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Authors, Arranged by Genre (Poetry)

Olga Abella	Diane Ackerman	Tracy Ahrens	Dorothy Keeley Aldis
Carolyn Alessio	Elizabeth Alexander	William Allegrezza	Jeffery Renard Allen
Julia Alvarez	Joe Amato	Ricardo Mario Amézquita	Richard Mario Amesquita
Rachell N. Anderson	Aaron Anstett	Judith Arcana	Howard Benjamin Austin
Mary Hunter Austin	Beatriz Badikian-Gartler	Glenda Bailey-Mershon	Regina Harris Baiocchi
James Ballowe	Vicki Bamman	Jerry Barrett	Lois Fowler Barrett
Dennis Bartizal	Ruby Dell Baugher	Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner	Brooke Bergan
Ted Berrigan	Tara Betts	Drew Bialko	Mary Biddinger
Trever James Bierschbach	Donna Biffar	Jeff Biggers	Mark Blaeuer
Norbert Blei	Roger Bonair-Agard	David Bond	Joe Bonomo
Jenny Boully	Kristy Bowen	JoAnn Boydston	Ray Bradbury
John Bradley	David Breeden	Gwendolyn Brooks	Larry Broutman
Oscar Brown, Jr.	Michael H. Brownstein	John Howard Bryant	Suzanne Buffam
Robert J. Burdette	CM Burroughs	Margaret T.G. Burroughs	Dominic Lawrence Candeloro
Brenda Cardenas	A.D. Carson	Ana Castillo	Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Orlando Ceaser	George Chambers	Maxine Chernoff	Ariana Rochelle Cherry-Shearer
Susan Spaeth Cherry	Phyllis Ford Choyke	David A. Christensen	Sandra Cisneros
Daniel Cleary	Ryan Van Cleave	Wanda Lou Clevenger	Laurie B Clifford
Laurie Berry Clifford	Ruth Allison Coates	Joan Colby	Job Conger
Kathleen A. Corrigan	Carlos Cortez	Kevin Coval	Joel Craig
Forrest Crissey	Robin Currie	David Curry	Bruce Cutler
Garin L. Cycholl	Jeffrey Daniels	Ann Darr	Lawrence O Dean
Albert DeGenova	Mary McCormack Deka	Gary DeNeal	George Hill Dillon
Jacob Donley	Glenn W. Dresbach	Henry Dumas	John J. Dunphy
Kelly Norman Ellis	Elaine Equi	Dave Etter	Janet Ayer Fairbank
Richard Fammeree	Eileen Favorite	Kenneth Fearing	Lisa Fishman
Robert Fitzgerald	Rachel Contreni Flynn	Flora Wallis Foss	Tobin Fraley
Barry Frauman	Edith Freund	Paul Friedrich	David Friend
Allison Funk	Cynthia Gallaher	Patricia Gangas	Paul Garon
Joseph Gastiger	Lucia Cordell Getsi	Sarah Sovereign Getty	Reginald Gibbons
Marilyn Huntman Giese	Zack Gilbert (Lerman)	Ken Gilbert	Virginia Gilbert
Victor David Giron	Albert Goldbarth	Goldie Goldbloom	Sandy Goldsmith
Ruth Goring	Judy Grahn	Gerri R. Gray	Thomas Gregg
Dwight David Gross	Dan Guillory	Carolyn Guinzio	Jeff Gundy
Susan Hahn	Samuel W. Hale III	M. Eliza Hamilton	Janice N. Harrington
Hermene Hartman	Darryl Harvey	Carol Hegberg	David Hernandez
Hope C. Hill	Daryl Hine	Nathan Hoks	Chris Holaves
Brandi Homan	Kenneth Hopkins	Richard Hovey	Bette Howland
Louise L. Hullinger	Tim Hunt	Edgar Allen Imhoff	Daniel Scott Irwin
Sandra Jackson-Opoku	Toneal M. Jackson	Zachary Michael Jack	John Jacob
Angie Michelle James	Phyllis Janik	Larry Janowski	Tyehimba Jess
Allan Johnston	Devin Johnston	Joyce Marie Jones	Judy Jordan
Allison Joseph	Valente Judith	Michael Kadela	Alexander Karanikas
Jennifer Karmin	Reginald Kee	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	Vanessa King
Mary Kinzie	John Knoepfle	Kristen Koppers	Stephen Koritta
Joseph J Kozma	Joanna Kurowska	Susanna Lang	Quraysh Ali Lansana
Wayne Lanter	E'mon Lauren	David Lazar	Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee
Li-Young Lee	Marcellus Julien Leonard	Jennifer Celeste Lester	Francesco Levato
Lauren Levato	Janet Loxley Lewis	Laurence Lieberman	Vachel Lindsay
Anastasia Marie Lindsey	Judy R. Little	Christina Ericson Lovin	Gail Lukasik
Lennart Lundh	Alyce Lyle	Joanie Mackowski	Haki R. Madhubuti
Michael David Madonick	Shanny Jean Maney	Martin Marcus	Margaret Dubay Mikus, Ph.D.
