César Vallejo

Remarkable Peruvian poet famously photographed in classic writer pose.

Mary Kinzie

Poet, professor, lover of forms, face toucher when the cameras click

Pablo Neruda

The great poet succumbs

Jeanette Winterson

Technically this one’s head and hands, but the picture, clearly Ms. Winterson’s favorite (check her site), strikes me as the perfect author photo with its implied balance of seriousness and absurdity.

Nicanor Parra

Antipoet, funny face toucher

Dylan Thomas

"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . ." the poet said before going less than gently into that good night, after, of course, posing with his hands to his face.

Ciaran Carson

My favorite living poet is also guilty.