Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of poets who have considered the pig.
Threa Almontaser, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Pig Flesh. Almontaser is a poet, editor, writer and educator. She holds a MFA and a TESOL certification from NC State University, and is an editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal. She is a Fulbright scholar and currently teaches English to immigrants and refugees in Raleigh, NC.
Ambai Mary [sic. Meri], Papua New Guinea, (fl. 2012), poetry includes: A day in the comfortable life of a highlands pig. Ambai Mary [sic. Meri] is the pen name of the author, who wished anonymity because of the writer’s anxiety about some prejudicial attitudes in Australia.
A.R. (Archibald Randolph) “Archie” Ammons, United States, (1926-2001), poetry includes: Hardweed Path Going, The Arc and I Broke a Sheaf of Light. Ammons was a poet and educator. He taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1964 to 1998.
Poetic works by Barthélémy Aneau in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
James Applewhite, Unite States, (b. 1935), poetry includes: How to Fix a Pig and Barbecue Service. Applewhite is a poet and educator. At Duke University he headed the Duke Institute for the Arts and is Professor Emeritus in English and Creative Writing. He is the author of many poetry collections. And has poetry published in numerous volumes, anthologies, and magazines. Applewhite won a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow, the 1998 Brockman-Campbell Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society and the Jean Stein Award in Poetry, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Joanne Arnott, Canada, (b. 1960), poetry includes: she is riding. Arnott is a writer, poet and cultural worker. Much of her published work focuses on her heritage in the Métis people of Canada, who trace their ancestry to a mix of First Nations and European peoples.
Diana Arterian, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: Agrippina the Younger, Age Thirteen. Arterian is a poet, writer, literary critic, editor and translator, as well as an Asst. Professor of Creative Writing at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA.
Nick Ascroft, New Zealand (b. 1973), poetry includes: Pig in a Pool, The Pig in the Hedge. Ashcroft is a poet, novelist and reviewer with a Masters in Linguistics from University of Otago in Dunedin. His poetry reviews and criticism are widely published in magazines in New Zealand and Australia, and he was the founding editor of the literary journal Glottis. Long based in Dunedin where he was also a renowned performance poet, he has since moved to the UK and now works for Bloomsbury Publishing in London, editing sports books and writing for their blog.
Michael Atkinson, United States, (born 1962), poetry includes: Teaching Pigs to Pray. Atkinson is a poet, writer, educator and film critic. He teaches at Long Island University as an Adjunct Professor of Film and as editorial director of the online film school Smashcut.
Margaret Atwood, Canada, (b. 1939) – poetry about pigs. Pig Song. Circe / Mud Poems. Atwood is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic and environmental activist.