Poets
Jordan Abel b. 1985 |
Milton Acorn 1923–1986 |
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm b. 1965 |
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Sherman Alexie b. 1966 |
Madhur Anand b. 1971 |
Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 |
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Joanne Arnott b. 1960 |
John Ashbery 1927 - 2017 |
Margaret Atwood b. 1939 |
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Margaret Avison 1918-2007 |
Ken Babstock b. 1970 |
Elizabeth Bachinsky b. 1976 |
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Marie Annharte Baker b. 1942 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1743–1825 |
Aphra Behn 1640-1689 |
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Ted Berrigan 1934-1983 |
Earle Birney 1904-1995 |
Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 |
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bill bissett b. 1939 |
William Blake 1757-1827 |
Robin Blaser 1925-2009 |
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Rachel Boast b. 1975 |
Christian Bök b. 1966 |
Stephanie Bolster b. 1969 |
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Shane Book |
Roo Borson b. 1952 |
Rita Bouvier b. 1950 |
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George Bowering b. 1935 |
Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672 |
Dionne Brand b. 1953 |
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Kamau Brathwaite b. 1930 |
Robert Bringhurst b. 1946 |
Emily Brontë 1818-1848 |
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Rupert Brooke 1887-1915 |
Nicole Brossard b. 1943 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 |
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Robert Browning 1812-1889 |
Suzanne Buffam b. 1972 |
Robert Burns 1759-1796 |
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Lord (George Gordon) Byron 1788-1824 |
Wilfred Campbell 1858-1918 |
Thomas Campion 1567-1620 |
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Bliss Carman 1861-1929 |
Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 |
Anne Carson b. 1950 |
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Lady Mary Chudleigh 1656-1710 |
John Clare 1793-1864 |
George Elliott Clarke b. 1960 |
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Leonard Cohen 1934-2016 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 |
Billy Collins b. 1941 |
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Wayde Compton b. 1972 |
Kevin Connolly b. 1962 |
Afua Cooper b. 1957 |
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William Cowper 1731-1800 |
Hart Crane 1899-1932 |
Isabella Valancy Crawford 1850-1887 |
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Robert Creeley 1926-2005 |
Lynn Crosbie b. 1963 |
Lorna Crozier b. 1948 |
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Michael Crummey b. 1965 |
H. D. 1886-1961 |
Walter De La Mare 1873-1956 |
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Mary di Michele b. 1949 |
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 |
Adam Dickinson b. 1974 |
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John Donne 1572-1631 |
John Dryden 1631-1700 |
Norman Dubie b. 1945 |
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Marilyn Dumont b. 1955 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 |
T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 |
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Queen Elizabeth I 1533-1603 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti b. 1919 |
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Connie Fife b. 1961 |
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 1661-1720 |
Robert Frost 1874-1963 |
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Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 |
Ulrikka Gernes b. 1965 |
Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 |
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Sue Goyette b. 1964 |
Thomas Gray 1716-1771 |
Wioletta Greg b. 1974 |
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Barbara Guest 1920-2006 |
Kate Hall b. 1977 |
Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 |
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Joy Harjo b. 1951 |
Claire Harris b. 1937 |
Charles Heavysege 1816-1876 |
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Mathew Henderson b. 1985 |
William Ernest Henley 1849-1903 |
George Herbert 1593-1633 |
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Robert Herrick 1591-1674 |
Brenda Hillman b. 1951 |
Susan Holbrook b. 1967 |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889 |
A. E. Housman 1859-1936 |
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Liz Howard b. 1985 |
Leigh Hunt 1784-1859 |
Alootook Ipellie 1951–2007 |
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Rita Joe 1932–2007 |
E. Pauline Johnson 1861-1913 |
El Jones |
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Ben Jonson 1572-1637 |
John Keats 1795-1821 |
Wayne Keon b. 1946 |
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A. M. Klein 1909-1972 |
Raymond Knister 1899-1932 |
Joy Kogawa b. 1935 |
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Sonnet L'Abbé b. 1973 |
Abdellatif Laâbi b. 1942 |
Charles Lamb 1775-1834 |
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Archibald Lampman 1861-1899 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802-1838 |
James Langer b. 1973 |
