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Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier (מאיר ויזלטיר; 1941–2023) was an Israeli poet, translator, and editor, a central member of the Tel Aviv poets and winner of the 2000 Israel Prize.
Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday, born Muzaffer Melih (1915-2002), was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and translator who co-founded the Garip movement, the free-verse revolution in modern Turkish poetry.
Mihri Hatun
Mihri Hatun (Mihrî Hâtun), pen name Mihrî, was an Ottoman divan poet born in Amasya around 1455-1460, the first Ottoman woman poet whose complete divan survives.
Mikhail Naimy
Mikhail Naimy (ميخائيل نعيمة) was a Lebanese writer and poet who co-founded the New York Pen League with Kahlil Gibran and wrote The Book of Mirdad.
Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Mirza Shafi Vazeh (Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh, pen name Vazeh) was an Azerbaijani poet, calligrapher, and teacher born in Ganja in 1794, who became known to Europe through German translations of his poems.
Mohammad Ali Sepanlou
Mohammad Ali Sepanlou (محمدعلی سپانلو) was an Iranian poet, translator, and literary critic known as "the poet of Tehran" for making the city his central subject.
Mohammad Hoghooghi
Mohammad Hoghooghi (محمد حقوقی, 1937–2009) was an Iranian poet and literary critic from Isfahan, known for his studies of poets like Nima Yushij and his book Sher-e Now az Aghaz ta Emruz.
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی), born 1939 in Kadkan, Khorasan, is an Iranian poet, literary critic, and emeritus University of Tehran professor known for the collection Dar Kucheh-Bagha-ye Nishabur.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (محمدتقی بهار), known by the pen name Bahar and the title Malek al-Sho'ara, poet laureate, was an Iranian poet, scholar, and politician, 1886 to 1951, whose Sabkshenasi became foundational to Persian literary scholarship.
Molla Vali Vidadi
Molla Vali Vidadi (Azerbaijani: Molla Vəli Vidadi, 1709–1809) was an Azerbaijani poet who wrote in classical divan and folk ashug styles, a friend of Vagif.
Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha (مصعب أبو توهة), born 1992 in Al-Shati camp, Gaza, is a Palestinian poet and librarian who founded the Edward Said Library and won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary; author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and Forest of Noise (2024).
Moses ibn Ezra
Moses ibn Ezra (c. 1055 – after 1138), known as ha-Sallaḥ and Abu Harun Musa, was a Hebrew poet, critic, and philosopher of al-Andalus's Golden Age born in Granada.
Moufdi Zakaria
Moufdi Zakaria, born Zakaria ben Slimane (1908–1977), was an Algerian poet and nationalist known as the Poet of the Algerian Revolution, who wrote the national anthem "Qassaman".
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti (مريد البرغوثي; born Nawwaf Abdul Raziq Mohammed Barghouti, 1944–2021) was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose return from exile inspired I Saw Ramallah.
Muallim Naci
Muallim Naci, born Ömer (1849 or 1850 – 1893), was an Ottoman poet, critic, and lexicographer of the Tanzimat era, famous for his old-versus-new literature debate with Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem.
Muhammad al-Fayturi
Muhammad al-Fayturi (محمد الفيتوري), full name Muhammad Miftah al-Fayturi, was a Sudanese-born poet, 1936 to 2015, known as "the poet of Africa" for collections on African identity and colonialism.
Muhammad al-Maghut
Muhammad al-Maghut (محمد الماغوط; 1934–2006) was a Syrian poet, playwright, and journalist, born in Salamiyah and died in Damascus, widely credited with introducing free verse into Arabic poetry.
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (محمد مهدي الجواهري) was an Iraqi poet and journalist, often called the last of the classical Arab poets, born in Najaf around 1899 and died in exile in Syria in 1997.
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi (محمد رضا الشبيبي) was an Iraqi scholar, poet, and politician from Najaf who led the Iraqi Scientific Academy and served as Minister of Education.
Muhammad Uthman Jalal
Muhammad Uthman Jalal (محمد عثمان جلال) was an Egyptian translator and zajal poet who adapted French literature into Arabic, best known for al-Shaykh Matluf, his Egyptianized Tartuffe of 1873.
Muhtasham Kashani
Muhtasham Kashani (محتشم کاشانی) was a Persian Safavid poet born and died in Kashan (c. 1528 to 1588), famed for a twelve-strophe elegy on Imam Hosayn's martyrdom at Karbala.
Muqimi
Muqimi (Муқимий), full name Muhammad Amin-khoja Mirza-khoja o'g'li, 1850–1903, was an Uzbek poet of Kokand who led a satirical school and founded the democratic trend in Uzbek literature.
Muslim ibn al-Walid
Muslim ibn al-Walid (مسلم بن الوليد) was an Arab poet of the early Abbasid period, credited as the first to make badīʿ, rhetorical embellishment, a deliberate poetic program.
Nader Naderpour
Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور) was an Iranian poet of modern Persian poetry who spent his last twenty years in exile, dying in Los Angeles in 2000.
Nâilî
Nâilî, known as Nâilî-i Kadîm, was an Ottoman divan poet born in Istanbul around 1608 and a leading representative of the sebk-i Hindî Indian style; he died in 1666.
Natavan
Natavan, formally Khurshidbanu Natavan, was an Azerbaijani poet and philanthropist, daughter of the last khan of Karabakh, who led Shusha's Majlis-i Uns society and built the city's water pipeline.
Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman (Hebrew: נתן אלתרמן; 1910–1970) was an Israeli poet born in Warsaw, whose weekly rhymed column The Seventh Column made him an unofficial national poet.
Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach (נתן זך; born Harry Seitelbach, 1930 to 2020) was an Israeli poet, critic, and translator who led the poets that changed Hebrew poetry in the 1950s and 1960s.
Nazik al-Malaika
Nazik al-Malaika (نازك الملائكة), 1923–2007, was an Iraqi poet who pioneered Arabic free verse with her 1947 poem "The Cholera" and wrote its first prosody theory.
Nâzım Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet and playwright, born in 1902, who introduced free verse into modern Turkish poetry and died in exile in Moscow in 1963.