Favorite Celebrations ~  Poets Universe in a Nutshell

"A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits." ~ Robert Heinlein

MEN
Dante Alighieri
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Matsuo Basho
Jorge Luis Borges
Bertolt Brecht
Lord Byron

John Cage
Miguel de Cervantes
Chögyam Trungpa
Jean Cocteau
Leonard Cohen
Samuel Coleridge
William Congreve
Stephen Crane
e.e. cummings

John Donne
T.S. Eliot
Euripides
William Faulkner
Robert Frost

Kahlil Gibran
Allen Ginsberg
Johann von Goethe
Edgar A. Guest

Thich Nhat Hanh
Heinrich Heine
Nazim Hikmet
Homer
Langston Hughes
Victor Hugo
Leigh Hunt

Daisaku Ikeda
John Keats
Jack Kerouac
Francis Scott Key
Rudyard Kipling

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John McCrae
John Milton
Viggo Mortensen

Ogden Nash
Robert Nathan
Novalis

Octavio Paz
Edgar Allen Poe
Alexander Pope

James Whitcomb Riley
Rainer Maria Rilke
Theodore Roethke
Jalaluddin Rumi

Carl Sandburg
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Philip Sidney
Wallace Stevens

Rabindranath Tagore
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Samuel Ullman

Henry van Dyke
François Voltaire
Robert Penn Warren
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
William Butler Yeats

WOMEN
Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood

Louise Bogan
Gwendolyn Brooks
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Willa Cather
Colette

Life of Colette

Emily Dickinson

Julia Ward Howe
Jewel

Denise Levertov
Audre Lorde
Amy Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gabriela Mistral
Marianne Moore
Edith Nesbit
Anais Nin

Dorothy Parker
Pilahi Paki
Sylvia Plath
Christina Rossetti
Sappho
May Sarton
Anne Sexton
Gertrude Stein

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Celebrate America

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