Poets
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack Spicer
- James Dickey
- James Hogg
- James Russell Lowell
- James Whitcomb Riley
- James Wright
- Jean Toomer
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Joan Murray
- Joe Brainard
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Ashbery
- John Berryman
- John Bunyan
- John Davidson
- John Donne
- John Keats
- John Logan
- John Masefield
- John McCrae
- John Milton
- John of the Cross
- John Skelton
- Jon Anderson
- Jonathan Swift
- Jonathan Williams
- Joyce Kilmer
- Judith Viorst
- Julia Alvarez
- Julia Ward Howe
- June Jordan