Janet Kaplan (born 1958) is an American poet and professor. She is the author of four full-length books: The Groundnote (Alice James Books, 1997), "The Glazier’s County," winner of the 2003 Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press, Dreamlife of the Philanthropist: Prose Poems & Prose Sonnets, winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen Prize (University of Notre Dame Press), and "Ecotones" (Eyewear Ltd., forthcoming 2021).