List of Jewish American poets

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This is a list of famous Jewish American poets. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

• Charles Bernstein, poet
• Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
• Carl Dennis, poet **
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
• Louise Glück, poet **
• Jorie Graham, poet **
• Allen Grossman, poet
• Marilyn Hacker, poet
• Anthony Hecht, poet **
• John Hollander, poet, critic
• Richard Howard, poet, translator **
• Chester Kallman, poet, librettist
• Bob Kaufman, beat poet (Jewish father)
• A.M. Klein, poet
• Kenneth Koch, poet
• Maxine Kumin, poet **
• Stanley Kunitz, poet **
• Emma Lazarus, poet
• Denise Levertov, poet (born UK)
• Philip Levine, poet **
• Howard Nemerov, poet **
• Alicia Ostriker, poet
• Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
• Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
• Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet
• Delmore Schwartz, poet
• Karl Shapiro, poet **
• Gerald Stern, poet
• Mark Strand, poet **
• Boris Zubry, poet, author, inventor, educator (born 1951
• Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
• Zvi Yair, poet