• Philip Larkin
• Sylvia Plath
• Mary Oliver
• Marge Piercy
• Mark Doty
• Margaret Atwood
• T.S. Eliot
• Billy Collins
• Julia Alvarez
• Matthew Arnold
• Robert Browning
• Alfred Tennyson
• Langston Hughes
• Emily Dickinson
• William Butler Yeats
• Dorothy Parker
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• A.R. Ammons
• Allen Ginsburg
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Walt Whitman
• John Keats
• Robert Frost
• Robert Pinsky
• May Sarton
• John Ciardi
• Phillis Levin
• Denise Levertov
• Louise Bogan
• May Swenson
• Carl Sandburg
• William Shakespeare
• Sandra Gilbert
• Dana Gioia
• Ogden Nash
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Lucille Clifton
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Coleridge
• Alexander Pope
• Dawn Lundy Martin
• Anne Bradstreet
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Wallace Stevens
• William Carlos Williams
• Anne Sexton
• John Milton
• Sara Teasdale
• Lucia Perillo
• Stevie Smith
• William Carlos Williams
• e.e. cummings
• Pablo Neruda
• Robert Frost
• Rumi
• Kahlil Gibran
• Nikki Giovanni
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Jade Hu
• Petrarch

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