List of Jewish American poets

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

Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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• David Antin, poet, critic and performance artist{{cite web |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/188685/talmudic-improv-david-antin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205080449/http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/188685/talmudic-improv-david-antin |archive-date=2015-02-05 |title=Talmudic Improv: A Visit With Poet David Antin – Tablet Magazine}}
• Rosebud Ben-Oni, poet and writer{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rosebud-ben-oni|title=Rosebud Ben-Oni|date=2017-09-18|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2017-09-18}}
• Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate{{cite magazine|title=Pride and Poetry (on Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff) | url=http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103341/joseph-brodsky-russian-literature-lev-loseff|access-date=4 June 2012 |date=18 May 2012 |first=Michael |last=Scammell |magazine=The New Republic}}
• Richard Chess, poet and academic{{Cite web|url=https://www.unca.edu/person/richard-chess-ph-d/|title=UNC-Ashville profile|access-date=2019-12-31|website=University of North Carolina Ashville}}
• Edith Covensky, poet, Professor of Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University
• Celia Dropkin, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =257 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• David Edelshtadt, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =137 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Norman Finkelstein, poet and literary critic{{cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/21429/scribes-and-scribblers/|title=Scribes and Scribblers - Tablet Magazine|website=www.tabletmag.com}}
• Allen Ginsberg, beat poet{{cite journal |last=Pacernick |first=Gary |year=1997 |title=Allen Ginsberg: An Interview |journal=American Poetry Review |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=23–27 |jstor=27782470}}
• Jacob Glatstein, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =370 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =245 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Stanley Kunitz, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =433 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Allen Grossman, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• D.L. Lang, poet {{cite web|url=https://reformjudaism.org/blog/2018/09/17/turning-poem-yom-kippur|website=reformjudaism.org|title=Tupodtrning: A Poem for Yom Kippur|access-date=15 October 2019}}
• Emma Lazarus, poet{{cite book |last=Young |first=Bette Roth |year=1997 |title=Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters |publisher=Jewish Publication Society |page=5 |isbn=9780827606180}}
• [David Lehman], poet{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-fine-romance-jewish-songwriters-american-songs |title=A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs | Jewish Book Council |date=2009 }}
• Mani Leib, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =217| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Jeffrey Levine, poet{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvardreview.org/?q=authors/jeffrey-levine|title=Jeffrey Levine – Harvard Review}}
• Anna Margolin, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =264 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868), actress and poet{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AMenken.html|title=Adah Isaacs Menken}}
• Penina Moise, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages = 69| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member{{cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/aurora-levins-morales|title=Aurora Levins Morales|date=2016-09-07}}
• Howard Nemerov, poet{{cite book | last =Codde | first =Philippe | title =The Jewish American Novel| publisher =Purdue University Press | date =2007 | pages =84 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6i3piWmjDDcC | isbn =9781557534378 }}
• Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/academy-chancellor-alicia-ostriker-named-new-york-state-poet-2018-2020|title=Academy Chancellor Alicia Ostriker Named New York State Poet 2018-2020|date=2018-08-16|website=poets.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-06}}
• Charles Reznikoff, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =363 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Morris Rosenfeld, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =134 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Muriel Rukeyser, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =534 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Delmore Schwartz, poet and essayist{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =538 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Karl Shapiro, poet, editor and academic{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =553 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Fradl Shtok, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =290 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Marcela Sulak, poet
• Samuel Ullman, poet {{cite web |url=http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec31det.html |title=ADAH: Alabama Moments (Samuel Ullman, 1840-1924--Details) |access-date=2007-01-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214093036/http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec31det.html |archive-date=2007-02-14 }}
• Louis Untermeyer, poet and anthologist [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=F9RVBnJlFQRpNkd9hCtJFXRjhC6jzZTJjXk2ZrtQ6BbQT44zmrHh!-694504597!-40434697?a=o&d=5001868771]: "Louis Untermeyer, himself Jewish"

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• Yehoash, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | pages =139 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}
• Louis Zukofsky, poet{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = W.W. Norton & Company| date =2001 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C | isbn =9780393048094 }}