List of English language poets

Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the English language. {{listdev}}

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Wa-We

• Ugonna Wachuku (born 1971)
• Catherine Wagner
• Diane Wakoski
• Derek Walcott (born 1930)
• Anne Waldman
• Rosmarie Waldrop
• Keith Waldrop
• Alice Walker, (born 1944)
• Margaret Walker
• Mark Wallace
• Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
• Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
• Diane Ward
• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
• Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
• John Webster (died 1630)
• Ian Wedde (born 1946)
• Gilbert West
• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
• Hannah Weiner
• Marjorie Welish

Wh-Wy

• James M. Whitfield
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
• Richard Wilbur
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• John Wilkinson
• William of Shoreham (14th century)
• Hugo Williams
• Oscar Williams
• Saul Williams
• Sherley Anne Williams
• William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
• Elizabeth Willis
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
• Terence Winch
• George Wither (1588-1667)
• Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
• C. D. Wright
• Judith Wright
• Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)