# List of female poets

This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born.

## Before CE

* Enheduanna (c. 23th century BCE), ancient Sumerian priestess, poet, scribe, and hymnist.
* Ninšatapada (c. 19th c. BCE), Babylonian scribe and priestess
* Lopamudra (c. 15th BCE), Hindu poet
* Bulluṭsa-rabi (13th c. BCE), Babylonian poet
* Deborah (1107–1067 BCE), Israelite prophetess
* Gargi Indian Vedic Hindu poet and writer
* Maitreyi Ancient Hindu lady poet and author
* Sulabha Ancient Hindu lady poet and philosopher
* Sappho (c. 630 – 570 BCE), Greek poet, one of the nine lyric poets
* Myrtis of Anthedon (6th BCE), Greek poet
* Corinna (fl. 6th c. BCE), Greek poet
* Cleobulina (fl. c. 550 BCE), Greek poet
* Telesilla (fl. 510 BCE), Greek poet
* Praxilla (5th c. BCE), Greek poet
* Erinna (fl. 4th c. BCE), Greek poet
* Moero or Myro (3rd c. BCE), Greek poet
* Anyte of Tegea (fl. early 3rd c. BCE), Greek poet
* Aristodama of Smyrna (3rd c. BCE), Ionian poet
* Nossis (fl. c. 300 BCE), Greek epigrammist and poet
* Avvaiyar (c. 3rd c. – 1st c. BCE), Tamil poet
* Zhuo Wenjun (卓文君, 2nd c. BCE), Chinese poet
* Sulpicia (fl. 1st c. BCE), Latin poet
* Cornificia (c. 85 – c. 40 BCE), Roman poet and epigrammist
* Consort Ban (Ban Jieyu, Lady Pan, 班婕妤, c. 48 – c. 6 BCE), Chinese scholar and poet
* Elephantis (fl. late 1st c. BCE), Greek erotic poet

## 1–500 CE

* Sulpicia (fl. 1st c.), Latin poet
* Caecilia Trebulla (fl. c. 130), Latin poet
* Ponmudiyar (between 1st and 4th cc.), Tamil poet
* Julia Balbilla (72 – post–130), Latin poet
* Cai Wenji (蔡琰, died c. 249), Chinese poet and composer
* Afira bint 'Abbad (3rd c.), Arabic poet
* Zuo Fen (左芬, c. 255–300), Chinese poet
* Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. 306/315 – c. 353/366), Roman poet in Latin
* Princess Iwa (磐之媛命, died 347), Japanese poet
* Xie Daoyun (謝道韞, between 340 and 399), Chinese poet
* Su Xiaoxiao (蘇小小, c. 479 – c. 501), Chinese poet and Gējì
* Laila bint Lukaiz (died 483), Arabic poet
* Velliveedhiyar (period unclear), Tamil poet
* al-Fāriʿah bint Shaddād (pre-Islamic), Arabic poet

## 500–999 CE

* Radegund (c. 520–586), Frankish princess and poet in Latin
* al-Khansa (575–645), Arabic poet
* al-Ḥujayjah (Safīyah bint Tha'labah al-Shaybānīyah, 5th – 6th c.), Arabic poet
* al-Ḥurqah (5th – 6th c.), Arabic poet
* Sarah of Yemen (6th c.), Arabic poet
* Hind bint 'Utbah (6th – 7th c.), Arabic poet
* Umm Jamil bint Harb (6th or 7th c.), Arabic poet
* Fatima bint Muhammad (605–632 CE), Arabic poet
* Xu Hui (徐惠, 627–650), Chinese poet
* Nukata no Ōkimi (額田王, fl. 630–690), Japanese poet of the Asuka period
* Empress Jitō (持統天皇, 645–702), Japanese poet and empress
* Jindeok of Silla (진덕여왕, fl. 647–654), Korean poet and queen
* Princess Ōku (大来皇女, 661–702), Japanese poet
* Qutayla ukht al-Nadr (7th c.), Arabic poet
* Maisūn bint Jandal (c. 7th c.), Arabic poet
* Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王, later 7th c.), Japanese poet and empress
* Princess Tajima (但馬皇女, died 708), Japanese poet
* Shangguan Wan'er (上官婉兒, c. 664–710), Chinese poet and prose writer
* Laila al-Akhyaliyya (died 694–709), Arabic poet
* Avvaiyar (7th or 8th c.), Tamil poet
* Lubana bint Ali ibn al-Mahdi (c. 8th–9th c.), Arabic poet
* Vijja (8th or 9th c.), Sanskrit poet from India
* Cheng Changwen (程長文, between 7th and 9th cc.), Chinese poet and calligrapher
* Lady Kasa (笠郎女, early 8th c.), Japanese poet
* Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (大伴坂上郎女, c. 700–750), Japanese poet
* Raabi'a al-Adwiyya (714–801), Arabic poet
* Xue Tao (薛濤, 768–831), Chinese poet
* 'Ulayya bint al-Mahdi (777–825), Arabic poet
* Laila bint Tarif (died 815), Arabic poet
* Arib al-Ma'muniyya (797–890), Arabic poet
* Shilabhattarika (9th c.), Sanskrit poet from India
* Kassia (810 – pre-865), Byzantine poet and composer writing in Greek
* Shāriyah (c. 815–870), Arabic poet
* Ono no Komachi (小野, c. 825 – c. 900), Japanese waka poet
* Inan (died 841), Arabic poet
* Yu Xuanji (魚玄機, 844–869 or 871), Chinese poet
* Fadl Ashsha'ira (died 871), Arabic poet
* Lady Ise (伊勢, c. 875 – c. 938), Japanese poet
* Nakatsukasa (中務, 912–991), Japanese poet
* Kishi Joō (徽子女王, 929–985), Japanese poet
* Hrotsvitha (c. 935 – c. 1002), German dramatist and poet writing in Latin
* Akazome Emon (赤染衛門, 956–1041), Japanese poet and historian
* Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, 973–1025), Japanese novelist and poet
* Madame Huarui (花蕊夫人, fl. mid–10th c.), Chinese poet
* Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部, born c. 976), Japanese poet
* Rabia Balkhi (10th c.), Persian poet
* Shirome (白女, 10th c.), Japanese poet
* Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966 – c. 1017), Japanese memoirist and poet

## 11th–14th centuries

* Ise no Taiu or Taifu (伊勢大輔, early 11th c.), Japanese poet
* Qasmuna bint Isma'il (11th c.), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (1001–1080), Andalusian poet writing in Arabic
* Zhu Shuzhen (c. 1135–1180), Chinese poet
* Aa'isha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya (died 1010), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Mariam bint Abu Ya'qub Ashshilbi (died 1020), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Eudokia Makrembolitissa (c. 1021–1096), Byzantine poet and empress writing in Greek
* I'timad Arrumaimikiyya (born 1045/1047), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Umm al-Kiram bin al-Mu'tasim ibn Sumadih (died 1050), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Ava (c. 1060 – 1127), first named female writer in any genre in German
* Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (born 1070), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Li Qingzhao (李清照, 1084 – c. 1151), Chinese writer and poet of the Song dynasty
* Otomae (乙前, c. 1085 – c. 1169), Japanese poet
* Mahsati Ganjavi (c. 1089 – post–1159), Persian poet
* Muhja bint Attayyani al-Qurtubiyya (died 1097), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Bhavakadevi (fl. 12th c. or earlier), Sanskrit poet from Indian subcontinent
* Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya (12th c.), Arabic poet
* Marie de France (fl. 12th c.), medieval poet, probably born in France and living in England
* Akka Mahadevi (12th c.), Indian poet writing in Old Kannada
* Gangasati (between 12th and 14th cc.), Indian poet and saint
* Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi (Sitt al-Ni'm, 1111–1183/1184), Arabic poet
* Tibors de Sarenom (c. 1130 – post–1198), French poet writing in Occitan
* Almucs de Castelnau (c. 1140 – pre–1184), French female troubadour poet
* Comtessa de Dia (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212), a trobairitz (troubadour), song-writer and poet in Occitan language
* Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya (died 1190), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Avvaiyar (12th c.), Tamil poet
* Marula (fl. 13th c. or earlier), Sanskrit poet from India
* Hadewijch (13th c.), Dutch mystic and poet
* Shikishi Naishinnō (式子内親王, died 1201), Japanese poet
* Hamda bint Ziyad (c. 1204), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir (early 13th c. – 1271), Icelandic poet and politician
* Umm Assa'd bint Isam al-Himyari (died 1243), Arabic poet from Al-Andalus
* Padishah Khatun (1256–1295), Persian poet and ruler of Kerman
* Gangadevi (c. 14th c.), Sanskrit poet of the Vijayanagara Empire of India
* Lalleshwari (1320–1392), Indian mystic and poet, earliest works in the Kashmiri language
* Jahan Malek Khatun (1324–1393), Persian poet and princess
* Princess Milica of Serbia (c. 1335–1405), Serbian poet and royal consort
* Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430), Italian, Venetian-born writer and poet

## 15th century

* Catherine d'Amboise (1475–1550), French writer and poet
* Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547), Italian poet and marchioness
* Guji, Princess of Joseon (died 1489), Korean writer, poet and dance
* Mihri Hatun (died 1506), female Ottoman Turkish poet
* Huang E (Huang Xiumei, 1498–1569), Chinese poet of Ming dynasty
* Monahinja Jefimija (1350 – after 1405), Serbian poet and nun
* Gwerful Mechain (fl. 1460–1500), Welsh poet
* Mirabai (Meera, Meera Bai) (c. 1498 – c. 1547), Hindu mystical poet
* Teresa of Ávila (St Teresa of Jesus, 1515–1582), Spanish mystic and Catholic saint
* Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1425–1482), Italian poet
* Uhwudong (died 1480), Korean writer, poet and dancer

