Names Of Poets
This list of names will help you brainstorm name possibilities. Click on a name to read about its origin and meaning.
- Boys
- Albert Gordon Austin
- Alexander Hume
- Allen Fisher
- Allen Ginsberg
- Anselm Berrigan
- Arthur Henry Adams
- Asa Benveniste
- Austin Clarke
- Ben Jonson
- Bernard Barton
- Bob Cobbing
- Brian Coffey
- Bruce Andrews
- Carl Sandburg
- Charles Causely
- Constantine Cavafy
- David Ball
- Denis Devlin
- Douglas Dunn
- E. E. Cummings
- Ebenezer Elliot
- Edmund Blunden
- Edward Dorn
- Edwin Atherstone
- Elijah Fenton
- Ezra Pound
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Chapman
- Gilbert Adair
- Harold Acton
- Henry Carey
- Jack Clarke
- Jack Kerouac
- James Tate
- Jesse Ball
- John Ashbery
- Joseph Addison
- Keith Douglas
- Ken Barratt
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Leigh Hunt
- Lewis Carroll
- Lex Banning
- Mark Akenside
- Matthew Arnold
- Maurice Biggs
- Michael Davidson
- Miles Champion
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Peter Bladen
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Randall Jarrell
- Ray DiPalma
- Richard Caddel
- Robert Frost
- Samuel Bishop
- Simon Armitage
- Stanley Kunitz
- Theodore Roethke
- Thomas Ashe
- Trevor Joyce
- Wendell Berry
- William Carlos Williams
- Girls
- Alice Cary
- Anne Sexton
- Barbara Guest
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Diane DiPrima
- Dorothy Auchterlonie
- Elaine Feinstein
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Emily Dickinson
- Erica Jong
- Ethel Anderson
- Fanny Howe
- Felicia Hemans
- Fleur Adcock
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Janet Frame
- Joanna Baillie
- Joy Harjo
- June Jordan
- Lisa Jarnot
- Lucille Clifton
- Margaret Atwood
- Mary Wedderburn Cannon
- Mathilde Blind
- Maura Dooley
- Maya Angelou
- Michelle Cliff
- Norma Cole
- Pam Ayres
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Phoebe Cary
- Rae Armantrout
- Rita Dove
- Sandra Cisneros
- Susanne Blamire
- Sylvia Plath
- Thea Astley
- Tina Darragh
- Wanda Coleman