List of Jewish American poets

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

Double asterisks (**) denotes 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
Grace Paley, poet and short story author
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
Samuel Ullman, poet
Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist
Yehoash, poet
Louis Zukofsky, poet

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