## 16th century

* Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
* Isabella Andreini (1562–1604), Italian playwright, poet and actress
* Anne Askew (1520/1521–1546), English poet and Protestant martyr
* Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546–1596), French poet
* Gabrielle de Coignard (1550–1586), French poet
* Veronica Franco (1546–1591), Italian poet and courtesan
* Pernette Du Guillet (c. 1520–1545), French poet
* Elen Gwdman (fl. 1609), Welsh poet
* Louise Labé (1524–1566), French poet
* Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage
* Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist
* Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet
* Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer
* Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the Petrarchist movement
* Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646), English autobiographical poet
* Cecilia del Nacimiento (1570–1646), Spanish nun, mystic, writer, and poet
* Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), Korean female poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty
* Nicoletta Pasquale (fl. 1540), Sicilian Italian poet
* Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), among first Englishwomen to gain a literary reputation
* Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), Italian poet
* Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – post–1570), Portuguese court poet and humanist
* Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), earliest identified woman to publish secular poetry in English
* Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651/1653), prolific English author

## 17th century

* Gertrudis Anglesola (1641–1727), Valencian Cistercian abbess, mystic, autobiographer, spiritual poet
* Mary Barber (1685–1755), Irish poet, member of Swift's circle
* Aphra Behn (1640–1689), dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers
* Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), New England's first published poet
* Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659–1730), Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess
* Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1654–1724), French novelist and poet
* Jane Cavendish (1620/1621–1669), English poet and playwright
* Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist
* Susannah Centlivre (1667–1723), English playwright and poet
* Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), English poet, essayist and writer
* Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), English poet
* Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), Mexican poet, musician and nun, self-taught scholar and poet of Baroque school
* Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), English poet
* Elżbieta Drużbacka (1695 or 1698–1765), Polish poet
* Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (1634–1716), Norway's first recognized female author
* Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English poet
* Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–1694), Austrian poet
* Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), English novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and translator
* Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), English poet
* Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (1663–1740), Swedish noble, dilettante painter, actor and poet
* Žofia Kubini (fl. mid–17th c.), Hungarian poet writing in Czech
* Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist
* Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694), French poet
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English aristocrat and writer
* Julia Palmer (fl.1664–1673), English dissenting poet
* Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (1659–1708), Hungarian poet and writer
* Katherine Philips (1631–1664), English poet
* Vendela Skytte (1608–1629), Swedish noblewoman, salonnière, writer, poet and lady of letters
* Anna Stanisławska (1651–1701), Polish poet and author
* Nāzo Tokhī (1651–1717), Afghan poet and writer
* Anne Wharton (1659–1685), English poet
* Jane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), English poet and playwright
* Zeb-un-Nissa (1638–1702), Persian-language poet and Mughal Princess

## 18th century

* Jean Adam (Adams, 1704–1765), Scottish poet and teacher
* Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate
* Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author
* Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter
* Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), English poet
* Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet and correspondent
* Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer; first American-born woman to publish in own name
* Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), Norwegian poet
* Anna Bunina (1774–1829), Russian poet
* Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), English poet and dramatist
* Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet, writer and Bluestocking
* Christina Charlotta Cederström (1760–1832), Swedish artist, salon hostess and baroness
* Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856), German poet, playwright and librettist
* Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田千代尼, 1703–1775), Japanese haiku poet
* Alison Cockburn (1712–1794), Scottish poet and socialite
* Caroline de Crespigny (1797–1861), English poet and translator
* Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), English poet and schoolteacher
* Umihana Čuvidina (c. 1794 – c. 1870), Bosnian poet
* Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes (1798–1879), French poet and writer
* Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859), French poet
* Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet
* Emily Eden (1797–1869), English novelist and poet
* Anna Ehrenström (1786–1857), Swedish poet
* Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), English poet
* Margaretta Faugères (1771–1801), American poet
* Jane Lewers Gray (1796–1871), Northern Ireland-born American poet and hymnwriter
* Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh poet and hymnist
* Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), German poet
* Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English poet
* Luise Hensel (1798–1876), German religious writer and poet
* Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), Vietnamese poet
* Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), English children's writer and poet
* Margaret Holford (1778–1852), English poet and translator
* Mary Howitt (1799–1888), English poet and children's writer
* Abby B. Hyde (1799–1872), American hymnwriter
* Anna Louisa Karsch (1722–1791), German poet and letter writer
* Isabella Kelly (1759–1857), Scottish poet and novelist
* Mary Leapor (1722–1746), English poet
* Anne Brydges Lefroy (1747/8–1804), English writer and poet
* Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), Swedish writer, poet, feminist, translator and salonnière
* Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804), English novelist, poet and dramatist
* Isabella Lickbarrow (1784–1847, E), poet
* Erika Liebman (1738–1803), Swedish poet and academic
* Charlotta Löfgren (1720–1784), Swedish poet
* Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (1736–1789), Swedish poet
* Sophie Mereau (1770–1806), German novelist and poet
* Hannah More (1745–1833), English religious writer and philanthropist
* Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718–1763), Swedish poet, feminist and salonnière
* Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet and songwriter
* Mathilda d'Orozco (Mathilda Montgomery-Cederhjelm, 1796–1863), Swedish salonnière, poet, writer, composer and harpsichordist
* Isabel Pagan (c. 1740–1821), Scottish poet
* Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), English poet and novelist
* Elisa von der Recke (Elisabeth Recke, 1754–1833), German writer and poet from Courland
* Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875), Japanese poet, calligrapher and actress
* Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English poet and travel writer
* Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist
* Mary Rolls (1775–1835), English poet
* Susanna Rowson (1762–1824), British-American novelist, poet and playwright
* Esther Saunders (1793–1862), African American poet who escaped from slavery
* Anna Seward (1747–1809), English poet
* Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), American poet and author of conduct literature
* Hedvig Sirenia (1734–1795), Swedish poet
* Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist
* Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poet
* Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), English history writer and poet
* Judit Dukai Takách (1795–1836), Hungarian poet
* Amable Tastu (1795–1885), French poet and writer
* Ann Taylor (1782–1866), English poet and critic
* Emily Taylor (1795–1872), English poet and children's writer
* Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist
* Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821), American poet
* Elizabeth Thomas (1770/1771–1855), English novelist and poet
* Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723–1786), Dutch poet and scientist
* Queen Tripurasundari of Nepal (1794–1832), Nepalese poet and regent
* Katharine Augusta Ware (1797–1813), American poet and literary magazine editor
* Jane West (1758–1852), English novelist, poet, playwright and tractarian
* Mary Whateley (1738–1825), English poet and playwright
* Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-American to publish a book of poetry
* Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator
* Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827), English novelist and poet
* Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760–1830), Dutch poet
* Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English poet and diarist
* Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), English poet, novelist and playwright
* Wu Zao (1799–1862), Chinese poet

## 19th-century (date of birth unknown)

* Cornelia Laws St. John (died February 24, 1902), American poet and biographer

## 1800s

* Emily Bowes (1806–1857), prominent Brethren author, religious tract writer and poet
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), prominent English poet
* Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834), American poet and writer, first American woman writer to make abolition of slavery her main theme
* Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), American poet, novelist and journalist
* Caroline Clive (1801–1872), English poet and novelist
* Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), American poet
* Julia Anne Elliott (1809–1841), English poet and hymnwriter
* Marjorie (Marjory) Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child diarist and poet
* Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884), American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist
* Léocadie Hersent-Penquer (1817–1889), French poet
* Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L., 1802–1838), English poet and novelist
* Hermance Lesguillon (1800-1882), French poet and novelist
* Élisa Mercœur (1809-1835), French poet, writer, and essayist
* Susanna Moodie (1803–1885), Canadian diarist, novelist, children's novelist and poet
* Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English poet, novelist and political writer
* Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), American Indian writer of poetry and fiction

## 1810s

* Maria Frances Anderson (1819–1895), French-born American writer of prose and hymns
* Agnieszka Baranowska (1819–1890), Polish playwright and poet
* Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de Blocqueville (1815–1892), French poet and woman of letters
* Anne Lynch Botta (1815–1891), American poet, writer, teacher and socialite
* Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), English novelist and poet, eldest of three Brontë writers
* Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights
* Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist
* Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet
* Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry
* George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
* Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877), American writer, historian and poet
* Catharine H. Esling (1812–1897), American author, poet, hymn writer
* Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), Cuban novelist, playwright and poet
* Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848), American poet, member of Transcendental Club
* Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
* Jane Hughes (1811–1880), Welsh religious poet
* Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812–1889), American poet and writer
* Dada Masiti (c. 1810s–1919), Somalian poet and scholar
* Élise Moreau (1813-1876), French poet
* Mary Rootes Thornton McAboy (1815–1892), American poet
* Charlotta Öberg (Lotta Öberg, 1818–1856), Swedish poet
* Táhirih (1814 or 1817–1852), Iranian poet and theologian
* Narcyza Żmichowska (1818–1876), Polish novelist and poet

## 1820s

* Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd (1827–1909), American poet
* Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet, youngest of three Brontë writers
* Alice Cary (1820–1871), American poet, sister of Phoebe Cary
* Anna Olcott Commelin (1841–1924), American writer and poet
* Julia Pleasants Creswell (1827–1886), American poet, novelist
* Anne Evans (1820–1870), English poet and composer
* Teréz Ferenczy (1823–1853), Hungarian poet
* Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
* Frances Harper (1825–1911), American poet and novelist
* Maria Ilnicka (1825 or 1827–1897), Polish poet, novelist and translator
* Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), English poet and novelist
* Annie Keary (1825–1879), English novelist and poet
* Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), American mill girl, contributor to Lowell Offering, publishing four books of poetry
* Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist
* Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriter
* Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet
* Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet widely admired in her century
* Kutty Kunju Thankachi (1820–1904), Indian poet, writer and composer
* M. B. M. Toland (1925-1895), American poet and social leader
* Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821–1893), English poet and writer
* Mary Ware (1828–1915), American poet, prose writer
* Jane Wilde (1821–1896), Irish poet and nationalist
* Ruth Wills (1826–1908), English poet