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Evelyn Lau b. 1971 |
Irving Layton 1912–2006 |
Edward Lear 1812-1888 |
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Dennis Lee b. 1939 |
Sylvia Legris b. 1966 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 |
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Michael Longley b. 1939 |
Richard Lovelace 1618-1657 |
Amy Lowell 1874-1925 |
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Pat Lowther 1935-1975 |
Canisia Lubrin b. 1984 |
Gwendolyn MacEwen 1941-1987 |
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Lee Maracle b. 1950 |
Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 |
Andrew Marvell 1621-1678 |
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Edgar Lee Masters 1868-1950 |
John McCrae 1872-1918 |
David McGimpsey b. 1962 |
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Don McKay b. 1942 |
Jane Mead b. 1958 |
Herman Melville 1819-1891 |
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Anne Michaels b. 1958 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 |
John Milton 1608-1674 |
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Marianne Moore 1887-1972 |
A. F. Moritz b. 1947 |
Daniel David Moses b. 1952 |
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Erin Mouré b. 1955 |
Paul Muldoon b. 1951 |
Jane Munro b. 1943 |
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George Murray b. 1971 |
Hoa Nguyen b. 1967 |
bp Nichol 1944-1988 |
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Lorine Niedecker 1903-1970 |
Yone Noguchi 1875-1947 |
Alice Notley b. 1945 |
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Alden Nowlan 1933-1983 |
Michael Ondaatje b. 1943 |
Alice Oswald b. 1966 |
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Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 |
Frank O’Hara 1926-1966 |
P. K. Page 1916-2010 |
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Elise Partridge 1958–2015 |
Don Paterson b. 1963 |
Soraya Peerbaye b. 1971 |
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Sara Peters b. 1982 |
M. NourbeSe Philip b. 1947 |
Katherine Philips 1632-1664 |
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips b. 1974 |
Carl Phillips b. 1959 |
Marjorie Pickthall 1883-1922 |
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Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 |
Alexander Pope 1688-1744 |
Ezra Pound 1885-1972 |
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E. J. Pratt 1882-1964 |
Al Purdy 1918-2000 |
Sina Queyras b. 1963 |
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Matt Rader b. 1978 |
Sir Walter Ralegh 1552-1618 |
Claudia Rankine b. 1963 |
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Spencer Reece b. 1963 |
Sandra Ridley b. 1973 |
Denise Riley b. 1948 |
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Charles G. D. Roberts 1860-1943 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869-1935 |
Mary Robinson 1757-1800 |
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Damian Rogers b. 1972 |
Matthew Rohrer b. 1970 |
Stuart Ross b. 1959 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 |
Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 |
Jerome Rothenberg b. 1931 |
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Tomasz Rózycki b. 1970 |
Arnand Garnet Ruffo |
Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 |
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Charles Sangster 1822-1893 |
Aisha Sasha John b. 1980 |
Gregory Scofield b. 1966 |
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Duncan Campbell Scott 1862-1947 |
F. R. Scott 1899-1985 |
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 |
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson b. 1971 |
Charlotte Smith 1749-1806 |
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Stevie Smith 1902-1971 |
Patricia Smith b. 1955 |
A. J. M. Smith 1902-1980 |
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Gary Snyder b. 1930 |
Adam Sol |
Karen Solie b. 1966 |
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Raymond Souster 1921 - 2012 |
Carmine Starnino b. 1970 |
Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 |
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Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 |
Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 |
Sara Teasdale 1884-1933 |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 |
Souvankham Thammavongsa b. 1978 |
Sharon Thesen b. 1946 |
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Russell Thornton b. 1959 |
Chimwemwe Undi |
Katherena Vermette b. 1977 |
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Ocean Vuong b. 1988 |
Fred Wah b. 1939 |
Bronwen Wallace 1945-1989 |
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Edmund Waller 1606-1687 |
Phoebe Wang |
Walt Whitman 1819-1892 |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919 |
William Carlos Wiliams 1883-1963 |
Ian Williams b. 1979 |
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Rita Wong b. 1968 |
William Wordsworth 1770-1850 |
C. D. Wright 1949-2016 |
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Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542 |
Elinor Wylie 1885-1928 |
Wang Xiaoni b. 1955 |
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William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 |
Changming Yuan |
Matthew Zapruder b. 1967 |