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If you are a poet,
you will see clearly
that there is a cloud floating
in this sheet of paper.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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Poets

P. K. Page

Jon Loomis

Vic Coccimiglio

Ilya Kaminsky

Vandana Khanna

Kaveh Akbar

Kate Rushin

Gary Young

Morri Creech

Bronislaw Maj

Richard Newman

Francisco X. Alarcón

Brooklyn Copeland

Stuart Kestenbaum

Elizabeth Gilbert

Alfonsina Storni

Leah Naomi Green

Ray González

Caroline Caddy

Anna Marie Sewell

Hannah Weiner

Natasha Rao

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Sunnylyn Thibodeaux

Gregory Djanikian

Megan Arlett

Abhijit Sarmah

Eleni Sikelianos & Courtney Stephens

Helen Bryant

Eloise Klein Healy

Jessica Fjeld

Robin Seyfried

Gary Margolis

Afaa Michael Weaver

Anne Boyer

Ann Fisher-Wirth

Prageeta Sharma

Roger Reeves

Don Mee Choi

Aditi Machado

Robin Blaser

Christine Imperial

Amanda Calderon

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Alida Carey Gulick

George Bradley

Elizabeth Metzger

H. L. Davis

Babette Deutsch

Winfield Townley Scott

Gene Baro

Florence Trefethen

Bibhu Prasad Padhi

John Reibetanz

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Seamus Heaney

Anthony Walton

Dasha Kelly Hamilton

Ron Padgett

Mark Van Doren

Emily Khilfeh

Jay Parini

Canisia Lubrin

Brewster Ghiselin

Dave Etter

Mary Meriam

Mary Carolyn Davies

Courtney Kampa

William H. Dickey

Marilyn Kallet

Chris Abani

Yehuda Amichai

Donald F. Drummond

Roy Fuller

Don Gordon

Leonard Trawick

Timothy Steele

Nicole Tallman

Erica Jong

Jason Shinder

Kazim Ali

Idra Novey

Simone Russell

Allison Joseph

Elizabeth Jacobson

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Traci Brimhall

Michael McGriff

Carl Phillips

Danielle Pafunda

Constance Merritt

Leslie Contreras Schwartz

Victoria Chang

Katy Lederer

Ashley M. Jones

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Lise Gaston

CAConrad

Valerio Magrelli

Ben Mirov

Marie Ponsot

Barton Sutter

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Amie Whittemore

Camille Rankine

Averill Curdy

Tarfia Faizullah

Oliver de la Paz

Martín Espada

Allan Gray

Mekeel McBride

Elaine Rubenstein

Aleda Shirley

Mark Wunderlich

Ann Shaffer

Dore Kiesselbach

Tom Sleigh

Luis G. Dato

Izumi Shikibu

Kim Stafford

Willa Cather

Carl John Bostelmann

Leslie Ullman

Sasha Dugdale

Max Ritvo

Simon J. Ortiz

Juan Felipe Herrera

M. Lyster

H. W. Stewart

Arthur L. Salmon

Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Jayanta Mahapatra

Richard Freis

Ella Higginson

Maurya Simon

K. E. Duffin

Arthur Gorges

Lisa Olstein

Eric Wilson Barker

Elizabeth Bradfield

James Schuyler

Terri Ford

Cole Swensen

Mary Turkot

Arna Bontemps

Carl Sandburg

Carrie Shipers

Christopher Shipman

Carolyne Wright

Christine Garren

Donald Hall

John Masefield

Evelyn Scott

Han Shan

Vijay Seshadri

Melanie Braverman

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Tomaž Šalamun

Halee Kirkwood

Meng Hao-jan

David Welch

Joshua Beckman

Cathie Sandstrom

Angela Jackson

Walter McDonald

Florence Cassen Mayers

Ocean Vuong

Shane McCrae

Ruth Herschberger

Maureen N. McLane

Cindy Williams Gutiérrez

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Barri Armitage

Linda Bierds