## 1830s

* Brígida Agüero (1837–1866), Cuban poet
* Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist, playwright and poet
* Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), American poet and journalist
* Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893), American poet
* Marcelina Almeida (c. 1830–1880), Argentine-born Uruguayan writer, novelist and poet
* Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American poet and suffragist
* Hester A. Benedict (1838–1921), American poet and writer
* Annie R. Blount (1839–unknown), American poet, short story writer, and newspaper editor
* Carrie Carlton (1834–1868), American poet, writer, and journalist
* Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Spanish and Galician Romantic writer and poet
* Úrsula Céspedes (1832–1874), Cuban poet
* Emelie C. S. Chilton (1838–1864), American poet, short story writer, editor
* Annie McCarer Darlington (1836–1907), American poet
* Amelia Denis de Icaza (1836–1911), Panamanian poet
* Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
* E. S. Elliott (1836–1897), English, poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editor
* Amélie Gex (1835–1883), French poet and writer in French and Franco-Provençal
* Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914), African-American abolitionist, poet and educator
* Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), English poet and novelist
* Grace Hibbard (c. 1835–1911), American author, poet
* Mary E. Ireland (1834–1927), American; "poetess of Cecil County"
* Luzmaría Jiménez Faro (1937-2015), Spanish writer, essayist, anthologist, poet, and editor
* Amanda Jones (1835–1914), American poet, inventor and spiritualist
* Atala Kisfaludy (1836–1911), Hungarian poet and writer
* Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell (1833–1910), English poet
* Julia Pérez Montes de Oca (1839–1875), Cuban poet
* Carlotta Perry (1839/1848–1914), American writer and poet
* Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916), Welsh poet
* Mary Bynon Reese (1832–1908), American temperance leader, poet, hymnwriter
* Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet writing romantic, devotional and children's poems
* Ellen Sergeant Rude (1838–1916), American poet, writer, and temperance reformer
* Virginie Sampeur (1939–1919), Haitian educator and poet
* Carrie Bell Sinclair (1839–1883), American poet
* María del Pilar Sinués de Marco (1835–1893), Spanish novelist, poet, non-fiction writer
* Staka Skenderova (1831–1891), Bosnian poet, teacher and social worker
* Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith (1836–1925), American poet and romance writer
* Amelia Solar de Claro (1836–1915), Chilean poet, playwright, and essayist
* Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American mystery novelist, poet and short story writer
* Celia Thaxter (1835–1894), American writer of poetry and stories
* Lydia H. Tilton (1839–1915), American journalist, poet, lyricist
* Mary Frances Tyler Tucker (1837–1902), American poet
* Emma Rood Tuttle (1839–1916), American writer and poet
* Sarah Lowe Twiggs (1839–1920), American poet
* Marion E. Warner (1839–1918), American poet and short story writer
* Jeneverah M. Winton (1837–1904), American poet and author

## 1840s

* Lettie S. Bigelow (1849–1906), American poet and author
* Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), German-born English poet
* Alice Williams Brotherton (1848–1930), American poet, lyricist, and author
* Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti (1841–1903), Italian poet and scholar
* Marietta Stanley Case (1845–1900), American poet and temperance advocate
* Ina Coolbrith (born Josephine Anna Smith) (1841–1928), first American poet laureate and first public librarian of California
* Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), English poet, hymnist and fiction writer
* Marian Douglas (1842–1913), American poet and short story writer
* Myra Douglas (1844 – unknown death date), American writer, poet
* Angeline Fuller Fischer (1841–1925), American writer, poet
* Lisa Anne Fletcher (1844–1905), American poet, correspondent
* Blanca de Gassó y Ortiz (1846–1877), Spanish writer and poet
* Annie Somers Gilchrist (1841–1912), American poet, novelist, biographer
* Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840–1919), American poet, lyricist
* Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), Polish novelist, poet, translator and essayist
* Emily Lawless (1845–1913), Irish novelist and poet
* Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet, writer and feminist
* Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), American poet, best known for "The New Colossus" (inscribed on the Statue of Liberty)
* Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890), Peruvian writer, poet, composer, pianist
* Dr. Lucy Creemer Peckham (1842–1923), American physician, poet
* Alice E. Heckler Peters (1845–1921), American social reformer, educator, poet, writer
* Emily Browne Powell (1847-1938), American writer, poet; president, Pacific Coast Women's Press Association
* Kate Brownlee Sherwood (1841–1914), American poet, journalist, translator and story writer
* Julia H. Thayer (1847-1944), American poet, hymnwriter, and educator
* Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (1840–1926), British poet and translator
* Ellen Oliver Van Fleet (1842–1893), American poet and hymnwriter
* Sallie Ada Vance (ca. 1840 – unknown)
* Adelaide Cilley Waldron (1843–1909), American author, editor, clubwoman
* Sarah Stokes Walton (1844–1899), American poet and artist
* Laura Rosamond White (1844–1922), American poet, author, editor

## 1850s

* Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942), American writer, litterateur, poet
* Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929), American songwriter
* Marion Babcock Baxter (1850–1910), American poet, lecturer and financial agent
* Eva Best (1851–1925), American story writer, poet, music composer, dramatist
* Anna Braden (1858–1939), American poet, author, editor
* Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), American poet
* Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940), Canadian-American author
* Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934), American poet and professor of English literature
* Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), Canadian poet
* Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918), American poet, writer
* Miriam Del Banco (1858–1931), American poet
* Belle R. Harrison (1856–1940), American poet and short story writer
* Veronica Micle (1850–1889), Romanian poet and writer
* Nicolasa Montt (1857–1924), Chilean poet
* Constance Naden (1858–1889), English poet and philosopher
* Charlotte Niese (1854–1935), German writer and poet
* Amy Parkinson (1855–1938), English-born Canadian poet
* Adelaide Day Rollston (1854–1941), American poet and author
* Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (1850–1897), Dominican Republic poet and pioneer of women's education
* Minnie Gow Walsworth (1859–1947), American poet
* Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919), American author and poet

## 1860s

* Brígida Agüero (1837–1866), Cuban poet
* Anne Reeve Aldrich (1866–1892), American poet and novelist
* Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet writing in Scots and standard English
* Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863–1938), American poet and author
* Mae Bramhall (c. 1861–1897), American actress, writer
* Eve Brodlique (1867–1949), British-born Canadian/American author, poet, journalist
* Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944), American author, poet and journalist
* Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, poet, essayist and critic
* Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931), Poet Laureate of Belgium
* Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945), Serbian poet, fiction writer and polyglot
* Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), American poet and children's writer
* Helen Merrill Egerton (1866–1951), Canadian poet and historical writer
* Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, fiction writer and journalist
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, author, poet and lecturer for social reform
* Mary Gilmore (1865–1962), Australian socialist poet and journalist
* Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945), Russian/Italian poet, novelist and dramatist
* Anna Haava (1864–1957), Estonian poet
* Alice Harriman (1861–1925), American poet, author and publisher
* Josephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921), American teacher, poet
* Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), German historian, novelist and poet
* Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet writing in Scots
* E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Canadian poet
* Magdalene Isadora La Grange (1864–1935), American poet
* Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright
* Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), Russian poet
* Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), Canadian poet and writer
* Clementina Laura Majocchi (1866–1945), Italian poet and writer
* Emily Julian McManus (1865–1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
* Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), English poet
* Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet, critic and arts patron
* Yogmaya Neupane (1867–1941), Nepalese poet and religious leader
* Violet Nicholson (Laurence Hope, 1865–1904), English poet
* Morilla M. Norton (1865-1916), American author, poet
* Amber E. Robinson (1867-1961), American educator, postmaster, poet, reporter, social reformer
* Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (1869–1958), English poet, author and journalist
* Fannie Isabelle Sherrick (fl. 1860 – 1880), American poet, essayist, and columnist
* Hilda Siller (1861–1945), American poet and short story writer
* May Sinclair (1862–1946), English fiction writer and poet
* Fruzina Szalay (1864–1926), Hungarian poet and translator
* Violet Tweedale (1862–1936), Scottish writer and poet
* Madge Morris Wagner (1862–1924), American poet, journalist, novelist, editor

## 1870s

* Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), American poet, novelist and short story writer
* Pauline B. Barrington (1876–1956), American poet
* Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914), British writer, radical campaigner and suffragist
* Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874–1945), French poet, novelist and journalist
* Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist and political activist
* Nicole Garay (1873–1928), Panamanian poet
* Norah M. Holland (1876–1925), poet, playwright, journalist and editor
* Annie Campbell Huestis (1878–1960), Canadian poet
* Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966), American poet
* Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971), German novelist, poet and essayist
* Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953), Canadian poet, short story writer, and non-fiction writer
* Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet of Imagist school, posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner in 1926
* Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German journalist, writer and poet
* Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), American poet, novelist and screenplay writer
* Nellie Burget Miller (1875-1952), American poet, non-fiction writer, dramatist
* L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942), Canadian poet and children's author
* Sarojini Naidu (Nightingale of India, 1879–1949), child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet
* Qiu Jin (1875–1907), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and writer
* Hélène Picard (1873-1945), French poet
* Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), English fiction writer, poet and essayist
* Lola Ridge (1873–1941), American anarchist poet and editor of avant-garde, feminist and Marxist publications
* Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958), American novelist, playwright, and poet
* Nina Salaman (1877–1925), English poet and translator
* Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962), American poet and playwright
* Leonora Speyer (1872–1956), American poet and violinist
* Ilse von Stach (1879–1941), German playwright, novelist and poet
* Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American writer, poet and art collector spending most of her life in France
* Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913), Ukrainian poet
* Renée Vivien (1877–1909), French poet
* Florence Mary Wilson (c. 1870–1946), Northern Irish poet
* Maryla Wolska (1873–1930), Polish poet
* Yosano Akiko (與謝野晶子, 1878–1942), Japanese poet and feminist
* Kazimiera Zawistowska (1870–1902), Polish poet and translator

