October Birthdays of Poets
1 Louis Untermeyer, 1885
2 Wallace Stevens, 1879
3 Mikhail Lermontov, 1814
Sir Fulke Greville (1st Baron Brooke), 1554-1628
5 Judy Kerman * Nothing anyone will read tonight is wild enough
7 James Whitcomb Riley, 1849 The Life of Riley
Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, 1934
8 John Hay, 1838-1905
John Cowper Powys, 1872
10 Aleksis Kivi, 1834
11 Steen Steenson Blicher, 1782
Francois Mauriac, 1885
12 Eugenio Montale, 1896
13 Arna Bontemps, 1902
14 Masaoka Shiki, 1867
e.e. cummings, 1894-1962 Readers respond to the poems of e.e. cummings
15 Virgil, 70 B.C.
Robert Herrick, 1674
17 Jupiter Hammon, 1711
18 Heinrich von Kleist, 1777-1811
H.L. Davis, 1894
Ntozake Shange, 1948
19 Migeul Angel Asturias, 1899
Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, 1882
Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859
20 Arthur Rimbaud, 1854
Robert Pinsky, 1940 Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project
21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834
Alphonse Lamartine, 1790-1869
22 Ivan Bunin, 1870
Damaso Alonso, 1898
23 Robert Bridges, 1844-1930
24 Denise Levertov, 1923
25 John Berryman, 1914
Thomas Babbington Macauley, 1800
26 Andrew Motion, 1952
Charles Sprague, 1791
27 Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963
29 Guillermo Valencia, 1873
30 Andre Marie de Chenier, 1762-1794
Paul Valery, 1871
Ezra Pound, 1885
Larry Woiwode, 1941
31 John Keats, 1795-1821
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