaChinese poet.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer, author of Gothic prose

Robert Duncan
USA
USAAmerican poet

Pol Verlaine
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet

Eliza Grinblat
USA
USAAmerican Jewish poet and songwriter

Edmund Spencer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, contemporary of Shakespeare

Igor Kruchik
Ukraine
UkrainePoet

Sigitas Geda
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, translator.

Else Lasker-Schuler
Germany
GermanyGerman poet and writer

Raim Farhadi
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanUzbek poet, writer, playwright, journalist, translator and artist

Charles Bernstein
USA
USAAmerican poet, writer, essayist, translator.

Anne Carson
Canada
CanadaCanadian poet, essayist, translator

Igor Zhivagin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Russian-speaking lyric poet

Shakarim Kudaiberdiev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanPhilosopher, thinker, historian

Karen Kavaleryan
Armenia
ArmeniaFamous Russian songwriter, member of the Moscow Writers Union.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet