Diane Wakoski, American poet, born 1937
Margaret Walker, American poet, born 1915
Robert Penn Warren, American poet, born 1905
Ella Wilcox, American poet, born 1850
Richard Wright, American poet, born 1908
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, born 1865
Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet, born 1899
Tang Yin, Chinese poet, born 1470
Akiko Yosano, Japanese Tanka poet, born 1878
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet, born 1783