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This is a list of notable Jewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
Double asterisks (**) denotes winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist [1]
- Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer [2]
- Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist [3]
- Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate [4]
- Richard Chess, poet and academic [5]
- Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University
- Celia Dropkin, poet [6]
- David Edelshtadt, poet [7]
- Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic [8]
- Allen Ginsberg, beat poet [9]
- Jacob Glatstein, poet [10]
- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet [11]
- Stanley Kunitz, poet [12]
- Allen Grossman, poet [13]
- D.L. Lang, poet [14]
- Emma Lazarus, poet [15]
- David Lehman, poet [16]
- Mani Leib, poet [17]
- Jeffrey Levine, poet [18]
- Anna Margolin, poet [19]
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet [20]
- Penina Moise, poet [21]
- Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member [22]
- Howard Nemerov, poet [23]
- Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar [24]
- Grace Paley, poet and short story author
- Charles Reznikoff, poet [25]
- Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist [26]
- Morris Rosenfeld, poet [27]
- Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist [28]
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet [29]
- Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist [30]
- Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic [31]
- Fradl Shtok, poet [32]
- Samuel Ullman, poet [33]
- Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [34]
- Yehoash, poet [35]
- Louis Zukofsky, poet [36]
