Guy Goffette (18 April 1947 – 28 March 2024) was a Belgian-born poet and writer.

A poet who very courageously has decided to remain faithful to his own personal life, in its humblest moments.

[3]Goffette's short fiction (récits) often reimagine historic figures – the poet Paul Verlaine in Verlaine d'ardoise et de pluie (1995) and again in L'autre Verlaine (2007) or the painter Pierre Bonnard through his muse Marthe in Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue (published in English as Forever Nude in 2008).

For several years, the American poet and critic Marilyn Hacker has translated a number of his poems, which have appeared in The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Barrow Street, and Poetry London.

A bilingual anthology of her translations of Goffette's poetry, Charlestown Blues , was published in 2007 by University of Chicago Press In addition to his poetry and his fiction, Goffette was a prolific essayist and a critic who regularly contributed to the Nouvelle Revue Française.