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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 500 poets, with new pages being added all the time. Sign up for the Poets.org Update to receive monthly e-mail updates, including news about the poets, poems, and features most recently added to Poets.org.
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Carol Ann Duffy
Appointed as Britain's Poet Laureate on May 1, 2009, Duffy became both the first woman and the first openly gay poet to hold the position in its more than 300 year history.
J. Michael Martinez
In 2009, Martinez's collection Heredities was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award, and will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
Juan Felipe Herrera
Born the son of migrant farmers in 1948, Herrara succeeded in realizing a hybrid poetics, described as "part oral, part written, part English, part something else."
Reginald Shepherd
Born in 1963, Shepherd is the author of five poetry collections, including Otherhood, a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
John Milton
John Milton's enduring epic poem Paradise Lost has inspired countless writers and artists, while eliciting controversy for its rhymeless blank verse, theological themes, and a sympathetic depiction of the fallen angel Satan.
Jason Shinder
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1955, Shinder was the founder and director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, as well as the director of Sundance Institute's Writing Program.
May Swenson
Born in 1913, May Swenson wrote several collections of work, each admired for its adventurous word play and erotic exuberance.
George Gordon Byron
Born in 1788 in Scotland, Byron's works include the long poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and his masterpiece, the epic-satire Don Juan.
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