Poets of
the World

Anna Andreevna Achmatova

Russia · Russian

Etel Adnan

Lebanon · French

— Adonis

Lebanon · Arabic

Jorge Enrique Adoum

Ecuador · Spanish

Yesim Agaoglu

Turkey · Turkish

Dritero Agolli

Albania · Albanian

Francisca Aguirre

Spain · Spanish

Jasmina Ahmetagić

Serbia · Serbian

Mimoza Ahmeti

Albania · Albanian

Humberto Ak'abal

Guatemala · Spanish

Bjanka Alajbegović-Šabotić

Italy · Italian

Bisera Alikadić

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

Alon Altaras

Israel · Italian

Marc Alyn

France · French

Marco Amendolara

Italy · Italian

Antonella Anedda

Italy · Italian

Fatos Arapi

Albania · Albanian

Jorge Arbeleche

Uruguay · Spanish

María Victoria Atencia

Spain · Spanish

Margaret Atwood

Canada · English

Gérard Augustin

France · French

Tarik Aziz

Iraq · Italian

Mahnaz Badihian

Iran · English

Mariano Baino

Italy · Italian

Amina Baraka

United States · English

Amiri Baraka

United States · English

Massimo Baraldi

Italy · Italian

Juan Barja

Spain · Spanish

Gladys Basagoitia Dazza

Italy · Spanish

Julian Beck

United States · English

Tahar Bekri

Tunisia · French

Carlos German Belli

Peru · Spanish

Anna Belozorovitch

Russia · Italian

Abdelkader Benali

Netherlands · Dutch

Mario Benedetti

Uruguay · Spanish

Mohammed Bennis

Morocco · Arabic

Judi Benson

Italy · English

Mariella Bettarini

Italy · Italian

Gaetano Blaiotta

Italy · Italian

Ana Blandiana

Romania · Romanian

Carlo Bordini

Italy · Italian

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentina · Spanish

Pieter Boskma

Italy · Dutch

Nicola Bottiglieri

Italy · Italian

Carmen Boullosa

Mexico · Spanish

Fleur Bourgonje

Italy · Dutch

Carlos Bousoño

Spain · Spanish

Domenico Brancale

Italy · Italian

Beat Brechbühl

Switzerland · German

Casimiro de Brito

Portugal · Portuguese

Nicole Brossard

Canada · French

Ferruccio Brugnaro

Italy · Italian

Charles Bukowski

United States · English

Daniel Calabrese

Argentina · Spanish

Maria Grazia Calandrone

Italy · Italian

Carmen Camacho

Spain · Spanish

Livia Chandra Candiani

Italy · Italian

Martha L. Canfield

Italy · Italian

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaragua · Spanish

Roberto Carifi

Italy · Italian

Domenico Carrara

Italy · Italian

Antonio Carvajal

Spain · Spanish

Michel Cassir

Italy · French

Tristan Cassir

France · French

Otto René Castillo

Guatemala · Spanish

Giancarlo Cavallo

Italy · Italian

Metin Cengiz

Turkey · Turkish

Neeli Cherkovski

United States · English

Marco Cinque

Italy · Italian

Andy Clausen

United States · English

Leonard Cohen

Canada · English

Ira Cohen

United States · English

Wanda Coleman

United States · English

Teresa Colom

Spain · Catalan

Francis Combes

France · French

Giuseppe Conte

Italy · Italian

Bruno Coppola

Italy · Italian

Gregory Corso

United States · English

Jayne Cortez

United States · English

Beppe Costa

Italy · Italian

Rafael Courtoisie

Uruguay · Spanish

Daniela Crasnaru

Romania · Romanian

Robert Creeley

United States · English

Maurizio Cucchi

Italy · Italian

Silvio Cumpeta

Italy · Italian

Lucia Cupertino

Italy · Italian

Gianni D'Elia

Italy · Italian

Maria van Daalen

Italy · Dutch

Paul Dakeyo

Cameroon · French

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Haiti · French

Roque Dalton

El Salvador · Spanish

Maria Elena Danelli

Italy · Italian

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestine · Arabic

Milo De Angelis

Italy · Italian

Erri De Luca

Italy · Italian

Vera Lúcia de Oliveira

Italy · Italian

Giampaolo De Pietro

Italy · Italian

Aleš Debeljak

Slovenia · Slovenian

Roberto Dedenaro

Italy · Italian

Almedina Dedović

Italy · Italian

Michel Deguy

France · French

Roberto Deidier

Italy · Italian

Christopher Dewdney

Canada · English

Tommaso Di Francesco

Italy · Italian

Ismaël Aït Djafer

Algeria · French

Jordi Doce

Spain · Spanish

Alexandra Domínguez

Chile · Spanish

Sharon Doubiago

United States · English

Arjen Duinker

Italy · Dutch

Ferida Duraković

Italy · Italian

Vojka Đikić

Italy · Italian

Andres Ehin

Estonia · Estonian

Olivia Elias

Palestine · French

Tarek Eltayeb

Sudan · Arabic

Haydar Ergülen

Turkey · Turkish

Bernardine Evaristo

Italy · English

Agneta Falk

Italy · English

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

United States · English

Roberto Fernández Retamar

Cuba · Spanish

Evald Flisar

Slovenia · Slovenian

Mario Alberto Fonseca de Almeida

Italy · Portuguese

Biancamaria Frabotta

Italy · Italian

Gabriele Frasca

Italy · Italian

Antonio Gamoneda

Spain · Spanish

Andrea Garbin

Italy · Italian

Alfonso Gatto

Italy · Italian

Juan Gelman

Argentina · Spanish

Allen Ginsberg

United States · English

John Giorno

United States · English

Bogomil Gjuzel

Italy · Macedonian

Ruben van Gogh

Netherlands · Dutch

Felix Grande

Spain · Spanish

Guadalupe Grande

Spain · Spanish

Giuseppe Grattacaso

Italy · Italian

Sinan Gudžević

Italy · Italian

Alfonso Guida

Italy · Italian

Angel Guinda

Spain · Spanish

Ferreira Gullar

Brazil · Portuguese

Nedim Gürsel

Turkey · Turkish

Ismaël Diadié Haïdara

Mali · French

Gezim Hajdari

Albania · Albanian

Faslli Haliti

Albania · Albanian

Tony Harrison

Italy · English

Nima Hassan

Palestine · Arabic

Ana Hatherly

Portugal · Portuguese

Mahmoudan Hawad

Italy · Italian

David Henderson

United States · English

Lance Henson

United States · English

José Hierro

Spain · Spanish

Nazim Hikmet

Turkey · Turkish

Jack Hirschman

United States · English

Michael Horovitz

United Kingdom · English

Petr Hruška

Italy · Czech

Giovanni Ibello

Italy · Italian

Lêdo Ivo

Brazil · Portuguese

Clara Janés

Spain · Spanish

Majia Jidi

China · Chinese (Mandarin)

