I–K
- P. Inman (born 1947)
- Richard Jago (1715–1781)
- John James (born 1939)
- Patricia Janus (1932–2006), American poet and artist
- Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)
- Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
- Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
- Fenton Johnson (born 1953)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966)
- Helene Johnson (1906–1995)
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- David Jones (1895–1974)
- Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860)
- Emma Jones (born 1977)
- Patrick Jones (born 1965)
- Erica Jong (born 1942)
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637)
- June Jordan (1936–2002)
- Anthony Joseph
- Jenny Joseph (born 1932)
- James Joyce (1882–1941)
- Trevor Joyce (born 1947)
- Frank Judge
- Donald Justice (1925–2004)
- Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977)
- Bob Kaufman (1925–1986)
- Jayne Fenton Keane
- John Keats (1795–1821)
- Arthur Kelton (died c. 1550)
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy aka "Woodbine Willy" (1883–1929)
- Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
- Sidney Keyes (1922–1943)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile (born 1938)
- Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)
- Arthur Henry King (1910–2000)
- Henry King (1592–1669)
- William King (1663–1712)
- Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
- John Kinsella (born 1963)
- Thomas Kinsella (born 1928)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
- Etheridge Knight (1931–1991)
- Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)
- Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947)
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954)
- Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
- Joanne Kyger (born 1934)
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