Poets By Name Letter J
J. R. R. Tolkien Poems
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born of British parents in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January of 1892, but moved...
Jack Gilbert Poems
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. He was educated in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, where...
Jack Kerouac Poems
Jack Kerouac was born Jean Louis Kerouac in Lowell, Massachussetts on March 12, 1922. His attended Lowell, Massachussetts...
Jack Prelutsky Poems
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet. He attended New York public...
Jack Spicer Poems
John Lester Spicer was born on January 30, 1925, in Hollywood, California, where his parents managed a small hotel....
Jackie Kay Poems
Born 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. British poet, playwright, and novelist. Her mother was Scottish and her father...
James A. Emanuel Poems
James A. Emanuel was born in 1921 in Alliance, Nebraska. His books include Jazz from the Haiku King (1999), Whole...
James Dickey Poems
Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. After serving as a pilot in the Second World War, he attended Vanderbilt University....
James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems
Hunt's father was an American clergyman who came to settle in Southgate, Middlesex. Leigh attended Christ's Hospital...
James Joyce Poems
Joyce was born in Dublin, where his father was a rates collector. He was educated at a Jesuit school and University...
James Lee Jobe Poems
James Lee Jobe has been published in MANZANITA, TULE REVIEW, PEARL, and many other periodicals. His poems are also...
James Merrill Poems
James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City on March 3, 1926, the son of Charles Merrill, co-founder of the...
James Schuyler Poems
James Marcus Schuyler was born in Chicago, Il, but he was inspired to write poetry when he moved with his family...
James Stephens Poems
James Stephens was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, and died December 26, 1950, in London, England....
James Tate Poems
James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry including...
James Thomson Poems
Thomson, James, 1700–1748, Scottish poet. Educated at Edinburgh, he went to London, took a post as tutor, and...
James Weldon Johnson Poems
Most modern Americans do not know the words to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," (see below) but in the segregated schools...
James Whitcomb Riley Poems
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, surrounded by farmland and primitive forests....
James Wright Poems
Born in 1927 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, one of the steel-producing towns strung out along the heavily-industrialized...
Jane Austen Poems
Jane Austen was born December 16th, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, England (near Basingstoke). She was the seventh...
Jane Kenyon Poems
Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare,...
Jane Taylor Poems
Jane Taylor (September 23, 1783...
Jean Cocteau Poems
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) has been called the most versatile artist of the twentieth century, and in this case hyperbole...
Jean De La Fontaine Poems
Jean de La Fontaine was born in Chateau-Thierry, Champagne, in central France, the son of a government official....
Jean Hans Arp Poems
"German-French sculptor, painter and poet. Jean Arp (also called Hans Arp) was born in Alsace and studied at the...