| 100% | AYRES | 5 | Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced |
| 41% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 39% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | Lawrence —, US poet whose volumes include 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 36% | TONYHARRISON | 12 | English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 35% | PLATH | 5 | Sylvia —, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel |
| 35% | TONY | 4 | & 13D English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 35% | JARRELL | 7 | Randall —, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and Losses |
| 35% | CUTLER | 6 | Ivor —, Scottish poet whose volumes include Private Habits and Fresh Carpet |
| 35% | BERNARDSHAW | 11 | Irish playwright George ___ whose volume of work including "Man and Superman" won him a Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| 35% | GINSBERG | 8 | Allen —, US poet whose volumes include 1956's Howl and Other Poems |
| 35% | LARKIN | 6 | Philip —, poet whose volumes include The Less Deceived and The North Ship |
| 35% | CUMMINGS | 8 | E E —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys |
| 35% | RIMBAUD | 7 | Arthur —, 19th-century French poet whose volumes include A Season in Hell |
| 34% | MITCHELL | 8 | Adrian —, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left |
| 34% | COPE | 4 | Wendy —, poet whose volumes include If I Don't Know and Serious Concerns |
| 34% | CLARE | 5 | John —, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 34% | MCGOUGH | 7 | Roger —, poet whose volumes include Sky in the Pie and That Awkward Age |
| 34% | LOWELL | 6 | Robert —, US poet whose volumes include For the Union Dead and Lord Weary's Castle |
| 33% | PARR | 4 | Martin —, British photographer whose volumes include Small World and Think of England |
| 32% | HARTE | 5 | Bret —, US writer whose volumes include 1870's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches |
| 31% | RAINE | 5 | Craig —, poet whose volumes include 1979's A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
| 31% | OMAR | 4 | "'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet |
| 30% | SAND | 4 | French novelist George ___ (pen name) whose volume of work includes novels like "Indiana" and "Valentine" |
| 30% | POOR | 4 | Start of a word ladder whose first and last words are suggested by 36-Across |
| 29% | WHITMAN | 7 | Walt —, 19th-century US poet whose volumes include Leaves of Grass |
| 29% | PAULVERLAINE | 12 | 19th-century French poet whose volumes include Poemes saturniens |