William Marr	Edgar Lee Masters	Marcia Lee Masters	Don S. McClure
Gene McCormick	Orlando Menes	Sharon Mesmer	Linda Mitchell
Faisal Mohyuddin	Harriet Monroe	William Vaughn Moody	A.D. Moore
Bill Morgan	Wilda Morris	Paul Scott Mowrer	Lisel Mueller
Simone Muench	Peggy Munson	Gerald Edward Murray	Jarrett Neal
Rosina Neginsky	John G. Neihardt	Julie Parson Nesbitt	Amy Newman
Charlie Newman	Barbra Nightingale	John Fredrick Nims	Raul Nino
Molly F. Norwood	Elder James Olsen	Daniela Olszewska	James Horton Palmer
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks	Julie Parson-Nesbitt	Stanley Victor Paskavich	Johanny Vazquez Paz
Charlotte Pence	Mark Perlberg	Brandye Phillips	Patty Dickson Pieczka
Sterling Plumpp	Fran Podulka	Susan Azar Porterfield	Donna Pucciani
Mark E. Pulsifer	Courtney Queeney	Henry Rago	Ned Randle
Patrick T. Reardon	Srikanth Reddy	Beatrice Schenk de Regniers	Jim Reiss
Dustin Renwick	Charles Reynard	James Ivy Richardson III	Michael Robbins
Ed Roberson	Tom Roby	Carolyn M. Rogers	Alane Rollings
Franklin Rosemont	Deborah Nodler Rosen	Charles Rossiter	Erika L. Sanchez
Carl Sandburg	Lawrence Santoro	Larry Sawyer	Jennifer Scappettone
Michelle Schaub	James Marcus Schuyler	Charles Schwartz	Maureen Seaton
Gregg Shapiro	Karl Jay Shapiro	Charles D. Simic	Andrea Witzke Slot
Jared R.W. Smith	Patricia Lee Smith	Carol Spelius	Beth Staas
Maura Stanton	Frances Cook Steen	Ruth Stephan	Debra J Stewart
Jack Stillinger	Christy Stillwell	Mark Strand	Jason Sturner
Robert Sward	Edward Robeson Taylor	J.J. Tindall	Bill Tinley
James Treat	Natasha Trethewey	Billy Tuggle	Joanna Beth Tweedy
Ed Donald Two-Rivers	Michael Tyler	Danny Mahlon Underwood	Judith Valente
Jean Valentine	Wendy Vardaman	Frank Varela	Beth Copeland Vargo
Thomas L. Vaultonburg	Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody	Doris Vidaver	Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
Michael Van Walleghen	Jessica Lee Walsh	William Wantling	Edward R. Ward
Kathleen Welton	Ingrid Wendt	Rodd Whelpley	Paul O. Williams
Phillip B. Williams	Tonya Latrice Wilson	Christian Wiman	Yvor Winters
Sally Wisenburg	Debra Woodard	Debra Woodward	Robert Wrigley
Mark Yakich	Lauren Yoder	Emily Jungmin Yoon	Dean Young
Jessie Johnson Young	Reggie Scott Young	Adam Zagajewski