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The 100 most popular 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 Andrea Gibson lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.6M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 249k, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 2.4M 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 Omar Khayyám 122k 30.9 43.5% Poet
52 John Updike 121k 36.8 48.1% Poet
53 Amiri Baraka 121k — — Poet
54 Aristophanes 119k 34.4 21.0% Poet
55 Octavio Paz 119k 39.4 45.8% Poet
56 Billy Collins 112k 50.0 66.7% Poet
57 John Henry Newman 107k 42.4 59.6% Poet
58 Julius Evola 104k 44.1 12.2% Poet
59 Adrienne Rich 99k — — Poet
60 Mahmoud Darwish 96k 37.6 48.6% Poet
61 Anne Brontë 94k 40.8 57.7% Poet
62 Gabriela Mistral 94k 34.7 68.0% Poet
63 Wilfred Owen 93k 56.8 65.7% Poet
64 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 91k 36.8 85.0% Poet
65 Bertolt Brecht 90k 38.3 50.3% Poet
66 Robert Browning 89k 43.1 53.8% Poet
67 Martin Heidegger 86k 43.5 53.5% Poet
68 Colm Tóibín 86k — — Poet
69 Giacomo Casanova 84k 31.7 42.6% Poet
70 Robert Graves 83k 55.8 80.7% Poet
71 Arthur Rimbaud 80k 37.1 53.0% Poet
72 Seamus Heaney 78k 27.9 87.2% Poet
73 Husayn ibn Ali 78k 35.5 40.6% Poet
74 P. L. Travers 77k — — Poet
75 Hafez 76k 40.3 60.6% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets 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 2.4M people in United States.

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