Modern poets are writers who create modern poems.
For modern poets, whether in the West or China, modern poetry generally adopts free genre, and the meter and form of poetry are no longer important.
Modern poets can be further divided into modern poets and contemporary poets. The general division is to define the poets in the first half of the 20th century as modern poets. Poets in the second half of the 20th century and beyond are defined as contemporary poets. This classification has been generally accepted in China.