2 Wislawa Szymborska 1923
3 William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940 +
4 Adrienne Lewis 1973 * Compared to This, 2005 Finishing Line Press
5 Jean Cocteau 1889 – 1963
7 Margaret Walker 1915 – 1998 +
8 Angela Williams * 1966 Live from the Tiki Lounge, 2008 Mayapple Press
9 Susan Rich The Alchemist’s Kitchen, 2010 White Pine Press
10 Giorgio de Chirico 1888 – 1978
12 Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973 Selected Poems, 1990 Houghton Mifflin
- Lyn Lyfshin 1942 The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian, 2006 Texas Review Consortium
13 Wole Soyinka 1934
14 Woody Guthrie 1912 – 1967
15 Dimitris P. Kraniotis * 1966 Fictitious Line, Em Lavdakis (Larissa, Greece)
- Eric Greinke 1948 Wild Strawberries, 2008 Presa Press
17 Dana Wildsmith *
19 Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson 1875 – 1935
- Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893 – 1930 +
20 Francesco Petrarch 1304 – 1374
- Graham Burchell 1950 * Ladies of Divided Twins, 2008 Erbacce Press
21 Hart Crane 1899 – 1932
- Tess Gallagher 1943
26 Ruth Ellen Kocher * One Girl Babylon, 2001 Green Rose Prize winner; 2003 New Issues Poetry & Prose
27 Giosue Carducci 1835 – 1907
28 John Ashberry 1927 A Worldly Country, 2007 Ecco (imprint of Harper Collins)
29 Stanley Kunitz 1905 – 2006
31 Kim Addonizio 1954
Birthdays from Molly Williams at Library Booklists except + from The Writer’s Almanac and * provided by the poet.
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July 25, 2008 at 9:00 am
My birthday is July 20th 1950 – well worth adding.
August 9, 2008 at 2:05 am
Thanks, Graham!
August 19, 2009 at 1:09 am
July 27 is Petrarch’s birthday–where would sonnets be without him??
January 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Karen – check your calendar – Petrarch was born on the 20th!
June 1, 2010 at 1:56 am
It looks like you need a poet for July 9th. I am happy to oblige. You can check out my work at http://www.susanrich.org
December 29, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Thanks Susan – you rock!