## 1880s

* Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
* Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian and Soviet modernist poet
* Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter
* Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker (1888–1942), French Algerian poet and playwright
* Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976), American poet and fiction writer
* Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet
* Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975), Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots and English
* H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist, known for Imagist poetry
* Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva, 1887–1928), Russian poet
* Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977), English poet
* Enid Derham (1882–1941), Australian poet
* Zoraida Díaz (1991–1948) Panamanian poet and feminist
* Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), English poet and children's writer
* Jesse Redmon Fauset (1882–1961), American poet, essayist and novelist
* Else Feldmann (1884–1942), Austrian playwright, poet and novelist
* Scottie McKenzie Frasier (1884–1964), American poet
* Pauline Fréchette (1889–1943), French Canadian poet, dramatist, journalist, and Catholic nun
* Ethel Romig Fuller (1883–1965), American poet and Oregon's third Poet Laureate
* Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958), Mixed American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet
* Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan (1890–1964), American professor, poet, non-fiction writer
* Anna Minerva Henderson, Canadian teacher, civil servant, and poet
* Emmy Hennings (1885–1948), German poet and performer
* Juana Teresa Juega López (1885–1979), Galician-language Spanish poet
* Margit Kaffka (1880–1918), Hungarian poet and writer
* Mina Loy (1882–1966), Anglo-American artist, poet, playwright and novelist
* Marie Le Franc (1879-1964), French poet, novelist, and essayist
* Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), English poet and author best known for a series of children's books
* Anna Margolin (1887–1952), Russian-American Yiddish-language poet
* Iskouhi Minas (1885-1951), French poet of Armenian origin
* Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) (1889–1957), Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist, first Latin American to win Nobel Prize in Literature
* Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American Modernist poet and writer
* Nettie Palmer (1885–1964), Australian poet, essayist and literary critic
* Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960), English suffragist, and poet, wrote Writ on Cold Slate (1922) on prison experiences
* Sophia Parnok (1885–1933), Russian Jewish Silver Age poet
* Paula von Preradović (1887–1951), Austrian story writer and poet
* Beatrice Redpath (1886–1937), Canadian poet and short story writer
* María Herminia Sabbia y Oribe (1883–1961), Uruguayan poet
* Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1959), Irish poet, dramatist, actor and salonnière
* Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), English poet
* Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), English poet and critic, eldest of three literary Sitwells
* Anne Spencer (1882–1975), American poet
* Elkanah East Taylor (1888–1945), American poet; poetry magazine founder
* Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyrical poet
* Regina Ullmann (1884–1961), Swiss poet writing in German
* Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889–1956), English poet
* Anna Wickham, born Edith Alice Mary Harper (1884–1947), English poet with Australian connections
* Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), American poet and novelist

## 1890s

* Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet, seventh United States Poet Laureate
* Elisaveta Bagryana (1893–1991), Bulgarian poet known as a mother of Bulgarian literature
* Grace Shattuck Bail (1898–1996), American poet and composer
* Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist lesbian writer
* Ameena Begum (1892–1949), Indian/French poet
* Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet; fourth US Poet Laureate
* Marianne Bruns (1897–1994), German poet and novelist
* Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor
* Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban poet and anthropologist
* May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), English poet
* María Cegarra Salcedo (1899–1993), Spanish chemist, teacher, poet, councillor
* Amy Key Clarke (1892–1980), English mystical poet, author and teacher
* Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), New Zealand-born Australian poet and novelist
* Babette Deutsch (1895–1982), American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
* Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), Portuguese poet
* Claire Goll (1890–1977), German-born poet and novelist writing in German and French
* Dharmachari Guruma (1898–1978), Nepalese hymnist and Buddhist nun
* Gelanesh Haddis (1896–1986), Ethiopian poet and church scholar
* Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978), Canadian poet, playwright
* Ethel Jacobson (1899–1991), American writer of light verse
* Edna Jaques (1891–1978), Canadian poet
* Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German poet
* Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983), American poet, writer; South Carolina Poet Laureate 1974–1983
* Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950), German poet and novelist
* Claudia Lars (1899–1974), Salvadoran poet
* Muna Lee (1895–1965), American poet and translator
* Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian/Sri Lankan poet and psychotherapist
* Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993), Serbian poet, writer and translator
* Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist
* Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), Scottish novelist and poet
* Helene Mullins (1899–1991), American poet and novelist
* María Olimpia de Obaldía (1891–1985), Panamanian poet
* Mary Devenport O'Neill (1898–1957), Irish poet and dramatist
* Ida Ospelt-Amann (1899–1996), Liechtensteiner dialect poet
* Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
* Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet
* Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), English poet, first woman to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955
* Esther Raab (1894–1981), Palestinian/Israeli poet and prose writer
* Elsa Rautee (1897–1987), Finnish poet
* Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright
* Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), English writer, poet and gardener
* Nafija Sarajlić (1893–1970), Bosnian poet and prose writer
* Henriette Sauret (1890–1976), French poet and political writer
* Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), Scottish novelist and poet
* Maria Shkapskaya (1891–1952), Soviet poet and journalist
* Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Swedish-speaking Finnish poet, early Swedish language modernist
* Jela Spiridonović-Savić (1890–1974), Serbian/Yugoslav poet
* Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), Argentine poet of the modernist period
* Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), Soviet Russian poet, playwright, translator and children's author
* Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian and Soviet poet
* Erzsi Újvári (1899–1940), Hungarian poet
* Alice Lardé de Venturino (1895–1983), Salvador poet and writer
* Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980), American poet

## 1900s

In alphabetical order:
* Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish poet, collagist and photographer
* Mririda n'Ait Attik (c. 1900 – c. 1940s), Moroccan poet
* Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), Bucovina-born poet writing in German and English
* Ángela Figuera Aymerich (1902–1984), Basque and Spanish poet and writer
* Anna Barkova (1901–1976), Soviet poet, playwright, essayist and fiction writer
* Mary Barnard (1909–2001), American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator
* Joan Barton (1908–1986), English poet and bookseller
* Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-American writer
* Karin Boye (1900–1941), Swedish poet and novelist
* Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh-language poet and fiction writer
* Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), Sierra Leonean poet
* Anica Černej (1900–1944), Slovenian poet and author
* Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet writing emotionally charged Hindi songs
* Mae Virginia Cowdery (1909–1948), African-American poe
* Meta Davis Cumberbatch (1900–1978), Trinidad-born pianist, composer, poet, playwright and cultural activist
* Clarissa Scott Delany (1901–1927), African-American poet, essayist, educator and social worker
* Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995), Bengali novelist and poet
* Hilde Domin (1909–2006), German poet
* Gamila El Alaily (1907–1991), Egyptian poet and novelist
* Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), Persian poet of Iran
* Margiad Evans (1909–1958), English poet, novelist and illustrator
* Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980), American writer of light verse
* Madeline Gleason (1903–1979), American poet and dramatist
* Rumer Godden (1907–1998), English poet, novelist and children's writer
* Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005), English poet
* Ofelia Hooper (1900–1981), Panamanian poet and sociologist
* Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981), Australian author and poet
* Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003), American poet, fiction writer and critic; 21st US Poet Laureate
* Helene Johnson (1906–1995), American poet
* Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974), German novelist and poet
* Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), Polish writer, poet and athlete
* Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), American poet and children's writer
* Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architect and writer
* Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American poet, author and aviator
* Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996), Canadian poet
* Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), Cuban poet and novelist
* Una Marson (1905–1965), Jamaican activist and poet
* Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), American author of children's books and poetry
* Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian writer and educator
* Ruth Moore (1903–1989), American fiction writer and poet
* Salomėja Nėris (1904–1945), Lithuanian poet and political commentator
* Adalgisa Nery (1905–1980), Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist and politician
* Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970), American poet; only woman associated with Objectivist poets
* Silvina Ocampo (1903–1994), Argentine poet and short story writer
* Mary Oppen (1908–1990), American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer
* Josefina Pla (1903–1999), Spanish poet, playwright, art critic and painter
* Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), English scholar and poet in the Cornish language
* Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), English poet, critic and scholar
* Laura Riding (1901–1991), American poet, critic, fiction writer and essayist
* Pavla Rovan (1908–1999), Slovenian poet and writer
* Ana María Martínez Sagi (1907–2000), Spanish (Catalan) poet and athlete
* Oda Schaefer (1900–1988), German poet and journalist
* Lilian Serpas (1905–1985), Salvador poet
* Stevie Smith (1902–1971), English poet and novelist
* Anna Świrszczyńska (1909–1984), Polish poet
* Olena Teliha (1906–1942), Ukrainian poet
* Rosemary Thomas (1901–1961), American poet and teacher
* Moti Laxmi Upasika (1909–1997), Nepalese poet and fiction writer
* Katri Vala (1901–1944), Finnish poet
* Mahadevi Varma (1906–1987), Hindi poet, freedom fighter, woman's activist and educationist
* Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (1902–1969), French novelist, poet, and journalist
* Viola S. Wendt (1907–1986), American poet and educator
* Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946), American-born Canadian poet, writer and editor
* Marguerite Young (1908–1995), American poet and novelist
* Esperanza Zambrano (1901–1992), Mexican poet
* Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982), American poet; won 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

