Top 50 Poets in United States

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 264 poets tracked in United States, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sylvia Plath, Antler and Shel Silverstein lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5,058,582 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 425,162, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 2,317,321 people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Sylvia Plath	2,317,321	43.4%	Poet	Literature
2	Antler	1,648,222	54.5%	Poet	Pets & Animals
3	Shel Silverstein	1,093,039	81.0%	Poet	Literature
4	H. P. Lovecraft	956,945	29.7%	Poet	Literature
5	Andrea Gibson	822,851	94.5%	Poet	Literature
6	Ray Bradbury	772,433	60.8%	Poet	Literature
7	Ada Lovelace	726,177	25.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
8	Ralph Waldo Emerson	649,369	57.0%	Poet	Literature
9	Henry David Thoreau	632,451	51.5%	Poet	Literature
10	T. S. Eliot	533,563	22.2%	Poet	Literature
11	Harriet Beecher Stowe	483,560	95.2%	Poet	Literature
12	Richard I of England	481,217	41.8%	Poet	Politics & Society
13	Lord Byron	476,912	22.6%	Poet	Literature
14	Amanda Gorman	460,342	67.1%	Poet	Literature
15	Tennessee Williams	459,593	41.4%	Poet	Literature
16	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	427,997	32.8%	Poet	Politics & Society
17	Emily Brontë	401,754	20.3%	Poet	Literature
18	Zelda Fitzgerald	394,130	87.0%	Poet	Literature
19	Alexander Pushkin	391,628	34.6%	Poet	Literature
20	Nikki Giovanni	372,559	96.1%	Poet	Literature
21	Aldous Huxley	357,960	30.3%	Poet	Literature
22	Audre Lorde	341,435	60.6%	Poet	Literature
23	Rumi	339,800	23.9%	Poet	Politics & Society
24	dean koontz	334,864	52.9%	Poet	Literature
25	Joyce Carol Oates	315,852	43.8%	Poet	Literature
26	Allen Ginsberg	315,320	42.0%	Poet	Literature
27	Ovid	297,464	34.6%	Poet	Literature
28	Percy Bysshe Shelley	294,579	32.8%	Poet	Literature
29	Augustine of Hippo	286,468	19.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
30	Robert Louis Stevenson	273,233	24.9%	Poet	Literature
31	John Milton	259,470	27.4%	Poet	Literature
32	Ezra Pound	225,280	60.7%	Poet	Literature
33	Thomas Merton	196,113	80.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
34	Nikolai Gogol	192,755	23.6%	Poet	Literature
35	Cyrano de Bergerac	191,364	19.1%	Poet	Literature
36	Akiane Kramarik	191,270	60.5%	Poet	Literature
37	Viktor Tsoi	185,119	51.9%	Poet	Literature
38	W. H. Auden	184,613	71.2%	Poet	Literature
39	Petrarch	182,823	78.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
40	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	181,610	82.9%	Poet	Literature
41	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	179,296	73.9%	Poet	Literature
42	Louise Erdrich	178,434	83.1%	Poet	Literature
43	Chinua Achebe	173,966	61.5%	Poet	Literature
44	Miguel de Cervantes	170,805	10.3%	Poet	Literature
45	Thomas Moore	156,663	64.5%	Poet	Literature
46	Julia Alvarez	155,980	97.7%	Poet	Literature
47	John Keats	154,826	20.8%	Poet	Literature
48	E. E. Cummings	149,603	72.0%	Poet	Literature
49	Anne Sexton	146,850	82.5%	Poet	Literature
50	Charlotte Brontë	142,267	25.5%	Poet	Literature