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

Double asterisks (**) denotes winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Frances Payne Adler, American and Canadian poet David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Chess, poet and academic Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University Celia Dropkin, poet David Edelshtadt, poet Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic Allen Ginsberg, beat poet Jacob Glatstein, poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet Stanley Kunitz,** poet Allen Grossman, poet D.L. Lang, poet Emma Lazarus, poet David Lehman, poet Mani Leib, poet Jeffrey Levine, poet Anna Margolin, poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet Penina Moise, poet Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member Howard Nemerov, poet Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar Grace Paley, poet and short story author Charles Reznikoff, poet Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist Morris Rosenfeld, poet Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist Muriel Rukeyser, poet Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic Fradl Shtok, poet Samuel Ullman, poet Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist : "Louis Untermeyer, himself Jewish" Yehoash, poet Louis Zukofsky, poet

See also

Jewish American literature List of Yiddish language poets List of Jewish American authors List of Jewish American playwrights Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Before Columbus Foundation

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