Celebrities Who Are/Were Poets

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A. E. Housman
Born: March 26th 1859 in Bromsgorve, England
Allen Ginsberg
Born: June 3rd 1926 in Newark, United States
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Born: December 22nd 1869 in Head Tide, United States
Ezra Pound
Born: October 30th 1885 in Hailey, United States
Henry Charles Bukowski
Born: August 16th 1920 in Andernach, Germany
James Alan McPherson
Born: September 16th 1943 in Savannah, United States
John Ashbery
Born: July 28th 1927 in Rochester, United States
John Berryman
Born: October 25th 1914 in McAlester, United States
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Born: March 24th 1919 in Yonkers, United States
Marianne Moore
Born: November 15th 1887 in Kirkwood, United States
Oscar Wilde
Born: October 16th 1854 in Dublin, Ireland
Rabindranath Tagore
Born: May 7th 1861 in Kolkata, India
Robert Frost
Born: March 26th 1874 in San Francisco, United States
Stephen Crane
Born: November 1st 1871 in Newark, United States
T. S. Eliot
Born: September 26th 1888 in St. Louis, United States
Ted Hughes
Born: August 17th 1930 in Yorkshire, England
W. B. Yeats
Born: June 13th 1865 in Sandymount, Ireland
W. H. Auden
Born: February 21st 1907 in York, England
Wallace Stevens
Born: October 2nd 1879 in Reading, United States
William Carlos Williams
Born: September 17th 1883 in Rutherford, United States

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