1 Kristijonas Donelaitis 1714-1780
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819-1861
2 Philip Morin Freneau 1752-1832
- William Scott 1914
- Robert Nathan 1894-1985
3 Cicero 106-43 B.C.
- Morten Nielsen 1922-1944
- Alfred Edgar Coppard 1878-1957
- Count Miklos Zrinyi 1620-1664
- Khristo Botev 1848-1876
- W.D. Snodgrass 1926
6 Carl Sandburg 1878-1967
- Khalil Gibran 1883-1931
- Tomas Gudmundsson 1901
- Benedict Wallet Vilakazi 1906-1947
7 Charles Peguy 1873-1914
9 Thomas Warton 1728-1790
Kelli Russell Agodon 1969 Small Knots, 2004 Cherry Grove Collections
10 Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956
- Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962
- Aubrey Thomas Hunt de Vere 1814-1902
- Dorianne Laux 1952 Facts about the Moon, 2005 W.W. Norton
- Philip Levine 1928 Breath, 2004 Alfred A. Knopf
12 Margaret Danner 1915-1986
14 Dudley Randall 1914-2000
15 Mihai Eminescu 1850-1889
Osip Mandelstam 1891-1938
16 Robert W. Service 1874-1958
Anthony Ivan Hecht 1923-2004
17 Pedro Calderon de la Barca 1600-1681
William Stafford 1914 – 1993 The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems, 1999 Graywolf Press
18 [Henry] Austin Dobson 1840-1921
- Ruben Dario 1867-1916
- Jorge Guillen 1893-1984
- Michael Dumanis 1976 My Soviet Union, 2007 University of Massachusetts Press
19 Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
George Mann MacBeth 1932-1992
20 Johannes V. Jensen 1873-1950
Abram Hill 1910
21 David Stefansson 1895-1964
Richard P. Blackmur 1904-1965
22 George Gordon Noel AKA Lord Byron 1788-1824
Howard Moss 1922-1987
23 Louis Zukofsky 1904 – 1978 Selected Poems, 2006 American Poets Project
Derek Walcott 1930 Selected Poems, 2007 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
24 William Congreve 1670-1729 25
- Robert Burns 1759-1796
- William Somerset Maugham 1874-1965
27 Lewis Carroll 1832-1898
28 Ozaki Koyo 1869-1903
30 Gelett Burgess 1866-1951
Richard Brautigan 1935-1984
31 Thomas Merton 1915-1968
Birthdays from Molly Williams at Library Booklists or from poet.
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