List of poets

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This is a List of poets from Birmingham, including those born in the city, or who lived or worked here:

• Betsey Barber Bancroft
• Todd Bates, born 1983
• John Beecher, 1904 – 1980
• Steven Ford Brown
• Mary Elizabeth Counselman, 1911 – 1994
• Mary Chase Cornelius
• Florence Crow
• Maude Elliott
• William Young Elliott
• Benjamin Fowlkes
• Debra Ghigna (born 1955)
• Viola George
• Christopher Gilbert, 1949-2007
• Andrew Glaze
• Josephine Aldrich Harris
• Randall Horton, born c. 1951
• Barry Ivker, born 1941
• Bess Lambert
• Irene Latham, born 1971
• Evelyn Liddell
• Kwoya Fagin Maples
• Kevin McGowin, 1970–2005
• Lulie Hard McKinley
• Una Reeves
• Louise Rieves
• Lucile Reynolds
• Sonia Sanchez, born 1934
• Frances Shillingburg
• Martha Shillito
• Joyce Somerset
• Ann Southern Tardy
• C. L. Threatt
• Julia Tutwiler, 1814–1916
• Mary Pollard Tynes
• Samuel Ullman, 1840–1924
• David Vest, born 1943
• Shirley Waites
• Margaret Walker, 1915–1998
• Mary Ward
• Clement Wood
• Vivian Wood