August Birthdays of Poets
1 Anne Hebert
Hugh Seidman
2 Ernest (Christopher) Dowson
Stephen Sandy
Bei Dao (AKA Zhao Zhengkai)
3 Rupert Brooke
Hayden Carruth
Marvin Bell
Diane Wakoski
4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Bio, poems & links
Robert Hayden
Assia Djebar
5 Conrad Aiken
Wendell Berry
6 Alfred Lord Tennyson
Paul Claudel
7 Georg Stiernhielm
Laurence Eigner
8 Sara Teasdale 243 poems
9 John Dryden
Philip Larkin
10 Lawrence Binyon
Witter Bynner
Jorge Amado
11 Hugh MacDiarmid
Louise Bogan
12 Robert Southey
Katharine Lee Bates
J.D. McClatchy
13 Nikolaus Lenau
14 Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alfred Corn
15 Luigi Pulci
Sir Walter Scott
Mary Jo Salter
16 Jules Laforgue
Charles Bukowski
17 Charlotte Lottie Forten
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Marcus Garvey (Jr.)
John Hawkes
Ted Hughes
19 Ogden Nash Poems, bio, links
20 Salvatore Quasimodo
Edgar Guest
Heather McHugh
21 X.J. Kennedy
22 Dorothy Parker Poems, bio, links
23 William Ernest Henley
Edgar Lee Masters
J.V. Cunningham
Norbert Blei
24 Robert Herrick
Malcolm Cowley
Mason Williams
25 Bret Harte
Charles Wright
26 Guillame Apollinaire
Jules Romains
Julio Cortazar
Elizabeth Brewster
28 Goethe
Sir John Betjeman
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29 Oliver Wendell Holmes
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Thom Gunn
31 Theophile Gautier
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