This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of Jewish American poets" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This is alist of notableJewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, seeLists of Jewish Americans.

Double asterisks (**) denotes winners of thePulitzer Prize for Poetry.

• David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist^[1]
• Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer^[2]
• Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist^[3]
• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate^[4]
• Richard Chess, poet and academic^[5]
• Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies atWayne State University
• Celia Dropkin, poet^[6]
• David Edelshtadt, poet^[7]
• Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic^[8]
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet^[9]
• Jacob Glatstein, poet^[10]
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet^[11]
• Stanley Kunitz, poet^[12]
• Allen Grossman, poet^[13]
• D.L. Lang, poet^[14]
• Emma Lazarus, poet^[15]
• David Lehman, poet^[16]
• Mani Leib, poet^[17]
• Jeffrey Levine, poet^[18]
• Anna Margolin, poet^[19]
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet^[20]
• Penina Moise, poet^[21]
• Aurora Levins Morales, poet, andJewish Voice for Peace advisory board member^[22]
• Howard Nemerov, poet^[23]
• Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar^[24]
• Grace Paley, poet and short story author
• Charles Reznikoff, poet^[25]
• Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist^[26]
• Morris Rosenfeld, poet^[27]
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist^[28]
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet^[29]
• Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist^[30]
• Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic^[31]
• Fradl Shtok, poet^[32]
• Samuel Ullman, poet^[33]
• Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist^[34]
• Yehoash, poet^[35]
• Louis Zukofsky, poet^[36]

• 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

• Jewish American poets
• Jewish poets
• Lists of American Jews by occupation
• American poets
• Lists of poets
• Lists of American writers

• CS1 maint: others
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles needing additional references from December 2019
• All articles needing additional references
• Use mdy dates from April 2025
• Dynamic lists