The poets on this list complement rather than duplicate the poets we teach in the curriculum. We've also provided a suggested work for each poet. Clicking on the book covers will take you to a more detailed description of the work.
Anna Akhmatova
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
Eavan Boland
Marianne Boruch
Jericho Brown
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anne Carson
C.P. Cavafy
jos charles
Amy Clampitt
John Clare
Countee Cullen
H.D.
Marie de France
John Donne
Odysseas Elytis
Louise Erdrich
Robert Frost
Rigoberto Gonzalez
Kimiko Hahn
Nathalie Handal
Joy Harjo
Matthea Harvey
Robert Hayden
Terrance Hayes
Seamus Heaney
Marwa Helal
George Herbert
Anna Maria Hong
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Marie Howe
Tyehimba Jess
John Keats
Yusef Komunyakaa
Philip Larkin
Li Po
Andrew Marvell
Samuel Menashe
James Merrill
W.S. Merwin
Naomi Shihab Nye
Francesco Petrarch
Alejandra Pizarnik
Alexander Pope
Rainer Maria Rilke
Christina Rossetti
Kay Ryan
Sappho
Mary Sidney
Tracy K. Smith
A.E. Stallings
Gertrude Stein
Wallace Stevens
Arthur Sze
Yanyi
W. B. Yeats
Monica Youn
Kevin Young
Li-Young Lee
Wisława Szymborska