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Chile · Spanish

Amal al Juburi

Iraq · Arabic

Kama Sywor Kamanda

Italy · French

Jaan Kaplinski

Estonia · Estonian

Adel Karasholi

Syria · Arabic

Yitzhak Katzenelson

Poland · Yiddish

Bob Kaufman

United States · English

Jochen Kelter

Switzerland · German

Mimi Khalvati

United Kingdom · English

Un Ko

Italy · Korean

Almir Kolar

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

Barbara Korun

Slovenia · Slovenian

Miroslav Kosuta

Slovenia · Slovenian

Kajetan Kovič

Slovenia · Slovenian

Marko Kravos

Slovenia · Slovenian

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Ireland · English

Abdellatif Laâbi

Morocco · French

Paul Laraque

Haiti · Italian

Yvon Le Men

France · French

Meridel Le Sueur

United States · English

Ivo Ledergerber

Switzerland · German

Inmaculada Lergo

Spain · Spanish

Genny Lim

United States · English

Anna Lombardo

Italy · Italian

Tedi Lopez Mills

Mexico · Spanish

Nicolás López-Pérez

Chile · Spanish

Predrag Lucić

Croatia · Italian

Mauro Macario

Italy · Italian

Ivo Machado

Portugal · Portuguese

Devorah Major

United States · English

Giancarlo Majorino

Italy · Italian

Nedžad Maksumić

Italy · Italian

Umberto Mangani

Italy · Italian

Wanda Marasco

Italy · Italian

Nina Maroccolo

Italy · Italian

Juan Carlos Marset

Spain · Spanish

Alberto Masala

Italy · Italian

Maram al Masri

Syria · Arabic

Monzer Masri

Syria · Arabic

Mateja Matevski

Italy · Macedonian

Martin Matz

United States · English

Michael McClure

United States · English

Claude McKay

United States · English

Susan McMaster

Canada · English

Ray McNiece

United States · English

David Meltzer

United States · English

— Memchoubi

India · English

Daniele Mencarelli

Italy · Italian

Sarah Menefee

United States · English

Juan Carlos Mestre

Spain · Spanish

Jolka Milič

Slovenia · Slovenian

Velimir Milošević

Italy · Italian

Vinko Möderndorfer

Slovenia · Slovenian

Julio Monteiro Martins

Brazil · Portuguese

Victor Montejo

Guatemala · Spanish

Luciano Morandini

Italy · Italian

Alberto Mori

Italy · Italian

Chiara Mulas

Italy · Italian

Senadin Musabegović

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatian

Roberto Mussapi

Italy · Italian

Taslima Nasrin

Bangladesh · English

Amjad Nasser

Jordan · Arabic

Ban'ya Natsuishi

Japan · Japanese

Carlos Nejar

Brazil · Portuguese

Pablo Neruda

Chile · Spanish

Elvedin Nezirović

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

— Nimrod

Italy · French

Boris Novak

Slovenia · Slovenian

Cletus Nelson Nwadike

Italy · Swedish

Michele Obit

Italy · Italian

Gabriel Okoundji

Congo · French

Simon Ortiz

United States · English

Carlos Edmundo de Ory

Spain · Spanish

Iztok Osojnik

Slovenia · Slovenian

Josip Osti

Italy · Italian

Ljubica Ostojić

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

Gianluca Paciucci

Italy · Italian

Adisa Opal Palmer

United States · English

Yolanda Pantin

Venezuela · Spanish

Ambar Past

Mexico · Spanish

Sotirios Pastakas

Greece · Greek

Luis Carlos Patraquim

Mozambique · Portuguese

Tone Pavček

Slovenia · Slovenian

Elio Pecora

Italy · Italian

Plinio Perilli

Italy · Italian

Silvio Perrella

Italy · Italian

Alexandra Petrova

Russia · Russian

Serge Pey

France · French

Anthony Phelps

Haiti · French

Ugo Pierri

Italy · Italian

Juan Vicente Piqueras

Spain · Spanish

Sylvia Plath

United States · English

Paul Polansky

United States · English

Janine Pommy Vega

United States · English

Giancarlo Pontiggia

Italy · Italian

