Poets who reside in or near Niagara Falls; or who have strong connections to Niagara Falls
Alexander, James Lynne (Chippawa, Ontario)
• Wonders of the West, or, A Day at the Falls of Niagara in 1825, a Poem
Antonio, Charles (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Niagara Falls
atlantic (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Baby Steps IV
• burgoyne bridge
• carnival tunes
• Robert Frost
• water child
Bakelaar, Bartholomew. (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Long Live the All Day Breakfast Diner
Baxter,E. R., III. (Niagara Falls, New York area)
• Looking for Niagara
Beam, Betty Jean, April 3, 1929 – December 19, 2018 (Niagara Falls) (Children’s poems)
• Before Explorers and Pioneers
• Brock’s Monument
• A Cow and Ice Cream
• The Floral Clock
• Friday Fireworks
• The Niagara River
• A Pioneer’s Prayer
• World Wonder
Billings, Robert (Fort Erie, Ont.)
• Epiphanies on the First Cold Day
• For Robert Billings (Tribute to Billings by Herb Barrett)
Burwell, Adam Hood (Erieus) (Fort Erie)
• The Battle of Lundy’s Lane
• A Dream
• The Death of Brock
• Journal of a Day’s Journey in Upper Canada in October, 1816
• Lines Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Crysler, of Niagara
• Lines Written at Sun-rise in Sight of the Falls of Niagara
• To the House of My Friend
Calvert, Myles (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• The Path
Carnochan, Janet (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
• Battle of Lundy’s Lane, 25th July, 1814
Champniss, Kim Clarke (Niagara Falls, Ont. & Fort Erie)
• At the Head of the Falls
• Love Letter to Niagara Falls
Copeland, Benjamin (Buffalo)
• Niagara
Cotrufo, Maria (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• The Falls
Cristelli, Samuel R. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Niagara Beautiful
Davidson, George ‘Fisher’ (Niagara Falls & Welland, Ontario)
• William Kirby
Dickson, Julie A. (Buffalo, NY)
• Dry Falls
• Niagara Ball Falls
• Niagara River 1965
• Yellow Slicker [1967]
Doucet, FJ (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• My Grandmother Was a Waitress in Niagara Falls
Ellis, Christopher. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• To Avoid an Unpleasant Tryst
Erieus – see Burwell, Adam Hood
Finlayson, Tom Lloyd (Fort Erie, Ont. (?))
• Niagara, I Love You
• Under the Locust Boughs
Forster, Jeffrey (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Untitled
Froebel, Stephanie (Buffalo, NY)
• What Does it Mean to Fall (Niagara Falls Changed My Perception on Life)
Fuller, Ada Elizabeth. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Chimes of De Veaux
• The Gorge of Niagara
• Lines Written in Drummond Hill Cemetery
• Niagara
• The Winds of Niagara
Gansworth, Eric (Niagara Falls & Buffalo, NY)
• A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings
• Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon: Poems and Paintings
Garrett, Rev. J.C. (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON)
• The Centennial: A Poem Written on the Centenary of St. Mark’s Church
Gilbert, Kathy (Niagara Falls & Grand Island, NY)
• Niagara
Glenny, Elizabeth (Fort Erie)
• Niagara River Table d’Hôte
Green, Ernest (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Twilight on the Tow-Path
Grol, Lini, 1913- (Port Colborne)
• Fondly Remembered Old Queenston
• Lelawala: The Maid of the Mist
• Niagara Falls
• Our Niagara River
• Seeing Niagara
Hamilton, Bill (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.)
• The Thing
Hobberlin, David (Chippawa)
• Achilles in Time and Space
• On the Bridge at Chippawa
• The Sentinel – A Reflection on Xanadu
Hultzén, Claud H., Sr. (Youngstown (?), New York)
• Untitled
Inman, Keith (Thorold)
• The Cormorant
Jenkinson, Rev. Martin R.
• Dedication of the Bells
Jones, April
• A Most Beautiful Space on Earth
• So She Flows
Kalman, Bobbie (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario)
• Death of an Immigrant
Kershaw, James (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Niagara
Kirby, William (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
• The Poetical Review (section of satirical poem by A.C. Stewart about Kirby)
• Sonnet Read at the Unveiling of the Lundy‘s Lane Monument, 25th July, 1895
• Spina Christi
Knobloch, Al (Buffalo, NY)
• The Eternal Blunder
Leonard, Amanda (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• The Local Tourist
Loewen, Harris
• At Niagara Falls
• Peaceful Niagara (Niagara in 1882)
• Tears and Laurels (On the Death of Major-General Brock)
Luzajic, Lorette C. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Barn
Mancuso, Mila. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Niagara Falls
McCabe, Kevin. (St. Catharines, Ont.)
• Canadiana 2000
• SCA Chemical Waste Services Speaks to the People of Niagara, Regarding Run-Off From the Love Canal
McClure, William (Welland, Ont.)
• Niagara Falls
McInerney, Cole (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• The Buildings of the Dream
• Convenient Corner
• Lake Erie
• Russell Street
Misener, Melvin Byron (“The Crowland Poet”) (Crowland Township, Ont.)
• A Country Sleigh Ride (a fragment)
• A Pic-Nic at the Falls
Moody, Marilyn K. (Niagara Falls, New York)
• Sunday Afternoon in Niagara Falls
Moorhead, Andrea (Buffalo, New York)
• Niagara weeps
• wind and light
Nicoletti, Joey (Niagara Falls & Buffalo, NY)
• Meditation at Niagara Falls, New York
Nielsen, Stephanie Vigh (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Have You Ever Been to Niagara?
• Niagara, My Home Town
• Ode to a School
• Stamford Collegiate Memories
Onofrio, C. D. (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Italian Angel of Gelato
• Niagara Falls
• Niagara Falls, NY
• Scenes From a Hungarian Restaurant
Patel, Hardi. (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Justyce’s “I Am From” Poem
Porter, Peter A. (Niagara Falls, NY)
• A Legend of Goat Island
• Lines in a Young Lady’s Album
Porteus, Andrew (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
• Bossy Simms: A Limerick
• COVID – Niagara Falls: A (Very) Short Poem
• Helicopter Rescue: A Limerick
Price, Heather (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Parked at the Mall
Racine, Ryan (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Flow State
• Sorting Skins
• Worldly Wounds
Sanders, R. W. (St. Catharines)
• Niagara
Sirianni, Shie (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Fairview Cemetery
Skrzeszewski, Stan (St. Catharines)
• Monuments
• Snake Hill
• To the Year 1812
Smith, Doug (originally Niagara Falls, NY)
• Another December Snow Day in Niagara Falls
• The Niagara Falls of You
• Niagara in San Diego
• Of Sometime True Lovers
Stevens, Elsie.
• The Niagara River
Stevens, James Thomas (originally Youngstown, NY)
• El Barril
Sullivan, Ruth (Niagara Falls, Ont.)
• Nature’s Wonder
Tulk, Amanda (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• The Niagara Scow
• The Screaming Tunnels
Tustin, Alan (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• A Tribute to George Seibel
Urquhart, Jane (Urquhart’s husband is from Niagara Falls, Ontario; his grandmother, the subject of these poems, was from Niagara Falls)
• Poems from The Undertaker’s Bride section of False Shuffles
Wagner, RN. (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
• Forced Entry
Watson, Evelyn M. (Buffalo area, New York)
• Poems from Poems of the Niagara Frontier
Wetherald, A. Ethelwyn. (Pelham, Ont.)
• Unheard Niagaras
Williamson, Diana (Port Colborne)
• King of the Mist