Paul Tran

Marjorie Allen Seiffert

Witter Bynner

William Logan

Andrew Towle

Katharine Coles

Sophie Cabot Black

Aracelis Girmay

Richard Shelton

Jaden Fong

Janice N. Harrington

Catherine Pierce

Jennifer Elise Foerster

ire’ne lara silva

Roberto Carlos Garcia

Jeremy Radin

Maureen Seaton

Camille Guthrie

Kristin George Bagdanov

Eugene Field

Saige Hopkins

Ashaki M. Jackson

Danusha Laméris

Kathryn Hunt

Emily Pauline Johnson

Sanora Babb

Suzanne Rancourt

Kelli Russell Agodon

Angela C. Trudell Vasquez

Lucia Perillo

Desirée Alvarez

Laura Secord

Cornelius Eady

William J. Harris

Jayne Cortez

Hiatt O'Connor

John Hollander

Djuna Barnes

torrin a. greathouse

Marie Sheppard Williams

Craig Santos Perez

Heather Derr-Smith

Max Early

Joy Harjo

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Robert Penn Warren

Peggy Simson Curry

Laura Villareal

dg nanouk okpik

Emily Skaja

Ciona Rouse

Kenneth W. Porter

Reynolds Price

Jared Carter

Ioanna Carlsen

Wendy Videlock

John Barr

Saddiq Dzukogi

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Sa Whitley

Julie Suk

Ray DiPalma

J. W. Rivers

Jeff Worley

Diana García

J. Patrick Lewis

Dorothea Lasky

Lisa Ampleman

Hailey Leithauser

Jake Crist

Alberto Ríos

Lauren Camp

Nikki Giovanni

Karin Gottshall

Jonathan Galassi

John Ciardi

Suji Kwock Kim

Peter Balakian

Daniel Anderson

Ann Struthers

Sarah Holland-Batt

Joanie Mackowski

Anne Coray

James Galvin

Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Kathy Fagan

John Hodgen

Dana Levin

Matthew Dickman

James Brasfield

Cynthia Hogue

Jennifer L. Knox

Analicia Sotelo

Thomas McCarthy

Clare Jones

Kimiko Hahn

Helen Hoyt

Nour Al Ghraowi

Ricki Cummings

Ciara Shuttleworth

Jay Macpherson

Kristen Tracy

Chelsea B. DesAutels

Henri Cole

Harlan Bjornstad

Ana Blandiana

Colm Tóibín

Josephine Miles

Emily Jungmin Yoon

Jean Prussing

Robert Cording

Amy Lowell

Clarence Major

J. P. White

Skyler Chowdy

Ruth Lechlitner

Vera Brittain

Bruce Bennett

Muriel Rukeyser

Elaine Equi

Samih Al-Qasim

Gray Haskins

Jennifer Militello

Baron Wormser

Lavinia Greenlaw

Claude McKay

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

Nicole Cooley

Rain Prud’homme-Cranford

Clarissa Scott Delany

John Hoffman

Michele Wolf

Hannah Arendt

Alison Pelegrin

Michael Metivier

Rachel Tzvia Back

Patricia Guzman

John Unterecker

Etheridge Knight

Dionisio D. Martínez

Janet McAdams

Brian Czyzyk

Roberta Spear

giovanni singleton

Robin Walter

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Robert Wrigley

John Brehm

Annie Finch

J. Estanislao Lopez

Christina Davis

Todd Boss

Kaylin Haught

Matthea Harvey

Alison Townsend

Sarojini Naidu

Tim Seibles

Sasha Pearl

Davis McCombs

Tony Barnstone

Eula Biss

Monica Youn

April Lindner

Avis Harley

Mai Der Vang

Cristina M. R. Norcross

Peggy Shumaker

Samuel Green

Celina Su

Coral Bracho

Eileen Spinelli

Karen An-hwei Lee

Patricia Smith

Rebecca Wiener

Valzhyna Mort

Emma Trelles

Dan Beachy-Quick

Lynn Xu

Onyedikachi Chinedu

Marlanda Dekine

June Jordan

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Anni Liu

Troy Osaki

Bert Meyers

Kwame Dawes

Camille T. Dungy

George Santayana

TeaZed Zug

Heather Cahoon

Grady Chambers

Elsa Gidlow

Nancy Cunard

Pat Schneider

Cecily Parks

Mairead Small Staid

Molly Peacock

Paola Capó-García

P.K.

