List of Jewish American poets

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]