## 1910s

In alphabetical order:
* Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004), American poet
* Rabab Al-Kadhimi (1918–1998), Iraqi poet and dentist
* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004), Portuguese poet and writer
* Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915–1991), English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet
* Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet, editor and speaker
* Louise Bennett (1919–2006), Jamaican poet, folklorist and educator
* Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American poet and short-story writer
* Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate
* Helle Busacca (1915–1996), Sicilian Italian poet, writer and painter
* Christine Busta (1915–1987), Austrian poet
* Matilde Camus (1919–2012), Spanish poet and writer
* Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994), Dominican poet, fiction writer and essayist
* Joy Davidman (1915–1960), American writer and poet, wife of C. S. Lewis
* Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015), American poet
* Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), English poet
* Elvira Farreras i Valentí (1913–2005), Spanish (Catalan) poet and essayist
* Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
* Maria Assumpció Soler i Font (1913–2004), Spanish (Catalan) poet and writer
* Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer, and South Carolina Poet Laureate 1985–1986
* Jean Garrigue (1912–1972), American poet
* Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1945), Polish poet and Holocaust victim
* Virginia Graham (1910–1993), English poet and humorist
* Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian author and poet
* Esmé Hooton (1914–1992), English poet
* Christine Lavant (1915–1973), Austrian poet and novelist
* Matilde Elena López (1919–2010), Salvadorean poet, essayist and playwright
* Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986), Estonian poet and translator
* Josephine Miles (1911–1985), American poet and literary critic
* Hilda Mundy (1912–1980), Bolivian writer, poet, journalist
* Amrita Pritam (1919–2005), Indian (Punjabi) poet, novelist and essayist
* Anne Ridler (1912–2001), English poet and playwright
* Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), American poet and political activist
* Helena Sanders (1911–1997), Cornish poet, humanitarian, cultural activist and politician
* May Sarton (1912–1995), Belgian American poet, novelist, and memoirist
* Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910–1992), Suriname poet and community leader
* Stella Sierra (1917–1997), Panamanian poet and prose writer
* Ann Stanford (1916–1987), American poet
* Ruth Stone (1915–2011), American poet, author and teacher
* May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright
* Magda Szabó (1917–2007), Hungarian novelist, poet and playwright
* Maria Luise Thurmair (1912–2005), Austrian/German hymnist and writer
* Joan Ure (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright
* Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American poet and novelist
* Judith Wright (1915–2000), Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights
* Audrey Wurdemann (1911–1960), American poet, winner of 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
* Yana Yazova (1912–1974), Bulgarian poet, writer and historian; real name Ljuba Gantcheva
* Unica Zürn (1916–1970), German poet and painter

## 1920s

In alphabetical order:
* Nazik Al-Malaika (1923–2007), Iraqi poet
* Maqbula al-Shalak (1921–1986), Syrian poet, children's writer and activist
* Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist and journalist
* Maya Angelou (1928–2014), American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist
* Thea Astley (1925–2004), Australian fiction writer and poet
* Arthenia J. Bates Millican (1920–2012), American poet, short-story writer, essayist and educator
* Ruth Bidgood (1922–2022), Welsh poet and local historian
* Erika Burkart (1922–2010), Swiss poet and writer in German
* Juanita Casey (1925–2012), English Gypsy poet, novelist and horse breeder
* Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974), Mexican poet and author
* Paulette Cherici-Porello (1924–2018), Monegasque poet and writer
* Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), American poet and author
* Juana Dib (1924–2015), Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher
* Blaga Dimitrova (1922–2003), Bulgarian poet and Vice President of Bulgaria
* Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012), Australian poet, illustrator, editor and anthologist
* Yulia Drunina (1924–1991), Soviet Russian poet
* Fangge Dupan (杜潘芳格, 1927–2016), Taiwanese poet
* Mona Jane Van Duyn (1921–2004), American poet and US Poet Laureate
* Annette Mbaye d'Erneville (born 1926), Senegalese poet and writer
* Mari Evans (1923–2017), American poet
* Sarah Webster Fabio (1928–1979), American poet, literary critic and educator
* Aminath Faiza (1924–2011), Maldive poet and author
* U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), English poet
* Janet Frame (1924–2004), New Zealand poet and fiction writer
* FrancEyE (1922–2007), American poet, born Frances Dean Smith
* Olga Gonçalves (1929–2004), Portuguese poet and novelist
* Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (1926–2010), São Tomé e Príncipe poet
* Barbara Guest (1920–2006), American poet and author
* Julia Hartwig (1921–2017), Polish poet and translator
* Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), Australian poet and librettist
* Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright
* Constance Hunting (1925–2006), American poet and publisher
* Ada Jafri (1924–2015), Indian/Pakistani poet and writer
* Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), English poet
* Hawa Jibril (1920–2011), Somali poet
* Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986), Polish poet, writer and translator
* Eriko Kishida (1929–2011), Japanese poet, children's author, lyricist, and translator
* Shirley Kaufman (1923–2016), American/Israeli poet and translator
* Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet
* Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; noted for feminist poetry
* Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author; 26th US Poet Laureate
* Ana Emilia Lahitte (1929–2013), Argentine poet, writer, and playwright
* Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018), American poet and author
* Denise Levertov (1923–1997), English-born American poet
* Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), English/Kenyan poet and fiction writer
* Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995), Finnish poet, playwright and translator
* Joyce Mansour (1928–1986), Egyptian/French poet
* Manuela Margarido (1925–2007), São Tomé and Príncipe poet and diplomat
* Ludmiła Marjańska (1923–2005), Polish poet and translator
* Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924–1942), Romanian-born German poet
* Máire Mhac an tSaoi (1922–2021), Irish language scholar, poet, writer and academic
* Lisel Mueller (1924–2020), German-born American poet
* Malkat al-Dar Muhammad (1920–1969), Sudanese poet, novelist and composer
* Inge Müller (1925–1966), German poet
* Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991), Hungarian poet, writer and translator
* Oodgeroo Noonuccal (a.k.a. Kath Walker, 1920–1993), Australian poet, political activist and artist
* Grace Paley (1922–2007), American-Jewish fiction writer, poet, and political activist
* Esdras Parra (1929–2004), Venezuelan poet and writer
* Vesna Parun (1922–2010), Croatian poet
* Marie Ponsot (1921–2019), American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator
* Luz Pozo Garza (1922–2020), Spanish poet
* Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist
* Dora Isella Russell (1925–1990), Uruguayan poet, journalist
* Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas i Martínez del Romero (1921–2009), Spanish historian, novelist and poet
* Giovanna Sandri (1923–2002), Italian visual poet
* Iryna Senyk (1926–2009), poet
* Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet, known for highly personal, confessional verse
* Bessie Skea (1923–1996), Scottish poet from Orkney
* Noémia de Sousa (1926–2002), Mozambique poet
* Julie Suk (born 1924), American poet
* Efua Sutherland (1924–1996), Ghanaian playwright, children's author, poet and dramatist
* Wislawa Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator; won 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Alcira Cardona Torrico (1926–2003), Bolivian writer and poet
* Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004), American poet; 36th US Poet Laureate
* Phyllis Webb (1927–2021), Canadian poet and radio broadcaster
* Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), American poet; often grouped with the Language poets
* Christa Wolf (1929–2011), German poet, critic and novelist
* Mitsuye Yamada (born 1923), Japanese American activist, essayist, poet, story writer and editor
* Chia-ying Yeh (1924–2024), Chinese-Canadian poet

## 1930s

In alphabetical order:
* Fleur Adcock (1934–2024), poet and editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry
* Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator
* Anne-Marie Albiach (1937–2012), French poet and translator
* Daniela Albizu (1936-2015), Basque poet, writer
* Bisera Alikadić (born 1939), Bosnian poet and author
* Klairi Angelidou (1932–2021), Cypriot poet, translator and philologist
* Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist and environmental activist
* A. S. Byatt (1936–2023), English novelist and poet
* Neriman Cahit (born 1937), Turkish Cypriot poet, author and prominent women's rights advocate
* Diana Chang (1934–2009), Chinese American novelist and poet
* Hélène Cixous (born 1937), Algerian-born French poet, playwright and philosopher
* Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator
* Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), American writer and educator
* Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930–2023), Crow Creek Lakota Sioux editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and academic
* Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), American poet and performance artist
* Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir (1930–2021), Icelandic poet
* Kamala Das (1934–2009), Indian English poet and littérateur
* Olga Xirinacs Díaz (born 1936), writer and piano teacher
* Zuhur Dixon (1933–2021), Iraqi poet
* Leila Djabali (born 1933), Algerian poet and intellectual
* Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian novelist and poet
* Elke Erb (1938–2024), German poet, editor and translator
* Ruth Fainlight (born 1931), US-born English poet, short story writer, translator and librettist
* Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Iranian poet and film director
* Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), English poet, novelist and biographer
* Ágnes Gergely (born 1933), Hungarian poet, essayist and translator
* Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), American novelist, short story writer and poet
* Halima Godane (1935–1994), Somali poet and activist
* Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006), American poet
* Georgina Herrera (1936–2021), Cuban poet
* Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
* Mary Ann Hoberman (1930–2023), American poet and children's writer
* Barbara Holland (1933–2010), American children's writer, poet and memoirist
* Susan Howe (born 1937), American poet, scholar, essayist and critic; closely associated with Language poets
* Raquel Ilombé (1938–1992), Equatorial Guinean poet and author
* Nora Iuga (born 1931), Romanian poet, writer and translator
* Patricia Janus (1932–2006), American poet, artist and educator
* Rita Joe (1932–2007), Canadian poet
* Anna Jókai (1932–2017), Hungarian poet, author and teacher
* Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965), South African poet
* June Jordan (1936–2002), American poet, essayist, journalist, novelist, librettist and autobiographer
* Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), English poet
* Antigone Kefala (1935–2022), Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage
* Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), American playwright and poet
* Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937), Lebanese-French writer, former Miss Beirut
* Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013), German poet and translator
* Sarah Klassen (born 1932), Canadian poet and fiction writer
* Gwendoline Konie (1938–2009), Zambian poet, diplomat and politician
* Lina Kostenko (born 1930), Ukrainian poet
* Urszula Kozioł (born 1931), Polish poet
* Momoko Kuroda (黒田杏子, born 1938), Japanese haiku poet and essayist
* Joanne Kyger (1934–2017), American poet tied to Black Mountain, San Francisco Renaissance and Beat generation
* Alda Lara (1930–1962), Angolan poet
* Audre Lorde (1934–1992), Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist
* Ana María Llona Málaga (born 1936), Peruvian poet
* Alda Merini (1931–2009), Italian writer and poet
* Barbara Moraff (1939–2024), American poet of the Beat generation
* Martha Nasibù (1931–2020), Ethiopian/French poet, writer and artist
* Olga Nolla (1938–2001), Puerto Rican poet, writer and professor
* Helga M. Novak (1935–2013), German poet and political writer
* Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American author
* Mary Oliver (1935–2019), American poet
* Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet and screenplay writer
* Alicia Ostriker (born 1937), American poet and scholar writing Jewish feminist poetry
* Atena Pashko (1931–2012), Ukrainian chemical engineer, poet, and social activist
* Amelia Blossom Pegram (1935–2022), South African poet
* Marge Piercy (born 1936), American poet, novelist and social activist
* Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972), Argentine poet
* Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet and fiction writer
* Halina Poświatowska (1935–1967), Polish poet
* Diane di Prima (1934–2020), American poet
* Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005), Israeli poet, translator and peace activist
* Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014), Finnish poet
* Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet and writer
* Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), African-American poet
* Pat Schneider (1934–2020), American writer, poet and editor
* Nina Serrano (born 1934), American poet, writer, storyteller and media producer
* Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000), American poet and fiction writer, South Carolina Poet Laureate, 1986–2000
* Fatou Ndiaye Sow (1937–2004), Senegalese poet, children's writer and teacher
* Donna J. Stone (1933–1994), American poet and philanthropist
* Karen Swenson (born 1936), American poet and journalist
* Elaine Terranova (born 1939), American poet
* Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007), American poet
* Lobat Vala (born 1930), Iranian poet and campaigner
* Jean Valentine (1934–2020), American poet; New York State Poet Laureate
* Diane Wakoski (born 1937), American poet
* Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935), American poet, translator and publisher
* Eleanor Wilner (born 1937), American poet and editor
* Dede Wilson (born 1937), American poet
* Nellie Wong (born 1934), Chinese-American feminist poet
* Shaïda Zarumey (born 1938), Niger poet and sociologist
* Fay Zwicky (1933–2017), Australian poet, short-story writer, critic and academic

