List of Jewish American poets

This is a list of notable Jewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

• David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist[1]
• Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer[2]
• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate[3]
• Richard Chess, poet and academic[4]
• Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University
• Celia Dropkin, poet[5]
• David Edelshtadt, poet[6]
• Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic[7]
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet[8]
• Jacob Glatstein, poet[9]
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet[10]
• Stanley Kunitz, poet[11]
• D.L. Lang, poet [12]
• Emma Lazarus, poet[13]
• Mani Leib, poet[14]
• Jeffrey Levine, poet[15]
• Anna Margolin, poet[16]
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet[17]
• Penina Moise, poet[18]
• Howard Nemerov, poet[19]
• Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar[20]
• Charles Reznikoff, poet[21]
• Morris Rosenfeld, poet[22]
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet[23]
• Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist[24]
• Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic[25]
• Fradl Shtok, poet[26]
• Samuel Ullman, poet [27]
• Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [28]

• Yehoash, poet[29]

See also

• Jewish American literature
• List of Yiddish language poets
• List of Jewish American authors
• List of Jewish American playwrights
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Before Columbus Foundation

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