By Subject of Literary Work - United States or Americans
- Ballad of Birmingham
- Ballad of the Landlord
- The Balloon
- Bang the Drum Slowly
- Barbara Jordan
- Barefoot in the Park
- The Barracks Thief
- The Baseball Glove
- The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
- The Bear and the Dragon
- The Beautiful and Damned
- The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- Beauty and the Beast/Song of Orpheus
- The Beauty of Men
- Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
- Becoming a Man
- Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion
- Before and After
- Beggar on Horseback
- The Behavior of the Hawkweeds
- Being There
- The Bell Jar
- The Bellarosa Connection
- Beloved
- Bendigo Shafter
- Berryman's Sonnets
- Bertrand Russell
- Best Friends
- The Best of Everything
- Betrayal
- Better than Well
- Betty Friedan
- beware: do not read this poem
- Beyond the Bedroom Wall
- Big as Life
- The Big Bear of Arkansas
- Big Bertha Stories
- Big If
- The Big Knife
- Big Me
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- The Big Sleep
- Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
- The Big Test
- The Big-Breasted Pilgrim
- The Bight
- Billy Bathgate
- Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