## 1940s

In alphabetical order:
* Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer
* Diane Ackerman (born 1948), American essayist and naturalist
* Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), American author, poet and activist
* Rae Armantrout (born 1947), American writer, Language poet and professor
* Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), Iranian/Swedish writer, politician and aircraft pilot
* Pam Ayres (born 1947), English poet, songwriter and radio/TV presenter
* Mary Jo Bang (born 1946), American poet
* Miryana Ivanova Basheva (1947–2020), Bulgarian poet
* Olinda Beja (born 1946), São Tomé and Príncipe poet, writer and narrator
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (born 1947), Chinese American poet associated with Language poetry, the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art
* Linda Bierds (born 1945), American poet and professor
* Becky Birtha (born 1948), American poet and children's author
* Eavan Boland (1944–2020), Irish poet
* Douangdeuane Bounyavong (born 1947), Laotian poet, novelist and non-fiction writer
* Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), American poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012
* Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist
* Olga Broumas (born 1949), Greek poet living in United States
* Flora Brovina (born 1949), Kosovar poet and politician
* Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947), American poet
* Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944–2017), American poet and teacher; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2005–2009
* Caroline Caddy (born 1944), Australian poet
* Luzmila Carpio (born 1949), Bolivian song-writer
* Kelly Cherry (1940–2022), American poet and author
* Chrystos (born 1946), Menominee rights activist and poet
* Daria Chubata (born 1940), Ukrainian physician, writer, poet
* Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), Jamaican/American poet and fiction writer
* Norma Cole (born 1945), American poet, visual artist, and translator
* Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), American poet
* Anne Compton (born 1947), Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist
* Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet
* Elsa Cross (born 1946), Mexican poet and essayist
* Doris Davenport (born 1949), American educator poet
* Regina Derieva (1949–2013), Russian poet and writer
* Toi Derricotte (born 1941), American poet and professor
* Annie Dillard (born 1945), American nonfiction writer, poet, essayist and novelist
* Berlie Doherty (born 1943), English novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and children's writer
* Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born 1941), American poet, essayist, feminist critic, and scholar
* Bohdana Durda (born 1940), Ukrainian writer, poet, songwriter
* Lynn Emanuel (born 1949), American poet
* Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 1945), American poet
* Diane Fahey (born 1945), Australian poet
* Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944), Paraguayan poet and novelist
* Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), Scottish poet and theorist
* Tess Gallagher (born 1943), American poet, essayist, author and playwright
* Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024), African-American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator
* Banira Giri (1946–2021), Nepalese poet and author
* Diane Glancy (born 1941), American poet, novelist and playwright
* Louise Glück (born 1943), American poet; 42nd US Poet Laureate
* Lorna Goodison (born 1947), Jamaican poet
* Hedwig Gorski (born 1949), American performance poet and avant-garde artist
* Hattie Gossett (born 1942), African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor
* Judy Grahn (born 1940), American feminist, lesbian poet
* Debora Greger (born 1949), American poet and visual artist
* Linda Gregg (1942–2019), American poet
* Susan Griffin (born 1943), American poet, playwright and philosopher
* M. A. Griffiths (1947–2009), English poet
* Marilyn Hacker (born 1942), American poet, translator and critic
* Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949), Filipino American poet, playwright and novelist
* Eloise Klein Healy (born 1943), American poet, first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, professor at Antioch University
* Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024), American poet, essayist, translator and publisher
* Lin Van Hek (born 1944), Australian poet and novelist
* Guðrið Helmsdal (born 1941), Faroese poet
* Linda Hogan (born 1947), American poet and fiction writer
* Libby Houston (born 1941), English poet, botanist, and rock climber
* Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet and fiction writer
* Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir (1942–2016), Icelandic poet
* Erica Jong (born 1942), American author and teacher
* Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), American poet and translator
* Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born English poet
* Hamda Khamis (born 1945), Bahrain poet and columnist
* Karin Kiwus (born 1942), German poet
* Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), American poet; Poet Laureate of Virginia
* Ann Lauterbach (born 1942), American poet, essayist and professor
* Tanith Lee (1947–2015), English novelist, poet and screenwriter
* Lalitha Lenin (born 1946), Indian poet in Malayalam
* Catherine Lim (林宝音, born 1942), Singaporean poet and fiction writer
* Ewa Lipska (born 1945), Polish poet
* Liz Lochhead (born 1947), Scottish poet and dramatist
* Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet and writer
* Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian poet and novelist
* Mary Mackey (born 1945), American novelist, poet and academic
* Jennifer Maiden (born 1949), Australian poet
* Angela Marinescu (born 1941), Romanian poet
* Daphne Marlatt (born 1942), Canadian poet
* Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022), American poet, writer and visual artist
* Susan McCaslin (born 1947), Canadian poet
* Heather McHugh (born 1948), American poet
* Jane Miller (born 1949), American poet
* Susan Mitchell (born 1944), American poet, essayist and translator
* Grace Mera Molisa (1947–2002), ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality
* Nancy Morejón (born 1944), Cuban poet, critic and essayist
* Robin Morgan (born 1941), American poet, author and lecturer
* Micere Githae Mugo (1942–2023), Kenyan poet, playwright and professor
* Joan Murray (born 1945), American poet, writer and playwright
* Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945), American poet, novelist, essayist and professor; California Poet Laureate
* Marilyn Nelson (born 1946), American poet, translator and children's author
* Kavidi Wivine N'Landu (living), DR Congo poet and politician
* Alice Notley (born 1945), American poet
* Clémentine Nzuji (born 1944), Congolese poet and writer
* Sharon Olds (born 1942), American poet
* Ljubica Ostojić (1945–2021), Bosnian poet, writer and playwright
* Ruth Padel (born 1946), English poet and non-fiction author on poetry and nature writing
* Ánxeles Penas (born 1943), Spanish poet
* Katha Pollitt (born 1949), American feminist poet, essayist and critic
* Dina Posada (born 1946), Salvadoran poet
* Thuraya Qabil (born 1943), Saudi Arabian poet and journalist
* Jennifer Rankin (1941–1979), Australian poet and playwright
* Denise Riley (born 1948), English poet and philosopher
* Althea Romeo-Mark (born 1948), Antigua poet, writer and educator
* Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), American poet, writer and visual artist
* Cristina Peri Rossi (born 1941), Uruguayan poet, fiction writer and translator
* Susanna Roxman (1946–2015), Swedish-born English poet and critic
* Kay Ryan (born 1945), American poet and educator; 16th US Poet Laureate
* Olive Senior (born 1941), Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer
* Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), American poet and playwright
* Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948), American poet and fiction writer
* Marilyn Singer (born 1948), American poet and children's writer
* Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
* Stephanie Strickland (born 1942), American poet and exponent of electronic literature
* Telcine Turner-Rolle (1944–2012), Bahamas poet, playwright and educator
* Jane Urquhart (born 1949), Canadian novelist and poet
* Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023), American poet
* Janine Pommy Vega (1942–2010), American poet associated with Beat generation
* Judit Vihar (born 1944), Hungarian poet and literary historian
* Ellen Bryant Voigt (born 1943), American poet and essayist
* Anne Waldman (born 1945), American poet
* Alice Walker (born 1944), American author, poet and activist
* Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999), American poet, novelist and playwright
* Connie Willis (born 1945), American poet and short story writer
* Wong May (born 1944), Singaporean/Irish poet
* Merle Woo (born 1941), Asian American teacher, poet and activist
* Carolyn D. Wright (1949–2016), American poet
* Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (1947–2018), Uzbek poet, People's Poet of Uzbekistan
* Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (1941–2022), Bulgarian poet, educator and journalist

