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 Mani Leib, poet Jeffrey Levine, poet Anna Margolin, poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet Penina Moise, poet 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