The Poets
- Fleur Adcock
- Liz Ann Baez Aguilar
- Akan – African tribe
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Margaret Atwood
- Joan Baez
- Robert Bagg
- Kate Barnes
- Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benet
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- Elizabeth Bishop
- William Blake
- Johannes Brahms
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- David Stanford Burr
- Raymond Carver
- Alice Cary
- Constantine P. Cavafy
- Michael Chrisman
- Lucille Clifton
- Nan Cohen
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Billy Collins
- E. E. Cummings
- Susan Dane
- Kate Daniels
- W. H. Davies
- Emily Dickinson
- Rita Dove
- Amy Dryansky
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Rachel Contreni Flynn
- Robert Frost
- Tess Gallagher
- Kahlil Gibran
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Thom Gunn
- Rachel Hadas
- Joy Harjo
- C. G. Hanzlicek
- Robert Hayden
- Jane Hirshfield
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Fanny Howe
- Mary Priscilla Howes
- Ping Hsin
- Langston Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Issa – David Lanoue, transl.
- Mark Jarman
- James Weldon Johnson
- Richard Jones
- James Joyce
- Jaan Kaplinski
- Julia Kasdorf
- John Keats
- Jane Kenyon
- Larry Kimmel
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Galway Kinnell
- Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Larkin
- D. H. Lawrence
- Denise Levertov
- Eiluned Lewis
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Michael Longley
- Thomas Lux
- Richard Maltby
- Gail Mazur
- James Merrill
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A. A. Milne
- John Milton
- Gabriella Mistral
- Marianne Moore
- Lisel Mueller
- Paul Muldoon
- Pablo Neruda
- D. Nurkse
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Rebecca Okrent
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Lisa Olstein
- Mary Rose O’Reilly
- Dorothy Parker
- Linda Pastan
- Don Paterson
- Susie Patlove
- Vera Pavlova
- Sylvia Plath
- Marie Ponsot
- Anne Porter
- The Psalmist
- Carol Purington
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Christina Rossetti
- Kay Ryan
- St. Paul
- Mary Jo Salter
- Chivas Sandage
- Carl Sandburg
- Sappho – Robert Bagg, transl.
- William Shakespeare
- Luci Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Shel Silverstein
- Patti Smith
- Solomon
- Stephen Spender
- Judith Steinbergh
- Robert Lewis Stevenson
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Sara Teasdale
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Tewa – Indian nation
- Dylan Thomas
- Henry David Thoreau
- Natasha Tretheway
- Tsimshian – Indian nation
- Alice Walker
- Ellen Dore Watson
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Richard Wilbur
- Miller Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- William Wordsworth
- James Wright
- William Butler Yeats
- Thomas Yeomans
- Kevin Young
- Paul Zimmer