## 1950s

In alphabetical order:
* Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (1951–2014), Nigerian poet and researcher
* Patricia J. Adams (born 1952), Anguillan poet and writer
* Kim Addonizio (born 1954), American poet and novelist
* Josephine Balmer (born 1959), English poet, translator and critic
* Fevziye Rahgozar Barlas (born 1955), Afghan poet and fiction writer
* Mubarkah Bent al-Barra (born 1957), Mauritanian poet and translator
* Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959), American poet, journalist and educator
* Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar (born 1951), Bosnian poet, writer and playwright
* Marion Bethel (born 1953), Bahamas poet, essayist and attorney
* Valerie Bloom (born 1956), Jamaican poet and novelist
* Tanella Boni (born 1954), Côte d'Ivoire poet and novelist
* Itxaro Borda (born 1959), French Basque poet, novelist, translator
* Jenny Boult (1951–2005), Australian poet, playwright, and editor
* Melba Boyd (born 1950), African-American poet
* Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), English poet
* Di Brandt (born 1952), Canadian poet and scholar
* Giannina Braschi (born 1953), Puerto Rican poet and writer
* Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021), Jamaican dub poet and storyteller
* Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956), Canadian poet, translator and lawyer
* Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist and translator
* Ana Castillo (born 1953), Mexican-American fiction writer, poet and essayist
* Catherine Chandler (born 1950), American/Canadian poet and translator
* Andrea Cheng (born 1957), American poet and children's writer
* Edith Checa (1957–2017), Spanish poet, writer, and journalist
* Marilyn Chin (born 1955), American poet and writer
* Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), American writer
* Michelle T. Clinton (born 1955), African-American poet
* Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author
* Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poet
* Merle Collins (born 1950), Grenadian poet and fiction writer
* Judy Croome (born 1958), South African poet and novelist
* Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 1952), Burkina Faso poet, fiction writer and politician
* Tina Darragh (born 1950), American Language poet
* Mahadai Das (1954–2003), Guyanese poet and academic
* Ananda Devi (born 1957), Mauritian poet and fiction writer
* Imtiaz Dharker (born c. 1954), English poet, artist and film-maker
* Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956), Guinean poet, novelist and playwright
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-American poet and fiction writer
* Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet and essayist
* Jane Draycott (born 1954), English poet and university teacher
* Vera Duarte (born 1952), Cape Verdean poet and politician
* Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), Scottish poet and playwright; first female Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
* Marilyn Dumont (born 1955), First Nations Canadian poet
* Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), English poet, novelist and children's writer
* Claudia Emerson (born 1957), American poet; won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
* Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American poet and fiction writer
* Annie Finch (born 1956), American poet, playwright and performance artist
* Rosa Méndez Fonte (born 1957), Galician poet, writer, and researcher
* Nikky Finney (born 1957), American poet
* Carolyn Forché (born 1950), American poet, translator and professor
* Coralie Frei (born 1951), Comoros/Swiss poet and novelist
* Alice Fulton (born 1952), American author and poet
* Chitra Gajadin (born 1954), Surinamese/Dutch poet, writer and playwright
* Amy Gerstler (born 1956), American poet
* Stanka Gjurić (born 1956), Croatian poet and essayist
* Jorie Graham (born 1950), American poet
* Joy Harjo (born 1951), American poet, former United States Poet Laureate
* Carla Harryman (born 1952), American poet, essayist, and playwright, associated with Language poets
* Katherine Hastings (born 1950), American poet
* Jane Hirshfield (born 1953), American poet, essayist and translator
* Lynda Hull (1954–1994), American poet
* Julie Kane (born 1952), American poet, scholar and editor; Louisiana Poet Laureate 2011–2013
* Mary Karr (born 1955), American poet and essayist
* Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955), American fiction writer, poet and essayist
* Katarzyna Krenz (born 1953), Polish writer, poet and painter
* Antjie Krog (born 1952), South African poet and journalist in Afrikaans
* Mira Kuś (born 1958), Polish poet and journalist
* Dorianne Laux (born 1952), American poet
* Sue Lenier (born 1957), English poet and playwright
* Krystyna Lenkowska (born 1957), Polish poet and translator
* Rika Lesser (born 1953), American poet and translator
* Corinth Morter Lewis (living), Belize poet and educator
* Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh poet and inaugural National Poet of Wales
* Sarah Lindsay (born 1958), American poet
* Suzanne Lummis (born 1951), American poet and publisher; founder of Los Angeles Poetry Festival
* Jully Makini (born 1953), Solomon Islands poet, writer and women's rights activist
* Chris Mansell (born 1953), Australian poet and publisher
* Lee Maracle (born 1950), Canadian poet, novelist and storyteller
* Maria Mercè Marçal (1952–1998), Catalan poet
* Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist
* Dionyse McTair (born 1950), Trinidadian poet
* Grażyna Miller (1957–2009), Polish poet and translator
* Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956), American poet
* Cherrie Moraga (born 1952), Chicana poet, playwright, and essayist
* Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), Puerto Rican essayist, poet and fiction writer
* Thylias Moss (born 1954), American poet, children's novelist, and playwright
* Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet and writer
* Harryette Mullen (born 1953), American poet, short story writer and literary scholar
* Herta Müller (born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist; Nobel Prize in Literature winner
* Rosario Murillo (born 1951), Nicaraguan poet
* Sheila Murphy (born 1951), American poet and visual poet
* Susan Musgrave (born 1951), Canadian poet and children's writer
* J. C. Niala (living), Zanzibar/English poet and story-teller
* Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet
* Elly Niland (born 1954), Guyanese poet, playwright and teacher
* Barbara Noda (born 1953), third generation Japanese American poet
* Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), American poet, songwriter and novelist
* Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951), English poet of Irish descent, performer and visual artist
* Yolanda Pantin (born 1954), Venezuelan poet and children's writer
* Kathleen Peirce (born 1956), American poet
* Pascale Petit (born 1953), French-born Welsh poet and artist
* Chiranan Pitpreecha (born 1955), Thai poet and feminist
* Judith Pordon (born 1954), American poet and writer
* Dorothy Porter (1954–2008), Australian poet
* Karen Press (born 1956), South African English-language poet
* Viera Prokešová (1957–2008), Slovak poet, writer and translator
* Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 1950), Hungarian poet and translator
* Ágnes Rapai (born 1952), Hungarian poet, writer and translator
* Irina Ratushinskaya (1954–2017), Soviet/Russian poet and writer
* Jutta Richter (born 1955), German author of children's and youth literature
* Luisa Ballesteros Rosas (born 1957), Colombian essayist, poet, and educator
* Barbara Rosiek (1959–2020), Polish poet, writer and psychologist
* Anne Rouse (born 1954), American-British poet
* Layla Sarahat Rushani (c. 1952/1954–2004), Afghan poet
* Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet
* Kathrin Schmidt (born 1958), German writer
* Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953), American poet
* Odete Semedo (born 1959), Guinea-Bissau poet, writer and educator
* Jo Shapcott (born 1953), English poet, editor and lecturer
* Edi Shukriu (born 1950), Kosovar poet, politician and archaeologist
* Margaret Smith (born 1958), American poet, musician and artist
* Cathy Song (born 1955), American poet
* Susan Stewart (born 1952), American poet, university professor and critic
* Nancy Takacs (born 1952), American poet, professor, fiber artist
* Kebedech Tekleab (born 1958), Ethiopian poet and painter
* Eleni Theocharous (born 1953), Cypriot poet and politician
* Angela Topping (born 1954), English poet, literary critic and author
* Agata Tuszynska (born 1957), Polish writer, poet and journalist
* Chase Twichell (born 1950), American poet, professor and publisher
* Ania Walwicz (1951–2020), Australian poet and prose writer and visual artist
* Connie Wanek (born 1952), American poet
* Meralda Warren (born 1959), Pitcairn Island artist, poet and author
* Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958), American poet; South Carolina Poet Laureate
* Sheri-D Wilson (born 1958), Canadian poet, producer and lecturer
* Grażyna Wojcieszko (born 1957), Polish poet and essayist
* Tetiana Yakovenko (born 1954), Ukrainian poet, literary critic and teacher
* Neşe Yaşın (born 1959), Turkish Cypriot poet and author
* Yuan Chiung-chiung (袁瓊瓊, born 1950), Taiwanese poet, fiction writer and television writer

## 1960s

In alphabetical order:
* Patience Agbabi (born 1965), English poet
* Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), American poet
* Nura al-Badi (born 1969), Omani poet
* Kerstin Becker (born 1969), German writer and poet
* Khadija Besikri (born 1962), Libyan poet, writer and human rights activist
* Kate Clanchy (born 1965), Scottish poet and writer
* Julia Copus (born 1969), English poet and children's writer
* M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963), Australian poet, lawyer and academic
* Anna Dodas i Noguer (1962–1986), Catalan poet
* Petya Dubarova (born 1962), Bulgarian poet, school student
* Zena Edwards (born 1960s), British writer, poet and performer
* Milena Ercolani (born 1963), San Marino poet and novelist
* Jacinta Escudos (living), Salvadorian poet and fiction and non-fiction writer
* Maggie Estep (1963–2014), American poet and writer
* Magie Faure-Vidot (living), Seychelles poet
* Sia Figiel (born 1967), Samoan novelist, poet, and painter
* Kate Gale (born 1965), American poet; founding publisher of Red Hen Press
* Karina Galvez (born 1964), Ecuadorian poet
* Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), English poet and novelist
* Mariela Griffor (born 1961), Chilean poet, translator and diplomat
* Beth Gylys (born 1964), American poet and professor
* Roya Hakakian (born 1966), Iranian/American poet, writer and journalist
* Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965), American poet, historian, philosopher and author
* Ellen Hinsey (born 1960), American poet, translator and scholar
* Rozalie Hirs (born 1965), Dutch poet and composer
* Frieda Hughes (born 1960), English poet and painter
* Helen Ivory (born 1969), English poet, artist, tutor and editor
* Lisa Jarnot (born 1967), American poet
* Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born 1967), American poet and novelist
* Judy Jordan (born 1961), American poet, novelist, and memoirist
* Sandra Pierrette Kanzié (born 1966), Burkina Faso poet
* Adeena Karasick (born 1965), Canadian poet, essayist and performance artist
* Julia Kasdorf (born 1962), American poet
* Laura Kasischke (born 1961), American poet
* Jackie Kay (born 1961), Scottish poet, playwright and novelist
* Ruth Ellen Kocher (born 1965), American poet
* Simona Lazăr (living), Romanian poet and gastronomic writer
* Danielle Legros Georges (c. 1965–2025), Haitian-born American poet, essayist and academic
* Dana Levin (born 1965), American poet and teacher
* Conceição Lima (born 1961), São Tomé and Príncipe poet
* LindaAnn Loschiavo (born c. 1960), American poet
* Zindzi Mandela (1960–2020), South African poet and diplomat
* Wendy McGrath (born 1960), Canadian poet and novelist
* Nora Méndez (born 1969), Salvadoran poet
* Sarah Messer (born 1966), American poet and author
* Cho Mina (born 1960), South Korean poet
* Ange Mlinko (born 1969), American poet and literary critic
* Nora Nadjarian (born 1966), Cypriot poet and fiction writer
* Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), Bengali doctor, novelist, poet and essayist
* Juliane Okot Bitek (born 1966), Kenyan-born Ugandan diasporian poet and academic
* Alice Oswald (born 1966), English poet
* Vera Pavlova (born 1963), Russian poet
* Parween Pazhwak (born 1967), Afghan poet, writer and artist
* Marine Petrossian (born 1960), Armenian poet, essayist and columnist
* Duanwad Pimwana (born 1969), Thai poet, novelist and journalist
* Pascale Quao-Gaudens (born 1963), Côte d'Ivoire poet, writer and artist
* Samina Raja (1961–2012), Pakistani poet, writer, translator and broadcaster
* Claudia Rankine (born 1963), American poet and playwright
* Monika Rinck (born 1969), German poet and writer
* Lisa Robertson (born 1961), Canadian poet
* Mamta Sagar (born 1966), Kannada poet and playwright living in Bangalore
* Maryam Salama (born 1965), Libyan poet and writer
* Fiona Sampson (born 1968), English/Welsh poet and editor
* Dipti Saravanamuttu (born 1960), Sri Lankan-Australian poet and academic
* Rebecca Seiferle (living), American poet
* Narmala Shewcharan (living), Guyanese poet, novelist and anthropologist
* Dorothea Smartt (born 1963), English-born poet of Barbadian descent
* A. E. Stallings (born 1968), American poet and translator
* Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968), American poet
* Maud Sulter (1960–2008), British fine artist and poet
* Krisztina Tóth (born 1967), Hungarian poet, writer and translator
* Ann Townsend (born 1962), American poet and essayist
* Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967), American poet
* Natasha Trethewey (born 1966), American poet; Mississippi Poet Laureate, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
* Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003), Indian/American poet and educator
* Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966), South African poet, dramatist and performance artist
* Rebecca Wee (living), American poet and academic
* Elizabeth Willis (born 1961), American poet, literary critic and professor
* Sholeh Wolpé (born 1962), Iranian/American poet, translator and playwright
* Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), American poet
* Cho Yongmee (born 1962), South Korean poet

