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
* Joseph Brodsky, poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, Nobel Prize (1987)
* Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet
* Richard Chess, poet, professor of Jewish Studies at UNCA
* Carl Dennis, 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
* Bob Kaufman, beat poet (Jewish father)
* A.M. Klein, 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 ^{[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AMenken.html]}
* Howard Nemerov, poet **
* George Oppen, Objectivist poet **
* Alicia Ostriker, poet
* Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000)
* Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
* Abraham Regelson, poet, translator
* Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
* Adrienne Rich, poet
* Jerome Rothenberg, poet
* Raphael Rudnik, poet
* Muriel Rukeyser, poet
* [http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/english/faculty/schulman.html Grace Schulman] (1935-), poet, essayist, (former) poetry editor of "The Nation" and distingished professor of English, Baruch College, CUNY
* Delmore Schwartz, poet
* Frederick Seidel, poet
* Karl Shapiro, poet **
* Gertrude Stein, Modernist poet/writer
* Gerald Stern, poet
* Mark Strand, poet **
* Samuel Ullman, poet ^{[http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec31det.html]}
* Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [ [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=F9RVBnJlFQRpNkd9hCtJFXRjhC6jzZTJjXk2ZrtQ6BbQT44zmrHh!-694504597!-40434697?a=o&d=5001868771] : "Louis Untermeyer, himself Jewish"]
* Boris Zubry, poet, author, inventor, educator (born 1951)
* Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
* Zvi Yair, poet

See also

*Jewish American literature
*List of Yiddish language poets
*List of Jewish American authors
*List of Jewish American playwrights
*Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
*Before Columbus Foundation

References