Poets
- Steve Scafidi
- Frederick Seidel
- Anne Sexton
- William Shakespeare
- Angela Shaw
- Charles Simic
- Tom Simon
- Maurya Simon
- Louis Simpson
- Hal Sirowitz
- Pamela Spiro Wagner
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Susanna Styve
- Anna Swir
- James Tate
- Sara Teasdale
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- Edward Thomas
- Tu Fu
- Lao Tzu
- John Updike
- Paul Verlaine
- David Wagoner
- Derek Walcott
- Alice Walker
- May Thielgaard Watts
- E. B. White
- Walt Whitman
- Anna Wickham
- Richard Wilbur
- Hugo Williams
- C.K. Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- William Wordsworth
- James Wright
- Thomas Wyatt
- William Butler Yeats
- Adam Zagajewski
- Louis Zukofsky