21st Century Poets

Historical Poetry

Vote Ranking  

1

Felix Dennis

Publisher

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

Rita Dove

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

Calvin Trillin

Commentator

100% (1 of 1 votes)

4

MuMs Da Schemer (Craig Grant)

Poet

100% (2 of 2 votes)

5

Keith Sowell

TV Reality Show Contestant

100% (2 of 2 votes)

6

Semhar Tadesse

TV Reality Show Contestant

100% (2 of 2 votes)

7

Clive James

Critic

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

Simon Armitage

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

9

Ishmael Reed

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

10

Sandra Cisneros

Author

76.92% (10 of 13 votes)

11

Amanda Gorman

Poet

57.14% (32 of 56 votes)

12

John Ashbery

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

13

Gary Soto

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

14

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

15

Seamus Heaney

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

16

Lela Loren

Actress

46.15% (6 of 13 votes)

17

John Sinclair

Advocate

45.59% (62 of 136 votes)

18

Maya Angelou

Poet

43.75% (21 of 48 votes)

19

Jack Prelutsky

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

Jon Fosse

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

21

Pat Arrowsmith

Advocate

0% (0 of 2 votes)

22

David R. Slavitt

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

Benjamin Zephaniah

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

24

Louise Glück

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

25

Joy Harjo

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

26

Ernest Cline

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

27

Liana Wallace

TV Reality Show Contestant

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

Mary Karr

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

29

Sapphire

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

Julia Alvarez

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

31

Dennis Brutus

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

Annie Dillard

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

33

Olga Tokarczuk

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

David Berman

Vocalist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

35

Bell Hooks

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

36

Dana Gioia

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

Sherman Alexie

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

38

Andrew Motion

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

Michael and Matthew Dickman

Authors

0% (0 of 1 votes)

40

Robert Bly

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

Czeslaw Milosz

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

Rod McKuen

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

43

Billy Collins

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

44

Gary Snyder

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

45

Ntozake Shange

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

46

Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark

Royalty

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

Pete Brown

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

48

Tamzin Merchant

Actress

0% (0 of 2 votes)

49

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

50

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

C.K. Williams

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

52

Robert Creeley

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

53

James Welch

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

54

Mahmoud Darwish

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

55

Wole Soyinka

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

56

Emanuel Xavier

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

57

Taylor Mead

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

58

Rosario Ferre

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

Molly Peacock

Poet

0% (0 of 5 votes)

60

Anne Carson

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

61

Piri Thomas

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

62

Derek Walcott

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

63

Amiri Baraka

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

64

Wislawa Szymborska

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

66

Muhammad Salih

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

67

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

68

Carol Ann Duffy

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)