List of poets from the United States
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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- Jimmy Santiago Baca, (born 1952)
- Bellamy Bach (pseudonym used by a group of writers)
- Joseph M. Bachelor, (1889–1947)
- Mahnaz Badihian
- Vyt Bakaitis, (born 1940)
- David Baker (born 1954)
- John Balaban, (born 1943)
- Jesse Ball (born 1978)
- Russell Banks, (born 1940)
- Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones), (born 1934)
- Coleman Barks (born 1937)
- Mary Barnard, (1909–2001)
- Djuna Barnes, (1892–1982)
- Catherine Barnett, (born 1960)
- Candy Barr, (1935–2005)
- Laird Barron, (born 1970)
- Bertha Hirsch Baruch
- Todd Bash, (born 1965)
- Ellen Bass, (born 1947)
- Arlo Bates, (1850–1918)
- David Bates, (1809–1870)
- Dawn-Michelle Baude, (born 1959)
- Eric Baus, (born 1975)
- Charles Baxter, (born 1947)
- Abel Beach, (1829–1899)
- Ray Young Bear, (born 1950)
- Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, (c. 1913–1995)
- George Beck, (1749–1812)
- Julian Beck, (1925–1985)
- Larry Beckett, (born 1947)
- Joshua Beckman
- Ethel Lynn Beers, (1827–1879)
- Erin Belieu, (born 1957)
- Marvin Bell, (born 1937)
- Stephen Vincent Benét, (1898–1943)
- William Rose Benét, (1886–1950)
- Park Benjamin, (1809–1864)
- Nelson Bentley, (1918–1990)
- Bill Berkson, (born 1939)
- David Berman (musician), (born 1967)
- Charles Bernstein, (born 1950)
- Steven Jesse Bernstein, (1950–1991)
- Anselm Berrigan, (born 1972)
- Ted Berrigan, (1934–1983)
- Wendell Berry, (born 1934)
- John Berryman, (1914–1972)
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, (born 1947)
- Lorraine Bethel
- Helen Bevington, (1906–2001)
- Frank Bidart, (born 1939)
- Ambrose Bierce, (1842–c. 1913)
- Linda Bierds, (born 1945)
- David Biespiel, (born 1964)
- Elizabeth Bishop, (1911–1979)
- Sophie Cabot Black, (born 1958)
- John Peale Bishop, (1892–1944)
- Sherwin Bitsui, (born 1975)
- Baxter Black, (born 1945)
- Paul Blackburn, (1926–1971)
- Nicole Blackman, (born 1971)
- Kimberly M. Blaeser
- Don Blanding, (1894–1957)
- Robin Blaser, (1925–2009)
- Anthony Bleecker, (1770–1827)
- Adrian Blevins, (born 1964)
- Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832–1919)
- Henry Ames Blood, (1836–1900)
- Roberts Blossom, (1924–2011)
- Robert Bly (born 1926)
- Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672)
- D. A. Blyler, (born 1967)
- Maxwell Bodenheim, (1892–1954)
- Jean Boese, (1925–2004)
- Louise Bogan, (1897–1970)
- Arna Bontemps, (1902–1973)
- Bruce Boston, (born 1943)
- David Bottoms, (born 1949)
- Jenny Boully, (born 1976)
- Kay Boyle, (1902–1992)
- William Brandon, (1914–2002)
- Beth Brant, (born 1941)
- Richard Brautigan, (1935–1984)
- Kate Braverman, (born 1950)
- Donari Braxton
- Joseph Payne Brennan, (1918–1990)
- Ken Brewer, (1941–2006)
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster, (1710–c. 1757)
- Kim Bridgford, (born 1959)
- Robert Bringhurst, (born 1946)
- John Malcolm Brinnin, (1916–1999)
- James Brock, (born 1958)
- Joseph Brodsky, (1940 – 1996),
- Louis Daniel Brodsky, (born 1941)
- David Bromige, (1933–2009)
- William Bronk (1918–1999)
- Charles Timothy Brooks, (1813–1883)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, (1917–2000)
- Maria Gowen Brooks, (c. 1795 – 1845)
- Olga Broumas, (born 1949)
- Alice Brown, (1856–1948)
- Rita Mae Brown, (born 1944)
- Francis Fisher Browne, (1843–1913)
- William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
- Jack Buck, (1924–2002)
- David Budbill, (born 1940)
- Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
- David R. Bunch
- Henry Cuyler Bunner
- José Antonio Burciaga
- Stanley Burnshaw
- Amelia Josephine Burr
- Maxwell Struthers Burt
- Raegan Butcher
- Ray Buttigieg (born 1955)
- W. E. Butts
- Witter Bynner
- Gilbert Byron
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