September Birthdays of Poets

1 Blaise Cendrars 1887
2 Eugene Field 1850

6 Christine Rhein Wild Flight, 2008 Texas Tech University Press

Belinda Subraman Late Night in the Psych Ward, 2001 Lummox Press
7 Elinor Wylie 1885

• Dame Edith Sitwell 1887
• Martin Booth 1944 – 2004

8 Luovico Ariosto 1474 - 1533

• Frederic Mistral 1830
• Jack Prelutsky 1940
  

9 [Bhartendu] Harishchandra 1850

• Sonia Sanchez 1934

10 Georgia Douglas Johnson 1886 - 1968

• Hilda Doolittle 1886 - 1961
• Mary Oliver 1935

11 James Thomson 1700

• Al Hellus # 1958 – 2008  How Much of Your Heart Is Left? 2008  Ridgeway Press
  
• David Herbert [D.H.] Lawrence 1885 - 1930

12 Michael Ondaatje 1942
13 John Malcolm Brinnin 1916
14 [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland 1860 - 1940
15 Claude McKay 1890 - 1948
16 John Gay 1685 - 1732

• Alfred Noyes 1880

17 Abilio Manuel de Guerra Junqueiro 1850

• William Carlos Williams 1883 – 1963
  
• Kay Ryan *  1945  The Niagara River, 2005  Grove Press
  
• Carl Dennis 1939 +

18 Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784
20 Donald Hall 1928

22 Irving Feldman 1928 -   Beautiful False Things: Poems, 2000 Grove Press
23 Edgar Lee Masters 1869
Lawrence Levy I Would Stay Forever If I Could, 2007 Mayapple Press
24 Francis Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 - 1911
25 Shel Silverstein 1930-1999 ^
26 Thomas Stearns [T.S.] Eliot 1888 - 1965
27 Mark Vinz 1942
28 Francis Turner Palgrave 1824

• James Edwin Campbell 1867

29 Miguel de Cervantes 1547 - 1616
30 W.S. Merwin 1927 +

Birthdays from Molly Williams at Library Booklists except # provided by the poet, * from The Writer’s Almanac + from Famous Poets and Poems and ^ from Wikipedia.

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