## 1970s

In alphabetical order:
* Pilar Adón (born 1971), Spanish poet, novelist, short story writer and translator
* An Heon-mi (born 1971), South Korean poet
* Pam Ayres (born 1947), English humourist poet
* Maryam Jafari Azarmani (born 1977), Iranian poet, essayist, critic and translator
* Siham Benchekroun (living), Moroccan poet and novelist
* Alexandra Bernhardt (born 1974), German philosopher, poet, writer, translator, editor and publisher
* Jacqueline Bishop (living), Jamaican poet, novelist and visual artist
* Amba Bongo (born 1962), DR Congo poet and novelist
* Malika Booker (born 1970), British poet and multi-disciplinary artist
* Shannon Bramer (born 1973), Canadian poet
* Colette Bryce (born 1970), Northern Irish poet
* Alison Calder (born 1969), Canadian poet and educator
* Carmen Camacho (writer) (born 1976), Spanish writer, poet, columnist
* Susana Chávez (1974–2011), Mexican poet and human rights activist
* Grace Chia (born 1973), Singaporean poet, writer and journalist
* Dan Chiasson (born 1971), American poet, critic and journalist
* Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971), Ukrainian poet, novelist, writer, playwright
* Dani Couture (born 1978), Canadian poet and novelist
* Jennifer K Dick (born 1970), American poet
* Lidija Dimkovska (born 1971), Macedonian poet, novelist and translator
* Adda Djørup (born 1972), Danish poet and fiction writer
* Chay Douangphouxay (living), American poet of Lao-Khmer extraction
* Sasha Dugdale (born 1974), English poet, playwright and translator
* Nurduran Duman (born 1974), Turkish poet, writer, essayist, and translator
* Camille Dungy (born 1972), American poet and academic
* Zetta Elliott (born 1972), Canadian-American poet and playwright
* Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971), American poet and novelist
* Kate Fox (born 1975), English poet, writer, comedian and academic
* Marta Repullo i Grau (born 1976), Andorran poet and journalist
* Jane Griffiths (born 1970), English poet and literary historian
* Rachel Eliza Griffiths (born 1978), American poet, novelist, photographer and visual artist
* Eliza Griswold (born 1973), American journalist and poet
* Wioletta Grzegorzewska (born 1974), Polish poet and writer
* Kim Haengsook (born 1970), South Korean poet
* Sophie Hannah (born 1971), English poet and novelist
* Ilona Hegedűs (living), Hungarian poet and fiction writer
* Andrea Heuser (1972), German writer, poet, translator and literary scholar
* Hissa Hilal (living), Saudi Arabian poet and editor
* Joan Houlihan (living), American poet
* Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), Iranian poet, producer, critic, blogger and human rights advocate
* Sissal Kampmann (born 1974), Faroese poet
* Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean poet and journalist
* Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovenian poet, translator and essayist
* Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Canadian poet and novelist
* Samantha Lê (born 1974), Vietnamese-American poet and novelist
* Ágnes Lehóczky (born 1976), Hungarian translator and academic
* Ada Limón (born 1976), 24th United States Poet Laureate
* Lebogang Mashile (born 1979), South African actress, writer and performance poet
* Lili Mendoza (born 1974), Panamanian poet and writer
* Touhfat Mouhtare (living), Comoros poet and writer
* Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974), American poet
* Neelam Karki Niharika (born 1975), Nepalese poet and fiction writer
* Ketty Nivyabandi (born 1978), Burundian poet and human rights activist
* Gayatribala Panda (born 1977), Indian poet, fiction writer and journalist
* Rochelle Potkar (born 1979), Indian fiction writer and poet
* Asmaa bint Saqr Al Qasimi (living), United Arab Emirates poet
* Adele Ramos (living), Belize poet, writer and journalist
* Angela Rawlings (born 1978), Canadian poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist
* Angela Readman (born 1973), English poet
* Nandini Sahu (born 1973), Indian poet writing in English
* Ann Sansom (living), English poet and tutor
* Daniela Seel (born 1974), German poet, translator, editor and publisher
* Sally Singhateh (born 1977), Gambian poet and novelist
* Tracy K. Smith (born 1972), African-American poet and educator
* Geeta Tripathee (born 1973), Nepalese poet and song-writer
* Anja Utler (born 1972), German poet, essayist and translator
* Julieta Valero (born 1971), Spanish poet
* Jumoke Verissimo (born 1979), Nigerian poet and writer
* Emily Warn (living), American poet and essayist
* Uljana Wolf (1979), German poet and translator
* Jennifer Wong (born 1978), Chinese poet
* Yu Xiuhua (余秀华, born 1976), Chinese poet
* Eva Yárnoz (born 1975), Spanish poet
* Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (born 1979), Polish poet and journalist

## 1980s

In alphabetical order:
* Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), Ukrainian physician, poet, writer and translator
* Salma Khalil Alio (born 1982), Chad poet, photographer and graphic artist
* Nadia Anjuman (1980–2005), Afghan poet
* Süreyya Aylin Antmen (born 1981), Turkish writer, poet and essayist
* Wani Ardy (born 1984), Malaysian writer, poet, and singer-songwriter
* Eileen Barbosa (living), Cape Verdean poet and fiction writer
* Mara-Daria Cojocaru (living), German poet and university lecturer for philosophy
* Linda M. Deane (living), English-born writer, poet and editor in Barbados
* Xenia Dyakonova (born 1985), Russian-born poet, translator, literary critic, educator living in Spain
* Kristín Eiríksdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic poet
* Fateme Ekhtesari (born 1986), Iranian poet and midwife
* Kalilah Enríquez (born 1983), Belize poet and journalist
* Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (living), Marshall Islander/American poet and climate-change activist
* Iya Kiva (born 1984), Ukrainian poet, translator, journalist, and critic
* D. L. Lang (born 1983), American poet laureate of Vallejo, California
* Joanna Lech (born 1984), Polish poet and writer
* Rossy Evelin Lima (born 1986), Mexican poet and linguist
* Wendy McGrath (living), Canadian poet and novelist
* Jennifer Militello (living), American poet and professor
* Yamilka Noa (born 1980), Cuban/Costa Rican poet and film-maker
* Vera Polozkova (born 1986), Russian poet, actor and singer
* Sophie Reyer (born 1984), Austrian author
* Tania De Rozario (born 1982), Singaporean writer and visual artist
* Warsan Shire (born 1988), British writer, poet, editor and teacher
* Tamara Štajner (born 1987), Slovenian violist and writer
* Maja Solar (born 1980), Serbian poet
* Margo Taft Stever (living), American poet
* Azalia Suhaimi (born 1985), Malaysian poet, writer and photographer
* Véronique Tadjo (born 1985), Côte d'Ivoire poet, novelist and artist
* Bogi Takács (born 1983), Hungarian poet, writer and translator
* Judith Zander (born 1980), German writer and translator

## 1990s

In alphabetical order:
* Amata Giramata (born 1996), Rwandan/American poet and community organizer
* Amanda Gorman (born 1998), American poet
* Rupi Kaur (born 1992), Indian-born Canadian poet and illustrator
* Sheila Khala (born 1990 or 1991), Lesotho poet
* Melissa Lozada-Oliva (born 1992), American poet and educator
* Emtithal Mahmoud (born 1992 or 1993), Sudanese poet and activist
* Slata Roschal (born 1992), German writer and literary scholar

## Current (date of birth unknown)

* Elizabeth Acevedo, Dominican-American poet
* Sandra Agard, British storyteller, poet and cultural historian
* Star Black, American poet, photographer and artist
* Hannah Drake, African-American poet
* Beda Higgins, Anglo-Irish poet and writer
* Kara Jackson, American poet and former National Youth Poet Laureate of the USA
* Trista Mateer, American visual poet
* Monica Ong, Asian-American visual poet