Deborah Ager (0 - )
	Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832)
	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
	Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
	Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
	Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
	Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
	Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
	James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916)
	Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)
	Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
	Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
	Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
	Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
	Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
	William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
	Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
	H. D. (1886 - 1961)
	T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
	Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
	Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
	e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962)
	Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
	Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973)
	John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
	Donald Justice (1925 - )
	Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974)
	Maya Angelou (1928 - )
	Adrienne Rich (1929 - )
	Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
	Shel Silverstein (1932 - 1999)
	Raymond Carver (1938 - 1988)
	James Tate (1943 - )
	Joseph Mayo Wristen (1951 - )