An Incomplete List of
19-20th Century Poets of Oregon
Poet Representative Work Published
Joaquin MillerSpecimens 1868
Samuel L. SimpsonThe Beautiful Willamette1868
Joaquin MillerSpecimens1868
Minnie Myrtle Miller (Theresa Dyer)Have Mercy1871
Ella HigginsonA Bunch of Western Clover 1874
Frances Fuller VictorThe New Penelope…1877
Abigail Scott DuniwayDavid and Anna Matson1881
Edwin MarkhamThe Man with the Hoe…1899
Bert HuffmanSongs of the Oregon Pine1907
Charles Erskine Scott WoodThe Poet in the Desert1915
John ReedAmerica 1918
Mary Carolyn DaviesYouth Riding1919 Hazel HallCurtains1921
Mabel Holmes ParsonsPastels and Silhouettes1921
Anthony EuwerBy Scarlet Torch & Blade1923
Ethel Romig FullerWhite Peaks and Green1927
Queen B. ListerYouth1929
Howard McKinley CorningThe Mountain in the Sky1930
Ada Hastings HedgesDesert Poems 1930
Ernest G. MollCampus Sonnets1934
Laurence PrattA Saga of a Paper Mill1935
Mary BarnardCool Country1940
Woody GuthrieHit That Oregon Line1940s
H.L. (Harold Lenoir) DavisProud Riders & Other Poems1942
Glen CoffieldThe Illiterati1945
Ben Hur LampmanThe Wild Swan 1947
William Everson (Brother Antoninus)The Residual Years1948
Eleanor MatthewsEver the Sunrise1954
Vi GaleSeveral Houses1959
Willis EbermanThe Pioneers1959
William StaffordTraveling Through the Dark1962
Vern RutsalaThe Window1964
Kenneth O. HansonThe Distance Anywhere1967
Gary SnyderThe Back Country1967
Henry CarlileThe Rough Hewn Table1971
Lawson Fusao InadaBefore the War1971
Sandra McPhersonRadiation1973
Ursula K. LeGuinWild Angels1975
George VennSunday Afternoon: Grand Ronde1976
Christopher HowellThe Crime of Luck1977
Walt CurtisPeckerneck Country1978
Lisa SteinmanLost Poems1976
Ingrid Wendt Moving the House1980
Sharon DoubiagoHard Country1982
Kim StaffordThe Granary1982
Harold JohnsonDry Boats1984
Judith BarringtonTrying to be an Honest Woman1985
Ed EdmoThese Few Words of Mine1985
Floyd SklootKaleidoscope1986
Elizabeth WoodyHand Into Stone1988
Primus St JohnDreamer1990
Raymond CarverNew Path to the Waterfall1990
Tim BarnesMother and the Mangos1991
Jane GlazerA Trick of Light1993
David AxelrodThe Jerusalem of Grass1993
Andrés BergerVoices from the Earth / Voces de la Tierra (bilingual)1994
Clemens StarckJourneyman's Wages1994
Carlos ReyesA Suitcase Full of Crows1995
Dan RafaelMolecular Jam1996 Leanne GrabelFlirtations1996
Barbara LaMorticellaRain on Waterless Mountain1996
Sandra StoneCocktails with Breugel at the Museum Cafe1998
Sam OaklandManhattan Woman1999
This is far from exhaustive, especially regarding more recent authors. There are dozens, nay hundreds of self-proclaimed bards. No list could be definitive. The publication dates here should be treated as a range or approximation. Many writers’ careers span 40, 50 or more years.
For more names (dozens) throughout Oregon’s ages, and many poems from cultural (non-written) sources, look at Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, OSU Press, 1993.