Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

male, deceased (1892)
poet, gay, realism, New York writer, queer studies, Bisexual writer…freeverse
Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers...
C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

male, 73 years old
University of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Flesh and Blood, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry…freeverse
C. K. Williams (b. November 4 1936, Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet. He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and...
Laura Riding

Laura Riding

female, deceased (1991)
Jewish, Honor Wyatt, The Close Chaplet, Laura Reichenthal, Progress of Stories, Laura (Riding) Jackson…freeverse
Laura (Riding) Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.
Gustave Kahn

Gustave Kahn

male, deceased (1936)
Jewish, poet, freeverse, feminism, French, anarchism
Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. Kahn claimed to have invented the term "vers libre", or free verse; he was in any case one...
Nazik Al-Malaika

Nazik Al-Malaika

female, deceased (2007)
poet, iraqi, Arabic poet, freeverse, From baghdad, Iraqi women writer
Nazik Al-Malaika (August 23 1922 - 20 June 2007) was an Iraqi female poet and is considered by many the most influential contemporary Iraqi female...
Steven Herrick

Steven Herrick

male, 51 years old
From Brisbane, children's writer, poet, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Schools…freeverse
Steven Herrick (born in Brisbane, 1958) is an Australian poet. Writing mainly free verse, Herrick has published more than ten books of poetry for...
Taneda Santoka

Taneda Santoka

male, deceased (1940)
freeverse, pen-name, from Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japanese, haiku, poet
; 3 December 1882 - 11 October 1940) was the pen-name of a Japanese author and "haiku" poet. He is known for his free verse "haiku". His real name...
Herbert Read

Herbert Read

male, deceased (1968)
Kirkbymoorside, Unit One, Criterion, World War I poet, freeverse, North Yorkshire
Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO (1893-1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North...
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

male, deceased (1987)
from Minas Gerais, Styles, socialist, freeverse, Hungarian-brazilians, Brazilian
Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his...
Saadi Youssef

Saadi Youssef

male, 75 years old
Badr Shakir as-Sayyab, Bagdad, Constantine Cavafy, socialist, freeverse, anti-imperialist
Saadi Youssef (born 1934) is an Iraqi author, poet, journalist, publisher and political activist. He has published thirty volumes of poetry and...