Alison C. Rollins

Karen Skolfield

Kim Roberts

Christina Rossetti

Noor Hindi

Kerrin P. Sharpe

Jody Gladding

Dorothea Tanning

Jeffrey McDaniel

Carmen Giménez

Countee Cullen

Dorothy Parker

Judith Harris

Cathy Song

Ariel Yelen

Amy Gerstler

Kathryn Nuernberger

Kathryn Starbuck

Katherine Larson

Lynda Hull

Katie Ford

Safiya Sinclair

Emily Wilson

Alfred Corn

Carl Rakosi

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Eugenia Leigh

Robert Graves

Fady Joudah

Jake Skeets

Eva Alice Counsell

Maya Salameh

Jay Deshpande

Harryette Mullen

Richard Siken

Matt Hart

Mary Ruefle

Jack Jung

Freya Manfred

Arthur Sze

Sara Wintz

Annik Adey-Babinski

Donika Kelly

Susan Browne

Dan Vera

Jack Lindeman

Ellen Hagan

Saretta Morgan

Anaïs Deal-Márquez

Philip Levine

Francesca Abbate

Jennifer K. Sweeney

Thomas R. Smith

Kasey Jueds

Galway Kinnell

David Whyte

Cathleen Calbert

Twyla M. Hansen

Lucille Clifton

Adrienne Rich

Hazel Hall

Ladan Osman

Deborah Landau

J. Jennifer Espinoza

Rosmarie Waldrop

Rachel Sherwood

Robert Gibb

Patricia Hooper

Adrienne Kvello

Sonia Sanchez

James Crews

Wanda Coleman

Jacqueline Woodson

Nate Klug

Bill Christophersen

Gala Mukomolova

Erika Meitner

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Liz Ahl

Sun Yung Shin

Mari L'Esperance

Tami Haaland

Cynthia Huntington

Carlina Duan

Petra Kuppers

Jennifer Moxley

Kim Parko

Richard Michelson

May Yang/Hauntie

Rachel Hadas

Suzanne Matson

Catherine Wing

Hayan Charara

Debra Spencer

Diannely Antigua

Denise Liddell Lawson

Hayden Carruth

J. Allyn Rosser

Jack Kerouac

Ben Belitt

Heidy Steidlmayer

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Ama Codjoe

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Jenny Xie

Ruth Awad

Sarah Lindsay

Tina Chang

Joanna Klink

Jaswinder Bolina

Carol Frost

Ada Limón

Jane Hirshfield

Mary Oliver

Diana Der Hovanessian

Emily Dickinson

Thich Nhat Hanh

Chögyam Trungpa

W.S. Merwin

Shel Silverstein

Connie Wanek

David Ignatow

Denise Levertov

Jane Kenyon

Dana Gioia

Naomi Shihab Nye

Nick Flynn

William Stafford

Elizabeth Spires

Richard Wilbur

Louise Glück

Robert Hass

Kay Ryan

May Swenson

May Sarton

Joyce Sutphen

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Miller Williams

Josephine Jacobsen

Kobayashi Issa

Matsuo Basho

Maxine Kumin

Wendell Berry

Edgar Allan Poe

ee cummings

Tracy K. Smith

Langston Hughes

Bob Hicok

Wallace Stevens

Linda Pastan

Charles Simic

W.H. Auden

C.K. Williams

Barbara Crooker

Robert Morgan

Audre Lorde

T.S. Eliot

Rae Armantrout

Robert Frost

Wislawa Szymborska

Anne Sexton

Stephen Dunn

W.D. Snodgrass

Grace Schulman

Elizabeth Bishop

Marianne Moore

Jane Yolen

Ellen Bass

William Carlos Williams

Margaret Atwood

David Wagoner

Joyce Carol Oates

Gwendolyn Brooks

Maya Angelou

Robert Hayden

Rita Dove

Carolyn Forche

Robert Bly

Ezra Pound

William Wordsworth

John Ashbery

Kathleen Raine

Linda Gregg

Jorge Luis Borges

Czeslaw Milosz

Marge Piercy

Diane Wakoski

Tess Gallagher

Walt Whitman

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Alissa Leigh

Jack Collom

Lee Herrick

Diane Ackerman

Sara Teasdale

Li-Young Lee

Alice B. Fogel

Craig Arnold

Stephen Dobyns

Kim Addonizio

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mark Strand

Gary Snyder

Jack Gilbert

Robert Creeley

Douglas Florian

Karen Maezen Miller

Heather McHugh

Lisa Russ Spaar

Kahlil Gibran

Thomas Lux

Mark Levine

Bei Dao

Rebecca Hazelton

Eamon Grennan

Denis Johnson

Natalie Diaz

Philip Schultz

Cathy Linh Che

Tennessee Williams

Barbara Ras

Susan Firer

Ted Hughes

Katha Pollitt

Andrew Hudgins

Francine Sterle

Eleanor Ross Taylor

Paisley Rekdal

Leslie Harrison

John Fuller

E. Ethelbert Miller

Don Paterson

Emily Brontë

Yusef Komunyakaa

Claudia Rankine

Alicia Ostriker

Katrina Roberts

Richard Brautigan

Ben Lerner

Gary Fincke

Theodore Roethke

Dorianne Laux

Sharon Olds

Lisel Mueller

Faith Shearin

Chase Twichell

Maggie Smith

Mary Karr

Sophie Jewett

Sylvia Plath

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Erika L. Sánchez

Natasha Trethewey

Joyce Peseroff

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Billy Collins

Ted Kooser

Pattiann Rogers

Anne Waldman

Richard Wright

C.S. Merrill

Rupi Kaur

Alan Feldman

Hafez

Rumi

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