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Top 100 Poets in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 257 poets tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sylvia Plath, Shel Silverstein and H. P. Lovecraft lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.5M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 250k, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 2.3M 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.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Anne Sexton 147k Poet
52 Giordano Bruno 130k 40.7 46.8% Poet
53 Octavio Paz 122k 39.4 45.8% Poet
54 John Updike 119k 36.8 48.1% Poet
55 Omar Khayyám 117k 30.9 43.5% Poet
56 Aristophanes 117k 34.4 21.0% Poet
57 Amiri Baraka 116k Poet
58 Billy Collins 113k 50.0 66.7% Poet
59 John Henry Newman 108k 42.4 59.6% Poet
60 Julius Evola 101k 44.1 12.2% Poet
61 Adrienne Rich 97k Poet
62 Mahmoud Darwish 96k 37.6 48.6% Poet
63 Bertolt Brecht 93k 38.3 50.3% Poet
64 Gabriela Mistral 92k 34.7 68.0% Poet
65 Wilfred Owen 91k 56.8 65.7% Poet
66 Robert Browning 89k 43.1 53.8% Poet
67 Robert Graves 89k 55.8 80.7% Poet
68 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 89k 36.8 85.0% Poet
69 Colm Tóibín 87k Poet
70 Giacomo Casanova 86k 31.7 42.6% Poet
71 Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum 84k 33.2 52.6% Poet
72 Martin Heidegger 83k 43.5 53.5% Poet
73 Seamus Heaney 80k 27.9 87.2% Poet
74 Arthur Rimbaud 78k 37.1 53.0% Poet
75 Hafez 76k 40.3 60.6% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in United States?

Sylvia Plath currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.3M people in United States.

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