Gordon M. Poole

Italy · Italian

Aleksij Pregarc

Italy · Slovenian

Juan Octavio Prenz

Argentina · Spanish

René Puthaar

Italy · Dutch

Fatma Qandil

Egypt · Arabic

Samih al Qasim

Palestine · Arabic

Giovanni Quessep

Colombia · Spanish

Enzo Ragone

Italy · Italian

Valeria Raimondi

Italy · Italian

Tom Raworth

United Kingdom · English

Martin Reints

Netherlands · Dutch

Carter Revard

Italy · English

Antonio Riccardi

Italy · Italian

Manuel Rico Rego

Spain · Spanish

Jorge Riechmann

Spain · Spanish

Eleonora Rimolo

Italy · Italian

Roger Robinson

Italy · English

Luis J. Rodriguez

United States · English

Jacques Roumain

Haiti · French

Tadeusz Różewicz

Poland · Polish

Paolo Ruffilli

Italy · Italian

Paolo Rumiz

Italy · Italian

Margara Russotto

Venezuela · Spanish

Nohad Salameh

Lebanon · French

Ada Salas

Spain · Spanish

Ralph Salisbury

United States · English

Sonia Sanchez

United States · English

Eloy Santos

Spain · Spanish

Izet Sarajlić

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

Sandro Sardella

Italy · Italian

Gregorio Scalise

Italy · Italian

Rocco Scotellaro

Italy · Italian

Giacomo Scotti

Italy · Italian

Faruk Sehić

Italy · Italian

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Senegal · French

Luis Sepúlveda

Chile · Spanish

Anne Sexton

United States · English

Aharon Shabtai

Israel · Hebrew

Gabriella Sica

Italy · Italian

Abdulah Sidran

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Italian

Ken Smith

Italy · English

Saeed Soltanpur

Iran · Farsi

Michele Sovente

Italy · Italian

Xevahir Spahiu

Albania · Albanian

Alessandro Spinazzi

Italy · Italian

Mirjana Stefanović

Serbia · Italian

Giulio Stocchi

Italy · Italian

Lucija Stupica

Slovenia · Slovenian

Matthew Sweeney

Ireland · English

Endre Szkarosi

Hungary · Hungarian

Tomaž Šalamun

Slovenia · Slovenian

Slavko Šantić

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatian

Šaban Šarenkapic

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatian

Vojo Šindolić

Croatia · Italian

Stevka Šmitran

Italy · Italian

Amber Tamblyn

United States · English

Apirana Taylor

New Zealand · English

Paulo Teixeira

Mozambique · Portuguese

Hassan Teleb

Egypt · Arabic

Taijin Tendo

Japan · Japanese

— The Daughters of Yam

United States · English

Piri Thomas

United States · English

Tomaso Tiddia

Italy · Italian

Hugh Tolhurst

Australia · English

Stevan Tontić

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian

Willem van Toorn

Italy · Dutch

Khal Torabully

Italy · French

Giacomo Trinci

Italy · Italian

Fadwa Tuqan

Palestine · Arabic

Edvino Ugolini

Italy · Italian

Gilles Bernard Vachon

France · French

Vicente Valero

Spain · Spanish

Nenad Veličković

Italy · Italian

Vivienne Vermes

France · French

Christiane Veschambre

France · French

Marko Vešović

Italy · Italian

Maja Vidmar

Slovenia · Slovenian

Francisco José Viegas

Portugal · Portuguese

Gian Mario Villalta

Italy · Italian

Sonja Votolen

Slovenia · Slovenian

Nikifòros Vrettàkos

Greece · Greek

Anne Waldman

United States · English

Ingrid Wendt

United States · English

Blanca Wiethüchter

Bolivia · Spanish

Carmen Yáñez

Chile · Spanish

Mehmet Yashin

Cyprus · Turkish

Müesser Yeniay

Turkey · Turkish

Saadi Yousef

Iraq · Arabic

Saúl Yurkievich

Argentina · Spanish

Adam Zagajewski

Poland · Polish

Dane Zajc

Slovenia · Slovenian

Ante Zemljar

Croatia · Italian

Visar Zhiti

Albania · Albanian

Ciril Zlobec

Slovenia · Slovenian

Andrea Zuccolo

Italy · Italian

Uroš Zupan

Slovenia · Slovenian