Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently drew inspiration from rural life in New England, using the setting to explore complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was highly honored during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.

Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time. Since January 29, 2003, he has been chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States government's arts agency, and has worked to revitalize an organization that had become gun-shy after the bitter controversies that surrounded it in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Michael Palmer (b.1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. Palmer is the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.

Mark Doty is an American poet. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV, which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write "Atlantis". In 1995, he won the ₤10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the first American poet to have done so.

Chase Twichell (1950 to present) was born in New Haven, CT and is an accomplished poet who owns her own publishing company, Ausable Press ("est. 1999"). She lives in New York today, and has taught at Princeton University. She is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation.

Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism.

Al Young (May 31, 1939, Ocean Springs, Mississippi) is an American poet, novelist and writer of musical memoirs. He was named poet laureate of California by the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 12, 2005. Young is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Palo Alto, California. His book "Bodies and Soul: Musical Memoirs" (1981) won the American Book Award.

John Tranter (born 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has been the publisher and editor of the internet quarterly literary magazine "Jacket" since he founded it in 1997. Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales and attended country schools, then took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, …

Peter Dale Scott was born in Montreal in 1929. His poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror ; Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse ; and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000 . An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations.

Professor Prabhu Guptara (born 1949 in Delhi, India) is the Executive Director (Organisational Development) of Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS AG).

Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. November 23, 1965) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and author. Hecht's scholarly articles and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Scholar and other publications. She has written several columns for The New York Times online "Times Select."

Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam on the last day of evacuation of Saigon in 1975. She came to the United States with her family, and moved to and within the South, Southwest, and Mid-Plains regions before her family settled in Houston, Texas. She lived in San Francisco for a number of years and this influenced her writing. Presently, she lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Greg Delanty (born 1958) is a noted contemporary Irish poet. Delanty won the National Poetry Competition in 1999 and was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry prize in 1996.

Marcel Weyland is a translator of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz. He was born in Łódź, Poland. His family fled ahead of the German Occupation through Lithuania, Soviet Russia and Japan while being interned for the rest of WW2 by the Japanese in Shanghai. The family finally settled in Sydney, Australia in 1946. Here he studied both Architecture and Law. He has completed an English translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz.

Jeff Harrison is an American poet whose poems "Postmortem Series" and "Accuracy" are apparently randomly generated, with the help of Markov chains. The poems are considered a form of aleatoric poetry. Jeff graduated from Cincinnati Country Day School, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Shahryar Rashed (Urdu: شہریار راشد was a Pakistani English language poet. He was the son of the 'father of modern Urdu poetry,' Noon Meem Rashed. Rashed attended Aitchison College, Lahore; Karachi Grammar School; and the United Nations International School in New York. After attending Drew University, Shahryar returned to Pakistan to complete his masters in English from Punjab University. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971.

Lydia Huntley Sigourney née Lydia Howard Huntley (September 1, 1791 - June 10, 1865) was an extremely popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford." Most of her works were published with just her married name "Mrs. Sigourney."

Peter Didsbury is an English poet, born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, in 1946 but resident for most of his life in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, where he has worked as an archaeologist and creative writing tutor. His poetry collections, all published by Bloodaxe Books, are "The Butchers of Hull" (1982), "The Classical Farm" (1987), "That Old-Time Religion" (1994) and "A Natural History", …

William Bronk (1918-1999) was an American poet and the author of more than 15 books of poems and essays and a winner of the American Book Award in 1982. William Bronk was born 17 February 1918 in Fort Edward, NY and died on 22 February, 1999. William M Bronk was a graduate of Dartmouth College and spent most of his life in his home in Hudson Falls, Washington County, New York. In 1981, when the University of New Hampshire began collecting Bronk, …

Olga Kirsch (1924-1997) was a South African and Israeli poet. Kirsch was born and brought up in Koppies in the Orange Free State. Her father had emigrated there from Lithuania and, though a Yiddish speaker, brought his daughter up to speak English. She nevertheless wrote in Afrikaans, publishing eight books of poetry in that language, as well as a volume of selected poems (she was only the second female Afrikaans poet to be published).

Luther Metke (April 24, 1883 - April 24, 1983) was an American folk poet. He served in the Spanish American War and was a Representative for the American Veterans Committee. He was the subject of Jorge Preloran's academy award nominated documentary Luther Metke at 94.

B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and college professor. Born in 1942, B.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in the oil fields of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, later working through high school and college for his father, a lathe machinist. He teaches English at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas National Endowment for the Arts Web site, Web page titled "Features: Writer's Corner: B.H. Fairchild", accessed October 29, …

Mark Tardi (born 1975) is an American poet. He currently lives and works in Chicago where he is the essays, notes & reviews editor for "Aufgabe" and is part of Chicago's Prairie Rennaisance in Poetry. He was a founding editor of the literary magazine "One Factorial", along with Sarah Ruhl and Sawako Nakayasu. His work can be found in "Antennae", "Aufgabe", "Bird Dog", "Conundrum", "Milk Magazine", "Boog City", …

Florence Anthony (born 2 January 1947) is an American poet who legally changed her name to Ai.

Johannes Beilharz is a German poet, painter and translator. Beilharz was born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, attended local schools, studied English, French, Spanish and Catalan at the University of Regensburg from 1975 to 1977, then continued his studies at the University of Colorado in 1977, graduating with an M.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing in 1981. He has worked mainly in translation and has traveled widely, primarily in the United States, …

William Murdoch was a Scottish-Canadian poet. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, Murdoch migrated to Canada in 1854, aged 31. The following year, he was appointed manager of the gasworks on Partridge Island in 1855. He contributed to the "Saint John Morning News" from 1865, and published "Poems and Songs by William Murdoch" (1860) and "Discursory Ruminations: A Fireside Drama" (1876). Murdoch died in Saint. John, New Brunswick, Canada.

kari edwards (d. 2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); was the author of "have been blue for charity", BlazeVox (2006); "obedience", Factory School (2005); "iduna", O Books (2003); "a day in the life of p"., subpress collective (2002); "a diary of lies", Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002); "obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS", …

Ghulam Ali Allana was friend and biographer of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. He was also an English language Pakistani poet. He was also a councillor and friend Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister Fatima Jinnah. He was born to an Ismaili Khoja family and died in Karachi. His son Pyar Ali Allana is a politician and has been a member of the parliament in Benazir Bhutto's era as the prime minister of the country.

Antler (born 1946, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA) is an American poet who lives in Wisconsin. His work reflects the influences of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and the American traditions of transcendentalism and environmentalism. He celebrates the wilderness, often comparing urban, industrial life unfavorably with natural phenomena. His frank, sometimes earthy poems frequently exhibit sexual and spiritual energy entwined with the wonder of the natural world.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554 – 29 October, 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584, at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. When the settlement failed, the ultimate fate of the colonists was never authoritatively ascertained, and it became known as "The Lost Colony".

William Alfred Quayle (25 June 1860 - March 9, 1925) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1908.

Leah Bodine Drake was an American poet, editor and critic.

Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, the first Mexican American to hold the position at any university of the University of California. He is best remembered for his 1971 Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness novella "Y no se lo tragó la tierra", translated into English as "...and the earth did not devour him".