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.

Konstantinos Kavafis
Egypt
EgyptOne of the greatest poets who wrote in Modern Greek

Konstantin Verenitsyn
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet

Myhamed Hafiz
Iran
IranPoet

Neringa Abrutyte
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet and translator.

Allen Ginsberg
USA
USAAmerican poet of the second half of the 20th century, founder of the Beat movement

Maria Vasalis
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch poetess.

Ira Gershwin
USA
USAAmerican lyricist, author of lyrics for hundreds of songs from the 20s to the 40s

Tatyana Gnedych
Ukraine
UkraineRussian translator and poet.

Nadia Anjuman
Afghanistan
AfghanistanAfghan poetess of Persian origin.

Zmay
Suriname
SurinamePoet

Walter Savage Landor
Great Britain
Great BritainFamous English poet

Catherine Asaro
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Salvador Espriu
Spain
SpainCatalan poet, prose writer, playwright, wrote in Catalan.

Ray Evans
USA
USAAmerican songwriter

Petr Gorskiy
Russia
RussiaRussian poet and writer, essayist.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and writer; founder, leader and theorist of futurism

Sarat Alieva
Dargin poetess, master of lyric poetry

Helene Ghitelman
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poetess.

Ada Vladimirova
Russian poetess, translator

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.

Juan Jimenez
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, Nobel laureate 1956

Emile Verhaeren
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poet, playwright

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.

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

Serge Venturini
France
FranceFrench poet

Rafal Wojaczek
Poland
PolandPolish poet

Antonio Gamoneda
Italy
ItalyRepresentative of the "fifties generation".

Peter Gulak-Artemovsky
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, poet, fabulist

Mikel Laboa
Spain
SpainPoet-songwriter

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

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