Ai (1947- )
Maya Angelou (1928- )
Amiri Baraka (1934- )
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Sterling Brown (1901-1989)
Lucille Clifton (1936- )
Wanda Coleman (1946- )
Jayne Cortez (1936- )
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Toi Derricotte (1941- )
Rita Dove (1952- )
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Cornelius Eady (1954- )
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Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911)
Michael S. Harper (1938- )
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?)
Langston Hughes (1902-1968)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
June Jordan (1936- )
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Nathaniel Mackey (1947- )
Haki Madhubuti (1942- )
Colleen J. McElroy (1936- )
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
E. Ethelbert Miller (1950- )
Thylias Moss (1954- )
Marilyn Nelson (1946- )
Dudley Randall (1914- )
Ishmael Reed (1938- )
Carolyn Rodgers (1945- )
Sonia Sanchez (1934- )
Melvin B. Tolson (1900-1966)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Quincy Troupe (1943- )
Margaret Abigail Walker (1915-1998)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Jay Wright (1935- )
Al Young (1939- ).