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
• Debra Ghigna (born 1955)
• Viola George
• Andrew Glaze
• Josephine Aldrich Harris
• Randall Horton (born c. 1951)
• Barry Ivker (born 1941)
• Bess Lambert
• Irene Latham (born 1971)
• Evelyn Liddell
• 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