These are the poets represented on the CD, some of them with more than one poem.
| Poet | Dates | Birthplace | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | 1612-72 | Northampton, England |
| William Cullen Bryant | 1794-1878 | Cummington, MA |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-82 | Boston, MA |
| Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (For my take on Longfellow, see here.) |
1807-82 | Portland, ME |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | 1807-92 | Haverhill, MA |
| Edgar Allen Poe | 1809-49 | Boston, MA |
| Walter Whitman | 1819-92 | Huntington, NY |
| Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | 1830-86 | Amherst, MA |
| James Whitcomb Riley | 1849-1916 | Greenfield, IN |
| Emma Lazarus | 1849-87 | New York, NY |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 1850-1919 | Johnstown, WI |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 1869-1935 | Head Tide, ME |
| Robert Lee Frost | 1874-1963 | San Francisco, CA |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | Reading, PA |
| Ezra Weston Loomis Pound | 1885-1972 | Hailey, ID |
| Alfred Joyce Kilmer | 1886-1918 | New Brunswick, NJ |
| Alan Seeger | 1888-1916 | New York, NY |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | 1888-1965 | St Louis, MO |
| Cole Albert Porter | 1891-1964 | Peru, IN |
| Archibald MacLeish | 1892-1982 | Glencoe, IL |
| Dorothy RothschildParker | 1893-1967 | West End, NJ |
| James Langston Hughes | 1902-67 | Joplin, MO |
| Ogden Nash | 1902-71 | Rye, NY |
| Wystan Hugh Auden | 1907-73 | York, England |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911-79 | Worcester, MA |
| Randall Jarrell | 1914-65 | Nashville, TN |
| Richard Purdy Wilbur | 1921- | New York, NY |
| Denise Levertov | 1923-97 | Ilford, England |