February Birthdays of Poets
1 Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1874-1929
Langston Hughes 1902 Bio, Poems & Links, Oh My!!
Galway Kinnell 1927
2 Hamid Abdulhak 1852-1937
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 1861-1949
James Joyce 1882-1941
Bernardas Brazdzionis 1907
James Dickey 1923
Judith Viorst 1931
3 Sidney Lanier 1842-1881
4 Jacques Prevert 1900
5 Johan Ludvig Runeberg 1804
6 Christopher Marlowe 1564
Ugo Foscolo 1778
Kroly Kisfaludy 1788
Melvin B. Tolson 1898-1966
7 Frederick Paludan-Muller 1809
8 Samuel Butler 1612-1680
Elizabeth Bishop 1911 Bishop Bio & Links
9 Franz-Michael Franzein 1772
Amy Lowell 1847
10 Sir John Suckling 1609
Charles Lamb 1775-1834
Boris Pasternak 1890-1960
Bertold Brecht 1898-1956
11 Roy Fuller 1912
12 Thomas Campion 1567-1620
George Meredith 1828
13 Ricardo Guiraldes 1886-1927
14 A.M. Klein 1909
17 Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 1836-1870
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864-1941
18 Audre Lorde 1934-1992 AKA Rey Domini
19 Jose Eustasio Rivera 1889
20 Pieter Cornelis Boutens 1870-1943
21 W.H. Auden 1907-1973 An Honest Appreciation
Jose Zorilla y Moral 1817-1893
22 James Russell Lowell 1819
John Shaw Nielson 1872-1942
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Giorgios Seferis 1900-1971
Ishmael Reed 1938
23 Haki R. Madhubuti 1942
26 Victor Hugo 1802-1885
27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 Excellent Longfellow Resource
28 Vyacheslav Ivanov 1866
Stephen Spender 1909-1995
29 Howard Nemerov 1920
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