Editing List of poets (section)

==Y==
*[[Jūkichi Yagi]] (1898–1927), Japanese religious poet
*[[Mitsuye Yamada]] (born 1923), US poet
*[[Leo Yankevich]] (born 1961), US poet and editor
*[[Peyo Yavorov]] (1878–1914), Bulgarian Symbolist poet
*[[Raushan Yazdani]] (1918–1967), Bengali poet and researcher 
*[[W. B. Yeats]] (1865–1939), Irish poet; 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature
*[[Sergei Yesenin]] (1895–1925), Russian lyrical poet
*[[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]] (1933–2017), Soviet Russian poet, dramatist and film director
*[[Yi Suhyŏng]] (1435–1528), politician and Confucian scholar, writer, and poet<!--- Sort, Last name, Yi ---> 
*[[Lin Yining]] (1655 – c. 1730), Chinese poet, painter and composer
*[[Akiko Yosano]] (1878–1942), Japanese poet, feminist and pacifist
*[[Nima Yooshij]] (1895–1960), Iranian poet, Persian poet
*[[Andrew Young (poet, born 1885)|Andrew Young]] (1885–1971), Scottish poet and clergyman
*[[Edward Young]] (1681–1765), English poet
*[[Ian Young (writer)|Ian Young]] (born 1945), English/Canadian poet
*[[Kevin Young (poet)|Kevin Young]] (born 1970), US poet and teacher
*[[Marguerite Young]] (1908–1995), US author of poetry, fiction and non-fiction
*[[Simpson Charles Younger]] (1850–1943), baseball player, soldier during the American Civil War, civil rights campaigner, and poet
*[[A. W. Yrjänä]] (Aki Ville Yrjänä; born 1967), Finnish poet, musician and songwriter
*[[Yuan Mei]] (1716–1797), Chinese poet, scholar and gastronome