List of Jewish American poets

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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
• Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer
• Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist
• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate
• Richard Chess, poet and academic
• Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University
• Celia Dropkin, poet
• David Edelshtadt, poet
• Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
• Jacob Glatstein, poet
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet
• Stanley Kunitz, poet
• Allen Grossman, poet
• D.L. Lang, poet
• Emma Lazarus, poet
• [David Lehman], poet
• Mani Leib, poet
• Jeffrey Levine, poet
• Anna Margolin, poet
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet
• Penina Moise, poet
• Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member
• Howard Nemerov, poet
• Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar
• Charles Reznikoff, poet
• Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist
• Morris Rosenfeld, poet
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet
• Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist
• Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic
• Fradl Shtok, poet
• Marcela Sulak, poet
• Samuel Ullman, poet
• Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist

• Yehoash, poet
• Louis Zukofsky, poet

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