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| Title | School / Movement | Years |
|---|---|---|
| John Keats | Romanticism | – |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | – | |
| Gary Soto | – | |
| Maya Angelou | Contemporary | – |
| Anne Bradstreet | – | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Fireside Poet | – |
| William Wordsworth | Romanticism | – |
| W. B. Yeats | Romanticism | – |
| Ada Limón | Contemporary | – |
| Amanda Gorman | Contemporary | – |
| Andrea Gibson | Slam/Spoken Word | – |
| Robert Frost | Modernism | – |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Poetry | – |
| Walt Whitman | Romanticism | – |
| William Shakespeare | – | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Romanticism | – |
| John Berryman | – | |
| E. E. Cummings | Modernism, Concrete Poetry, Poets of World War I | – |
| William Blake | Romanticism | – |
| Emily Dickinson | Romanticism | – |