List of Jewish American poets
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
- David Biespiel, poet
- Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
- Richard Chess, poet, professor of Jewish Studies at UNCA
- Carl Dennis, poet **
- Alter Esselin, carpenter, poet
- Norman Finkelstein, 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
- Rodger Kamenetz,poet
- Burt Kimmelman, 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
- Abel Meeropol, poet
- Richard Michelson, Poet, Children’s Book Author.
- Howard Nemerov, poet **
- George Oppen, Objectivist poet **
- Alicia Ostriker, poet
- Rochelle Owens, poet
- Paul Pines, poet,writer
- Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997–2000)
- Hyam Plutzik, poet
- Felix Pollak, poet, translator, librarian
- Gabriel Preil, Hebrew Poet
- Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
- Abraham Regelson, poet, translator
- Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Jerome Rothenberg, poet
- Raphael Rudnik, poet
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet
- Benjamin Saltman, poet
- Delmore Schwartz, poet
- Frederick Seidel, poet
- Karl Shapiro, poet **
- Carl Solomon, beat poet
- Gertrude Stein, Modernist poet/writer
- Gerald Stern, poet
- Samuel Ullman, poet
- Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [1]
- Zvi Yair, poet
- Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
See also
References
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- Henry Weinfield, poet, scholar
: "Louis Untermeyer, himself Jewish"
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