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A-D
- Fleur Adcock
- Maya Angelou
- Rae Armantrout
- Margaret Atwood
- Pam Ayres
- Joanna Baillie
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Djuna Barnes
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Aphra Behn
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Susanna Blamire
- Eavan Boland
- Anne Bradstreet
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan
- Alice Cary
- Phoebe Cary
- Chrystos
- Sandra Cisneros
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Wendy Cope
- Corinna
- H.D (Hilda Doolittle) 1886-1961
- Tina Darragh
- Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
- Emily Dickinson
- Diane Di Prima
- Carol Ann Duffy
E-K
- Jayne Fenton Keane
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Her first book, In This Our World, was a book of poetry
- Dame Mary Gilmour
- Madeline Gleason
- Hattie Gossett
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Joy Harjo
- Carla Harryman
- Lyn Hejinian
- Felicia Hemans
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), author of Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Fanny Howe
- Susan Howe
- Erica Jong
- Jenny Joseph
- Tamai Kobayashi
- Joanne Kyger
L-R
- Lucy Larcom 1824-1893, millgirl, frequent contributor to the Lowell Offering, published four books of poetry in her lifetime
- Evelyn Lau
- Emma Lazarus 1849-1887, best known for her poem The New Colossus (inscribed on the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World)
- Mary Leapor
- Denise Levertov
- Amy Lowell
- Mina Loy
- Máire Mhac an tSaoi
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- Lady Mary Wortley Montague
- Geraldine Monk
- Marianne Moore
- Barbara Moraff
- Hannah More
- Wendy Mulford
- Sarojini Naidu
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
- Lorine Niedecker
- Mona Oikawa
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- Maggie O'Sullivan
- Ruth Padel
- Nettie Palmer
- Sylvia Pankhurst 1882-1960, the suffragette, wrote Writ on Cold Slate, poems about her prison experience, in 1922
- Dorothy Parker
- Ruth Pitter
- Christine de Pizan
- Sylvia Plath
- Elaine Randell
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge
- Denise Riley
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
S-Z
- Blanaid Salkeld
- Sappho
- Anne Sexton
- Jo Shapcott
- Edith Sitwell
- Stevie Smith
- Gertrude Stein
- May Swenson
- Mary Sydney
- Sara Teasdale
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- Kitty Tsui
- Janine Pommy Vega
- Diane Wakoski
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Anne Waldman
- Alice Walker
- Catherine Walsh (born 1964)
- Hannah Weiner
- Phillis Wheatley
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Judith Wright
- Elinor Wylie
