July Birthdays of Poets

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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