List of Jewish American poets
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For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- Seth Abramson, poet
- David Berman, poet, rock musician and cartoonist
- Charles Bernstein, poet
- Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
- Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet
- Richard Chess, poet, professor of Jewish Studies at UNCA
- 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 **
- Samuel Menashe, poet
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet[2]
- Howard Nemerov, poet **
- George Oppen, Objectivist poet **
- Alicia Ostriker, poet
- Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
- Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
- Abraham Regelson, poet, translator
- Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Jerome Rothenberg, poet
- Raphael Rudnik, poet
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet
- Delmore Schwartz, poet
- Frederick Seidel, poet
- Karl Shapiro, poet **
- Gertrude Stein, Modernist poet/writer
- Gerald Stern, poet
- Mark Strand, poet **
- Samuel Ullman, poet [3]
- Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [1]
- Boris Zubry, poet, author, inventor, educator (born 1951)
- Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
- Zvi Yair, poet
[edit] See also
- Jewish American literature
- List of Yiddish language poets
- List of Jewish American authors
- List of Jewish American playwrights
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation