Poets By Name Letter L
Lady Mary Chudleigh Poems
A devoted Anglican, Chudleigh was self-educated in religious, scientific, and philosophical works. A fan of, probably...
Langston Hughes Poems
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston (brother...
Larry Levis Poems
Larry Levis (1946-1996) was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1946. The son of a grape grower, he grew...
Lascelles Abercrombie Poems
Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938) was a British...
Laura Riding Jackson Poems
Laura Riding Jackson was born Laura Reichenthal on January 16, 1901, in New York City. From 1918 to 1921, she attended...
Laure-Anne Bosselaar Poems
Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United Statesin 1987. Fluent in four languages, she...
Laurence Binyon Poems
Laurence Robert Binyon, (August 10, 1869 - March 10, 1943) was a British poet and scholar.He is best known for...
Laurie Lee Poems
Though many biographies say that Laurie Lee was born is Slad, his family seems to have moved there when he was...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poems
Born in New York, Lawrence Ferlinghetti earned a doctoral degree in poetry at the Sorbonne in Paris with a dissertation...
Leonard Cohen Poems
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and...
Les Murray Poems
Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and...
Lew Welch Poems
Lew Welch Born August 16, 1926 Phoenix, Arizona. Died May, 1971 Nevada City, California.The least-known member...
Lewis Carroll Poems
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was born at Daresbury in Chesire into a wealthy family. He attended a Yorkshire grammar...
Li Ching Chao Poems
She was born into a literary family and became an antiquarian, book collector, and calligrapher. Of her six original...
Li Po Poems
Li Po was born in what is now Sichuan Province. At 19 he left home and lived with a Taoist hermit. After a time...
Li-Young Lee Poems
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959, after spending nineteen months...
Liam Wilkinson Poems
Liam Wilkinson is a Poet and Songwriter. He was born in Doncaster in 1981 and educated at the University of Hull,...
Linda Pastan Poems
Linda Pastan, poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995, has published 10 volumes of poetry. Her most recent...
Lisa Zaran Poems
Lisa was born on September 26, 1969 in Los Angeles, California to an American-Norwegian mother, Joan Ablett (1941)...
Lisel Mueller Poems
Poet Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924. She and her family fled Nazi persecution, arriving in...
Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems
Lizette Woodworth Reese, 1856 -1935, was an American poet. She taught school for 45 years, 21 of them at the Western...
Lola Ridge Poems
Although Lola Ridge is relatively unknown to contemporary readers, she was a well-known poet and advocate of immigrants...
Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems
ALFRED TENNYSON was born at Somersby, near Spilsby, England, August 6, 1810 (given 1809 by some, and January 12,...
Lord Byron Poems
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent,...
Louis MacNeice Poems
Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended Oxford, where he majored in classics...